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In internen Tests konnte OpenAI feststellen, dass Menschen Anzeichen von Zuneigung zum KI-Modell GPT-4o zeigen. (GPT-4, KI)
Das astronomische Teleskop von Eaconn bietet eine praktische Möglichkeit, die Faszination der Himmelsbeobachtung zu entdecken. (Technik/Hardware, Astronomie)
Das astronomische Teleskop von Eaconn bietet eine praktische Möglichkeit, die Faszination der Himmelsbeobachtung zu entdecken. (Technik/Hardware, Astronomie) Während Elon Musk Donald Trump unterstützt, hat sich Steve Wozniak auf die Seite von Kamala Harris geschlagen. Welche Argumente geben im Silicon Valley den Ausschlag? Eine Analyse von Friedhelm Greis (Donald Trump, Twitter)
Während Elon Musk Donald Trump unterstützt, hat sich Steve Wozniak auf die Seite von Kamala Harris geschlagen. Welche Argumente geben im Silicon Valley den Ausschlag? Eine Analyse von Friedhelm Greis (Donald Trump, Twitter) Auf 51 x 21 mm arbeitet ein neues SoC, das wahlweise ARM-Cores oder RISC-V-Kerne nutzen kann. Der Raspberry Pi Pico 2 bleibt dabei kompakt. (Raspberry Pi, DIY – Do it yourself)
Auf 51 x 21 mm arbeitet ein neues SoC, das wahlweise ARM-Cores oder RISC-V-Kerne nutzen kann. Der Raspberry Pi Pico 2 bleibt dabei kompakt. (Raspberry Pi, DIY - Do it yourself) Amazon bietet zurzeit einen satten Rabatt auf eine freistehende Mikrowelle von Toshiba mit Grill und acht automatischen Programmen. (Technik/Hardware, Toshiba)
Amazon bietet zurzeit einen satten Rabatt auf eine freistehende Mikrowelle von Toshiba mit Grill und acht automatischen Programmen. (Technik/Hardware, Toshiba) Serie A’s bid to force Cloudflare to participate in Piracy Shield, Italy’s pirate IPTV blocking system, has failed. The Italian football league filed a legal complaint in April, claiming that Cloudflare assists and protects pirate services. In a decision handed down this week, the Court of Milan said that it has no legal authority to compel Cloudflare to join the program. The Court also denied Serie A’s application for an injunction, for reasons that suggest this battle may not be over.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Despite providing a range of services for free that millions have come to rely on, and others that improve security and uptime for millions more, not everyone views Cloudflare’s key products as universally positive.
In Italy, where it took just a couple of weeks for the Piracy Shield blocking system and Cloudflare to start bumping heads, the reasons for conflict are on full display. Running from its core through to every product it develops, Cloudflare’s mission is to enable and protect online connectivity. Piracy Shield’s mission, to disrupt or terminate the connectivity of IPTV services, is exactly the opposite.
Friction was inevitable, and it began as predicted; a Cloudflare IP address was added to the Piracy Shield system, resulting in instant overblocking of innocent sites, just as the experts had warned, time and time again.
Yet despite innocent Cloudflare customers paying for that blunder with their own connectivity, the ability to continue blocking without causing further collateral damage exposed Piracy Shield’s limitations. And for that, Cloudflare received the blame.
With Piracy Shield barely two months old, on April 3, 2024, Serie A filed a complaint against Cloudflare at the Court of Milan. Cloudflare’s services protect all who sign up for them but, while most customers are law-abiding, a minority are not. When IPTV providers use Cloudflare’s services, they not only achieve greater anonymity like any other user, their platforms become much more difficult for Piracy Shield to block. Serie A wants this situation brought to an end.
The football league used colorful drug-dealing analogies to paint a picture of Cloudflare providing “pirate match dealers” and their users with a “dealing room and the exit routes” to evade capture. Minus the imagery, Serie A’s claims boil down to the same thing; Cloudflare’s services greatly assist pirates, make anti-piracy measures much less effective, and Cloudflare won’t take the type of action Serie A believes it should.
The existence of the Serie A complaint wasn’t revealed until the end of May when La Repubblica broke the story. But even then, what Serie A hoped to achieve and under what legislation still wasn’t made clear. The Court of Milan’s decision, dated Monday August 5, and reported by Cloudflare’s Italian legal team, fills in most of the gaps.
Early July, DAZN said it should be “mandatory for so-called intermediaries of electronic communication services, which allow pirates to hide from the Piracy Shield platform through their services, to be obliged to register with this platform.” Cloudflare wasn’t mentioned by name, but DAZN already knew what Serie A had demanded because the company and other interested parties were directly involved.
Serie A’s argument that Cloudflare should be compelled by court order to participate in the Piracy Shield blocking program, received support from interveners DAZN, Serie B, and Sky Italia. Cloudflare was represented by LMS Studio Legale, and the law firm’s announcement this week revealed good news for Cloudflare.
“Ludovico Anselmi and Giuseppe Cardona, partners at LMS Studio Legale, successfully assisted Cloudflare, an American company providing security services for Internet sites, in precautionary proceedings brought before the Court of Milan by Lega Serie A, with the intervention of Lega Serie B, DAZN and Sky Italia,” the law firm said.
“The appeal aimed to obtain an order to register Cloudflare on the ‘Piracy Shield’ platform established by AGCOM, as well as injunctive measures regarding the alleged provision of Cloudflare services to sites that had allegedly disseminated without authorization images of football matches on which the appellant claimed related rights.”
The decision, handed down by the Court of Milan’s Specialized Section, denied Serie A’s first request after finding that the power to impose registration to Piracy Shield sits beyond the scope of powers assigned to the Court.
A second claim, reportedly relating to Cloudflare’s behavior, was also dismissed. According to LMS, the judges said that the matter should have been heard in a trial on the merits.
Whether Serie A intends to take further action is currently unknown, but it’s clear that the influential football league can rely on support from AGCOM, including when the regulator meets with Cloudflare in September.
Cloudflare was also mentioned in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house of Parliament) last month in connection with Piracy Shield. The extracts below suggest that the commentary may have concluded with a veiled threat.
Extracts below and a link to the original here (pdf)
[I]t appears that following these first months of operation of the automated platform [Piracy Shield] there are entities that provide CDN services that allow pirate users to continue to enjoy the illegal viewing of content subject to a blocking order by AGCOM [..]
In particular, among these subjects, the role of Cloudflare stands out, a CDN and proxy service, which in addition to legal services, such as, for example, cloud connectivity and cyber threat protection services, effectively provides protection to sites that illegally transmit copyrighted content, by shielding their IP address, which would be subject to blocking on the Piracy Shield platform, making it effectively unidentifiable [..]
Cloudflare also provides its services to the public administration. If the circumstance were confirmed, we would be faced with the circumstance that Cloudflare would provide lawful services to the public administration and unlawful services to criminal organizations that manage audiovisual piracy activities.
Whether the Ministers questioned, to the extent of their competence, are aware of the above and whether they are aware of which State administrations use, including through third-party companies, the services offered by Cloudflare, and can provide a list of them; whether the above is confirmed with regard to public administrations and, in the event of an affirmative answer, whether they do not deem it appropriate to take the initiatives within their competence to determine the end of such collaboration.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Ein Fan fühlt sich an Peter-Molyneux-Versprechen erinnert: Im MS Flight Simulator 2024 soll es ganz neue Möglichkeiten für Piloten geben. (Flugsimulator, Microsoft)
Ein Fan fühlt sich an Peter-Molyneux-Versprechen erinnert: Im MS Flight Simulator 2024 soll es ganz neue Möglichkeiten für Piloten geben. (Flugsimulator, Microsoft) Borrowing a GM platform means being stuck with some of GM’s design decisions.
Enlarge / Honda's homegrown EVs won't be ready for another couple of years, but this is its Prologue. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin)
Electric vehicles aren't quite as hot as they were when Honda first showed us the Prologue in 2022. Designed around General Motors' new platform of Ultium batteries and motors, it was planned to be the first in a series of EVs to benefit from this platform-sharing with GM. But late last year, that plan was shelved. Instead, Honda will focus on a homegrown family of EVs, investing $11 billion on North American production alone. That makes the Prologue rather accurately named, but it's also something of a dead end, as it's built on an underlying architecture that won't be seen again wearing the Honda wings.
The Prologue is a midsize SUV, so it's larger than a CR-V. It's identical in size to the Chevrolet Blazer, and the twin-motor all-wheel drive powertrain in our test Prologue Elite generates the same 288 hp (214 kW) and 333 lb-ft (451 Nm), fed by the same 85 kWh capacity Ultium battery pack.
That shouldn't be too surprising—the Prologue comes from the same GM factory in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, as the Blazer EV. But Honda was responsible for signing off on the ride and handling and, as with the more upmarket Acura ZDX, also took charge of the car's UI/UX. And the result is an EV that does not feel like a Blazer EV to drive, nor to sit in, mostly.
In den Kriegen der Zukunft werden günstige Roboter eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Das Start-up Arx Robotics zeigt, wie sie aussehen könnten. Ein Bericht von Werner Pluta (Forschung in D, Roboter)
In den Kriegen der Zukunft werden günstige Roboter eine wichtige Rolle spielen. Das Start-up Arx Robotics zeigt, wie sie aussehen könnten. Ein Bericht von Werner Pluta (Forschung in D, Roboter) Eine Forschungsgruppe wird für einen Lösungsansatz zur grünen Wasserstoffproduktion gefördert. Der Fokus liegt auf Z-Schema-Photokatalysatorsystemen. (Wasserstoff, Energiewende)
Eine Forschungsgruppe wird für einen Lösungsansatz zur grünen Wasserstoffproduktion gefördert. Der Fokus liegt auf Z-Schema-Photokatalysatorsystemen. (Wasserstoff, Energiewende) 
In internen Tests konnte OpenAI feststellen, dass Menschen Anzeichen von Zuneigung zum KI-Modell GPT-4o zeigen. (
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