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Less than a month after introducing a small, inexpensive desktop computer with two 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports, support for up to four 4K displays, and a 12th-gen Intel Core H-series processor, MINISFORUM has begun taking pre-orders for a new model with a …
Less than a month after introducing a small, inexpensive desktop computer with two 2.5 GbE Ethernet ports, support for up to four 4K displays, and a 12th-gen Intel Core H-series processor, MINISFORUM has begun taking pre-orders for a new model with a 13th-gen processor. For the most part the new MINISFORUM NPB7 is pretty much the same […]
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Key now opens the Snipping Tool by default rather than copying to the clipboard.
Enlarge / The Print Screen key on a recent Dell laptop keyboard. (credit: Andrew Cunningham)
Windows 11 has modernized many Windows features that haven't been updated in a long time, including venerable apps like Notepad and Sound Recorder. But in a beta build released earlier this month, the company changed something even older: Pressing the Print Screen button on your keyboard will open the Snipping Tool rather than copying the contents of your screen to the clipboard to be pasted into an image-editing app.
In the current non-beta version of Windows 11, this Print Screen behavior is an off-by-default toggle in the keyboard accessibility settings. The change will make the setting on-by-default instead.
In the old MS-DOS days before graphical user interfaces became the norm, the function of the Print Screen button was quite literal—take whatever text was on-screen and print it with an actual physical printer. (Old keyboards also had room to write "print screen" on a keycap, whereas most modern keyboards shorten it to "prt sc" or something similarly inscrutable to people who don't already know what the key does.) The more abstract copy-to-clipboard behavior dates at least as far back as Windows 3.0, which was originally released in 1990. Windows' built-in screenshot tools have changed, from the Snipping Tool to Windows 10's Snip & Sketch back to Windows 11's Snipping tool, but the Print Screen key kept on doing the same thing.
ZTE has unveiled two new Android devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chips. One is the company’s latest flagship smartphone (which makes the choice of a year-old processor interesting), while the other is a premium tablet (where the …
ZTE has unveiled two new Android devices powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 chips. One is the company’s latest flagship smartphone (which makes the choice of a year-old processor interesting), while the other is a premium tablet (where the use of that same chip makes it one of the most powerful Android tablets around). […]
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Die Golem Karrierewelt ermöglicht den Einstieg in Microsoft Office mit diesem vierteiligen E-Learning-Paket, das Lerninhalte für mehr als zwölf Stunden bietet. (Golem Karrierewelt, Internet)
Die Golem Karrierewelt ermöglicht den Einstieg in Microsoft Office mit diesem vierteiligen E-Learning-Paket, das Lerninhalte für mehr als zwölf Stunden bietet. (Golem Karrierewelt, Internet) New rules would affect light- and medium-duty vehicles.
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On Wednesday, after a week of rumors and anticipation, the US Environmental Protection Agency published proposed new vehicle emissions regulations. If adopted, the new rules would go into effect for model years 2027–2032 and would be the strictest fuel economy regulations yet seen in the United States, cutting fleet carbon emissions for light-duty vehicles by 56 percent from 2026 levels.
The new regulations would also bring in tougher standards for other airborne pollutants emitted by the internal combustion engines in those light-duty vehicles. Additionally, the EPA proposes tougher new rules on medium-duty (class 2b and class 3) vehicles—mostly large pickup trucks and vans with a gross vehicle weight rating of 8,501–14,000 lbs. The EPA is also looking to modify some credit programs and wants new durability and warranty standards for the battery packs in battery electric vehicles.
The EPA thinks that two-thirds of new car sales will be electric within the next decade if the rules are adopted, as they require automakers to sell many more BEVs.
Two software engineers who created 8maple, a movie and TV show platform that dominated the local online piracy market in Taiwan, have been sentenced to prison. Now in their mid-thirties, the men generated over US$130,000 per month in advertising revenues but now face 18 months behind bars and the confiscation of US$2 million.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Pirate sites with tens of millions of visits each month are large enough to consider themselves global players yet some achieve these levels in a tighter geographic niche.
Founded in 2014 by two Taiwanese software engineers, movie and TV show piracy site 8maple is a prime example. Initially, the site was promoted as a commercial advertising platform but soon transformed into a full-blown piracy portal pulling in millions of visitors each month and generating large sums in advertising revenue.
Spending an estimated US$9,800 on server hosting in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, France and Romania each month, early estimates suggested the men behind 8maple may have been generating around US$65,600 in monthly revenues. By early 2020, the site’s main domain at 8maple.ru was pulling around 35 million visits per month, generating around US$133,000 per month in revenue.
Following an investigation carried out by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, the Asia-Pacific division of the Motion Picture Association (MPA-APC), Japan-based Content Overseas Distribution Association (CODA), and local TV network Sanli TV, Taiwan’s Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) shut down 8maple.ru late March 2020.
Two men in their early thirties (Chen Su, 33, and Zhuang Su, 32) were arrested and around $1.9m in illegal gains were seized from their bank accounts. Domains including 8maple.ru, 8maple.com, 8drama.com, 8drama.ru, 8duck.ru, 8video.tv, eyny.is, and eyny.tv, were shut down.
The suspects were arrested for copyright infringement offenses with Taiwan’s Telecommunications Investigation Corps estimating that 8maple caused around NT$1 billion (US$33.2m) in damages to the entertainment industries.
More than two years after their arrest, the Taoyuan District Court has now sentenced the two men to serve 18 months in prison for “jointly committing the crime of infringing copyright property rights under Article 92 of the Copyright Law.”
TorrentFreak obtained a copy of the official verdict from Taiwan prosecutor Harris Chen. It reveals a highly complex case and what appears to be the involvement of other suspects in mainland China who assisted Chen Su and Zhuang Su but are yet to be identified.
The convicted men are described as “highly educated” but possessing a “weak sense of the rule of law.”
“They failed to respect the intellectual property rights of the copyright owners who spent a lot of money to make the films, which were reproduced without authorization and transmitted in public,” the verdict reads.
The men not only damaged the economic interests of the copyright holders but also damaged Taiwan’s international reputation for the protection of intellectual property rights, the document adds.
A statement by the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment welcomes the sentencing of the men, which includes the confiscation of NT$ 58.8 million (US$1.97 million) in illicit gains.
“I’d like to congratulate the Criminal Investigation Bureau and the Taoyuan District Prosecutor’s Office for the successful prosecution of the 8maple operators,” says Jan van Voorn, Executive Vice President and Chief of Global Content Protection for the Motion Picture Association and Head of ACE.
“The deterrent sentence is testament to the seriousness of the crime. The 8maple prosecution is another example of ACE’s effective partnerships with the local video industry and law enforcement and strengthens our commitment to reducing piracy and protecting the global legal ecosystem for creative content.”
Since the shutdown of 8maple, other sites with similar branding have attempted to exploit the gap in the market. Two apparently connected platforms, 8maple.biz and 9maple.org, currently attract just under four million visits per month and appear to be the most significant players.
Several others, operating under imaple and imaple8 branding, appear to be part of a ring. They currently receive around three million visits per month but even if the traffic of both sets of sites are combined, their exposure comes nowhere near that of the original 8maple platforms, representing success for the movie and TV studios and authorities in Taiwan.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
NPR: Twitter is “falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
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NPR is quitting Twitter, saying that the social network owned and run by Elon Musk is "undermining our credibility." The decision was made about a week after Musk branded NPR with the "state-affiliated media" tag, which is typically applied to propaganda outlets controlled by governments.
"NPR's organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent," NPR said in a statement provided to Ars today. "We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public's understanding of our editorial independence."
In what's apparently a final series of tweets, NPR posted a thread listing the various non-Twitter methods of accessing NPR content. "We are turning away from Twitter but not from our audiences and communities. There are plenty of ways to stay connected and keep up with NPR's news, music, and cultural content," NPR's statement said.
The Zotac ZBOX edge MI351 is a compact desktop computer that measures about 5.9″ x 5.9″ x 1.1″ and which can be easily mounted to a wall or the back of a display. It’s also a reasonably versatile little computer with support fo…
The Zotac ZBOX edge MI351 is a compact desktop computer that measures about 5.9″ x 5.9″ x 1.1″ and which can be easily mounted to a wall or the back of a display. It’s also a reasonably versatile little computer with support for WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, Gigabit Ethernet, and up to two 4K displays. But […]
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The Zotac ZBOX edge MI351 is a compact desktop computer that measures about 5.9″ x 5.9″ x 1.1″ and which can be easily mounted to a wall or the back of a display. It’s also a reasonably versatile little computer with support fo…
The Zotac ZBOX edge MI351 is a compact desktop computer that measures about 5.9″ x 5.9″ x 1.1″ and which can be easily mounted to a wall or the back of a display. It’s also a reasonably versatile little computer with support for WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, Gigabit Ethernet, and up to two 4K displays. But […]
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Satte Rabatte gibt es auf allerlei Werkzeug von Einhell. Heckenscheren, Rasenmäher, Akkuschrauber und mehr sind um bis zu 54 Prozent reduziert. (Amazon, Technik/Hardware)
Satte Rabatte gibt es auf allerlei Werkzeug von Einhell. Heckenscheren, Rasenmäher, Akkuschrauber und mehr sind um bis zu 54 Prozent reduziert. (Amazon, Technik/Hardware) 
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