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Brother wird vorgeworfen, beim Einsatz von Fremd-Toner die Druckqualität zu verringern. Hintergrund könnte ein Missverständnis sein. (Brother, Drucker)
Moderne Softwarearchitekturen setzen auf Containerisierung und Orchestrierung für skalierbare Anwendungen. Wie die Open-Source-Lösungen Docker und Kubernetes effizient genutzt werden, zeigt dieser Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen)
Moderne Softwarearchitekturen setzen auf Containerisierung und Orchestrierung für skalierbare Anwendungen. Wie die Open-Source-Lösungen Docker und Kubernetes effizient genutzt werden, zeigt dieser Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Server-Applikationen) Accepting AI-written code without understanding how it works is growing in popularity.
For many people, coding is about telling a computer what to do and having the computer perform those precise actions repeatedly. With the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, it's now possible for someone to describe a program in English and have the AI model translate it into working code without ever understanding how the code works. Former OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy recently gave this practice a name—"vibe coding"—and it's gaining traction in tech circles.
The technique, enabled by large language models (LLMs) from companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, has attracted attention for potentially lowering the barrier to entry for software creation. But questions remain about whether the approach can reliably produce code suitable for real-world applications, even as tools like Cursor Composer, GitHub Copilot, and Replit Agent make the process increasingly accessible to non-programmers.
Instead of being about control and precision, vibe coding is all about surrendering to the flow. On February 2, Karpathy introduced the term in a post on X, writing, "There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding,' where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." He described the process in deliberately casual terms: "I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works."
AI Mode could be the future of Google, but it’s currently just an experiment.
Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning "to find things on the Internet." Soon, Google might just tell you what's on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an expansion of its AI search features, powered by Gemini 2.0. Everyone will soon see more AI Overviews at the top of the results page, but Google is also testing a more substantial change in the form of AI Mode. This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode.
This marks the debut of Gemini 2.0 in Google search. Google announced the first Gemini 2.0 models in December 2024, beginning with the streamlined Gemini 2.0 Flash. The heavier versions of Gemini 2.0 are still in testing, but Google says it has tuned AI Overviews with this model to offer help with harder questions in the areas of math, coding, and multimodal queries.
With this update, you will begin seeing AI Overviews on more results pages, and minors with Google accounts will see AI results for the first time. In fact, even logged out users will see AI Overviews soon. This is a big change, but it's only the start of Google's plans for AI search.
A single DMCA anti-circumvention notice, sent by Nintendo on the one-year anniversary of its 2024 lawsuit against Yuzu, showed just how much things can change in a year. Targeting nine repos linked to Switch emulator Ryujinx, the domino effect led to the removal of 4,238 repos. Elsewhere, the distilled components of Yuzu’s demise can be found in recent takedown notices
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Late September 2024, the developer of Switch emulator Ryujinx announced an end to the project. Launched by ‘gdkchan’ in 2017, Ryujinx enjoyed years of success only to succumb to the same pressure that had claimed another emulator, Yuzu, just a few months earlier.
Within a seemingly flawless design that could’ve been crafted by Shigeru Miyamoto himself, Nintendo filed an arguably perfect lawsuit against Yuzu on February 26, 2024. A previously unknown business entity behind Yuzu quickly acknowledged its veracity, and a settlement was formally announced to the court exactly a week later, March 4, 2024.
Specific conduct detailed in the lawsuit laid the foundations for Yuzu’s swift demise and provided a blueprint for similar Nintendo victories moving forward. With the market leader defeated so easily, it seemed that only the brave or very rich would gamble on a different outcome.
In September, just months after the filing of the original lawsuit against Yuzu on February 26, Nintendo “offered an agreement” to gdkchan. Once accepted, that ended his involvement in the Ryujinx project.
During November 2024, domains including ryujinx.org and ryujinx.blog were transferred to Nintendo ownership. They join other domains previously secured by Nintendo for permanent safekeeping, including jailbreakmyswitch.com and donkeykong.porn.
A pair of Nintendo DMCA notices sent to GitHub last week coincided with the one-year anniversary of the Yuzu lawsuit. Dated February 26, they contained requests to remove repos that had been helping to keep the open source Ryujinx emulator alive. Before taking action, GitHub contacted the nine repositories listed in the first notice and gave their owners an opportunity to make changes to avoid being taken down.
Ultimately, deletion couldn’t be avoided, not for the nine repos named in the notice, or for more than 4,200 others in the same network.
“Because the reported network that contained the allegedly infringing content was larger than one hundred (100) repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 4,238 repositories, inclusive of the parent repository,” GitHub reports.
The second Nintendo notice also targeted Ryujinx repos; just three this time, but once again the notice punched above its weight. After giving repo owners a chance to address Nintendo’s complaint, GitHub processed the notice against a network of 113 repositories.
Removing so many repos at once would’ve likely been less straightforward a year ago. The law today stands completely unchanged but the effect of the Yuzu lawsuit and settlement suggests that if perceptions have shifted, any change strongly favors Nintendo.
Nintendo “owns or exclusively controls” numerous copyrights in games that are protected from unlawful access and copying by so-called ‘technological protection measures’ (TPM). For example, Switch games are encrypted, so before they can be played, decryption takes place using Nintendo keys, also known as ‘prod keys’.
Circumventing TPMs that “effectively control access” to copyrighted works is outlawed under the DMCA. In this context, anyone doing so without obtaining permission from Nintendo commits an offense under the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provisions.
The text of the Nintendo notice notes that the Ryujinx emulator is primarily designed to play illegal copies of Nintendo Switch games and does so by illegally circumventing Nintendo’s TPMs. Since that can only be achieved through use of unauthorized copies of Nintendo prod keys, that means Ryujinx is primarily designed to unlawfully circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under the DMCA.
Distribution of Ryujinx, therefore, constitutes unlawful trafficking in a technology that is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure, contrary to 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1) and (2).
Nintendo goes on to reference the final judgment in Nintendo of America Inc. v. Tropic Haze LLC, highlighting the finding that “the distribution of software which primarily decrypts Nintendo Switch games without authorization, violates the DMCA’s anti-trafficking provisions.”
GitHub’s ‘developer first’ policy takes DMCA takedown notices seriously while arguably fixing a potential avenue of abuse. DMCA anti-circumvention notices differ from regular notices due to the absence of a mechanism to dispute the claim via a counternotice. By granting a right of reply, GitHub ensures that bogus claims can’t be used for censorship purposes. Google also makes best efforts to weed out potential abuse but in general, URLs targeted by anti-circumvention notices are unlikely to see the light of day again.
Having reviewed many recent Nintendo anti-circumvention notices (1,2), there are no signs of any questionable takedowns. Most use a format historically used to remove URLs offering SX OS, SX Pro, SX Core and SX Lite devices, with Nintendo using exactly the same terms to describe these obvious piracy devices as it does to describe the emulators.
The URLs listed below promote, offer for sale directly or direct visitors to resellers of, circumvention software and devices called the SX OS, SX Pro, SX Core and SX Lite, among others. The SX OS, SX Pro, SX Core and SX Lite are designed to bypass technological protection measures in the Nintendo Switch video game system and allows users to play unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s video game files that are offered unlawfully via the Internet. circumvention mechanism: Nintendo’s technological protection measures (“TPMs”) ensure that only official copies of its game software can be played on Nintendo’s video game systems. The circumvention devices, products or components offered at the reported links bypass Nintendo’s TPMs so that users can play unauthorized copies of Nintendo’s game files that are offered unlawfully via the Internet.
Nintendo now uses the same format to target SX devices, prod keys, sig patches and emulators in the same notice (1).
Essentially, the Yuzu lawsuit didn’t change a thing under law but may have succeeded in shaping perceptions of the emulation landscape. Whether that will reduce Switch 2 piracy will remain to be seen.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
“Of course, everybody’s wondering, are we gonna land upright?”
The Apollo 17 mission landed on the Moon on December 11, in 1972. From that point on, literally for decades, NASA and the United States did not go back to the surface of our nearest planetary body.
It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova-C Odysseus lander built by Intuitive Machines. It landed, toppled over, but still completed most of its scientific experiments.
This first successful landing on the Moon by the first privately built spacecraft ended a 51-year gap, or 18,700 days. It was a long freaking time.
Brother: Updates aren’t behind degradation of quality or removal of features.
Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense. By nonsense, we mean printers suddenly bricking features, like scanning or printing, if users install third-party cartridges. Some printer firms outright block third-party toner and ink, despite customer blowback and lawsuits. Brother’s laser printers have historically worked fine with non-Brother accessories. A YouTube video posted this week, though, as well as older social media posts, claim that Brother has gone to the dark side and degraded laser printer functionality with third-party cartridges. Brother tells Ars that this isn’t true.
On March 3, YouTuber Louis Rossman posted a video saying that “Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company.” The video, spotted by Tom’s Hardware, has 163,000 views as of this writing and seems to be based on a Reddit post from 2022. In that post, Reddit user 20Factorial said that firmware update W1.56 caused the automatic color registration feature to stop working on his Brother MFC-3750 when using third-party cartridges.
“With the colors not able to be aligned, the printer is effectively non-functional,” 20Factorial said. The Redditor went on to say that when asked, a Brother customer service agent confirmed that “the printer is non-functional without genuine toner.”
You can use smartphone cameras to shoot some stellar photos or videos – there are entire feature-length films that have been shot on smartphones. But there’s one thing you can’t typically do with a smartphone camera: change lenses. Th…
You can use smartphone cameras to shoot some stellar photos or videos – there are entire feature-length films that have been shot on smartphones. But there’s one thing you can’t typically do with a smartphone camera: change lenses. That’s why most modern flagship phones (and some mid-range and budget models) have multiple cameras, each with its […]
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For $549 and $599, AMD comes close to knocking out Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070.
AMD is a company that knows a thing or two about capitalizing on a competitor's weaknesses. The company got through its early-2010s nadir partially because its Ryzen CPUs struck just as Intel's current manufacturing woes began to set in, first with somewhat-worse CPUs that were great value for the money and later with CPUs that were better than anything Intel could offer.
Nvidia's untrammeled dominance of the consumer graphics card market should also be an opportunity for AMD. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards have given buyers very little to get excited about, with an unreachably expensive high-end 5090 refresh and modest-at-best gains from 5080 and 5070-series cards that are also pretty expensive by historical standards, when you can buy them at all. Tech YouTubers—both the people making the videos and the people leaving comments underneath them—have been almost uniformly unkind to the 50 series, hinting at consumer frustrations and pent-up demand for competitive products from other companies.
Enter AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards. These are aimed right at the middle of the current GPU market at the intersection of high sales volume and decent profit margins. They promise good 1440p and entry-level 4K gaming performance and improved power efficiency compared to previous-generation cards, with fixes for long-time shortcomings (ray-tracing performance, video encoding, and upscaling quality) that should, in theory, make them more tempting for people looking to ditch Nvidia.
Adria Arjona: “It’s human, it’s incredibly truthful, and it just happens to be in a galaxy far, far away.”
Disney+ dropped the first action-packed teaser for the second season of Andor just last week. The streaming platform followed up today with a special three-minute featurette on the making of the Star Wars series' sophomore outing—including a hint that we'll probably be seeing a major tragic event in the Star Wars canon this season.
(Spoilers for season 1 below.)
As previously reported, the story begins five years before the events of Rogue One, with the Empire's destruction of Cassian Andor's (Diego Luna) home world, and follows his transformation from a "revolution-averse" cynic to a major player in the nascent rebellion who is willing to sacrifice himself to save the galaxy. S1 left off with Cassian returning to Ferrix for the funeral of his adoptive mother, Maarva (Fiona Shaw), rescuing a friend from prison, and dodging an assassination attempt. A post-credits scene showed prisoners assembling the firing dish of the now-under-construction Death Star.
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