Schadstoffe: EU nennt Wissings Annahme zu Dieselstillegung “irreführend”

Die EU antwortet auf Bundesverkehrsminister Wissing: Die Kommission habe nicht die Absicht, Schadstoffmessverfahren rückwirkend zu ändern und Dieselfahrzeuge stillzulegen. (Auto, Politik)

Die EU antwortet auf Bundesverkehrsminister Wissing: Die Kommission habe nicht die Absicht, Schadstoffmessverfahren rückwirkend zu ändern und Dieselfahrzeuge stillzulegen. (Auto, Politik)

Überwachung: Brandenburger Polizei verwendete Gesichtserkennungssystem

In Brandenburg hat die Polizei in einem Fall ein System zur Gesichtserkennung verwendet – die Grünen als Koalitionspartner fordern vom CDU-Innenminister Aufklärung. (Gesichtserkennung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)

In Brandenburg hat die Polizei in einem Fall ein System zur Gesichtserkennung verwendet - die Grünen als Koalitionspartner fordern vom CDU-Innenminister Aufklärung. (Gesichtserkennung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)

Überwachung: Brandenburger Polizei verwendete Gesichtserkennungssystem

In Brandenburg hat die Polizei in einem Fall ein System zur Gesichtserkennung verwendet – die Grünen als Koalitionspartner fordern vom CDU-Innenminister Aufklärung. (Gesichtserkennung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)

In Brandenburg hat die Polizei in einem Fall ein System zur Gesichtserkennung verwendet - die Grünen als Koalitionspartner fordern vom CDU-Innenminister Aufklärung. (Gesichtserkennung, Vorratsdatenspeicherung)

(g+) Web Scraping mit PyQuery: Leicht zu lernen, leicht zu lesen

PyQuery ist ein starkes Tool für Entwickler, die in Python Daten aus dem Web extrahieren wollen. Es unterstützt CSS-Selektoren dabei, Code einfach zu lesen und zu warten. Eine Anleitung von Antony Ghiroz (Software, Python)

PyQuery ist ein starkes Tool für Entwickler, die in Python Daten aus dem Web extrahieren wollen. Es unterstützt CSS-Selektoren dabei, Code einfach zu lesen und zu warten. Eine Anleitung von Antony Ghiroz (Software, Python)

25 Jahre Driver: Der legendäre Tiefgaragen-Test hat vielleicht GTA gerettet

Zwei Jahre bevor GTA 3 das Open-World-Genre revolutioniert hat, bot Driver eine frei befahrbare 3D-Spielwelt. Wie spielt sich der Klassiker heute? Von Benedikt Plass-Fleßenkämper (Driver, Rennspiel)

Zwei Jahre bevor GTA 3 das Open-World-Genre revolutioniert hat, bot Driver eine frei befahrbare 3D-Spielwelt. Wie spielt sich der Klassiker heute? Von Benedikt Plass-Fleßenkämper (Driver, Rennspiel)

Anzeige: M365-Masterclass zu Sicherheit und Compliance

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Google pulls its terrible pro-AI “Dear Sydney” ad after backlash

Taking the “human” out of “human communication.”

A picture of the Gemini prompt box from the

Enlarge / The Gemini prompt box in the "Dear Sydney" ad. (credit: Google)

Have you seen Google's "Dear Sydney" ad? The one where a young girl wants to write a fan letter to Olympic hurdler Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone? To which the girl's dad responds that he is "pretty good with words but this has to be just right"? And so, to be just right, he suggests that the daughter get Google's Gemini AI to write a first draft of the letter?

If you're watching the Olympics, you have undoubtedly seen it—because the ad has been everywhere. Until today. After a string of negative commentary about the ad's dystopian implications, Google has pulled the "Dear Sydney" ad from TV. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the company said, "While the ad tested well before airing, given the feedback, we have decided to phase the ad out of our Olympics rotation."

The backlash was similar to that against Apple's recent ad in which an enormous hydraulic press crushed TVs, musical instruments, record players, paint cans, sculptures, and even emoji into… the newest model of the iPad. Apple apparently wanted to show just how much creative and entertainment potential the iPad held; critics read the ad as a warning image about the destruction of human creativity in a technological age. Apple apologized soon after.

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Buying shady weight loss drugs online is a bad idea, in case you were wondering

Risk assessment study of illegal online pharmacies offers some unsurprising data.

Buying shady weight loss drugs online is a bad idea, in case you were wondering

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Buying counterfeit weight loss drugs from illegal online pharmacies that don't require prescriptions is, in fact, a very bad idea, according to a study published Friday in JAMA Network Open.

The counterfeit drugs are sold as equivalents to the blockbuster semaglutide drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy, which are prescription only. When researchers got their hands on three illegal versions, they found that the counterfeit drugs had low-purity semaglutide, had dosages that exceeded the labeled amount, and one had signs of bacterial contamination.

The three substandard drugs tested came from three different illegal online pharmacies, which sold them as generic semaglutide drugs for weight loss, appetite suppression, diabetes, and cardiovascular health. However, the researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Pécs in Hungary, had initially tried purchasing counterfeit drugs from six such sellers.

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DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy”

Even TikTok’s Kids Mode violates COPPA, DOJ alleged.

DOJ sues TikTok, alleging “massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy”

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The US Department of Justice sued TikTok today, accusing the short-video platform of illegally collecting data on millions of kids and demanding a permanent injunction "to put an end to TikTok’s unlawful massive-scale invasions of children’s privacy."

The DOJ said that TikTok had violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA Rule), claiming that TikTok allowed kids "to create and access accounts without their parents’ knowledge or consent," collected "data from those children," and failed to "comply with parents’ requests to delete their children’s accounts and information."

The COPPA Rule requires TikTok to prove that it does not target kids as its primary audience, the DOJ said, and TikTok claims to satisfy that "by requiring users creating accounts to report their birthdates."

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UP Squared i12 Edge with Intel Core i7-1260P is now shipping

AAEON first showed off the Intel Core-powered UP Squared i12 Edge in October of last year. Now the company has units in stock and ready to ship. The i12 Edge is a compact PC that measures 130 x 94 x 68mm. It’s designed to be deployed in demandin…

AAEON first showed off the Intel Core-powered UP Squared i12 Edge in October of last year. Now the company has units in stock and ready to ship. The i12 Edge is a compact PC that measures 130 x 94 x 68mm. It’s designed to be deployed in demanding environments, with operating temperatures between 32º and […]

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