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Die Google-Tochter Deepmind hat ihre KI-Textwasserzeichentechnik als Open Source veröffentlicht. Doch das Tool hat Einschränkungen. (Deepmind, Google)
Ceres ist ein Sonderling unter den Eiswelten im Sonnensystem. Er ist der Erde auch besonders nah und könnte der Wissenschaft als Vergleichsobjekt dienen. (Astronomie, Wissenschaft)
Ceres ist ein Sonderling unter den Eiswelten im Sonnensystem. Er ist der Erde auch besonders nah und könnte der Wissenschaft als Vergleichsobjekt dienen. (Astronomie, Wissenschaft) Tesla hat im dritten Quartal 2024 eine höhere Gewinnmarge erzielt, als Analysten erwartet hatten. Der Kurs schnellte nachbörslich nach oben. (Tesla, Elektroauto)
Tesla hat im dritten Quartal 2024 eine höhere Gewinnmarge erzielt, als Analysten erwartet hatten. Der Kurs schnellte nachbörslich nach oben. (Tesla, Elektroauto) Apple plant einem Bericht zufolge, die Produktion seines Vision-Pro-Headsets bis Ende 2024 einzustellen. (Vision Pro, Apple)
Apple plant einem Bericht zufolge, die Produktion seines Vision-Pro-Headsets bis Ende 2024 einzustellen. (Vision Pro, Apple) Bill Gates hat 50 Millionen US-Dollar an den Future Forward Fond gespendet, der die Präsidentschaftskampagne von Kamala Harris unterstützt. (Bill Gates, Politik)
Bill Gates hat 50 Millionen US-Dollar an den Future Forward Fond gespendet, der die Präsidentschaftskampagne von Kamala Harris unterstützt. (Bill Gates, Politik) Im AZ-500-Vorbereitungskurs der Golem Karrierewelt lernen angehende Microsoft Azure Security Engineers, wie sie Sicherheitsmaßnahmen in Azure-Umgebungen umsetzen und verwalten. (Golem Karrierewelt, Microsoft)
Im AZ-500-Vorbereitungskurs der Golem Karrierewelt lernen angehende Microsoft Azure Security Engineers, wie sie Sicherheitsmaßnahmen in Azure-Umgebungen umsetzen und verwalten. (Golem Karrierewelt, Microsoft) Authorities in New Zealand recently confirmed that Kim Dotcom will be extradited to the United States to face a criminal prosecution in connection with Megaupload, the file-hosting site he founded. In the United States, the 500 companies and 300,000 members of anti-piracy coalition CreativeFuture, are celebrating already. The extradition “of one of the internet era’s leading jackasses” takes place through the medium of an interactive quiz.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
More than twelve years after an unprecedented law enforcement operation shut down file-sharing giant Megaupload, founder Kim Dotcom remains in New Zealand.
The battle to avoid extradition to the United States has been fought tooth and nail, year in and year out, in various New Zealand courts.
With no stone left unturned, no expense spared, and no point of leverage too microscopic to test to destruction, no person alive can claim the process wasn’t thorough.
Start to finish, less time was spent constructing Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building in Dubai, but suddenly in August, the Dotcom saga was suddenly declared over. New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith put pen to paper and authorized Dotcom’s removal to the country he blames for almost everything.
If Dotcom’s request for judicial review means he stays a few more months in New Zealand, the entire calendar from arrest to extradition will span a Prohibition-beating 13+ years. But whatever happens, corks are already popping across the Atlantic.
At CreativeFuture, a coalition of more than 500 companies and organizations on a mission to eliminate piracy through the promotion of creativity and legitimate content, the last few gallons of moonshine clearly haven’t gone to waste.
“In August 2024, we learned that one of the internet era’s leading jackasses will be, at long last, extradited from New Zealand to the United States,” a delighted CreativeFuture begins.
“Once here, Kim Dotcom will FINALLY face trial on charges of copyright infringement, racketeering, money laundering, and wire fraud. Dotcom is WAY overdue for a reckoning.”
The theme of the CreativeFuture celebrations is clear from the image above; a decade of frustration transformed into a festival of information sharing/testing, possibly hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
“It has been over TWELVE YEARS since Dotcom, owner of the notorious piracy site Megaupload, was indicted. Do you recall how flagrantly he stole from creatives? Are images of his mansion and luxury cars seared into your brain? They might be! They are certainly seared into ours!”
Presented in the familiar multiple choice format of The Price Is Right, the full quiz is available on the CreativeFuture website.
Everyone is invited to join in but remember: it will only be possible to win if answers conflate the allegations in the indictment with established fact. Good luck!
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Unique IDs assigned to Android and iOS devices threaten your privacy. Who knew?
You likely have never heard of Babel Street or Location X, but chances are good that they know a lot about you and anyone else you know who keeps a phone nearby around the clock.
Reston, Virginia-located Babel Street is the little-known firm behind Location X, a service with the capability to track the locations of hundreds of millions of phone users over sustained periods of time. Ostensibly, Babel Street limits the use of the service to personnel and contractors of US government law enforcement agencies, including state entities. Despite the restriction, an individual working on behalf of a company that helps people remove their personal information from consumer data broker databases recently was able to obtain a two-week free trial by (truthfully) telling Babel Street he was considering performing contracting work for a government agency in the future.
KrebsOnSecurity, one of five news outlets that obtained access to the data produced during the trial, said that one capability of Location X is the ability to draw a line between two states or other locations—or a shape around a building, street block, or entire city—and see a historical record of Internet-connected devices that traversed those boundaries.
A year later, a compelling group of TED speakers move from “what’s this?” to “what now?”
SAN FRANCISCO—On Tuesday, TED AI 2024 kicked off its first day at San Francisco's Herbst Theater with a lineup of speakers that tackled AI's impact on science, art, and society. The two-day event brought a mix of researchers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, and other experts who painted a complex picture of AI with fairly minimal hype.
The second annual conference, organized by Walter and Sam De Brouwer, marked a notable shift from last year's broad existential debates and proclamations of AI as being "the new electricity." Rather than sweeping predictions about, say, looming artificial general intelligence (although there was still some of that, too), speakers mostly focused on immediate challenges: battles over training data rights, proposals for hardware-based regulation, debates about human-AI relationships, and the complex dynamics of workplace adoption.
The day's sessions covered a wide breadth: physicist Carlo Rovelli explored consciousness and time, Project CETI researcher Patricia Sharma demonstrated attempts to use AI to decode whale communication, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. outlined music industry adaptation strategies, and even a few robots made appearances.
Tesla’s profit margin is looking healthier than it has in a while.
After a rocky first half of the year, Tesla enjoyed a much healthier third quarter in 2024. As we learned earlier this month, it arrested a slide in sales, delivering 6 percent more electric vehicles year over year. But the automotive side of the business was essentially flat—Tesla attributes its success to its second-best quarter ever for regulatory credits, as well as making it cheaper to build the cars it sells.
Automotive revenues grew by 2 percent to $20 billion for the third quarter, less than the growth in deliveries. But Tesla's static battery and solar operations grew by 52 percent year over year, bringing in $2.4 billion. Services and other revenue-generating activities brought in another $2.8 billion, growing 29 percent compared to Q3 2023.
Cutting operating expenses by 6 percent helped a lot, as did increasing income from operations, up 54 percent to $2.7 billion. Some of that income has come from the Supercharger network, though it's still mostly from Tesla drivers—so far, only a few of the OEMs that have announced a switch to the Tesla-style NACS plug have gained access to Tesla's chargers. But Tesla says part sales have been strong, and its increased its margins at its service centers.
Die Google-Tochter Deepmind hat ihre KI-Textwasserzeichentechnik als Open Source veröffentlicht. Doch das Tool hat Einschränkungen. (
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