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Einige Figuren von Star Trek: Voyager sind in den letzten Jahren in anderen Star-Trek-Serien zurückgekehrt. Nun gesellt sich der Holodoc dazu. (Star Trek, Streaming)
Local competition, surge of BEVs, and security-related restrictions lead to changes.
Enlarge / Domestically made smartphones were much in evidence at the National People’s Congress in Beijing (credit: Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images)
Apple and Tesla cracked China, but now the two largest US consumer companies in the country are experiencing cracks in their own strategies as domestic rivals gain ground and patriotic buying often trumps their allure.
Falling market share and sales figures reported this month indicate the two groups face rising competition and the whiplash of US-China geopolitical tensions. Both have turned to discounting to try to maintain their appeal.
A shift away from Apple, in particular, has been sharp, spurred on by a top-down campaign to reduce iPhone usage among state employees and the triumphant return of Chinese national champion Huawei, which last year overcame US sanctions to roll out a homegrown smartphone capable of near 5G speeds.
The new EV has set lap records at Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring.
Enlarge / Porsche's midlife refresh for the Taycan arrives this summer. Among the changes is a new model called the Taycan Turbo GT. (credit: Porsche)
Porsche is adding another new variant to its highly competent Taycan electric sedan. As part of the electric Porsche's midlife refresh, there's a new Taycan that sits atop the performance tree, appropriately named the Taycan Turbo GT. It's the most powerful Taycan you can buy, with a peak output of 1,092 hp (815 kW), and the boffins in Germany have even cut about 157 lbs (72 kg) from the curb weight.
The eagle-eyed Porsche observer probably knew a faster Taycan was on the way. In January, wearing manufacturer's camo and described as an "unnamed pre-production prototype," the Taycan Turbo GT lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:05.55, 20 seconds faster than Tesla's best time with its Model S Plaid (and 26 seconds faster than the Taycan Turbo S, previously the fastest variant).
Now, shorn of its camouflage and proudly bearing the Turbo GT name—as well as sporting the Taycan's new facelifted look—it has set a new record at Laguna Seca in California. With development driver Lars Kern behind the wheel, the Taycan Turbo GT lapped the 2.2-mile (3.6 km) circuit in 1:27.87, which is a track record for a production EV at that track.
Red Sonja war immer eine Männerphantasie – oder wurde zumindest so dargestellt. Bei M.J. Bassetts Film soll das anders werden. (Filme & Serien, Film)
Red Sonja war immer eine Männerphantasie - oder wurde zumindest so dargestellt. Bei M.J. Bassetts Film soll das anders werden. (Filme & Serien, Film) Several authors have filed a class action copyright infringement lawsuit against technology giant NVIDIA, which leads the AI revolution. In addition to selling hardware and services, NVIDIA has its own large language models. The authors allege that the AI models were trained on copyrighted works taken from the ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik, and as such they’re entitled to compensation.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Starting last year, various rightsholders have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models.
The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, even the New York Times. These rightsholders all object to the presumed use of their work without proper compensation.
Many of the lawsuits filed by book authors come with a clear piracy angle. The cases allege that tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, used the controversial ‘Books3’ dataset to train their models.
Books3 was created by AI researcher Shawn Presser in 2020, who scraped the library of ‘pirate’ site Bibliotik. The dataset was broadly shared online and added to other databases including ‘The Pile‘, an AI training dataset compiled by EleutherAI.
After pushback from rightsholders and anti-piracy outfits, Books3 was taken offline over copyright concerns. However, for many of the companies that allegedly trained their AI models on it, there are still some legal repercussions to sort out.
On Friday, American authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene, and Stewart O’Nan joined the barrage of legal action with a copyright infringement lawsuit against NVIDIA. The company, whose market cap exceeds $2 trillion, is mostly known for its GPUs and related software and services, but also has its own AI models.
In a concise class action complaint, filed at a California federal court, the authors allege that NVIDIA used the Books3 dataset to train its NeMo Megatron language models. The models are hosted on Hugging Face where it states that they are trained on EleutherAI’s ‘The Pile’ dataset, which includes the pirated books.
Putting two and two together, the plaintiffs conclude that NVIDIA’s models were trained on pirated books, including theirs, without their permission.
“NVIDIA has admitted training its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of The Pile dataset. Therefore, NVIDIA necessarily also trained its NeMo Megatron models on a copy of Books3, because Books3 is part of The Pile,” the complaint reads.
“Certain books written by Plaintiffs are part of Books3 — including the Infringed Works — and thus NVIDIA necessarily trained its NeMo Megatron models on one or more copies of the Infringed Works, thereby directly infringing the copyrights of the Plaintiffs.”
Relying on the same logic, the authors accuse the company of direct copyright infringement, noting that NVIDIA copied their books to use them for AI training purposes. Through the lawsuit, the rightsholders demand compensation in the form of actual or statutory damages.
The class action lawsuit includes three authors thus far, but more may be added to the case as it progresses. NVIDIA has yet to respond to the allegations but in light of similar cases, it will likely oppose the claims and/or argue a fair-use defense.
Last month, OpenAI managed to ‘defeat’ several copyright infringement claims from book authors in a somewhat related “Books3” lawsuit. However, the California federal court didn’t review the direct copyright infringement claims in this case, which have yet to be argued in detail at a later stage.
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A copy of the class action complaint against NVIDIA, filed by the authors in a California federal court, is available here (pdf)
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Das sagt zumindest der EU-Datenschutzbeauftragte nach einer Überprüfung der Nutzung von Microsoft 365. (EU-Kommission, Datenschutz)
Das sagt zumindest der EU-Datenschutzbeauftragte nach einer Überprüfung der Nutzung von Microsoft 365. (EU-Kommission, Datenschutz) Das sagt zumindest der EU-Datenschutzbeauftragte nach einer Überprüfung der Nutzung von Microsoft 365. (EU-Kommission, Datenschutz)
Das sagt zumindest der EU-Datenschutzbeauftragte nach einer Überprüfung der Nutzung von Microsoft 365. (EU-Kommission, Datenschutz) Die Vorteile des TP-Link WLAN-Sticks umfassen eine höhere Internetgeschwindigkeit und effizientere Arbeit und Freizeit zu Hause. (Technik/Hardware, WLAN)
Die Vorteile des TP-Link WLAN-Sticks umfassen eine höhere Internetgeschwindigkeit und effizientere Arbeit und Freizeit zu Hause. (Technik/Hardware, WLAN) Kernfusion gilt als die Energiequelle der Zukunft. Ein am MIT entwickelter supraleitender Magnet soll ihr zum Durchbruch verhelfen. (Kernfusion, Wissenschaft)
Kernfusion gilt als die Energiequelle der Zukunft. Ein am MIT entwickelter supraleitender Magnet soll ihr zum Durchbruch verhelfen. (Kernfusion, Wissenschaft) Mit dem Wechsel auf Apple-Silicon-Prozessoren haben Apple-Notebooks an Beliebtheit gewonnen. Die SSD im Macbook Air M2 wurde allerdings stark kritisiert. Im aktuellen Modell geht Apple daher einen Schritt zurück. (Macbook Air, Apple)
Mit dem Wechsel auf Apple-Silicon-Prozessoren haben Apple-Notebooks an Beliebtheit gewonnen. Die SSD im Macbook Air M2 wurde allerdings stark kritisiert. Im aktuellen Modell geht Apple daher einen Schritt zurück. (Macbook Air, Apple) 
Einige Figuren von Star Trek: Voyager sind in den letzten Jahren in anderen Star-Trek-Serien zurückgekehrt. Nun gesellt sich der Holodoc dazu. (
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