Beeindruckende Reichweite: Kia nennt technische Daten des EV9
Das Elektroauto Kia EV9 nutzt einen Akku mit 99,8 kWh und soll eine Reichweite von 541 km nach WLTP erreichen. (Kia, Elektroauto)
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Das Elektroauto Kia EV9 nutzt einen Akku mit 99,8 kWh und soll eine Reichweite von 541 km nach WLTP erreichen. (Kia, Elektroauto)
Das Elektroauto Kia EV9 nutzt einen Akku mit 99,8 kWh und soll eine Reichweite von 541 km nach WLTP erreichen. (Kia, Elektroauto)
If you haven’t patched your Aspera Faspex server, now would be an excellent time.
Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in an IBM file-exchange application in hacks that install ransomware on servers, security researchers have warned.
The IBM Aspera Faspex is a centralized file-exchange application that large organizations use to transfer large files or large volumes of files at very high speeds. Rather than relying on TCP-based technologies such as FTP to move files, Aspera uses IBM’s proprietary FASP—short for Fast, Adaptive, and Secure Protocol—to better utilize available network bandwidth. The product also provides fine-grained management that makes it easy for users to send files to a list of recipients in distribution lists or shared inboxes or workgroups, giving transfers a workflow that’s similar to email.
In late January, IBM warned of a critical vulnerability in Aspera versions 4.4.2 Patch Level 1 and earlier and urged users to install an update to patch the flaw. Tracked as CVE-2022-47986, the vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated threat actors to remotely execute malicious code by sending specially crafted calls to an outdated programming interface. The ease of exploiting the vulnerability and the damage that could result earned CVE-2022-47986 a severity rating of 9.8 out of a possible 10.
Financial product launches nearly a year after it was first announced.
This is the main view for the Pay Later feature in Apple's Wallet app for the iPhone. [credit: Apple ]
With the limited launch today of a new service called Apple Pay Later, Apple will now lend money directly to users through the Wallet app on devices like the iPhone.
We first heard about the service in 2021, and it was officially announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2022. It faced several delays, though, as iOS 16 began to roll out last September.
Now Apple is "inviting select users to access a prerelease version of Apple Pay Later." The service will roll out to everyone "in the coming months."
The advice clashes with FDA’s suggestion to treat COVID boosters like flu shots.
A vaccine advisory group for the World Health Organization said Tuesday that, at this point, it does not recommend additional, let alone annual COVID-19 booster shots for people at low to medium risk of severe disease. It advised countries to focus on boosting those at high risk—including older people, pregnant people, and those with underlying medical conditions—every six to 12 months for the near- to mid-term.
The new advice contrasts with proposed plans by US Food and Drug Administration, which has suggested treating COVID-19 boosters like annual flu shots for the foreseeable future. That is, agency officials have floated the idea of offering updated formulations each fall, possibly to everyone, including the young and healthy.
In a viewpoint published last May in JAMA, the FDA's top vaccine regulator, Peter Marks, along with FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock, argued that annual COVID booster campaigns in the fall, ahead of winter waves of respiratory infections—such as flu, COVID-19, and RSV—would protect health care systems from becoming overwhelmed. And they specifically addressed the possibility of vaccinating those at low risk.
Huawei can’t use 5G, Gorilla Glass, or the Google apps, but it’s managing.
Huawei is still making phones, even if the US-China trade war puts most of the stalwart Android component vendors in a complicated relationship with the Chinese tech company. Huawei's new phones are the flagship Huawei P60 Pro slab phone and a flagship foldable, the Huawei Mate X3.
The trade war makes these phones unique in the world of Android. First, it has a Qualcomm chip, but Huawei isn't allowed to use the latest technology from Qualcomm, so the chip in both of these phones is the "Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 4G Mobile Platform." Besides being last year's chip, this is a special, Huawei-only version of the chip that is branded as "4G." It has had the 5G bands stripped out of it—both mmWave and sub 6 GHz.
The other oddity is the lack of Google Play apps internationally. Huawei isn't allowed to ship the Google apps due to the export ban. While that's normal in China (where Google Play isn't available), internationally it means the phone is missing standard Google apps like YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, the Google Assistant, Docs, Search, Photos, and other apps that make Android a competitive consumer OS. Instead of the Google ecosystem, you'll be getting the OS with Huawei Mobile Services, which includes the Huawei AppGallery, Huawei Petal Maps, the Huawei Assistant (which appears just to be a search tool and some widgets, not a voice assistant), Huawei Pay, and Huawei apps for books, music, and video.
The GPD Win Mini is a tiny laptop computer built for gaming. It has a 7 inch FHD, 120 Hz display, a QWERTY keyboard, and a touchpad and game controllers placed above the touchpad, allowing you to hold the device in two hands for gaming sessions. There…
The GPD Win Mini is a tiny laptop computer built for gaming. It has a 7 inch FHD, 120 Hz display, a QWERTY keyboard, and a touchpad and game controllers placed above the touchpad, allowing you to hold the device in two hands for gaming sessions. There are also detachable grips that can make the […]
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Artificial intelligence is now a mainstream topic but while most people focus on the positives, the music industry is concerned about potential threats. In IFPI’s latest Global Music Report, insiders stress that music’s ‘human’ element should stay at the forefront. According to Sony, the same applies to AI-synthesized voices, which should not replace human vocals.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Artificial intelligence has the potential to make our lives more efficient, entertaining, and productive. There are potential downsides as well.
From a copyright perspective, AI brings up some interesting questions. For example, can content created by an AI be copyrighted? And can an AI be trained on copyrighted works without limitation?
Before ChatGPT and other AI tools started to dominate the news, the music industry had already shared its concerns over the potential threats posed to its business. The RIAA, for example, reported several AI ‘vocal’ extraction tools as a looming piracy threat last October.
Since then, numerous experts have opined about the copyright challenges AI presents. As such, it is no surprise that the topic is also mentioned in IFPI’s annual Global Music Report, which discusses the state of the global music industry.
A few years ago, online piracy and stream-ripping were featured as cannibalizing technologies, but those have now disappeared into the background. Instead, AI gets a prominent feature, with several music industry bosses commenting on the technology.
IFPI’s report starts out by saying that AI isn’t all doom and gloom. It also offers several opportunities for artists and the broader industry.
“Some, for example, support artist discovery, others enhance audience identification. Still others enable fans to engage with artists in new ways and some aid in the creative process,” IFPI writes.
The report stresses that when AI is used, the ‘human’ element should always remain from and center. At the same time, robust copyright rules and regulations must be respected.
The human element is also highlighted by Michael Nash, Chief Digital Officer at Universal Music Group. Nash believes that AI should not replace human artistry. And if an AI uses copyrighted content to create something new, the original rightsholders should get paid.
“[U]nless creators are respected and properly compensated when and if their works are used to train AI, then you’re going to see the world’s creative community potentially suffering a lot of damage in the evolution of generative AI.
“We need to work very hard to define new models so that we can enable generative AI without looking away from what is essentially going to be wholesale hijacking of the intellectual property of the entire creative community,” Nash adds, mentioning this as a top priority.
This general sentiment is shared by Dennis Kooker, Sony Music’s President of Global Digital Business. Kooker also sees potential in AI as a tool to work smarter and gain new insights, but not at the expense of copyrights.
Kooker is particularly concerned about AI tools that can mimic artists’ voices, which have the potential to replace the human efforts of its top-grossing artists.
“In particular we have serious concerns about the potential for AI-synthesized voice technology to be used at scale to cover songs and attempt to replace artists. This is something that we need to watch very closely,” Kooker notes.
This concern isn’t conceptual, but ultimately boils down to revenue. Sony probably doesn’t mind if artists train an AI on their own voice, but if an unauthorized third party does so without compensating the original artists, that becomes a problem.
While not mentioned, there’s also an alternative ‘Black Mirror’ future where labels could handsomely profit from AI by replacing flesh-and-blood artists with AI. That’s still a bridge too far, at least for the time being.
Music industry bosses are not the only ones keeping an eye on AI-generated vocals. These tools are already widely used. Most notably, DJ David Guetta played around with AI earlier this year, and used his homebrew “Eminem” lyrics in front of a live audience, who apparently “went nuts”.
“I discovered those websites about AI. Basically, you can write lyrics in the style of any artics you like,” Guetta explained.
“So I [wrote] a verse in the style of Eminem about Future Rave. And I went to another AI website that can recreate the voice. I put the text in that and played the record and people went nuts.”
You can see Guetta’s excitement about the potential of AI while he’s retelling his experience. However, clearly, not everyone shares this enthusiasm. And it wouldn’t surprise us if this was made clear to Guetta behind the scenes.
“Obviously I won’t release this commercially,” Guatta clarified in a follow-up tweet the next day.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
SBF bribe violated US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, updated indictment says.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is facing a new criminal charge, with an updated indictment alleging that he violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act when he "authorized and directed a bribe of at least $40 million to one or more Chinese government officials."
The superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in New York yesterday, and unsealed today, said the bribe's purpose "was to influence and induce one or more Chinese government officials to unfreeze certain Alameda trading accounts containing over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, which had been frozen by Chinese authorities." Including the new charge, Bankman-Fried now faces 13 criminal counts.
In early 2021, Chinese law enforcement officials froze certain Alameda accounts on two of China's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, the indictment said. Bankman-Fried "understood that the Accounts had been frozen by Chinese authorities as part of an ongoing investigation of a particular Alameda trading counterparty."
Microsoft has been trying for years to developed a streamlined version of Windows that isn’t bogged down by decades of legacy code, as a way to better compete with modern operating systems like Android, iOS, and ChromeOS. After scrapping several…
Microsoft has been trying for years to developed a streamlined version of Windows that isn’t bogged down by decades of legacy code, as a way to better compete with modern operating systems like Android, iOS, and ChromeOS. After scrapping several earlier projects, the company is now said to be working on a new project code-named CorePC […]
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