Tech results mixed: Apple faces China slowdown, Amazon rides AI growth

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AI chipmaker Nvidia to join Dow Jones, replacing rival Intel

Stick to the fossil fuel car ban, says incoming EU transport chief

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Drop in sales in China hits profits for Japanese car maker Honda

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AstraZeneca beats expectations and raises guidance despite China troubles

Economist and long-term Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff has come out criticizing the idea of establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve under the coming Trump administration. While many industry leaders cheered the proposal, Schiff has elaborated why the move, if achieved, could be catastrophic for the United States.  Anti-BTC Advocate Peter Schiff Says Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Would [...]

Tech industry urges more diplomacy as it faces Trump’s proposed sweeping tariffs.

For five years, Canadian government networks have been vulnerable to Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage, according to a recent report by Canada's Communications Security Establishment (CSE).

He's not the first Apple exec to take a multi-stage approach to retirement.

More memory and better display support make the $1,599 Pro more appealing.

Annapurna Labs, acquired by Amazon in 2015, will release the Trainium 2 in December.

Is bronchitis contagious, and how can you protect yourself? Learn how this respiratory illness spreads, key symptoms to watch for, and ways to prevent infection.

Parents may worry about connecting with a child who is hard to comfort.

From rendering animal testing obsolete to reducing HIV and preterm birth, Donald Ingber is making the future a reality.

People often contract schistosomiasis through water contaminated with infected snails and feces.

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Is Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS falling apart? How bright will it likely get? We try to answer those questions and more.

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A new brightness forecast for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS whets our hopes for a fine appearance in late September and early October.

The post Update: Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Might Outshine Predictions appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS has delighted observers already, but its morning run was only a warm-up — wait till you see what's coming.

The post Get Ready for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — The Best Is Yet to Come! appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

Treat yourself to a comet bright enough to see plainly even in moonlight. Tsuchinshan-ATLAS beckons at dusk!

The post Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Climbs, Brightens and Delights! appeared first on Sky & Telescope.

We check in with the brightest comet of the year and see what's next, plus an update on Comet ATLAS (C/2024 S1), which still shows signs of life.

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Fantasies underlying push for conscription are delusional and dangerous.

Doubling down on their recent war-game exercises and report on the (un)readiness of the U.S. to activate a military draft, Taren Sylvester and Katherine Kuzminski of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) have a new article in War on the Rocks, “Preparing for the Possibility of a Draft Without Panic,” laying out why they think the U.S. needs to prepare for a draft in order to be able to win an all-out war with China over Taiwan.

CNAS and War on the Rocks like to describe themselves as “realists”. But their arguments for stepped-up planning and preparation for a draft are strikingly unrealistic, in at least four respects:

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The Houston Chronicle reports that celebrity gossip site PerezHilton.com has battled ISP takedown over claimed copyright infringement. The problem is, site-owner Mario Lavanderia is already disputing those claims in federal court, where a judge refused to grant an injunction. Instead, as the judicial process properly works, Lavanderia must be proven a likely infringer before his speech is silenced.

The DMCA, however, offers copyright claimants an easy route around the niceties of judicial process -- make it too much of a nuisance for an ISP to deal with an accused infringer as a client, and get his site removed. And this underscores the precarious nature of our reliance on private infrastructure. Even though the DMCA insulates ISPs from liability once they've received counter-notification, copyright claimants can still shower them with complaints, and ISPs are still free to bow to risk aversion and refuse to do business with challenging customers -- including those who challenge powerful copyright interests.

Los Angeles photo agency X17 Inc. sued Lavandeira in federal court last year, asking for $7.6 million in damages. The suit claimed Hilton used 51 photographs without permission, payment or credit, including images of a pregnant Katie Holmes, Kevin Federline pumping gas and Britney Spears.

A federal judge denied the company's motion for an injunction against the site, although the lawsuit continues, as does another filed on behalf of several other photo agencies. A lawsuit filed by Universal Studios claiming the site posted a stolen photo of Jennifer Aniston from the film "The Break-Up" is also pending.

X17 co-owner Brandy Navarre said the company has sent more than a dozen notices to the Australian Web hosting company Crucial Paradigm in the past two weeks, demanding that copies of copyrighted photos on the Perezhilton.com site be removed. "They quickly realized it wasn't worth taking on this liability just to host this one client who was a repeat infringer," Navarre said Thursday.

Tuesday, Crucial Paradigm sent a strongly worded letter to the company that represents Lavandeira, saying it had received numerous complaints of copyright violations and warning that one more complaint would result in the site being taken offline.

"Please note that with any other provider this would have been done a long time ago, and moving your site to another provider will not solve this issue," the letter read. "Continued abuse is leaving us more liable each day, which we can't afford."

PerezHilton.com appears to have found a new host in short order, but other critics with fewer resources often find themselves chilled well short of any judicial decision on the merits of their defenses.

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