#Upcoming Web Series 2023

[gyaniadda]

Upcoming Web Series List 2023, Cast, Release Date and actor

Upcoming Web Series List 2023 : If you are very excited about the upcoming new web series, then through this post you have been given information related to more than 20 God English where you can watch them live as well as it is going to be released on this platform which is Hotstar. Is. Jio tv prime tv prime netflix etc. In this post, you will get to see the name of the web series, the release…

[nailacademmy]

Sauteli Web Series 2023 Cast Crew Release Date Trailer

Sauteli is a forthcoming Indian web series that will be released on Hunters App. This Hindi language web series is scheduled to be released on April 19th, 2023. It will be available for online streaming on the Hunters website and app. Sauteli Web Series Official Trailer video credit – GP Review Sauteli Webseries Cast, Crew, Director Web Series Name:Sauteli (2023)Cast:Prajakta…

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Upcoming Hindi Web Series 2023 - A Look at the Most Anticipated Shows

The Indian web series industry is booming, and 2023 is shaping up to be another great year for new releases. Here are some of the most anticipated upcoming Hindi web series 2023. Upcoming Hindi Web Series 2023The Family Man Season 3Mirzapur Season 3  Farzi Aarya Season 3Lootere Paatal Lok Season 2 Made in Heaven Season 2 Panchayat Season 3  Upcoming Hindi Web Series 2023 The Family Man Season…

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Tuesday, May 30th, 2023

🌟 New

Please enjoy the frogs on web. 🐸

To clarify a point made in last Friday’s post: on web, clicking the reblogged-from blog name in a reblog’s post header now takes you to that blog, not their reblog. Clicking in the empty space in the post’s header, and in the header of each reblog trail item, now takes you to that specific post in the blog view popup. This is one of a series of updates we’re making to the reblog consumption experience across all platforms, to make it more intuitive and consistent, especially for new users.

On web, and in version 29.7 of the Android app and version 29.5 of the iOS app, the blog names in the “Liked by…” recommendation reason on posts will be clickable/tappable, taking you to the listed blog(s).

🛠 Fixed

Fixed a visual glitch causing misplaced padding rules in the notes view on posts on the web.

🚧 Ongoing

Nothing to report here today.

🌱 Upcoming

We’re working to open source StreamBuilder, our framework that powers the dashboard, recommendations, and most of the feeds on Tumblr. Stay tuned!

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with the community.

[the-monkey-ruler]

what are some upcoming xiyouji media that you’re excited for?

Here are a few!

2020 Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons 西游降魔篇 - I think this is like a re-write of the whole Chow Xiyouji films into a tv series!

2020 I'm Not a Great Sage 我不是大圣 - the Six-Earred Macaque being seen as a hero when he is trying so hard to be a villain. (Correction there are two movies with the same name and I got the poster for the wrong one whoops)

2021 Seven Sages 七圣 - a movie all about Wukong's brotherhood like with Snub-Nose Monkey King or Flood Dragon King!

2021 Sun Wukong: Heaven Devourer Monkey孙悟空之噬天魔猴 Trailer - the animation for this looks AMAZING AND I CANT WAIT!!!

2022 King of Confusion: The Rise of the Great Sage / Four Monkeys in Confusion 混世之王：混世四猴 /混世之王之大圣崛起 - Super excited to see Wukong and ALL THE SPIRITUAL MONKEYS!!! FINALLY THE WHOLE GANG IS HERE

2022 Bajie: Movie Preview 八戒：電影搶先看 - I am a huge Bajie fan and this just looks ADORABLE!

2022 The Lower Boundary of the Canopy of Bajie八戒之天蓬下界 - Another Bajie love story and honestly this one looks precious, he really trying to just get his weapon back but oh no he is being WOOED!

2022 Red Boy: Newborn Calf红孩儿之初生牛犊 - super fun animation! Really want to see the back story in this one!

2022 Monkey King and JJ大圣和江流儿 - I NEED THIS I NEED THIS LIKE WATER I NEED HERO IS BACK WUKONG TO BE A FATHER PLEASE

2023 The Legends of Monkey King 凌云志 - This was based on like a web novel and it sound more insane that it should be. can't say it is "good" but it def sounds interesting at LEAST.

2025Monkey King: The Havoc in Heaven西游记之大圣闹天宫 - I have heard that THIS is going to be a prequel to the 2015 Hero is Back Movie SO !!!!!!!!!!!! WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE HERO IS BACK WUKONG HE IS LIKE MY SECOND FAVORITE!!!

2030Monkey King: Flame Mountain孙悟空之火焰山 - the animation here just looks so interesting and Wukong looks so uncaney valley I'm really interested about this one.

NullThe Monkey Prince - this one is kinda a cheat but it is a WUKONG-inspired character and honestly, this looks like a lot of fun!!

NullJourney to the West - I can only PRAY that the art style of the poster for this movie is the same as the animation. I have NEVER seen a Xiyouji movie done by the French but if they make it this whimsical and colorful attitude I'm HERE FOR IT.

Needless to say, I'm excited about a lot of things.

[moonlight-prose]

MIGUEL O'HARA MASTERLIST

a/n: below you can find all the works that i have created for our favorite grumpy spider-man! for series and such each chapter is on it's own masterlist. enjoy!

Under no circumstances may you steal my work, say it’s yours, or post it somewhere else. The writings I put on here are mine unless stated otherwise.

smut =🔥| angst =💫 | fluff =🌙

For the Love of Danger | 18+🔥| ONGOING SERIES

summary: you loved him once…before the accident. what comes next strays far enough from canon to catch his attention again.

Me Vuelves Loca |🌙

summary: “for weeks you’d been playing this cat and mouse game. trying to put off the attraction you felt in the hopes that this would dissolve into friendship once more.”

There Will Be Rain |🌙

summary: “he hung his coat on the rack near the wall, the soft thud of his shoes against the hardwood letting you know your boyfriend was home.”

Tangled in Your Web | 18+🔥| kinktober 2023

summary: “you’d offered up a simple challenge. minuscule compared to what you two fought out in the depths of the city tonight, and that’s why he played along.”

More Than Enough | 18+🔥| kinktober 2023

summary: “this life was dangerous enough. neither of you wanted to make it harder by being stupid and falling in love. but that was the worst part. he had fallen long before you ever did. and there was no escaping the grasp you had on his heart.”

Mi Favorito | 18+🔥

summary: there’s a time that’s always been your favorite. when the clock hits a certain hour of the morning, and the sun is nowhere near coming up, is where you find him.

Ride or Die | 18+🔥| UPCOMING SERIES

[gunsatthaphan]

~ Monthly BL Breakdown: July 2023 ~  

🕶️ Happy August!!! 🌻

Disclaimer: ALL shows can be streamed here or here, as well as on Youtube and other platforms. For more info on where to watch what, check out this post!

New breakdowns are coming at the end of every month - feel free to add stuff!  -> previous breakdowns

What came out this month? (green = seen/currently watching)

🌟 Be Mine SuperStar - July 3rd (Thailand) ✅

🌟 Minato Shouji Coin Laundry Season 2 - July 5th (Japan)  

🌟 Stay by My Side - July 7th (Taiwan)

🌟 Stay With Me - July 7th (China, censored) 

🌟 Senior Love Me? (short film) - July 7th (Thailand) 

🌟 Low Frequency - July 8th (Thailand)

🌟 Hidden Agenda - July 9th (Thailand) ✅

🌟 Bump Up Business - July 9th (South Korea) 

🌟 Laws of Attraction - July 15th (Thailand)

🌟 The Star Season 2 - July 15th (Myanmar) 

🌟 Wedding Plan - July 19th (Thailand) ✅

🌟 After Sundown - July 20th (Thailand, cinema-release)

🌟 Jun and Jun - July 20th (South Korea)  

🌟 Monochrome (short film) - July 25th (Thailand) 

🌟 Papa, What Is Love? Season 2 - July 28th (Philippines) 

Monthly likes/dislikes

❣️ Be Mine Superstar - once in a while a trashy low budget show comes along and hits just the right spot - this is that show lmao. I was looking forward to seeing JaFirst again but I did not expect to like it this much lol. It’s ridiculous but the kind that makes me laugh a lot. JaFirst completely reversing their roles has me rolling and is working extremely well. Love Stage vibes all around. I love it so far. 

New series & movie announcements

🎥 Night Dream - Date TBA (Thailand) 

🎥 I Love You I Kill You (novel adaption) - Date TBA (Thailand) 

🎥 Beyond The Duo (short film) - Date TBA (Myanmar) 

🎥 UniverSad (novel adaption) - Date TBA (Thailand) 

🎥 Iridescent love - Date TBA (Thailand) 

🎥 Nai Hia Bok Mai Chop Dek - Date TBA (Thailand) 

🎥 The Hell Guards (Hey Don't Mess With My Heart) - Date TBA (Thailand) 

🎥 Even If I Try To Fall In Love With You (君となら恋をしてみても, manga adaption) - Date TBA (Japan) 

🎥 Wishing Upon the Shooting Stars - Date TBA (Taiwan) 

🎥 Bad Guy My Boss - Date TBA (Thailand) 

Other news from the BL world

❗️ The following BL productions & actors won at this year’s Asia Top Awards 2023:

Ohm Thitiwat: Best Actor (609 Bedtime Story)

Tar Atiwat: Rising Star (I Will Knock You)

PeeTitle: Popularity Award (La Pluie)

Gun Napat: Best Performance in a BL (Luminous Solution) 

Mew Suppasit: Best Serial Actor (Love Me Again) 

KinnPorsche: Most Popular BL Series

❗️ Former StarHunter actor Bas Suradet (2Moons, Gen Y) has joined Studio WabiSabi, along with 4 other new faces in their New Generation Lineup. 

❗️ The novel ไหนเฮียบอกไม่ชอบเด็ก will be adapted into a series by MFlow Entertainment. Auditions are currently being held. Further details are unknown. 

❗️ The upcoming GMMTV BL Cherry Magic released its pilot trailer after an 8 month delay due to copyright issues. Workshops are currently happening. The show will likely air in early 2024.  

❗️ GMMTV announced that GeminiFourth will no longer be part of the upcoming BL/GL drama 23.5 due to changes in storylines & characters. They have been replaced by View Benyapa and June Wanwimol who will play the roles of Aylin & Luna, making it a GL-only drama. Further cast additions include Ciize Rutricha and others. 

❗️ Actor Tul Pakorn (Together With Me, Manner of Death) announced his retirement from acting as he is pursuing a career in real estate in New York after getting his master’s degree. 

❗️ The upcoming Domundi BL Middleman's Love has started workshops. The show will likely air towards the end of the year. 

❗️ The Japanese BL Ossan's Love is rumored to get a third season which will likely premiere in January 2024. Further details are unknown. 

❗️ The Norwegian web series SKAM (2015-2017) will get a Korean adaption called Skam Korea. The series has a total of 7 remakes from 6 European countries + the US. Auditions are currently being held. 

❗️ GeminiFourth announced that they will be starring in another BL series which will be a novel adaption. Further details are unknown. 

Upcoming series & movies for August

👉🏻 Stay Still - August 1st (Hong Kong) 

👉🏻 Sing My Crush - August 2nd (South Korea) 

👉🏻 The New Employee (movie version) - August 3rd (South Korea) 

👉🏻 Love in Translation - August 5th (Thailand) 

👉🏻 My Personal Weatherman - August 11th (Japan) 

👉🏻 Love Class Season 2 - August 11th (South Korea) 

👉🏻 Only Friends - August 12th (Thailand) 

👉🏻 Friend. Boy Friend - August 19th (Thailand) 

👉🏻 Lucky Love - August 20th (Thailand) 

👉🏻 My Universe - August 20th (Thailand) 

👉🏻 Kiseki: Dear to Me - August 22nd (Taiwan) 

👉🏻 Why R U? Korean Remake - August 24th (South Korea) 

👉🏻 Crazy Handsome Rich - August TBA (Thailand) 

[g5mlp]

Do you think MLP G5 will transition primarily to a web series format, with maybe them releasing a few cgi specials?

To our knowledge, there is no evidence of future CGI content currently being developed for the My Little Pony franchise. While it is theoretically possible, Hasbro is cutting costs aggressively and doing so across the board (not just for MLP), and it would be very unexpected for them to invest more into their brands right now.

The upcoming 22-minute specials of My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale will probably have the same animation style as the 5-minute episodes.

Previous info: Licensing Source Book (September 2023), My Little Pony 2024 Franchise Overview (June 2023)

[deviiancetv]

Upcoming Indie Projects To Look Out For 🎥

2023 has been the year of indie animation going FULL SPEED. I’ve been hearing about some very intriguing and honestly amazing concepts for shows.

Here’s a list of some that I really like and I hope you all check them out and support them:

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Boxtown (Series)

Synopsis: Boxtown is an indie animated noir buddy comedy about a con man detective (played by Alex Hirsch, creator of Gravity Falls) who teams up with an innocent, true-crime-obsessed orphan with a hidden murderous side (played by Tara Strong, known as the voice of Twilight Sparkle & Timmy Turner).

Twitter || Instagram

Defenders of Alodia (Series)

Synopsis: Defenders of Alodia is an upcoming indie animated web-series that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Rebecca Winstead, who one day gets transported to the magic world of Alodia, where she must journey to return back to the real world.

Twitter || Instagram

Lumi & The Great Big Galaxy (Series)

Synopsis: Lumi and the Great Big Galaxy is an indie animated series about six aliens traveling the galaxy to help a young lost star return home.

Twitter

Pritty (Film)

Synopsis: Pritty is an indie animated short film that takes place in Savannah, GA. Jay sticks out for all the wrong reasons. He's dark-skinned, quiet and skinny; and likes to wear flowers in his hair. The opposite of his masculine and charismatic older brother, Jacob. Their differences peak at the community pool until Jay befriends a charming boy named Justin.

Twitter || YouTube

The Lovers (Film)

Synopsis: The Lovers is an animated indie thriller that follows Sara Lim Baylon, a reluctant seafood chef from Binondo, Manila. Sara faces the daunting pressure to live up to her late father's reputation and keep the business afloat. When the governor's inauguration dinner is planned at the restaurant, featuring a Siren as the centerpiece, Sara finds herself drawn into a dangerous affair with the mythical creature.

YouTube || Instagram

Far-Fetched (Series)

Synopsis: Far-Fetched is an indie animated series following a rock band of misfits called Sesamoid, an overly-anxious girl named Rue and her chaotic canine creature, try to survive the town of Veilport. Becoming tangled up in a world where science is at odds with monsters & the supernatural.

Twitter || YouTube

Among The Others (Series)

Synopsis: Among The Others is an epic science fantasy adventure, about a group of misfits that discover the reemergence of an ancient reality bending energy. This thrusts them into a bunch of larger than life threats, one of which is a ‘cool, suave undead hippie’ and his cult.

Twitter || YouTube

Please Stay Tuned (N/A)

Synopsis: Please Stay Tuned is an upcoming psychological horror about a sentient TV man from the toon town of [REDACTED] that wants to be watched.

Twitter || YouTube

The Not-So-Secret Academy (Series)

Synopsis: The Not-So-Secret Academy is an action comedy series in 8-bit/visual novel format. The series follows Bryan, a secret agent sent to an academy to learn how to be a proper secret agent.

Twitter || YouTube

Camp Cryptid (Series)

Synopsis: Camp Cryptid is an upcoming indie animated series created by Celeste McGee about a young Thunderbird attending an all cryptid summer camp run by Cthulhu.

Twitter || Instagram

Playground (N/A)

Synopsis: Playground is a horror project created by Rodrigo Sousa. Its a stunningly well animated trailer that captures the feeling of being lost in a bizarre playground, and your imagination takes over to make things even more scarier. I REALLY recommend supporting this if you like horror and abstract animation.

YouTube || Instagram

Belphegor’s Traveling Circus (Series)

Synopsis: Belphegor’s Traveling Circus is an adult comedy series featuring a demon who must travel out of Hell to the mortal realm to organize a space traversing circus to pay off a monumental debt to his devilish boss.

Twitter || YouTube

ScreenTime (Series)

Synopsis: Screentime is an indie animated show about three artists balancing life with trying to succeed in a social media focused world.

Twitter || YouTube

The Will of Monsters (Film)

Synopsis: The Will of Monsters is a a YA action fantasy film about two scarecrows, Scarecrow Pumpk and Cham, team up with a young witch named Pai, to survive the terrors of their world.

Twitter || YouTube

Everlend (Series)

Synopsis: Everlend is an indie animated series that takes place in the land of Everlend, following Lydia, an optimistic teenage girl, who meets a llamagon named Vel, and a bird-like creature named Ollie. Though Everlend isn't without its dangers, Lydia must face not only the unknown truths of within this world, but herself as well.

Twitter || Instagram

Hey. (Series)

Synopsis: Hey. is an upcoming adult animated sitcom created by YouTuber, ToonrificTariq. It’s a story of two people, Marcus and Shania, that really love each other while trying to learn how to love each other.

Twitter

The Carsons! (Series)

Synopsis: The Carsons! is an upcoming animated mockumentary sitcom, about a young black cartoonist named Steve Carson, trying to make it in LA with his new family. Which includes his wife, Katie, their baby, Nicole, and Buddy, a washed-up R&B singer now demoted to family dog

Twitter

Bit Wars (Series)

Synopsis: Bit Wars is an animated series inspired by video games about how experience is our greatest weapon!

Website || Twitter

Quartz Quest (Series)

Synopsis: Quartz Quest is an independent animated series following two best friends, Lyra and Snobelly, as they travel across the world in search of exciting adventures.

Twitter || YouTube

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Stay Tuned & be sure to follow ALL of these amazing upcoming creators for their amazing projects on the way. ⭐️

If you liked this post, don’t forget to follow me & leave a tip to support a small artist/content creator!! 🫶🏽

[mariacallous]

The latest in a series of duels announced by the European Commission is with Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. Brussels suspects that the giant based in Redmond, Washington, has failed to properly moderate content produced by the generative AI systems on Bing, Copilot, and Image Creator, and that as a result, it may have violated the Digital Services Act (DSA), one of Europe’s latest digital regulations.

On May 17, the EU summit requested company documents to understand how Microsoft handled the spread of hallucinations (inaccurate or nonsensical answers produced by AI), deepfakes, and attempts to improperly influence the upcoming European Parliament elections. At the beginning of June, voters in the 27 states of the European Union will choose their representatives to the European Parliament, in a campaign over which looms the ominous shadow of technology with its potential to manipulate the outcome. The commission has given Microsoft until May 27 to respond, only days before voters go to the polls. If there is a need to correct course, it may likely be too late.

Europe’s Strategy

Over the past few months, the European Commission has started to bang its fists on the table when dealing with the big digital giants, almost all of them based in the US or China. This isn’t the first time. In 2022, the European Union hit Google with a fine of €4.1 billion because of its market dominance thanks to its Android system, marking the end of an investigation that started in 2015. In 2023, it sanctioned Meta with a fine of €1.2 billion for violating the GDPR, the EU’s data protection regulations. And in March it presented Apple with a sanction of €1.8 billion.

Recently, however, there appears to have been a change in strategy. Sanctions continue to be available as a last resort when Big Tech companies don’t bend to the wishes of Brussels, but now the European Commission is aiming to take a closer look at Big Tech, find out how it operates, and modify it as needed, before imposing fines. Take, for example, Europe’s Digital Services Act, which attempts to impose transparency in areas like algorithms and advertising, fight online harassment and disinformation, protect minors, stop user profiling, and eliminate dark patterns (design features intended to manipulate our choices on the web).

In 2023, Brussels identified 22 multinationals that, due to their size, would be the focus of its initial efforts: Google with its four major services (search, shopping, maps, and play), YouTube, Meta with Instagram and Facebook, Bing, X (formerly Twitter), Snapchat, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Amazon, Booking, Wikipedia, Apple’s App Store, TikTok, Alibaba, Zalando, and the porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat. Since then, it has been putting the pressure on these companies to cooperate with its regulatory regime.

The day before the Bing investigation was announced, the commission also opened one into Meta to determine what the multinational is doing to protect minors on Facebook and Instagram and counter the “rabbit hole” effect—that is, the seamless flood of content that demands users’ attention, and which can be especially appealing to younger people. That same concern led it to block the launch of TikTok Lite in Europe, deeming its system for rewarding social engagement dangerous and a means of encouraging addictive behavior. It has asked X to increase its content moderation, LinkedIn to explain how its ad system works, and AliExpress to defend its refund and complaint processes.

A Mountain of Laws …

On one hand, the message appears to be that no one will escape the reach of Brussels. On the other, the European Commission, led by President Ursula von der Leyen, has to demonstrate that the many digital laws and regulations that are in place actually produce positive results. In addition to the DSA, there is the Digital Markets Act (DMA), intended to counterbalance the dominance of Big Tech in online markets; the AI Act, Europe’s flagship legislation on artificial intelligence; and the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the Data Act, which address data protection and the use of data in the public and private sectors. Also to be added to the list are the updated cybersecurity package, NIS2 (Network and Information Security); the Digital Operational Resilience Act, focused on finance and insurance; and the digital identity package within eIDAS 2. Still in the draft stage are regulations on health data spaces and much-debated chat measures which would authorize law enforcement agencies and platforms to scan citizens’ private messages, looking for child pornography.

Brussels has deployed its heavy artillery against the digital flagships of the United States and China, and a few successful blows have landed, such as ByteDance’s suspension of the gamification feature on TikTok Lite following its release in France and Spain. But the future is uncertain and complicated. While investigations attract media interest, the EU’s digital bureaucracy is a large and complex machine to run.

On February 17, the DSA became law for all online service operators (cloud and hosting providers, search engines, e-commerce, and online services) but the European Commission doesn’t and can’t control everything. That is why it asked states to appoint a local authority to serve as a coordinator of digital services. Five months later, Brussels had to send a formal notice to six states (Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Poland, Portugal, and Slovakia) to urge them to designate and fully empower their digital services coordinators. Those countries now have two months to comply before Brussels will intervene. But there are others who are also not in the clear. For example, Italy’s digital services coordinator, the Communications Regulatory Authority (abbreviated AGCOM, for Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni, in Italian), needs to recruit 23 new employees to replenish its staff. The department told WIRED Italy that it expects to have filled all of its appointments by mid-June.

The DSA also introduced “trusted flaggers.” These are individuals or entities, such as universities, associations, and fact-checkers, committed to combating online hatred, internet harassment, illegal content, and the spread of scams and fake news. Their reports are, one hopes, trustworthy. The selection of trusted flaggers is up to local authorities but, to date, only Finland has formalized the appointment of one, specifically Tekijänoikeuden tiedotus- ja valvontakeskus ry (in English, the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center). Its executive director, Jaana Pihkala, explained to WIRED Italy that their task is “to produce reports on copyright infringements,” a subject on which the association has 40 years of experience. Since its appointment as a trusted flagger, the center’s two lawyers, who perform all of its functions, have sent 816 alerts to protect films, TV series, and books on behalf of Finnish copyright holders.

… and a Mountain of Data

To assure that the new commission is respected by the 27 states, the commission set up the DSA surveillance system as quickly as possible, but the bureaucrats in Brussels still have a formidable amount of research to do. On the one hand, there is the anonymous reporting platform with which the commission hopes to build dossiers on the operations of different platforms directly from internal sources. The biggest scandals that have shaken Meta have been thanks to former employees, like Christopher Wylie, the analyst who revealed how Cambridge Analytica attempted to influence the US elections, and Frances Haugen, who shared documents about the impacts of Instagram and Facebook on children’s health. The DSA, however, intends to empower and fund the commission so that it can have its own people capable of sifting through documents and data, analyzing the content, and deciding whether to act.

The commission boasts that the DSA will force platforms to be transparent. And indeed it can point to some successes already, for example, by revealing the absurdly inadequate numbers of moderators employed by platforms. According to the latest data released last November, they don’t even cover all the languages spoken in the European Union. X reported that it had only two people to check content in Italian, the language of 9.1 million users. There were no moderators for Greek, Finnish, or Romanian even though each language has more than 2 million subscribers. AliExpress moderates everything in English while, for other languages, it makes do with automatic translators. LinkedIn moderates content in 12 languages of the European bloc—that is, just half of the official languages.

At the same time, the commission has forced large platforms to standardize their reports of moderation interventions to feed a large database, which, at the time of writing this article, contains more than 18.2 billion records. Of these cases, 69 percent were handled automatically. But, perhaps surprisingly, 92 percent concerned Google Shopping. This is because the platform uses various parameters to determine whether a product can be featured: the risk that it is counterfeited, possible violations of site standards, prohibited goods, dangerous materials, and others. It can thus be the case that several alerts are triggered for the same product and the DSA database counts each one separately, multiplying the shopping numbers exponentially. So now the EU has a mass of data that further complicates its goal of being fully transparent.

Zalando’s Numbers

And then there’s the Big Tech companies’ legal battle against the fee they have to pay to the commission to help underwrite its supervisory bodies. Meta, TikTok, and Zalando have challenged the fee (though paid it). Zalando is also the only European company on the commission’s list of large platforms, a designation Zalando has always contested because it does not believe it meets the criteria used by Brussels. One example: The platforms on the list must have at least 45 million monthly users in Europe. The commission argues that Zalando has 83 million users, though that number, for example, includes visits from Portugal, where the platform is not marketed, and Zalando argues those users should be deducted from its total count. According to its calculations, the activities subject to the DSA reach only 31 million users, under the threshold. When Zalando was assessed its fee, it discovered that the commission had based it on a figure of 47.5 million users, far below the initial 83 million. The company has now taken the commission to court in an attempt to assure a transparent process.

And this is just one piece of legislation, the DSA. The commission has also deployed the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a package of regulations to counterbalance Big Tech’s market dominance, requiring that certain services be interoperable with those of other companies, that apps that come loaded on a device by default can be uninstalled, and that data collected on large platforms be shared with small- and medium-size companies. Again, the push to impose these mandates starts with the giants: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, ByteDance, and Microsoft. In May, Booking was added to the list.

Big Tech Responds

Platforms have started to respond to EU requests, with lukewarm results. WhatsApp, for instance, has been redesigned to allow chatting with other apps without compromising its end-to-end encryption that protects the privacy and security of users, but it is still unclear who will agree to connect to it. WIRED US reached out to 10 messaging companies, including Google, Telegram, Viber, and Signal, to ask whether they intend to look at interoperability and whether they had worked with WhatsApp on its plans. The majority didn’t respond to the request for comment. Those that did, Snap and Discord, said they had nothing to add. Apple had to accept sideloading—i.e., the possibility of installing and updating iPhone or iPad applications from stores outside the official one. However, the first alternative that emerged, AltStore, offers very few apps at this time. And it has suffered some negative publicity after refusing to accept the latest version of its archenemy Spotify’s app, despite the fact that the audio platform had removed the link to its website for subscriptions.

The DMA is a regulation that has the potential to break the dominant positions of Big Tech companies, but that outcome is not a given. Take the issue of surveillance: The commission has funds to pay the salaries of 80 employees, compared to the 120 requested by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton and the 220 requested by the European Parliament, as summarized by Bruegel in 2022. And on the website of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Adam Kovacevich, founder and CEO of Chamber of Progress, a politically left-wing tech industry coalition (all of the digital giants, which also fund CEPA, are members), stated that the DMA, “instead of helping consumers, aims to help competitors. The DMA is making large tech firms’ services less useful, less secure, and less family-friendly. Europeans’ experience of large tech firms’ services is about to get worse compared to the experience of Americans and other non-Europeans.”

Kovacevich represents an association financed by some of those same companies that the DMA is focused on, and there is a shared fear that the DMA will complicate the market and, in the end, benefit only a few companies—not necessarily those most at risk because of the dominance of Silicon Valley. It is not only lawsuits and fines, but also the perceptions of citizens and businesses that will help to determine whether EU regulations are successful. The results may come more slowly than desired by Brussels as new legislation is rarely positively received at first.

Learning From GDPR and Gaia-X

Another regulatory act, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), has become the global industry standard, forcing online operators to change the way they handle our data. But if you ask the typical person on the street, they’ll likely tell you it’s just a simple cookie wall that you have to approve before continuing on to a webpage. Or it’s viewed as a law that has required the retention of dedicated external consultants on the part of companies. It is rarely described as the ultimate online privacy law, which is exactly what it is. That said, while the act has reshaped the privacy landscape, there have been challenges, as the digital rights association Noyb has explained. The privacy commissioners of Ireland and Luxembourg, where many web giants are based for tax purposes, have had bottlenecks in investigating violations. According to the latest figures from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), 19,581 complaints have been submitted in the past five years, but the body has made only 37 formal decisions and only eight of those began with complaints. Noyb recently conducted a survey of 1,000 data protection officers; 74 percent were convinced that if privacy officers investigated the typical European company, they would find at least one GDPR violation.

The GDPR was also the impetus for another unsuccessful operation: separating the European cloud from the US cloud in order to shelter the data of EU citizens from Washington’s Cloud Act. In 2019, France and Germany announced with great fanfare a federation, Gaia-X, that would defend the continent and provide a response to the cloud market, which has been split between the United States and China. Five years later, the project has become bogged down in the process of establishing standards, after the entry of the giants it was supposed to counter, such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Huawei, and Alibaba, as well as the controversial American company Palantir (which analyses data for defense purposes). This led some of the founders, such as the French cloud operator Scaleway, to flee, and that then turned the spotlight on the European Parliament, which led the commission to launch an alternative, the European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud, which counts among its 49 members 26 participants from Gaia-X (everyone except for the non-EU giants) and enjoys EU financial support.

In the meantime, the Big Tech giants have found a solution that satisfies European wishes, investing en masse to establish data centers on EU soil. According to a study by consultancy firm Roland Berger, 34 data center transactions were finalized in 2023, growing at an average annual rate of 29.7 percent since 2019. According to Mordor Intelligence, another market analysis company, the sector in Europe will grow from €35.4 billion in 2024 to an estimated €57.7 billion in 2029. In recent weeks, Amazon web services announced €7.8 billion in investments in Germany. WIRED Italy has reported on Amazon’s interest in joining the list of accredited operators to host critical public administration data in Italy, which already includes Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Notwithstanding its proclamations about sovereignty, Brussels has had to capitulate: The cloud is in the hands of the giants from the United States who have found themselves way ahead of their Chinese competitors after diplomatic relations between Beijing and Brussels cooled.

The AI Challenge

The newest front in this digital battle is artificial intelligence. Here, too, the European Union has been the first to come up with some rules under its AI Act, the first legislation to address the different applications of this technology and establish permitted and prohibited uses based on risk assessments. The commission does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past. Mindful of the launch of the GDPR, which in 2018 caused companies to scramble to assure they were compliant, it wants to lead organizations through a period of voluntary adjustment. Already 400 companies have declared their interest in joining the effort, including IBM.

In the meantime, Brussels must build a number of structures to make the AI Act work. First is the AI Council. It will have one representative from each country and will be divided into two subgroups, one dedicated to market development and the other to public sector uses of AI. In addition, it will be joined by a committee of technical advisers and an independent committee of scientists and experts, along the lines of the UN Climate Committee. Secondly, the AI Office, which sits within Directorate-General Connect (the department in charge of digital technology), will take care of administrative aspects of the AI Act. The office will assure that the act is applied uniformly, investigate alleged violations, establish codes of conduct, and classify artificial intelligence models that pose a systemic risk. Once the rules are established, research on new technologies can proceed. After it is fully operational, the office will employ 100 people, some of them redeployed from General Connect while others will be new hires. At the moment, the office is looking to hire six administrative staff and an unknown number of tech experts.

On May 29, the first round of bids in support of the regulation expired. These included the AI Innovation Accelerator, a center that provides training, technical standards, and software and tools to promote research, support startups and small- and medium-sized enterprises, and assist public authorities that have to supervise AI. A total of €6 million is on the table. Another €2 million will finance management and €1.5 million will go to the EU’s AI testing facilities, which will, on behalf of countries’ antitrust authorities, analyze artificial intelligence models and products on the market to assure that they comply with EU rules.

Follow the Money

Finally, a total of €54 million is designated for a number of business initiatives. The EU knows it is lagging behind. According to an April report by the European Parliament’s research service, which provides data and intelligence to support legislative activities, the global AI market, which in 2023 was estimated at €130 billion, will reach close to €1.9 trillion in 2030. The lion’s share is in the United States, with €44 billion of private investment in 2022, followed by China with €12 billion. Overall, the European Union and the United Kingdom attracted €10.2 billion in the same year. According to Eurochamber researchers, between 2018 and the third quarter of 2023, US AI companies received €120 billion in investment, compared to €32.5 billion for European ones.

Europe wants to counter the advance of the new AI giants with an open source model, and it has also made its network of supercomputers available to startups and universities to train algorithms. First, however, it had to adapt to the needs of the sector, investing almost €400 million in graphics cards, which, given the current boom in demand, will not arrive anytime soon.

Among other projects to support the European AI market, the commission wants to use €24 million to launch a Language Technology Alliance that would bring together companies from different states to develop a generative AI to compete with ChatGPT and similar tools. It’s an initiative that closely resembles Gaia-X. Another €25 million is earmarked for the creation of a large open source language model, available to European companies to develop new services and research projects. The commission intends to fund several models and ultimately choose the one best suited to Europe’s needs. Overall, during the period from 2021 to 2027, the Digital Europe Program plans to spend €2.1 billion on AI. That figure may sound impressive, but it pales in comparison to the €10 billion that a single company, Microsoft, invested in OpenAI.

The €25 million being spent on the European large language model effort, if distributed to many smaller projects, risks not even counterbalancing the €15 million that Microsoft has spent bringing France’s Mistral, Europe’s most talked-about AI startup, into its orbit. The big AI models will become presences in Brussels as soon as the AI Act, now finally approved, comes into full force. In short, the commission is making it clear in every way it can that a new sheriff is in town. But will the bureaucrats of Brussels be adequately armed to take on Big Tech? Only one thing is certain—it’s not going to be an easy task.

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Luo Yunxi 2023 journey thread

Till The End of The Moon:

Influential Work of the Year (Weibo)

Annual Outstanding Works (第六届初心榜)

Popular Drama Series (Baidu)

Fastest series to reach 10,000 heat (Youku)

Most popular web drama (Maoyan)

33.2% market share TOP 1 new high for xianxia dramas (Yunhe)

April TOP1 Drama Series (Lighthouse)

Web drama TOP1 (Youku 2022-present)

Daily average playback volume across all terminals (Kuyun)

Dominated top lists (Weibo, Douyin, Kuaishou, Guduo, Datawin, Aiman)

April Most popular character - Tantai Jin/ Mingye/ Cang Jiumin

2023 most popular ancient costume drama (Maoyan)

Top character index for 4 weeks in a row (Weibo)

Top drama character spot for 5 consecutive weeks (Aiman)

Love is Panacea:

Highest CVB ratings exceeded 1.2%, episode average exceeded 1%

Kuyun ratings peaked at 1.5%

Average viewership rating NO.1×19 after prime time

Maoyan Emotional drama popularity champion

Upcoming works:

Jiang Xinbai : Follow Your Heart

Tang Lici : Shui Long Yin

Chu Wanning/ Chu Xun / Qin Dai Zhao : Immortality

Music:

Traveler -special birthday song Top 49 hs, 1167.5W+ Weibo topic reads

Business:

Shiseido: skin care spokesperson

Cogi: sunscreen spokesperson

League of Legends: Guofeng spokesperson

Ziyuan: Brand spokesperson

浮生忆玲珑手游 (game) spokesperson

Zhenguoli brand spokesperson

Asian Games Guest Group (China Mobile / Migu)

Cultural promotion ambassador of “Hanfu Resurgence in 20 Years”

China-Thailand Cultural Friendship Ambassador (One of the best moments in my lifetime CRYING)

Fashion:

January: L’OFFICIEL

March: OK magazine

Till The End of The Moon x Harper's Bazaar

October: Dream Collection Chinese Style Album - Harper’s Bazaar National Geographic Traveler MiniBazaar

Activity:

January : Audiovisual Annual Ceremony

April: Till The End of The Moon event, sweep the building

May: Shiseido live

June: Cetaphil x Cogi live

July: Double Madame Tussauds wax figures (Shanghai and Beijing)

August : League of Legends 12th Anniversary Star exhibition game

October: Douyin Wonderful night 桃花諾

November: Special Live Show / fanmeet (China-Thailand Cultural Friendship Ambassador) Douyin Shining Night/Dragon TV: Traveler Tmall Double 11/ Hunan TV: Let’s be together for 10,000 years Mango Investment meeting

November: League of Legends S13 finals

December: Shiseido offline meeting and live broadcast

Public welfare activities

Thank you for the great year Xixi! Let’s continue the journey together on 2024!

[onenettvchannel]

BALITANG ENTERTAINMENT: Indie web-animated cartoon show 'The Amazing Digital Circus' secures licensing deal for Netflix with new episodes starting October 2024

(Written by Star Butterfly / News Reporter of Disney XD News)

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA -- An Australian-based independent animation studio 'Glitch Productions' cooked up something new as 'Gooseworx' (whose real name as Mr. Cooper Smith Goodwin) announces the new and upcoming web-streaming episodes of 'The Amazing Digital Circus' officially expanded for the first time, in securing for a licensing deal with American streaming platform 'Netflix'.

First debuted as previously recalled last year, in the early mid-October 2023… The adult-animated psychological dark comedy was became an international hit, including right here in the Philippines with Tagalog dubbed on a free video-sharing platform 'YouTube' (owned by Google's Alphabet).

It's all about protagonist characters who hate their lives accidentally or in general, and want to leave to this virtual reality world. Pomni and among others, are all trapped from the start, who are then subjected to the whims of an unpredictable A.I. (Artificial Intelligence). Caine is the ringmaster host for moderating, and to instruct individuals during the gaming session.

Netflix greenlighted as a global content distributor in the United States of America (U.S.A.), while Glitch Productions controls licensing rights originally from Australia. There will be expecting 9 new episodes in this web-streaming series, following after the 2nd episode titled 'Candy Carrier Chaos!', in time for an upcoming halloween episode next month that may be potentially unsuitable for some sensitive online viewers.

The episodes produced are independently-funded, because of the products featured in the merchandise like plushies, posters, t-shirts, toys and more, are available to buy online at the Glitch Productions store website.

Clownist fans are ready to serve you with your responsibility of actions in-game for what's in store for the anticipating new episodes. The Amazing Digital Circus is available to stream starting Friday early morning (October 4th, 2024) at 12mn Pacific / 3am Eastern / 3pm in Manila. Only on Netflix and YouTube. Viewer discretion is STRONGLY advised upon releasing Episode(s) 3 thru 9 as an upcoming series finale.

WALLPAPER PHOTO COURTESY: Glitch Productions and Netflix

SOURCE: *https://x.com/glitch_prod/status/1837929867729330444 [Referenced X Network Captioned Poster Art PHOTO via Glitch_Prod] *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_Productions *https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-amazing-digital-circus-netflix-date-cast-details [Referenced News Article via Netflix Tudum News Bureau] and *https://glitchproductions.store/collections/the-amazing-digital-circus

-- OneNETnews Online Publication Team

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Qwen2-Math: A new era for AI maths whizzes

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/qwen2-math-a-new-era-for-ai-maths-whizzes/

Qwen2-Math: A new era for AI maths whizzes

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Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen team has unveiled Qwen2-Math, a series of large language models specifically designed to tackle complex mathematical problems.

These new models – built upon the existing Qwen2 foundation – demonstrate remarkable proficiency in solving arithmetic and mathematical challenges, and outperform former industry leaders.

The Qwen team crafted Qwen2-Math using a vast and diverse Mathematics-specific Corpus. This corpus comprises a rich tapestry of high-quality resources, including web texts, books, code, exam questions, and synthetic data generated by Qwen2 itself.

Rigorous evaluation on both English and Chinese mathematical benchmarks – including GSM8K, Math, MMLU-STEM, CMATH, and GaoKao Math – revealed the exceptional capabilities of Qwen2-Math. Notably, the flagship model, Qwen2-Math-72B-Instruct, surpassed the performance of proprietary models such as GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 in various mathematical tasks.

“Qwen2-Math-Instruct achieves the best performance among models of the same size, with RM@8 outperforming Maj@8, particularly in the 1.5B and 7B models,” the Qwen team noted.

This superior performance is attributed to the effective implementation of a math-specific reward model during the development process.

Further showcasing its prowess, Qwen2-Math demonstrated impressive results in challenging mathematical competitions like the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) 2024 and the American Mathematics Contest (AMC) 2023.

To ensure the model’s integrity and prevent contamination, the Qwen team implemented robust decontamination methods during both the pre-training and post-training phases. This rigorous approach involved removing duplicate samples and identifying overlaps with test sets to maintain the model’s accuracy and reliability.

Looking ahead, the Qwen team plans to expand Qwen2-Math’s capabilities beyond English, with bilingual and multilingual models in the pipeline.  This commitment to inclusivity aims to make advanced mathematical problem-solving accessible to a global audience.

“We will continue to enhance our models’ ability to solve complex and challenging mathematical problems,” affirmed the Qwen team.

You can find the Qwen2 models on Hugging Face here.

See also: Paige and Microsoft unveil next-gen AI models for cancer diagnosis

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Tags: ai, alibaba cloud, artificial intelligence, maths, models, qwen, qwen2, qwen2-math

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Boon Piratana - Filmography

A list of Boon Piratana's roles in various films and TV shows. Prior to his first child acting role, he was cast in commercials - all non-speaking roles, used to sell products and items.

Year // Title // Role Type // Description

2007 // My Best Friend's Boyfriend! // Support Role // A comedy/drama series about a girl who falls in love with her best friend's boyfriend. Boon played her little brother, a cheeky 10 year old boy who played tricks on her.

2009 // Family Affair // Support Role // A tear-jerking film about a couple who have had a falling out. Boon played the 12 year old son who is a victim of the custody battle between the bitter parents.

2010 // Thai Variety - Children's Edition!! // Main Role (contestant) // A team game-show. Boon was a contestant, and he and his team came second overall.

2013 // Big School // Support Role // A teen series about a group of friends navigating high school. Boon played a support role in many episode as a classmate. During later episodes, Boon became more prominent within the hijinks of the friendship group.

2014 // Cooking With Love // Support Role (With Storyline) // Two friends like the same girl and are determined to compete with each other to win her heart. When they find out she loves food, they learn recipes to cook for her every day, hoping to be the one she chooses to be with in the end.

2016 // This Stinks! // Main Role // A Zombie-apocalypse comedy where an unlikely group attempt to survive long enough for help to rescue them from the town they are trapped in. Boon's first main role - plays the self-sacrificing delinquent who was rough on the outside, but kind on the inside.

2016 // Cooking With Love - Special Episode! // Support Role (Reprise) // A special episode of the Cooking with Love series. Boon reprises his role.

2018 // Just Another Day // Main Role (Side-Story) // Office Comedy-Romance. Boon plays the boss' best friend, and is part of a romance side-story.

2018 // The Heartthrob Lounge // Main Role // A film that follows the lives of male strippers. Boon plays the small-town boy who comes to the big city, doesn't make the living he wanted to, so becomes a stripper at the Heartthrob Lounge.

2019 // Heartbreak // Main Role // Drama film where a man travels back to his hometown after hearing about the death of his first love, whose paths never managed to cross in life.

2020 // Occult // Main Role // Boon's first American drama series. Set in a rural town, Boon plays a newcomer who discovers hidden secrets about the oldest family who resides there.

2020 // Syndicate // Main Role // The role that sky-rocketed Boon into international fame. Thriller crime-drama where Boon stars as a rookie police officer who unravels a twisted web of crime that is connected with the death of his parents.

2021 // Skyscraper // Main Role // Thriller where a group of people are trapped the rubble of a collapsed skyscraper. Boon plays the heroic lead who helps them escape.

2022 // Thai Variety! // Main Role (contestant) // A team-game show to raise money for charity that Boon starred in as a teen, now played as an adult - this time, he wins!

2022-2023 // My Demon Husband // Main Role // Thai lakorn, comedy-romance. Boon plays titular "demon husband" who makes a contract with a human.

2023 // Days Gone By // Main Role // Thai lakorn, drama-romance. Boon's appearance as the main role - a recently single-father trying to make ends meet - was rumoured for a months. It became one of the highest watched soap operas that year.

2024 // UNTITLED PROJECT // Main Role (Rumoured) // [ Boon has been modelling, but recently word has got out that he may be acting in another project soon. A few upcoming titles have been suggested by fans on social media - little do they know that the project will be a BL, something that Boon has not starred in before... ]

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Friday, June 2nd, 2023

🌟 New

Accounts created after May 8th, 2023 have the “For You” tab as the default dashboard tab. Other existing users’ dashboard tabs are not changed. We are also working on making dashboard tabs even more customizable, including adding the ability to choose which tab appears first.

In the Android app, you’ll now see ads in the image lightbox from time to time.

When you’re using Tumblr in a web browser, typeahead search results will show a Live indicator if the blog is currently livestreaming.

Another thing for web users: There’s a new activity filter that allows you to include or exclude notifications about Tumblr Live.

One more web thing: The sample posts on /customize now include NPF posts so you can check how those look in your theme.

Folks who send anonymous asks will now receive a push notification when that ask is answered.

In the iOS and Android apps, we added a button to insert a read more into a post (typing :readmore: + hitting return still works though).

Some folks will start getting access to certain badges (similar to those important internet checkmarks) based on different actions/accomplishments.

On web and Android, we’re experimenting with highlighting tags that are trending, so you might see a different color tag on a post in your dashboard. That means it’s trending on Tumblr! Here’s an example of what that looks like:

You can find this post here.

🛠 Fixed

We fixed a bug that could sometimes prevent the post editor from being closed if you opened it using the C key. This bug only happened if you were using Tumblr in a web browser.

Another web fix: Unpublished submissions no longer show a note count.

🚧 Ongoing

Nothing to report here today.

🌱 Upcoming

We are continuing to remove the option to use the legacy post editor. Next week, we’ll begin removing the option to create legacy photo posts.

👀 In case you missed it

On web, clicking the reblogged-from blog name in a reblog’s post header now takes you to that blog, not their reblog. Clicking in the empty space in the post’s header, and in the header of each reblog trail item, now takes you to that specific post in the blog view popup. This is one of a series of updates we’re making to the reblog consumption experience across all platforms to make Tumblr more consistent.

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with the community.

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20/04/2024: "True feelings that can be felt without words? They don't exist" - Doona

evening greetings from north London, enjoy the drawing as well. 

tool: wacom pen

software: adobe photoshop & illustrator cs3

ref: Doona! is an upcoming South Korean streaming television series directed by Lee Jeong-hyo, and starring Bae Suzy and Yang Se-jong. It is scheduled for release on Netflix on October 20, 2023. - Wikipedia

Based on: The Girl Downstairs; by Min Song-ah (web toon)

Doona played by 'Bae Suzy' 배수지