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The MINISFORUM AtomMan G7 PT is a small PC with the beating heart of a gaming laptop. Inside the small chassis is an AMD Ryzen 7 7945HX processor and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT discrete graphics. But since this is a desktop rather than a laptop, there̵…
The MINISFORUM AtomMan G7 PT is a small PC with the beating heart of a gaming laptop. Inside the small chassis is an AMD Ryzen 7 7945HX processor and AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT discrete graphics. But since this is a desktop rather than a laptop, there’s also room for plenty of ports. The computer supports […]
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Huawei ist aus dem Kernnetz bereits raus, und muss nun bis 2026 ausgebaut werden. Zudem dürfen die 5G-Antennen an den Funkmasten weiter arbeiten. Nur eine Software muss weg. (Huawei, Mobilfunk)
Ahead of next week’s Prime Day sale, Amazon continues to offer discounts on a range of products: this week Prime members can pick up Amazon Fire TV media streaming devices for as little as $15, or save 50% on a set of Amazon Echo Buds true wirel…
Ahead of next week’s Prime Day sale, Amazon continues to offer discounts on a range of products: this week Prime members can pick up Amazon Fire TV media streaming devices for as little as $15, or save 50% on a set of Amazon Echo Buds true wireless earbuds, bringing the price down to just $25. […]
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Apple has said some features will be available to test “this summer.”
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The beta-testing cycle for Apple's latest operating system updates is in full swing—earlier this week, the third developer betas rolled out for iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia, and the rest of this fall's updates. The fourth developer beta ought to be out in a couple of weeks, and it's reasonably likely to coincide with the first betas that Apple offers to the full public (though the less-stable developer-only betas got significantly more public last year when Apple stopped making people pay for a developer account to access them).
Many of the new updates' features are present and available to test, including cosmetic updates and under-the-hood improvements. But none of Apple's much-hyped Apple Intelligence features are available to test in any form. MacRumors reports that Settings menus for the Apple Intelligence features have appeared in the Xcode Simulator for current versions of iOS 18 but, as of now, those settings still appear to be non-functional placeholders that don't actually do anything.
That may change soon; Apple did say that the first wave of Apple Intelligence features would be available "this summer," and I would wager a small amount of money on the first ones being available in the public beta builds later this month. But the current state of the betas does reinforce reporting from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman that suggested Apple was "caught flat-footed" by the tech world's intense interest in generative AI.
Because I’m tall enough, I’m orange enough, and doggone it, Senators like me.
Enlarge / Stuart Smalley is here to help with daily affirmations of SLS. (credit: Aurich Lawson | SNL)
There is a curious section in the new congressional reauthorization bill for NASA that concerns the agency's large Space Launch System rocket.
The section is titled "Reaffirmation of the Space Launch System," and in it Congress asserts its commitment to a flight rate of twice per year for the rocket. The reauthorization legislation, which cleared a House committee on Wednesday, also said NASA should identify other customers for the rocket.
"The Administrator shall assess the demand for the Space Launch System by entities other than NASA and shall break out such demand according to the relevant Federal agency or nongovernment sector," the legislation states.
Fast-moving stars imply that there’s an intermediate-mass black hole there.
Enlarge / From left to right, zooming in from the globular cluster to the site of its black hole. (credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Häberle)
Supermassive black holes appear to reside at the center of every galaxy and to have done so since galaxies formed early in the history of the Universe. Currently, however, we can't entirely explain their existence, since it's difficult to understand how they could grow quickly enough to reach the cutoff for supermassive as quickly as they did.
A possible bit of evidence was recently found by using about 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The data comes from a globular cluster of stars that's thought to be the remains of a dwarf galaxy and shows that a group of stars near the cluster's core are moving so fast that they should have been ejected from it entirely. That implies that something massive is keeping them there, which the researchers argue is a rare intermediate-mass black hole, weighing in at over 8,000 times the mass of the Sun.
The fast-moving stars reside in Omega Centauri, the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way. With an estimated 10 million stars, it's a crowded environment, but observations are aided by its relative proximity, at "only" 17,000 light-years away. Those observations have been hinting that there might be a central black hole within the globular cluster, but the evidence has not been decisive.
Nintendo’s dismantling of the Switch emulator scene continued this week. Using the injunction obtained against the Yuzu emulator as a base, Nintendo has just taken down projects including Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu and Sudachi from GitHub. Some are likely to survive elsewhere and at least one is being completely rewritten to address various issues. Whether that will pacify Nintendo is unknown.
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On paper, Nintendo’s lawsuit targeting the developers of Switch emulator Yuzu was solid. It also had the potential to drag on for a long time.
Without surprise banana peels suddenly making an appearance, on balance, Nintendo could’ve walked away with a fairly easy win. Yet just weeks after the lawsuit was filed, Nintendo and the anonymous Yuzu developers agreed to settle.
From the outside it was neat, tidy, and efficient. Perhaps even unusually so.
A judgment in favor of Nintendo, following a case heard on the merits, would’ve arguably served as a more valuable deterrent. Instead, Nintendo successfully protected its brand and eliminated all risk of not getting precisely what it needed to shut down similar operations in the future.
The resulting judgment and permanent injunction now serve as guidance tools; they detail specific actions relevant to emulation and why they represent illegality and red lines for Nintendo.
As Nintendo continues to target Yuzu-like emulators that remain available online, takedown notices now feature detailed information about Yuzu to ensure compliance.
Nintendo’s general position is that since the software it wants to take down is based on the same code as Yuzu, the legal conclusions in the Yuzu matter should be applied here. For good measure, copies of the Yuzu judgment and the injunction that restrains its developers are supplied for reference.
A DMCA takedown notice sent to GitHub dated July 5, 2024, is a perfect example. An introductory paragraph details Nintendo’s deployment of technological protection measures (TPM). These ensure that the Nintendo Switch console only plays legitimate Nintendo video game files, while preventing users from unlawfully copying and playing Switch games on “unauthorized” devices, Nintendo explains.
The notice goes on to list 14 emulator repositories that contain or are based on Yuzu code. On that basis, Nintendo wants them taken down.
“The reported repositories offer and provide access to the yuzu emulator or code based on the yuzu emulator (specifically, programs called Suyu, Nuzu, Uzuy, Torzu, and Sudachi). The yuzu emulator is primarily designed to play Nintendo Switch games. Specifically, yuzu illegally circumvents Nintendo’s technological protection measures and runs illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games,” the notice reads.
The remainder of the notice covers previously established ground in respect of the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA and how Yuzu was found to have violated those provisions. In summary, the approach was a complete success.
At the time of writing, all 14 repositories are unavailable, for one of two possible reasons. The majority display a ‘page not found’ message which suggests that after receiving the takedown notice, some developers responded by deleting their own repositories.
The remaining six repos (1x Yuzo-type, 1x Torzu, 2x Suyo, 2x Uzuy) display a takedown advisory from GitHub, suggesting they either didn’t respond quickly enough or for some reason, did not respond to the notice at all.
While his repo has been deleted, one developer doesn’t see this as the end of the road.
In a post to X on July 5, the developer of Sudachi acknowledged that his repo had been targeted by Nintendo. He also indicated that since his software provided “no illegal content” he would follow up with a counter notice.
In a subsequent post, circumvention entered the equation and from there, a later update on replacing some of Sudachi’s code with an open-source alternative.
Further chin-scratching in respect of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions and what they mean for emulators like Sudachi, may suggest that even the most brilliant of coding minds find this aspect of the DMCA somewhat impenetrable.
That’s hardly a surprise given that most people associate copyright law with the right to copy, rather than the circumvention of measures that “effectively control access” to copyright works, regardless of whether they’re effective or if anything was actually copied.
As mentioned earlier, the text in the judgment and injunction appear to be the new guard rails; those in the Switch emulator scene will find the space in the middle very, very narrow indeed.
Nintendo’s DMCA takedown notice is available here
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The acquisition is the largest of its kind in Europe in a decade.
Enlarge / A draw housing six Sapphire Technology Ltd. AMD graphics processing units. (credit: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
AMD is to buy Finnish artificial intelligence startup Silo AI for $665 million in one of the largest such takeovers in Europe as the US chipmaker seeks to expand its AI services to compete with market leader Nvidia.
California-based AMD said Silo’s 300-member team would use its software tools to build custom large language models (LLMs), the kind of AI technology that underpins chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The all-cash acquisition is expected to close in the second half of this year, subject to regulatory approval.
“This agreement helps us both accelerate our customer engagements and deployments while also helping us accelerate our own AI tech stack,” Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president of AMD’s artificial intelligence group, told the Financial Times.
Takata airbags and problematic sensors lead to recall across four car brands.
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Both BMW and Stellantis are having to recall hundreds of thousands of vehicles in the US this month due to airbag problems. For BMW, the problem, which potentially affects 394,029 cars, is a continuation of the Takata airbag recall, the largest automotive recall in history. Stellantis has slightly fewer potentially affected cars, with 322,000 subject to recall, but for different problem caused by a suspect sensor in the seat belt buckle.
While the BMW recall will be sent to almost 400,000 owners, the company suspects only 1 percent of that population will have a problem that needs remedying. That's because it wants dealers to check any cars where the owner has replaced the factory-fitted steering wheel with a Sport or M-Sport version equipped with a PSDI-5 inflator.
These inflators lack a desiccant or drying agent that would otherwise prevent the ammonium nitrate airbag propellant from taking on moisture, degrading the airbag's performance to the point where it could overinflate and shower the interior with metal fragments. At least 24 people have been killed by defective Takata airbags in the US, which led to 42 million cars being recalled to fix the problem.
The E10 ETBox is a compact desktop computer with a 45-watt Intel Core i5-12450H 8-core, 12-thread processor, support for up to three 4K displays, and a body that measures just 178 x 188 x 62mm (7″ x 7.4″ x 2.4″) and has an volume of …
The E10 ETBox is a compact desktop computer with a 45-watt Intel Core i5-12450H 8-core, 12-thread processor, support for up to three 4K displays, and a body that measures just 178 x 188 x 62mm (7″ x 7.4″ x 2.4″) and has an volume of 2 liters. But honestly the most surprising thing about this […]
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