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Für den Heimsport eignet sich das verstaubare klappbare Laufband von Citysports besonders gut. Bei Amazon ist es zudem aktuell reduziert. (Fitness, Sport)
Ein Forschungsteam hat den Saturn in mehreren Durchläufen genauer beobachtet und dabei einige neue Objekte entdeckt. (Weltall, Wissenschaft)
Ein Forschungsteam hat den Saturn in mehreren Durchläufen genauer beobachtet und dabei einige neue Objekte entdeckt. (Weltall, Wissenschaft) Forscher haben schon vor zwei Jahren die Ausnutzung einer Schwachstelle im Windows-Kernel beobachtet. Einen Patch liefert Microsoft erst jetzt. (Sicherheitslücke, Windows)
Forscher haben schon vor zwei Jahren die Ausnutzung einer Schwachstelle im Windows-Kernel beobachtet. Einen Patch liefert Microsoft erst jetzt. (Sicherheitslücke, Windows) Das Elektro-SUV G6 von Xpeng ähnelt in vieler Hinsicht dem Tesla Model Y. In mancher Hinsicht ist der G6 sogar besser, doch das digitale Helferlein ist oft ratlos. Ein Praxistest von Friedhelm Greis (Elektroauto, Auto)
Das Elektro-SUV G6 von Xpeng ähnelt in vieler Hinsicht dem Tesla Model Y. In mancher Hinsicht ist der G6 sogar besser, doch das digitale Helferlein ist oft ratlos. Ein Praxistest von Friedhelm Greis (Elektroauto, Auto) Executive Producer Dennis Shirk talks with Ars about the state of the game.
A month ago, Civilization VII launched to generally positive critical reviews, but user reviews on Steam and Metacritic weren’t nearly so positive, at least at first.
Take a look at the Civilization subreddit, and you’ll see a general consensus: The bones of this game are great, and even most of the radical changes to the classic formula (like breaking the game into much more distinct ages) are a welcome refresh.
On the other hand, there’s also a sentiment that players are disappointed that some expected features are missing, some gameplay elements need additional polish, and most of all, the user interface was a bit of a mess at launch.
After 15 years or so of relatively plain sailing, comment platform Disqus is cracking down on sites that violate its terms of service. Pirate manga and anime sites have received notifications that Disqus will no longer provide services after copyright infringement came to its attention. With evictions now spreading to sites including FitGirl Repacks and KickassAnime, it’s a race against the clock to export years of chat in the 24/48 hours notice given.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
When peer-to-peer file-sharing was in its heyday, communities were the glue that held everything together, but not in the global sense evident today.
File-sharing communities typically gathered on various forums. Operating in isolation, most embraced a central theme – file-sharing – everything else was a footnote.
Embracing anyone and welcoming any topic of conversation, fancy high-tech social media platforms made short work of file-sharing communities. Had Disqus been around a little earlier, things may have been different, at least for a while.
Up and running in no time at all, Disqus embeds offer a full-featured and externally hosted comment platform, making life a lot easier for site operators. Of course, that single place is actually someone else’s servers, and the commenters were now someone else’s users.
For evolving file-sharers, who consume most of their content on streaming sites while sharing very little, Disqus made conversations convenient. Same username, same password, and in time, the appearance of large specialist communities centered on the theme of the site. Or, as commonly seen today, specific content available for download on many specialist sites.
Since wherever Disqus users go, their communities go with them, the conversation never had to stop. At least until Disqus decided that those communities needed to be to shut down, quickly.
Shared with TorrentFreak by the operators of pirate site KickassAnime, the notice below strongly suggests that Disqus didn’t have negotiation in mind.
There are no specific allegations or even a mention of a repeat infringer issue. Instead, based on a general assessment that KickassAnime violates Disqus terms and conditions (which it clearly does), the site was given roughly 24 hours to leave town.
At first blush, the opportunity to export comment histories seems like a welcome consolation prize.
On closer inspection, the offer is actually for the recipient to download their own comment history, unless they’re the author of all comments on the site, which seems highly unlikely. At best, the wording seems ambiguous.
The operator of KissManga received a similar notice on February 22.
“It’s come to our attention that your site kissmanga-5 is sharing copyright-violating content. As this is a violation of the Disqus Terms of Service, we will no longer be able to provide commenting services to your site, and your site will be removed from the Disqus network,” it begins.
There’s no mention of decisions against kissmanga-4, kissmanga-3, or the others, but for now the locals seem glad to have their chat back after the operator of the site installed wpDiscuz.
While some sites were happy to post their Disqus notices in public, others handled things in their own way.
Bato.to simply advised where the Disqus window used to be, that “Disqus has stopped providing services to us.” MangaPark, meanwhile, doesn’t appear to have taken any specific action just yet.
Anime Kai, a domain active for just a few weeks and already pulling in 20 million visits per month, had a bit more to say. The same goes for the site’s users who, in their brand-new comment section, had a debate over which previously existing site Anime Kai had just replaced.
At the bottom, evidence that Disqus isn’t limiting itself to banning sites offering content only from Japan. The screenshot from FitGirl-Repacks also seems to answer whether Disqus will hand over a database of comments made by an unknown number of site users, to the person in control of a site. In this case, that does seem to be the case.
Why Disqus has decided to act now isn’t clear. The company says that it took action based on terms of service violations and in that respect, the decision finds solid ground.
It’s also possible that owner Zeta Global felt under some pressure or obligation to act, even if that pressure was self-imposed.
The company is heavily involved in AI and in its article titled ‘Responsible Use and Legislation of Generative AI’ the company notes various risks and the importance of transparency.
Using generative AI for marketing isn’t without its risks — including accuracy, bias, privacy, and copyright infringement, for example. As adoption of the technology increases, responsible AI practices, like transparency, trust, and human oversight, are also gaining importance.
Moving forward, it will be important that AI vendors are transparent with:
How their models are trained
Any known model vulnerabilities
How the model performance is measuredAnd regulators will be taking note.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
“Probably the craziest thing I’ve said so far,” he admitted during an interview.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raised a few eyebrows on Monday after suggesting that advanced AI models might someday be provided with the ability to push a "button" to quit tasks they might find unpleasant. Amodei made the provocative remarks during an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations, acknowledging that the idea "sounds crazy."
"So this is—this is another one of those topics that’s going to make me sound completely insane," Amodei said during the interview. "I think we should at least consider the question of, if we are building these systems and they do all kinds of things like humans as well as humans, and seem to have a lot of the same cognitive capacities, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, maybe it’s a duck."
Amodei's comments came in response to an audience question from data scientist Carmem Domingues about Anthropic's late-2024 hiring of AI welfare researcher Kyle Fish "to look at, you know, sentience or lack of thereof of future AI models, and whether they might deserve moral consideration and protections in the future." Fish currently investigates the highly contentious topic of whether AI models could possess sentience or otherwise merit moral consideration.
Bei Amazon gibt es zurzeit satte 300 Euro Rabatt auf die Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra. So günstig war die Premium-Smartwatch noch nie. (Smartwatch, Samsung)
Bei Amazon gibt es zurzeit satte 300 Euro Rabatt auf die Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra. So günstig war die Premium-Smartwatch noch nie. (Smartwatch, Samsung) Correctiv hat herausgefunden, dass die Deutsche Bahn ihr schnelles Sprinter-Angebot nicht aufrecht erhalten kann. Grund ist wohl das marode Netz. (Deutsche Bahn, Infrastruktur)
Correctiv hat herausgefunden, dass die Deutsche Bahn ihr schnelles Sprinter-Angebot nicht aufrecht erhalten kann. Grund ist wohl das marode Netz. (Deutsche Bahn, Infrastruktur) Controlling space means “employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities.”
DENVER—The US Space Force lacks the full range of space weapons China and Russia are adding to their arsenals, and military leaders say it's time to close the gap.
Gen. Chance Saltzman, the Space Force's chief of space operations, told reporters at the Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium last week that he wants to have more options to present to national leaders if an adversary threatens the US fleet of national security satellites used for surveillance, communication, navigation, missile warning, and perhaps soon, missile defense.
In prepared remarks, Saltzman outlined in new detail why the Space Force should be able to go on the offense in an era of orbital warfare. Later, in a roundtable meeting with reporters, he briefly touched on the how.
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