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Einst war iRobot 1,7 Milliarden US-Dollar wert. Doch die Übernahme durch Amazon wurde von der Europäischen Kommission verhindert. Nun droht der Zusammenbruch. (iRobot, Amazon)
Gemma 3 is optimized to run on almost anything, from powerful GPUs to a smartphone.
Most new AI models go big—more parameters, more tokens, more everything. Google's newest AI model has some big numbers, but it's also tuned for efficiency. Google says the Gemma 3 open source model is the best in the world for running on a single GPU or AI accelerator. The latest Gemma model is aimed primarily at developers who need to create AI to run in various environments, be it a data center or a smartphone. And you can tinker with Gemma 3 right now.
Google claims Gemma 3 will be able to tackle more challenging tasks compared to the older open source Google models. The context window, a measure of how much data you can input, has been expanded to 128,000 from 8,192 tokens in previous Gemma models. Gemma 3, which is based on the proprietary Gemini 2.0 foundation, is also a multimodal model capable of processing text, high-resolution images, and even video. Google also has a new solution for image safety called ShieldGemma 2, which can be integrated with Gemma to help block unwanted images in three content categories: dangerous, sexual, or violent.
Most of the popular AI models you've heard of run on collections of servers in a data center, filled to the brim with AI computing power. Many of them are far too large to run on the kind of hardware you have at home or in the office. The release of the first Gemma models last year gave developers and enthusiasts another low-hardware option to compete with the likes of Meta Llama3. There has been a drive for efficiency in AI lately, with models like DeepSeek R1 gaining traction on the basis of lower computing costs.
Meta fights to keep leeching evidence out of AI copyright battle.
Authors think that Meta's admitted torrenting of a pirated books data set used to train its AI models is evidence enough to win their copyright fight—which previously hinged on a court ruling that AI training on copyrighted works isn't fair use.
Moving for summary judgment on a direct copyright infringement claim on Monday in a US district court in California, the authors alleged that "whatever the merits of generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, stealing copyrighted works off the Internet for one’s own benefit has always been unlawful."
In their filing, the authors accused Meta of brazenly deciding to torrent terabytes of pirated book data after attempts to download pirated books one by one "posed an immense strain on Meta's networks and proceeded very slowly."
Microsoft Teams vereint Kommunikation, Dateiablage und Kollaboration in einer Plattform. Ein Workshop zeigt, wie Teams optimal für Meetings, Projektmanagement und die Integration von Microsoft-365-Tools genutzt wird. (Golem Karrierewelt, Betriebssystem…
Microsoft Teams vereint Kommunikation, Dateiablage und Kollaboration in einer Plattform. Ein Workshop zeigt, wie Teams optimal für Meetings, Projektmanagement und die Integration von Microsoft-365-Tools genutzt wird. (Golem Karrierewelt, Betriebssysteme) “OneWeb customers say that when the service is working great, it’s great.”
Lately, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has taken an aggressive posture toward Europe. He has called for the United States to exit NATO, a strategic alliance that has been the bedrock of trans-Atlantic cooperation since the end of World War II. Musk has also championed right-wing populism that seeks to topple existing governments on the continent.
And then there's Musk's increasingly antagonistic attitude toward Ukraine, a country viewed by many Europeans as a bulwark against further Russian aggression. This threatens the availability of a vital link in Ukraine's military, Starlink.
Musk's world-class satellite technology has provided life-saving connectivity to citizens and soldiers in Ukraine. It has increased that country's offensive capabilities. And yet Musk could shut off his Starlink service anywhere in the world with an email.
Die Zeit der Insektenstiche steht bevor. Ein Insektenstichheiler kann helfen. Amazons Bestseller gibt es jetzt mit 50 Prozent Rabatt. (Amazon, Technik/Hardware)
Die Zeit der Insektenstiche steht bevor. Ein Insektenstichheiler kann helfen. Amazons Bestseller gibt es jetzt mit 50 Prozent Rabatt. (Amazon, Technik/Hardware) Swedish businessman Carl Lundström, founder of the telecoms company Rix Telecom and one of the Wasabröd heirs, died in a plane crash on Monday. Lundström played a pivotal role in the Pirate Bay’s rise to fame by supporting the site early on. For his involvement in the site, he was eventually sentenced to four months in prison.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Yesterday, Carl Lundström stepped into his Mooney M20 propeller-driven plane, heading from Zagreb to Zurich in a solo flight. Not long after takeoff, the plane reportedly crashed into a mountain cabin located in the Slovenian Big Pasture Plateau.
Lundström, who was 64 years old, did not survive.
The crash of Lundström’s plane was picked up by both Slovenian and Swedish media. A body reportedly found at the crash site is yet to be officially identified.
Born in 1960 as one of the heirs to the Wasabröd empire, Lundström was financially independent at an early age. In addition to an interest in politics, including his involvement in various far-right political organizations, he also developed his business skills, with a particular interest in technology.
Lundström owned the Internet providers Rix Telecom AB and Rix Port 80, which helped many businesses venture online in the early 2000s. These companies also partnered with smaller players such as PRQ, owned by Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm.
In 2004, Lundström met Neij at an exhibition and invited him to work for Rix Telecom. Later that year, Neij informed Lundström about one of the new projects he was involved in; a torrent site called The Pirate Bay. The site, which was Swedish-only at the time, was growing fast and needed more server power and a good Internet connection.
Lundström was interested in the project and offered to help out, initially providing two servers. This was just the start, however, as plans to transform The Pirate Bay into an international file-sharing site would soon require much more computing power.
According to a detailed description, shared during the Pirate Bay trial, Lundström later proposed a formal partnership where he would provide hardware and connectivity, in exchange for a significant stake in the business.
This formal involvement with The Pirate Bay didn’t come to fruition. When changes to Swedish copyright law were announced in 2005, Lundström started to have doubts about the project. An initial plan considered relocating the business to Argentina, where the Swedish Embassy was asked for input, but that never went through.
Rix Telecom’s owner reportedly backed out of the planned deal with PRQ/TPB in late 2005, but his company continued to offer services to the file-sharing site, at least for a while.
While Lundström had taken his hands off the Pirate Bay project, his early involvement made him one of the four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial. He was ultimately sentenced to four months in prison.
Lundström’s association with right-wing organizations was often the center of attention, for good reasons. However, Swedish journalist and friend Christian Peterson, stresses that Lundström was much more than that.
“Although the established media likes to reduce him to a simple ‘right-wing extremist’, Lundström was far more than that. He was an entrepreneur, a creative financier and a person who dared to defy political correctness when it was not popular to do so,” Peterson wrote in an article, commemorating his friend’s passing.
The far-right political associations were quite uncomfortable for some involved with The Pirate Bay early on, especially those who leaned far to the left. Yet despite this unease, Lundström played a central part in the site’s history. Perhaps even more than that.
Without Lundström stepping up, the notorious torrent site might never have broken through to the masses.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Niantic tritt diverse Spiele und deren Teams an die vom saudischen Staat gegründete Savvy Games Group ab. Das kostet 3,5 Milliarden Dollar. (Niantic, Spiele)
After Amazon bid failure, firm cut 50% of staff and is launching new robots.
Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was "substantial doubt" about the company's survival "as a going concern" in the next year or so.
Investors took iRobot at its word, and its stock price had fallen nearly 40 percent as of 10:20 am Wednesday from the day before. The dire accounting language and market reaction are nothing new for tech firms, but iRobot's annual report suggests deeper issues than investor confidence. The company saw revenue drop 47 percent in the fourth quarter, it is actively seeking to renegotiate its largest loans, and it has launched a "formal strategic review" to consider refinancing, sale, or other alternatives.
iRobot's fortunes have changed dramatically since 2022, when Amazon announced a $1.7 billion bid to buy the struggling but prominent firm.
Mit der Airbell hat Amazon eine Fahrradklingel im Angebot, in der sich ein Apple Airtag zur Überwachung des Fahrrades unterbringen lässt. (Technik/Hardware, Apple)
Mit der Airbell hat Amazon eine Fahrradklingel im Angebot, in der sich ein Apple Airtag zur Überwachung des Fahrrades unterbringen lässt. (Technik/Hardware, Apple) 
Einst war iRobot 1,7 Milliarden US-Dollar wert. Doch die Übernahme durch Amazon wurde von der Europäischen Kommission verhindert. Nun droht der Zusammenbruch. (
Niantic tritt diverse Spiele und deren Teams an die vom saudischen Staat gegründete Savvy Games Group ab. Das kostet 3,5 Milliarden Dollar. (
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