Month: January 2025

Die größte Preissteigerung gibt es beim Musikstreamingabo Amazon Music Unlimited für Familien. (Amazon Music, Amazon)

Die Europäische Union will die militärischen Fähigkeiten Russlands einschränken und plant ein Exportverbot für Gaming-Hardware. (Ukrainekrieg, Spiele)

OpenAI, der Erfinder von ChatGPT, führt offenbar Vorgespräche für eine der größten privaten Finanzierungsrunden der Unternehmensgeschichte. (OpenAI, KI)

Das E-Lkw-Laden entlang der Autobahnen ist schwerer umzusetzen als für Pkw. Knackpunkte sind der Platz, reservierte Lader, Ladeleistung und Netzanschlüsse. Ein Bericht von Dirk Kunde (Elektromobilität, Elektroauto)

Das E-Lkw-Laden entlang der Autobahnen ist schwerer umzusetzen als für Pkw. Knackpunkte sind der Platz, reservierte Lader, Ladeleistung und Netzanschlüsse. Ein Bericht von Dirk Kunde (Elektromobilität, Elektroauto)

Ein praxisnaher Workshop vermittelt IT-Verantwortlichen die IT-Grundschutz-Methodik des BSI und bereitet auf die Zertifikatsprüfung vor - für eine strukturierte und sichere Informationssicherheitsstrategie. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

Ford's no stranger to the NASCAR life. Ford driver Joey Logano was the 2024 Cup Series Champion in one of the company's Mustang-bodied machines. He's currently leading the 2025 series, too. However, the Blue Oval and its Ford Performance division are going into uncharted territory with its new prototype, an all-electric Mach-E built atop elements of NASCAR's current Next Gen chassis.

The machine uses three motors to make a total of 1,341 hp (1,000 kW). Yes, three motors, one for each rear wheel plus the odd one out up front, giving the thing all-wheel drive. That's a seeming necessity, given the car has two times the power that any NASCAR racer is allowed to deploy on the non-restrictor plate races.

But that extra driven axle isn't just for acceleration. "If you're rear-wheel drive only, you're only getting rear regen," Mark Rushbrook said. He's the global director of Ford Performance. Since braking forces are higher at the front axle, an extra motor there means more regen to recharge the battery.

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Apple fell slightly short of investor expectations when it reported its first-quarter earnings today. While sales were up 4 percent overall, the iPhone showed signs of weakness, and sales in the Chinese market slipped by just over 11 percent.

CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that the iPhone performed better in countries where Apple Intelligence was available, like the US—seemingly suggesting that the slip was partially because Chinese consumers do not see enough reason to buy new phones without Apple Intelligence. (He also said, "Half of the decline is due to a change in channel inventory.") iPhone sales also slipped in China during this same quarter last year; this was the first full quarter during which the iPhone 16 was available.

In any case, Cook said the company plans to roll out Apple Intelligence in additional languages, including Mandarin, this spring.

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The Minimal Phone is a modern phone with a retro aesthetic. Instead of a big color display that covers the whole device, it has a small 4.3 inch black and white E Ink display and a physical QWERTY keyboard that offers tactile feedback when you type. First introduced last year, the phone’s developers raised over $600,000 […]

The post The Minimal Phone is now shipping (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard) appeared first on Liliputing.

If you've been paying careful attention to YouTube recently, you may have noticed the rising trend of so-called "faceless YouTube channels" that never feature a visible human talking in the video frame. While some of these channels are simply authored by camera-shy humans, many more are fully automated through AI-powered tools to craft everything from the scripts and voiceovers to the imagery and music. Unsurprisingly, this is often sold as a way to make a quick buck off the YouTube algorithm with minimal human effort.

It's not hard to find YouTubers complaining about a flood of these faceless channels stealing their embedded transcript files and running them through AI summarizers to generate their own instant knock-offs. But one YouTuber is trying to fight back, seeding her transcripts with junk data that is invisible to humans but poisonous to any AI that dares to try to work from a poached transcript file.

The power of the .ass

YouTuber F4mi, who creates some excellent deep dives on obscure technology, recently detailed her efforts "to poison any AI summarizers that were trying to steal my content to make slop." The key to F4mi's method is the .ass subtitle format, created decades ago as part of fansubbing software Advanced SubStation Alpha. Unlike simpler and more popular subtitle formats, .ass supports fancy features like fonts, colors, positioning, bold, italic, underline, and more.

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