Month: March 2025

Es gibt eine offizielle neue Niederlassung von Rockstar Games: in Australien. Das Team dort hat unter anderem an LA Noire gearbeitet. (Rockstar, Take-Two)

Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are turning to a process called “distillation” in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt.

The technique caught widespread attention after China’s DeepSeek used it to build powerful and efficient AI models based on open source systems released by competitors Meta and Alibaba. The breakthrough rocked confidence in Silicon Valley’s AI leadership, leading Wall Street investors to wipe billions of dollars of value from US Big Tech stocks.

Through distillation, companies take a large language model—dubbed a “teacher” model—which generates the next likely word in a sentence. The teacher model generates data which then trains a smaller “student” model, helping to quickly transfer knowledge and predictions of the bigger model to the smaller one.

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Kunden von O2 mit eSIM-fähigem Smartphone können nun 5G SA nutzen. Nutzer profitieren laut Netzbetreiber von höheren Übertragungsraten. (O2, Mobilfunk)

Teens increasingly traumatized by deepfake nudes clearly understand that the AI-generated images are harmful.

And apparently so do many of their tormentors, who typically use free or cheap "nudify" apps or web tools to "undress" innocuous pics of victims, then pass the fake nudes around school or to people they know online. A surprising recent Thorn survey suggests there's growing consensus among young people under 20 that making and sharing fake nudes is obviously abusive.

That's a little bit of "good news" on the deepfake nudes front, Thorn's director of research, Melissa Stroebel, told Ars. Last year, The New York Times declared that teens are now confronting an "epidemic" of fake nudes in middle and high schools that are completely unprepared to support or in some cases even acknowledge victims.

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An Bord des Athena-Landers von Intuitive Machines befindet sich auch Nutzlast von Nokia. Die Firma baut damit das erste Mobilfunk-Netz auf dem Mond auf. (Nokia, Mobilfunk)

Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to make a picture-perfect landing on the Moon early Sunday, touching down on an ancient basaltic plain, named Mare Crisium, to fulfill a $101 million contract with NASA.

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen engineers in Firefly's mission control room monitored real-time data streaming down from a quarter-million miles away.

"Y’all stuck the landing, we’re on the Moon!" announced Will Coogan, the lander's chief engineer, to the Firefly team gathered in Leander, Texas, a suburb north of Austin. Down the street, at a middle-of-the-night event for Firefly employees, their families, and VIPs, the crowd erupted in applause and toasted champagne.

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Auf dem Mobile World Congress versprach Michael Martin, Chef von 1&1 Mobilfunk, endlich etwas eigenes Netz zu liefern. Bis Ende des Monats sollen 1.000 eigene Antennen funken. (1&1, Mobilfunk)

Mit Project Taara will Alphabet entlegene Orte ans Internet anbinden. Ein neuer photonischer Chip macht das System deutlich kleiner. (Silicon Nanophotonics, Google)

Letztes Jahr hat Gitlab eine gefährliche Sicherheitslücke geschlossen. Ein neuer Bericht zeigt, wie leicht sich damit fremde Konten kapern ließen. (Sicherheitslücke, E-Mail)

Ein erster Test war erfolgreich, noch in diesem Jahr will die Telekom ein fertiges Produkt für entsprechende Smartphones auf den Markt bringen. (MWC 2025, Smartphone)