Month: October 2023

Photovoltaik-Subventionen: Einspeiserbonus-Streit spaltet Solarbranche

Die Solarindustrie in Deutschland ist uneins darüber, wie der Staat die heimische Produktion ankurbeln sollte. Diskutiert werden direkte und indirekte Subventionen. (Solarenergie, Umweltschutz)

Die Solarindustrie in Deutschland ist uneins darüber, wie der Staat die heimische Produktion ankurbeln sollte. Diskutiert werden direkte und indirekte Subventionen. (Solarenergie, Umweltschutz)

GEEKOM Mini IT13 Review: 4×4 mini PC with an Intel Core i9-13900H processor

When mini PC maker GEEKOM unveiled the GEEKOM Mini IT13 in August, the computer was billed as “The World’s First Mini PC Powered By The 13th Gen i9 CPU” with “groundbreaking performance.” And it was all going to be crammed into the familiar NUC …

When mini PC maker GEEKOM unveiled the GEEKOM Mini IT13 in August, the computer was billed as “The World’s First Mini PC Powered By The 13th Gen i9 CPU” with “groundbreaking performance.” And it was all going to be crammed into the familiar NUC 4×4 inch form-factor. But it takes more than putting a high-performance […]

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Volkswagen: Cariad droht Stellenabbau

VW plant den Abbau von rund 2.000 Arbeitsplätzen bei seiner angeschlagenen Softwareeinheit Cariad, während sich die Einführung wichtiger Fahrzeuge wohl verzögert. (Cariad, Elektroauto)

VW plant den Abbau von rund 2.000 Arbeitsplätzen bei seiner angeschlagenen Softwareeinheit Cariad, während sich die Einführung wichtiger Fahrzeuge wohl verzögert. (Cariad, Elektroauto)

Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending October 7, 2023

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending October 7, 2023, are in. A surprising prequel hit, once streaming-only, is now on disc and the best-selling new release for the week. Find out what movie it was in…



The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending October 7, 2023, are in. A surprising prequel hit, once streaming-only, is now on disc and the best-selling new release for the week. Find out what movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.

The UK’s problematic Online Safety Act is now law

The government says it will protect kids online; critics say it’s a threat to privacy.

The UK’s problematic Online Safety Act is now law

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Jeremy Wright was the first of five UK ministers charged with pushing through the British government’s landmark legislation on regulating the Internet, the Online Safety Bill. The current UK government likes to brand its initiatives as “world-beating,” but for a brief period in 2019 that might have been right. Back then, three prime ministers ago, the bill—or at least the white paper that would form its basis—outlined an approach that recognized that social media platforms were already de facto arbiters of what was acceptable speech on large parts of the Internet, but that this was a responsibility they didn’t necessarily want and weren’t always capable of discharging. Tech companies were pilloried for things that they missed, but also, by free speech advocates, for those they took down. “There was a sort of emerging realization that self-regulation wasn’t going to be viable for very much longer,” Wright says. “And therefore, governments needed to be involved.”

The bill set out to define a way to handle “legal but harmful” content—material that wasn’t explicitly against the law but which, individually or in aggregate, posed a risk, such as health care disinformation, posts encouraging suicide or eating disorders, or political disinformation with the potential to undermine democracy or create panic. The bill had its critics—notably, those who worried it gave Big Tech too much power. But it was widely praised as a thoughtful attempt to deal with a problem that was growing and evolving faster than politics and society were able to adapt. Of his 17 years in parliament, Wright says, “I’m not sure I’ve seen anything by way of potential legislation that’s had as broadly based a political consensus behind it.”

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