Month: January 2025

Brussels has ordered Elon Musk to fully disclose recent changes made to recommendations on X, stepping up an investigation into the role of the social media platform in European politics.

The expanded probe by the European Commission, announced on Friday, requires X to hand over internal documents regarding its recommendation algorithm. The Commission also issued a “retention order” for all relevant documents relating to how the algorithm could be amended in future.

In addition, the EU regulator requested access to information on how the social media network moderates and amplifies content.

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Der Tefal-OptiGrill bietet präzise Garergebnisse und vielseitige Einsatzmöglichkeiten und ist derzeit so günstig wie nie erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware)

Amazon hat eine induktive Ladestation im Angebot, die Smartphones, Smartwatches und Earbuds von Samsung auflädt und die Uhrzeit anzeigt. (Technik/Hardware, Samsung)

Das Start-up Colossal identifiziert Gene, um ausgestorbene und vom Aussterben bedrohte Tiere wieder in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung anzusiedeln. (Wissenschaft, Wissen)

Huawei lockt Käufer des Mate X6 derzeit mit einem Preisnachlass und drei Gratis-Beigaben. Damit soll der Preis von 2.000 Euro für das Falt-Smartphone relativiert werden. (Huawei, Smartphone)

Ein hochwertiges Tablet zum Angebotspreis gibt es aktuell bei Amazon. Das Lenovo Tab P12 ist dort für kurze Zeit um 110 Euro reduziert. (Tablet, Lenovo)

Raubüberfälle in Fairgame, Action in Marathon: Sony hat viele Onlinespiele in der Pipeline. Nun werden zwei gestoppt, darunter das mit Kratos. (God of War, Sony)

Nintendos ablehnende Haltung gegenüber Emulatoren ist bekannt. Der Chef der IP-Abteilung erklärt, in welchen Fällen die Firma gegen solche Software klagt. (Nintendo, Urheberrecht)

Heavy drinking is clearly bad for your health. But it's long been questioned whether moderate drinking is also risky—and, if so, how risky, exactly.

Health researchers have consistently found links between alcohol consumption and several types of cancers (namely mouth, throat, colon, rectal, liver, and breast), as well as liver diseases, injuries, and traffic accidents. But nailing down the health risks from the lower levels of drinking has been tricky. For one, much of the data on moderate drinking are from observational studies in different countries, cultures, and populations. They cannot determine if alcohol is the direct cause of any given association, and they may be swayed by other lifestyle factors. The resulting data can be noisy and inconsistent.

Moreover, many studies rely on people to self-report whether they drink and, if so, how much, which is problematic because people may not accurately assess and/or report how much they actually drink. A related problem is that studies in the past often compared drinkers to people who said they didn't drink. But, the trouble is, non-drinking groups are often some mix of people who are lifelong abstainers and people who used to drink but quit for some reason—maybe because of health effects. This latter group has the potential to have lingering health effects from their drinking days, which could skew any comparisons looking for health differences.

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Eine per Windows-Update gepatchte Lücke entpuppt sich als Problem mehrerer Drittanbietertools. Dabei müssen diese nicht einmal installiert sein. (Sicherheitslücke, Microsoft)