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WHO says flu vaccines should ditch strain that vanished during COVID

Influenza viruses in the B/Yamagata lineage have not been seen since March 2020.

Influenza virus. Image produced from an image taken with transmission electron microscopy. Viral diameter ranges from around 80 to 120 nm.

The World Health Organization on Friday recommended ditching a common component of seasonal influenza vaccines that protects against a particular strain of the virus—because that strain appears to no longer exist.

Influenza viruses in the B/Yamagata lineage have not been detected since March 2020, when the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was mushrooming around the world. SARS-CoV-2's explosive viral transmission and the health restrictions that followed drastically disrupted the spread and cycles of other infectious diseases, with seasonal flu being no exception.

The 2020-2021 flu season was virtually nonexistent, and the genetic diversity of circulating flu strains dramatically collapsed. But the B/Yamagata lineage looks to have taken the hardest hit. While other strains rebounded in the years since, causing an early and fierce 2022-2023 season in the US, B/Yamagata remains missing globally, appearing extinct.

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DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide

Google exec said users get hooked on search engine like “cigarettes or drugs.”

The US Department of Justice has finally posted what judge Amit Mehta described at the Google search antitrust trial as an "embarrassing" exhibit that Google tried to hide from the public.

The document in question contains meeting notes that Google’s vice president for finance, Michael Roszak, "created for a course on communications," Bloomberg reported. In his notes, Roszak wrote that Google's search advertising "is one of the world's greatest business models ever created" with economics that only certain "illicit businesses" selling "cigarettes or drugs" "could rival."

At trial, Roszak told the court that he didn't recall if he ever gave the presentation. He said that the course required that he tell students "things I don’t believe as part of the presentation." He also claimed that the notes were "full of hyperbole and exaggeration" and did not reflect his true beliefs, "because there was no business purpose associated with it."

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RIAA Ramps Up Efforts to Remove Music Download Apps from Google Play

Over the past month, the RIAA has sent dozens of takedown notices to Google, asking the company to remove problematic apps from its Android app store. The targeted apps advertise themselves as music download tools. This includes the popular “Video and Music Downloader” app that was downloaded more than five million times.

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google play Google’s Play Store offers a vast library of millions of apps, in pretty much every category imaginable.

Most of the software is perfectly legitimate but there are some problematic apps too, including those that can be abused by pirates.

Over the years, rightsholders have reported many thousands of apps, often for copyright infringement. While some of these takedown notices are questionable, most pirate apps quietly disappear from the platform.

The RIAA is one of the entertainment industry outfits keeping an eye on Google Play. The anti-piracy group is known to target stream-rippers that allow people to download music from YouTube. This resulted in several lawsuits and thousands of takedown notices, mostly aimed at Google Search.

RIAA Flags Music Apps

In recent weeks, we have seen a series of notices from the RIAA that target music download apps in Google Play. The notices appeared in the Lumen database, where Google publishes its takedown requests. Before August there were less than a handful of requests by the music group; since then more than sixty have been filed.

The takedown notices all target music-related apps. Many of these promise free music, MP3 download functionality, and the option to download videos and music from social media sites.

“Search, download and play music offline wherever you are. MP3 Download & Music Downloader search mp3, download high quality music for free,” one of the apps boasts.

Other apps specifically target themselves as ‘tube’ download tools, but carefully avoid mentioning YouTube. There are some that reference popular YouTube ripper brands such as “MP3Juice” to grab people’s attention.

5+ Million Downloads

The RIAA sees these applications as pirate tools. In most cases, the apps have a few thousand installs at most, but there is one that clearly stands out.

With more than five million downloads and more than 78,000 reviews, ‘Video & Music Downloader‘ is a massive target. The app was released roughly a year ago and continues to grow at a rapid pace.

‘Video & Music Downloader’ doesn’t explicitly advertise itself as a tool to convert music videos into MP3s, but many people may use it for that reason. On this ‘circumvention’ ground, RIAA would like to have it removed from Google Play.

Thus far, the app remains online. It’s unclear whether Google denied RIAA’s request or whether it is still under review. However, looking more closely at all flagged URLs, we see that the enforcement efforts have mixed results.

Mixed Results

After reviewing all 68 takedown requests filed since mid-August, we found that the majority of the apps are still online. A total of thirty apps were removed from Google Play.

We don’t want to draw overly-strong conclusions, but it appears that Google has denied some of RIAA’s takedowns intentionally. At the bottom of this article, we’ve listed a complete overview of all the apps and their current availability.

It’s possible that some requests may have been denied because the apps don’t openly advertise themselves as music-ripping tools. For example, the popular ‘Video & Music Downloader’ listing doesn’t mention that it can convert music videos to MP3s, but it does so on its own website. The term YouTube isn’t mentioned anywhere.

Increased Enforcement

It’s apparent that the RIAA has stepped up its Google Play enforcement actions recently. However, the recent surge in requests may be partly related to reporting changes at Google’s end. The music group told TorrentFreak that infringing apps have been on its radar for a while now.

“RIAA has been enforcing against apps that engage in the infringement of our members recordings since 2009. Mobile app piracy remains a top priority and we will continue to expand our efforts in response to changes in the mobile app space.”

To find out if anything changed on Google’s end we requested a comment, but the company didn’t immediately reply.

In any case, the RIAA is trying hard to get music downloading apps removed from Google Play. While it has enjoyed some success, this is easier said than done. App developers will become more cautious in how they advertise their tools, carefully avoiding ‘problematic’ words.

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All of the apps flagged by the RIAA as problematic between August 18 and September 21 are listed below. The URLs marked with an asterisk have been removed from Google Play and those marked with a minus remain available.

^{– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp4mp3

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Tamjar.Mp3Download

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=downloader.vitmate.downloaderapp.freedownload

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.locmusic.playersong

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.syahidaapps.coldplaysongsoffline

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vymate.videodownloader.storysaver.vimate.dmate

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videodownloader.videosplayer.downloader.privatebrowser

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juice.mp3juices.alMp3

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cl.ultimate.mp3music.downloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arc.mp3downloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubemusic.descargarmp3.musicadescargar.tubeplay

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=my.ultratube.adsfree

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mazikatool.tikmezik

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.soundmixtop.downloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.musicagratisxyz.downloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.videodownloader.downloadvideoappfree

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ultrahd.videodownloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.audiotuner.midistock

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enqimusic.mp3downloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.musica.gratis.downloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playmusic.music.player.mp3.download.snptube.downoader.free.app

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freemusic.download.ddplmnb

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idtubidy.musicdownloaderapp.tubidymp3.tubidymusic

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.descargar.musica.download.mp3.gratis.baixar.music.downloader.free.lagu

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freemp3.mp3juices33

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.baixargratis.savemp3

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sntube.mp3.downloader.all.music.freesongs.download.app

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubejet.mp3musictube.tubemp3downloader.tubeplay

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.anydownloader.video.downloader.videodownloader

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.download.music.song[.]mp3

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=allvideodownloader.videodownloader.downloader.alltube.tubemate.tubedownloader.y2mate.ytdownloader

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juices.nu.ytmp3.nu.mp3downloader.mp3juices.cc.ovipco

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.music.song.mp3.play.download.telecharger

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.songworld.downloadmusic

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juice.mp3juices.music.downloader.download.mp3.gratis.free.app

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bpentertainment.tubidyiemp3app

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visionxstudio.musify

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.musicplayer.android.mp3music.ptrb

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yingzzliushi.tube.downloader.new

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubidy.mp3musicdownloaderapp.android.free

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.all.video.downloader.eponnj

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubidy.mp3musicdownloaderapp.android.free

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yingzzliushi.tube.downloader.new

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.anyvideodownloader.videodownloader.allvideo

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=descargar.musica.mp3.gratis.music.downloader.free.download.tubeplay

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubidycloud.musicdownload.mp3.mobi

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juicecom.musicmp3juice.mp3juice.musicdownloader

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juice.musicdownloader.free[.]mp3

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spy.socialVideodownloader.j

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.en1.y2mate.is.y2mate.com.mp3downloader.mp3juices.ytmp3.putrimp3

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=elshayeb.bigsamsongs.com

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SayaliMusic.TubeMp3Download

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3.music.downloader.mp3juice.mp3juices.fm.download.songs.all.free.app.jdd

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ytmp3musicvideo.downloaderapp.forandroid

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=download.musicmp3.allsongs

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.verybestmobile.itunesmusicvideos&hl=en-US

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tubidycloud.Musicdownloadmp3.t

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juicevin.mp3juicenu.mp3juicecc.mp3juicecom.mp3juicela

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.savefromnetinc.mp3juicecc.musicdownloader

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.streaming.videomusic

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pantherabaliska.waptrickmusik

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mkvplayer.zoovideoplayer

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.downloader.newmusic.musicdownloader.music

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=videoplayer.videodownloader.Downloader.t

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=public_local.video.local.songs.indian.tube.download.downloader.publik

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3musicdownload.newmusic

– https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lddi.karaoke.offline

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mp3juice.mp3musicdownloader.mp3.juices}

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“No choice at all”: Pharma companies begrudgingly agree to negotiate prices

They’re not dropping their lawsuits, but they say they have no choice but to negotiate.

At least four top pharmaceutical companies suing the federal government over a new requirement to negotiate Medicare drug prices have agreed to come to the table for the first round of negotiations—at least for now.

Merck, AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Boehringer Ingelheim have all said that they will agree to the negotiations, though some were clearly bitter about it.

The four companies manufacture prescription drugs that were among the first 10 selected by Department of Health and Human Services to be subject to price negotiations, a provision under the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act. Specifically, Merck makes the Type 2 diabetes drug Januvia, AstraZeneca is behind the diabetes drug Farxiga, Boehringer Ingelheim makes the diabetes drug Jardiance, and Bristol Myers Squibb makes Eliquis, a drug for blood clotting—all of which were selected for drug negotiations.

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SCOTUS to decide if Florida and Texas social media laws violate 1st Amendment

SCOTUS will likely rule on the high-stakes social media cases in 2024.

On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to decide if two laws crafted by Republicans in Florida and Texas run afoul of the First Amendment because the laws force platforms to explain all their content moderation decisions to users.

Both laws, passed in 2021 after several major platforms banned Donald Trump, seemingly were a way for Republicans to fight back and prevent supposedly liberal-leaning platforms from allegedly censoring conservative viewpoints.

The laws are designed to stop the most popular platforms from inconsistently censoring content by requiring platforms to provide detailed explanations to users whenever their posts are removed or their accounts are banned or "shadowbanned" (deprioritized or restricted from feeds by platforms' algorithms). The Texas law also requires platforms to provide clear paths to timely appeal censored content, and both laws require platforms to publicly disclose standards for when and why they censor users.

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SCOTUS to decide if Florida and Texas social media laws violate 1st Amendment

SCOTUS will likely rule on the high-stakes social media cases in 2024.

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Galaxy S24 leaks show Samsung’s usual love for the iPhone

The new flat titanium sides on the S24 remind us of a certain fruit company.

The Galaxy S24 render. This sure does look familiar.

It's Galaxy S24 leak season! The phone, which won't be out until early 2024, is already being detailed by OnLeaks and SmartPrix. The two have dueling posts for the S24 Ultra and another for the cheaper S24 and S24 Plus. As usual, these are CAD-derived renders that are usually passed around to accessory makers, so while all the important bits are in the right spot down to the millimeter, don't read too much into the unconfirmed finer details.

First up are the cheaper Plus and base models, which share a design. The first thing you'll notice this year is a switch from rounded color-matched sides to a flat metal band that wraps around the perimeter. The new flat band makes the S24 awfully close to an iPhone design, with only the camera block and lack of a dynamic island as the differentiators. Would you believe Samsung has also discovered an affection for titanium and upgraded the phones with slimmer bezels? I swear I've heard all this before somewhere recently.

The titanium band has a big oval cutout on the right side of the phone, and that's reportedly for a UWB (ultra-wideband) antenna. Previously, this was reserved for the Ultra and Plus models, but now even the base model is getting it. Samsung, and seemingly everyone else in the Android ecosystem, is working on coming up with Bluetooth tracker competitors to the AirTag, and UWB's directional location features will be a core part of that. UWB is not on many Android phones, though, so this is progress.

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Galaxy S24 leaks show Samsung’s usual love for the iPhone

The new flat titanium sides on the S24 remind us of a certain fruit company.

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Huawei Matepad PaperMatte Edition tablets come with 11 or 11.5 inch anti-glare displays

Huawei has unveiled two new tablets sporting the company’s PaperMatte anti-glare display technology, which the company says can offer a more comfortable viewing experience. The new Huawei MatePad 11 PaperMatte Edition and Huawei 11.5 PaperMatte Edition tablets both have full-color LCD displays, so we’re not talking about ePaper here. But the screens use Huawei’s “nano-level anti-glare etching technology” to reduce […]

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Datenvolumen: Nutzer von Fixed Wireless Access sind etwas zurückhaltender

Internetversorgung mit Home-Routern über das Mobilfunknetz werden in den USA immer beliebter. Verizon und T-Mobile US haben etwas über die Nutzungsgewohnheiten verraten. (Mobilfunk, T-Mobile)