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Handelskrieg: China erteilt erste Exportlizenzen für seltene Erden

Erste Unternehmen berichten, dass sie von China Lizenzen für die Ausfuhr seltener Erden erhalten haben. Darunter sollen sich auch Zulieferer von VW befinden. (Politik, Wirtschaft)

The 2025 VW Tiguan caters to US tastes at an affordable price

Starting at $29,495, its bigger but lighter and more efficient than the 2024 model.

In the modern era, cars keep getting bigger and bigger between generations. Or at least, they're certainly not getting smaller. That's especially true in America, where bigger is always better and the vehicles in the current crop of "compact" crossovers are now nearly as large as full-size SUVs from a decade ago. Don’t ask about curb weights, either, as more powerful drivetrains, including widespread adoption of hybrid-electric components, add significant mass, as highlighted by the new BMW M5 "sport sedan."

Within that fray, however, the new Volkswagen Tiguan stands apart. VW purposefully refined the third-gen Tiguan to cater better to American consumer needs, which meant dropping the third row to create more interior volume for the front and rear seats. The wheelbase still measures the same length at 109.9 inches (2,791 mm), but shorter overhangs mean the overall length actually shrinks by nearly two inches. Yet more efficient packaging on the inside also results in a marginal passenger volume increase of about two percent.

To help keep pricing attractive at below $30,000 to start, VW also decided to skip out on a hybrid variant, but the new EA888evo5 2.0 L turbocharged-four nonetheless delivers more power and improved fuel economy. And all of the above actually contributes to the Tiguan losing weight while evolving from the second to third generation, shaving about 160 lbs (72.5 kg), depending on trim.

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Zotac’s 2025 mini PC lineup includes fanless models with Intel Twin lake and Core Ultra Series 2 chips

Zotac’s ZBOX line of mini PCs is getting a major refresh this year. Ahead of Computex, the company teased several upcoming models including the new ZBOX Magnus EAMAX390C and EN7506TC systems are powerful 2.65 liter mini PCs with AMD Strix Halo or…

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Nintendo says more about how free Switch 2 updates will improve Switch games

“Improved image quality” and GameShare multiplayer for Mario, Zelda, and more.

When Nintendo took the wraps off the Switch 2 in early April, it announced that around a dozen first-party Switch games would be getting free updates that would add some Switch 2-specific benefits to older games running on the new console. We could safely assume that these updates wouldn't be as extensive as the $10 and $20 paid upgrade packs for games like Breath of the Wild or Kirby and the Forgotten Land, but Nintendo's page didn't initially provide any game-specific details.

Earlier this week, Nintendo updated its support page with more game-by-game details about what players of these older games can expect on the new hardware. The baseline improvement for most games is "improved image quality" and optimizations for the Switch 2's built-in display, but others include support for GameShare multiplayer, support for the new Joy-Cons' mouse controls, support for HDR TVs, and other tweaks.

The most significant of the announced updates are frame rate improvements for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the main-series Pokémon games released in late 2022. Most latter-day Switch games suffered from frame rate dips here and there, as newer games outstripped the capabilities of a low-power tablet processor that had already been a couple of years old when the Switch launched in 2017. But the Pokémon performance problems were so pervasive and widely commented-upon that Nintendo released a rare apology promising to improve the game post-release. Subsequent patches helped somewhat but could never deliver a consistently smooth frame rate; perhaps new hardware will finally deliver what software patches couldn't.

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Bundesnetzagentur: 5G-Netze werden weiter wenig mobil genutzt

Die Anteil der 5G-Netze am mobilen Datenverkehr bleibt weiter niedrig, LTE liefert 88 Prozent. Die Bundesnetzagentur hat ihren Jahresbericht vorgelegt. (5G, Long Term Evolution)

xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”

Meanwhile, Grok’s authorized prompt asks it to “provide truthful and based insights.”

On Wednesday, the world was a bit perplexed by the Grok LLM's sudden insistence on turning practically every response toward the topic of alleged "white genocide" in South Africa. xAI now says that odd behavior was the result of "an unauthorized modification" to the Grok system prompt—the core set of directions for how the LLM should behave.

That prompt modification "directed Grok to provide a specific response on a political topic" and "violated xAI's internal policies and core values," xAI wrote on social media. The code review process in place for such changes was "circumvented in this incident," it continued, without providing further details on how such circumvention could occur.

To prevent similar problems from happening in the future, xAI says it has now implemented "additional checks and measures to ensure that xAI employees can't modify the prompt without review" as well as putting in place "a 24/7 monitoring team" to respond to any widespread issues with Grok's responses.

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