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The MINISFORUM EliteMini UM880 Pro is a small desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, support for up to four displays, an OCuLink port, and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports. And the MINISFORUM EliteMini UM890 Pro is a nearly identical system, exce…
The MINISFORUM EliteMini UM880 Pro is a small desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, support for up to four displays, an OCuLink port, and two 2.5 GbE LAN ports. And the MINISFORUM EliteMini UM890 Pro is a nearly identical system, except it has a Ryzen 9 8945HS processor. MINISFORUM isn’t offering the little computers […]
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The Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC is available for pre-order for $800 and it will begin shipping in July. With a bigger battery, more memory and storage, and an updated design, it’s a noticeable upgrade over the original ROG Ally… but…
The Asus ROG Ally X handheld gaming PC is available for pre-order for $800 and it will begin shipping in July. With a bigger battery, more memory and storage, and an updated design, it’s a noticeable upgrade over the original ROG Ally… but it has the same processor and display so it’s not that big an […]
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Apple thinks pushing OpenAI’s brand to hundreds of millions is worth more than money.
Enlarge (credit: OpenAI / Apple / Benj Edwards)
On Monday, Apple announced it would be integrating OpenAI's ChatGPT AI assistant into upcoming versions of its iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems. It paves the way for future third-party AI model integrations, but given Google's multi-billion-dollar deal with Apple for preferential web search, the OpenAI announcement inspired speculation about who is paying whom. According to a Bloomberg report published Wednesday, Apple considers ChatGPT's placement on its devices as compensation enough.
"Apple isn’t paying OpenAI as part of the partnership," writes Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman, citing people familiar with the matter who wish to remain anonymous. "Instead, Apple believes pushing OpenAI’s brand and technology to hundreds of millions of its devices is of equal or greater value than monetary payments."
The Bloomberg report states that neither company expects the agreement to generate meaningful revenue in the short term, and in fact, the partnership could burn extra money for OpenAI, because it pays Microsoft to host ChatGPT's capabilities on its Azure cloud. However, OpenAI could benefit by converting free users to paid subscriptions, and Apple potentially benefits by providing easy, built-in access to ChatGPT during a time when its own in-house LLMs are still catching up.
A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers to prevent circumvention of blocking measures, targeting around 117 pirate sports streaming domains. The move is another anti-piracy escalation for broadcaster Canal+, which also has permission to completely deindex the sites from search engine results.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
In France, where laws were introduced with site-blocking and similar anti-piracy measures already baked in, entertainment giant Canal+ seems intent on taking full advantage.
Like similar broadcasters with lucrative sports rights to exploit, Canal+ has a subset of viewers who prefer to consume from pirate sources which charge much less, or even nothing at all.
To maximize its existing site-blocking efforts through local ISPs, the French broadcaster has now taken the logical, albeit controversial, next step on the site-blocking ladder.
In 2023, Canal+ went to court in France to tackle pirate sports streaming sites including Footybite.co, Streamcheck.link, SportBay.sx, TVFutbol.info, and Catchystream.com. The broadcaster said that since subscribers of local ISPs were accessing the pirate sites using their services, the ISPs should prevent them from doing so.
When the decision went in favor of Canal+, ISPs including Orange, SFR, OutreMer Télécom, Free, and Bouygues Télécom, were required to implement technical measures. Since the ISPs have their own DNS resolvers for use by their own customers, these were configured to provide non-authentic responses to deny access to the sites in question.
In response, increasingly savvy internet users that hadn’t already done so, simply changed their settings to use different DNS providers – Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco – whose resolvers hadn’t been tampered with; at least not yet.
Use of third-party DNS providers to circumvent blocking isn’t uncommon so last year Canal+ took legal action against three popular public DNS providers – Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), Google (8.8.8.8), and Cisco (208.69.38.205), demanding measures similar to those implemented by French ISPs.
Tampering with public DNS is a step too far for many internet advocates but for major rightsholders, if the law can be shaped to allow it, that’s what will happen. In this case, Article L333-10 of the French Sports Code (active Jan 2022) seems capable of accommodating almost anything.
When there are “serious and repeated violations” by an “online public communication service” whose main objective is the unauthorized broadcasting of sports competitions, rightsholders can demand “all proportionate measures likely to prevent or put an end to this infringement, against any person likely to contribute to remedying it.”
Two decisions were handed down by the Paris judicial court last month; one concerning Premier League matches and the other the Champions League. The orders instruct Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to implement measures similar to those in place at local ISPs. To protect the rights of Canal+, the companies must prevent French internet users from using their services to access around 117 pirate domains.
According to French publication l’Informé, which broke the news, Google attorney Sébastien Proust crunched figures published by government anti-piracy agency Arcom and concluded that the effect on piracy rates, if any, is likely to be minimal.
Starting with a pool of all users who use alternative DNS for any reason, users of pirate sites – especially sites broadcasting the matches in question – were isolated from the rest. Users of both VPNs and third-party DNS were further excluded from the group since DNS blocking is ineffective against VPNs.
Proust found that the number of users likely to be affected by DNS blocking at Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco, amounts to 0.084% of the total population of French Internet users. Citing a recent survey, which found that only 2% of those who face blocks simply give up and don’t find other means of circumvention, he reached an interesting conclusion.
“2% of 0.084% is 0.00168% of Internet users! In absolute terms, that would represent a small group of around 800 people across France!”
In common with other courts presented with the same arguments, the Paris court said the number of people using alternative DNS to access the sites, and the simplicity of switching DNS, are irrelevant.
Canal+ owns the rights to the broadcasts and if it wishes to request a blocking injunction, it has the legal right to do so.
The DNS providers’ assertion that their services are not covered by the legislation was also waved aside by the court.
Google says it intends to comply with the order. As part of the original matter in 2023, it was already required to deindex the domains from search results under the same law.
At least in theory, this means that those who circumvented the original blocks using these alternative DNS services, will be back to square one and confronted by blocks all over again.
Given that circumventing this set of blocks will be as straightforward as circumventing the originals, that raises the question of what measures Canal+ will demand next, and from whom.
| Tribunal Judiciare de Paris | Canal+ | Cloudflare/Google/Cisco | |
| Premier League | UEFA Champions league |
|---|---|
| footybite.cc | footybite.tv |
| footybite.io | hesgoal.today |
| hesgoal.name | redditsoccerstreams.org |
| pirlotv.app | rsoccerstreams.net |
| reddit-soccerstreams.com | soccerstreams.football |
| redditsoccerstreams.tv | soccerstreamshd.com |
| streameast.gg | totalsporteks.net |
| volokit.to | sportsurge.app |
| totalsportek.ac | redditsoccerstreams.xyz |
| soccerstreamlinks.com | hesgoals.top |
| socceron.name | hdmatch.club |
| lacasadeltikitaka.net | bitestreams.net |
| streamseast.ai | livesoccer.sx |
| bestsolaris.com | footybite.one |
| radamel.icu | techclips.net |
| sports.f1livestream.top | sports.f1livestream.top |
| backfirstwo.site | reddit.soccerstreamshd.com |
| reddit.volokit.to | extratime.live |
| hitsports.pro | streameast.top |
| tvhd.tutvlive.site | soccerstreams.app |
| dotsport.live | freeviplive.com |
| dotsport1.com | fapxy.info |
| elkoora.live | 1l1l.to |
| fel3ardaa.com | futbolonlinetv.club |
| golkoralive.com | hesgoal.world |
| silapathikaram.com | hesgoaltv.me |
| cainsoffering.net | sporthd.me |
| golkoralive.live | cdnz.one |
| kkooralives.com | ivesoccer.sx |
| koora-live.io | livetv705.me |
| kooralivs.com | livetv706.me |
| kora4live.net | pirlotvhd.online |
| live-kooora.com | rojadirectatv.uno |
| livekooora.online | soccerstreams100.io |
| live-kooora-tv.com | tarjetarojaenvivo.me |
| live-kooora-tv.net | tarjetarojatvhd.com |
| livekoora.io | stream.pajitotv.info |
| live-koora.online | hesgoaled.com |
| livetv707.me | 1.ivesoccer.sx |
| livetv708.me | embx214129.apl275.me |
| monlive.info | emb.apl275.me |
| rojadirectaenvivotv.me | embx214161.apl275.me |
| rojadirectaes.org | stream.rodrixtv.info |
| awtsport.com | fk9.pw |
| live7.pro | m.soccerstreams100.io |
| sportsonline.so | ovo-line.com |
| 4koora.elkoora.live | sportschamp.fun |
| f.fel3ardaa.com | givemereddit.eu |
| v3.sportsonline.sx | streamseast.ai |
| kora.live-koora.live | tazz.tv |
| alkora.golkoralive.live | embx214374.apl275.me |
| kooralive.koora-live.io | hd.espnv2.online |
| m.koora-live.io | embx210801.apl275.me |
| syria-live.us | |
| 4kooralive.live-kooora.com | |
| 5kooralive.live-kooora.com | |
| tvkoora.livekooora.online | |
| mypanlss.store | |
| koora.live-kooora-tv.net | |
| v2.sportsonline.so | |
| kora.livekoora.io | |
| koras.live-koora.online | |
| embx214129.apl274.me | |
| embx210130.apl276.me | |
| capodeportes.run | |
| sports-stream.info | |
| topstreams.me | |
| sports.chelsealivestream.com | |
| sportsleading.online |
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Mego’s “Time Out” spot pitched Nintendo’s Game & Watch handhelds under a different name.
Enlarge / "So slim you can play it anywhere." (credit: VGHF)
Gamers of a certain age may remember Nintendo's Game & Watch line, which predated the cartridge-based Game Boy by offering simple, single-serving LCD games that can fetch a pretty penny at auction today. But even most ancient gamers probably don't remember Mego's "Time Out" line, which took the internal of Nintendo's early Game & Watch titles and rebranded them for an American audience that hadn't yet heard of the Japanese game maker.
Now, the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF) has helped preserve the original film of an early Mego Time Out commercial, marking the recovered, digitized video as "what we believe is the first commercial for a Nintendo product in the United States." The 30-second TV spot—which is now available in a high-quality digital transfer for the first time—provides a fascinating glimpse into how marketers positioned some of Nintendo's earliest games to a public that still needed to be sold on the very idea of portable gaming.
A 1980 Mego catalog sells Nintendo's Game & Watch games under the toy company's "Time Out" branding. (credit: Mego Museum)
Founded in the 1950s, Mego made a name for itself in the 1970s with licensed movie action figures and early robotic toys like the 2-XL (a childhood favorite of your humble author). In 1980, though, Mego branched out to partner with a brand-new, pre-Donkey Kong Nintendo of America to release rebranded versions of four early Game & Watch titles: Ball (which became Mego's "Toss-Up"), Vermin ("Exterminator"), Fire ("Fireman Fireman"), and Flagman ("Flag Man").
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Enlarge (credit: Francesco Carta fotografo | Moment)
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According to a press release from the Evansville Police Department, this was a clear "misuse" of Clearview AI's controversial face scan tech, which some US cities have banned over concerns that it gives law enforcement unlimited power to track people in their daily lives.
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