Just another news site
Ein Londoner Restaurant hat Hunderte von Anrufen erhalten, die für die britische Google-Zentrale bestimmt waren. Google selbst war schuld. (Google, Software)
Nvidia soll heimlich riesige Mengen Videos aus verschiedenen Onlinequellen, darunter Youtube und Netflix, für das KI-Training genutzt haben. (Nvidia, Urheberrecht)
Nvidia soll heimlich riesige Mengen Videos aus verschiedenen Onlinequellen, darunter Youtube und Netflix, für das KI-Training genutzt haben. (Nvidia, Urheberrecht) Wer beim Autofahren mit dem Handy hantiert, gefährdet sich und andere. Mit Gamification gewöhnt man Fahrern das ab, wie eine Studie zeigt. (Handy, Studien)
Git hat sich als eine wesentliche Versionskontrollsoftware etabliert, die Devs die Verwaltung und Nachverfolgung von Codeänderungen erleichtert. Ein Onlineworkshop vermittelt die Nutzung dieser Open-Source-Software. (Golem Karrierewelt, Versionsverwalt…
Git hat sich als eine wesentliche Versionskontrollsoftware etabliert, die Devs die Verwaltung und Nachverfolgung von Codeänderungen erleichtert. Ein Onlineworkshop vermittelt die Nutzung dieser Open-Source-Software. (Golem Karrierewelt, Versionsverwaltung) DNS poisoning attack worked even when targets used DNS from Google and Cloudflare.
Enlarge (credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer and Speaker)
Hackers delivered malware to Windows and Mac users by compromising their Internet service provider and then tampering with software updates delivered over unsecure connections, researchers said.
The attack, researchers from security firm Volexity said, worked by hacking routers or similar types of device infrastructure of an unnamed ISP. The attackers then used their control of the devices to poison domain name system responses for legitimate hostnames providing updates for at least six different apps written for Windows or macOS. The apps affected were the 5KPlayer, Quick Heal, Rainmeter, Partition Wizard, and those from Corel and Sogou.
Because the update mechanisms didn’t use TLS or cryptographic signatures to authenticate the connections or downloaded software, the threat actors were able to use their control of the ISP infrastructure to successfully perform machine-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks that directed targeted users to hostile servers rather than the ones operated by the affected software makers. These redirections worked even when users employed non-encrypted public DNS services such as Google’s 8.8.8.8 or Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 rather than the authoritative DNS server provided by the ISP.
The man developed atrial fibrillation and required hospitalization.
Enlarge (credit: Getty | Spauln)
The dose makes the medicine—and for many critical prescription drugs, the dose depends on a patient's body weight. Usually, this is not a problem; weight changes large enough to significantly affect dosages often occur gradually, over periods long enough for doctors to notice and adjust prescriptions. But, in the era of new weight loss drugs, that may no longer be the case.
In a cautionary tale published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers at the University of Colorado reported the case of a man who lost nearly 30 percent of his body weight in a six-month period using a new weight loss drug. Then, he showed up at an emergency department with heart palpitations, excessive sweating, confusion, fever, and hand tremors. Tests indicated the man had atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm that can lead to heart failure and stroke without treatment.
The 62-year-old had no history of atrial fibrillation, but he had previously been diagnosed with obesity, Type 1 diabetes, and hypothyroidism (a condition in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormone). For his hypothyroidism, he took levothyroxine, a synthetic thyroid hormone that is dosed by weight.
Some say watermarking is the responsible thing to do, but it’s complicated.
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)
According to The Wall Street Journal, there's internal conflict at OpenAI over whether or not to release a watermarking tool that would allow people to test text to see whether it was generated by ChatGPT or not.
To deploy the tool, OpenAI would make tweaks to ChatGPT that would lead it to leave a trail in the text it generates that can be detected by a special tool. The watermark would be undetectable by human readers without the tool, and the company's internal testing has shown that it does not negatively affect the quality of outputs. The detector would be accurate 99.9 percent of the time. It's important to note that the watermark would be a pattern in the text itself, meaning it would be preserved if the user copies and pastes the text or even if they make modest edits to it.
Some OpenAI employees have campaigned for the tool's release, but others believe that would be the wrong move, citing a few specific problems.
Finding elusive pictorial, textual references to hydraulic device may help convince skeptics.
Enlarge / A camel chills next to the Step Pyramid of Djoser in the Saqqara necropolis in Egypt, built around 2680 BCE. (credit: Charles J. Sharp/CC BY-SA 3.0)
It's long been a hotly debated open question regarding how the great pyramids of Egypt were built, given the sheer size and weight of the limestone blocks used for the construction. Numerous speculative (and controversial) hypotheses have been proposed, including the use of ramps, levers, cranes, winches, hoists, pivots, or any combination thereof. Now we can add the possible use of a hydraulic lift to those speculative scenarios. According to a new paper published in the journal PLoS ONE, ancient Egyptians during the Third Dynasty may have at least partly relied on hydraulics to build the Step Pyramid of Djoser.
"Many theories on pyramid construction suggest that pure human strength, possibly aided by basic mechanical devices like levers and ramps, was utilized," co-author Xavier Landreau, of Paleotechnic in Paris and Universite Grenoble Alpes, told Ars. "Our analysis led us to the utilization of water as a means of raising stones. We are skeptical that the largest pyramids were built using only known ramp and lever methods."
The Step Pyramid was built around 2680 BCE, part of a funerary complex for the Third Dynasty pharaoh Djoser. It's located in the Saqqara necropolis and was the first pyramid to be built, almost a "proto-pyramid" that originally stood some 205 feet high. (The Great Pyramid of Giza, by contrast, stood 481 feet high and was the tallest human-made structure for nearly 4,000 years.) Previous monuments were made of mud brick, but Djoser's Step Pyramid is made of stone (specifically limestone); it's widely thought that Djoser's vizier, Imhotep, designed and built the complex. The third century BCE historian Manetho once described Imhotep as the "inventor of building in stone." As such, the Djoser Pyramid influenced the construction of later, larger pyramids during the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Dynasties.
The mayor of a small municipality in Brazil recently hosted a public screening of the blockbuster hit “Inside Out 2”. The open-air town square event was a great success, but not without critique. Watermarks on the meters-high screen showed that the public was watching a pirated copy of the film. When the press got wind of it, the major countered that “everyone was happy”, which is hard to argue with, especially since there are no official cinemas nearby.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Every day, millions of people break the law; by posting copyrighted images, music, and videos on social media, for example.
For most of these people, copyright is merely an afterthought, not a real concern. Especially when snippets of copyrighted content are posted to a small audience, the chances of being noticed are small.
The legal consequences of mass online piracy are more problematic. That said, there are still examples of apparent ‘inadvertent’ mass-piracy projects. For example, when a Utah town approved a pirate IPTV scheme for use by its citizens.
In Brazil, there was a similarly unbelievable display of public piracy last week that went on to make national headlines. The mayor of the municipality Acopiara, in the north-east of the country, invited citizens of the small town Trussu to join a screening of the blockbuster “Inside Out 2” at the local town square.
With little more than a thousand inhabitants, many of whom have limited means, this appeared to be a kind gesture. The mayor, Anthony Almeida Neto, could use some positive marks too; he was removed from office three times on suspicion of being involved in corruption schemes, and was most recently reinstated in March.
The mayor officially announced the public screening of ‘Inside Out 2’ via Instagram and Facebook, inviting people to join him. That worked well as a sizable crowd showed up, allowing the controversial major to proudly boast the event’s popularity in public through his social media channels.
Needless to say, public figures such as mayors have a vested interest in being liked by the public. Whether this screening was politically motivated or not isn’t clear but from a legal perspective, the plan backfired.
Taking place in an outside theater created just for this occasion, the screening was a unique opportunity for the small town’s residents. There are no official movie theaters nearby, so locals would normally have to travel for several hours to see a film that’s still in cinemas.
Thanks to the mayor, people could see ‘Inside Out 2’ in their hometown instead.
The mayor was pleased with the turnout too and proudly broadcasted it through a livestream on Instagram. Amidst all this joy, however, people started to notice a watermark on the film that was clearly associated with piracy. In addition, it was apparent that the copy had been sourced from pirate streaming site, Obaflix.
All signs indicate that the public event wasn’t authorized or licensed. Instead, it appeared to be an improvised screening of a low-quality TS release of the film, which is widely available through pirate sites.
When this ‘revelation’ was picked up in the Brazilian press, mayor Anthony Almeida was quick to respond with assurances that he only had honest intentions.
According to the mayor, the City Counsel regularly hosts these types of events to entertain elderly people and children in the rural region. There was absolutely no political motivation, he stressed.
“There were only children, everyone was happy, there was no political speech, there were no politicians, the only one was me, but I didn’t even speak, it had nothing to do with politics, the film is not about politics either,” Almeida told PontoPoder.
While the public pirate screening was widely reported in the press, a key fact was omitted; one that should also grab the attention of political figureheads, including the mayor.
According to recent data, only 7% of municipalities in Brazil have a movie theater. That means a visit to an official theater requires a full-day commitment, assuming that some people can afford it.
This availability problem isn’t only limited to rural areas. In Brazil, there are cities with hundreds of thousands of inhabitants that don’t have an official movie theater. This would be unthinkable in the United States and many other countries.
As far as we know, there are no legal consequences for the mayor. It’s also unknown whether he’s aware of the legal complications that could arise. While that may seem obvious, not everyone is well versed in copyright nuances.
The mayor is not alone in this. Many schools and sport clubs also entertain people by showing copyrighted content. Even when that’s from a paid Netflix or Disney+ subscription, semi-public broadcasting is still not allowed.
Even those who seem to be aware of copyright infringement may actually have no idea what’s allowed and what’s not. In recent years, we have seen thousands of social media posts with the tagline “no copyright infringement intended“, stating that “all rights are reserved to the owner.”
While this is rather honest, the posters are basically admitting that they knowingly post copyright-infringing material online, without obtaining any permission. That’s actually much worse than not adding the tagline at all.
But, apparently, some people simply don’t know any better.
—
Note: With thanks to the Brazilian reader who helped with the research.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Google’s exclusive deals maintained monopolies in two markets, judge ruled.
Enlarge (credit: FABRICE COFFRINI / Contributor | AFP)
Google just lost a massive antitrust trial over its sprawling search business, as US district judge Amit Mehta released his ruling, showing that he sided with the US Department of Justice in the case that could disrupt how billions of people search the web.
"Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in his opinion. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”
The verdict will likely come as a shock to Google, which had long argued that punishing Google for being the best in search would be "unprecedented."
Ein Londoner Restaurant hat Hunderte von Anrufen erhalten, die für die britische Google-Zentrale bestimmt waren. Google selbst war schuld. (
Wer beim Autofahren mit dem Handy hantiert, gefährdet sich und andere. Mit Gamification gewöhnt man Fahrern das ab, wie eine Studie zeigt. (
You must be logged in to post a comment.