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LiDAR reveals vast ancient Maya city and complex networks hidden in Mexico's Campeche forest

- By Nuadox Crew -

Archaeologists have uncovered thousands of ancient Maya structures and a large city named Valeriana in Campeche, Mexico, using aerial LiDAR technology to penetrate dense forest cover.

The discovery, which spans around 47 square miles, includes urban and rural settlements with reservoirs, temples, and roads, resembling other major Maya cities.

Previously overlooked due to its inaccessibility, Campeche is now recognized as a vital part of the Maya Lowlands, revealing complex urban planning and extensive connectivity among Maya cities.

The findings challenge the view of Maya cities as isolated entities, instead suggesting a vast, interconnected network.

Experts consider LiDAR a transformative tool, reshaping understanding of ancient Maya civilization and its environmental adaptation, organization, and conservation needs.

Image header: Core details of the Valeriana site. Credit: Luke Auld-Thomas et Al, Cambridge University Press.

Read more at CNN

Scientific paper: Auld-Thomas L, Canuto MA, Morlet AV, et al. Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico. Antiquity. 2024;98(401):1340-1358. doi:10.15184/aqy.2024.148

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With BlackBerry, Matt Johnson continues to show no other director has a better understanding of our modern, media-molded minds

For those unfamiliar, Matt Johnson is a 37-year-old Canadian indie filmmaker, whose new film BlackBerry, which he co-wrote, directed, and co-stars in, was released this past week. BlackBerry charts the rise and fall of the Canadian creators and company behind the once ubiquitous “BlackBerry” smart phone, a device that’s now a relic to the pre-iphone aughts. The film chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of the phone’s creators, underdog nerds Mike Lazaridis and Dough Fregin, and cutthroat businessman and Blackberry co-CEO Jim Balsillie, who both launched the phone to its successes and helped destroy all they created. Johnson’s previous features are The Dirties, a found footage dark comedy/drama about the lives of two film obsessed high schoolers leading up to a school shooting, and Operation Avalanche, a period thriller about low level CIA agents faking the moon landing – a film in which said agents con their way into NASA, which Johnson and his crew actually did in real life when making the low budget indie film. However, Johnson’s most iconic work, and most beloved by many, is his mockumentary comedy series, which started as a web series and was later adapted to TV, Nirvanna the Band the Show. The series details the misadventures and schemes of a fictionalized version of Johnson and his friend, musician Jay McCarrol, as they try to get their band – Nirvanna the Band – a show at the Toronto restaurant and music venue “The Rivoli.” You might know this series from the now famous "Update Day" clip in which the duo sing along to the Wii shop music. In 2021, Johnson and McCarrol even made a three-episode animated children’s spin off of Nirvanna the Band, titled Matt and Bird Break Loose. A unifying aspect of much of Johnson's work is his narrative documentary style of filmmaking, often employing real people in Sacha Baron Cohen-style moments.

Something about me: I'm kind of a Matt Johnson obsessive. Any time I meet someone from Canada under the age of 40, I ask them if they've heard of Matt Johnson or Nirvanna the Band the Show. I have multiple back-up hard drives with the complete web series and TV seasons of Nirvanna the Band because it's impossible to get/find now in the US. Anytime I'm in a large media store that sells 2nd hand movies (like Amoeba Records), I religiously spend time searching to see if, by some small chance, they have one of the physical copies of The Dirties (the ones with the variant covers that look like Criterion Collection covers) - it's kinda my physical media holy grail. My DVD of Operation Avalanche is one of my most prized possessions. Hell, I’ve even tried my hand at replicating Johnson’s style numerous times, a short film I made while at film school abroad in France being the main example. So, suffice to say: I was very excited for Blackberry.

With BlackBerry Johnson is making significant stylistic and scale leaps from his previous works, “making it to the big leagues” as someone more confident than me with sports metaphors might say. It’s a bigger movie than he’s made before, getting a limited national release here in the US, by a major indie distributor (IFC), starring two sizeable, well-known actors (It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia’s Glenn Howerton and comedy mainstay Jay Baruchel). All this far from the rag-tag, small scale, underground nature of his previous works, where the cast was the filmmakers and the biggest names involved were Vice (and its since defunct TV network) and Kevin Smith whose company distributed The Dirties. Stylistically, BlackBerry makes the jump from Johnson’s previous found footage/mockumentary movie (both terms sounding far more derisive to the idiosyncratic style of Johnson’s films than I’d like) to a fully “traditional” narrative feature. With both The Dirties and Operation Avalanche, as well as NTBTS, the characters are involved in the actual act of filmmaking, for one reason or another, and aware of the camera filming them, the cameramen being acknowledged entities. The footage you’re watching is filmed, edited, and staring the characters on screen. But, with BlackBerry, besides a fun visual gag from Glenn Howerton at the beginning of the film, the cameras exist as they would in any normal movie – invisible watchers of the events.

What makes BlackBerry and Johnson’s filmmaking so great though is that he doesn’t just abandon all semblance of his style and aesthetic, becoming some bland gun for hire, like so many indie directors plucked from festival success to helm the next cinematic toy line for Marvel. Instead, he finds ways to work his style into this more traditional film in compelling ways. While the camera is no longer literally in the story, it still hovers around the characters, with longtime Johnson DP Jared Raab often shooting through the obstruction of windows, from far away, and with the back of heads in the foreground. The camera zooms and focuses in and out of different characters and things in the moment, cinema verité style, Johnson describing in a Q&A for the film having been influenced by documentaries like Pennebaker and Hegedus’ The War Room. The looming, documentary-like camera works perfectly for this constantly manic story of slap dash, neurotic tech wizzes and on edge CEO sociopaths, the camera matching the characters nature. For this story of greed, corporate malignancy, and the loss of ideals, the camera’s living style also feels like what you’re watching is covert, hacked CCTV footage. It makes the viewer feel like they’re seeing what actually happened: secret footage from inside the office, fly on the wall stuff, intimate to these people and these conflicts.

True to the overarching motif in Johnson’s work of media’s permanent place in our cultural language and experience, Blackberry is filled visual references to other movies: from a non-diegetic montage of famous sci-fi technology over the opening credits, to scenes of the lovable band of “Research in Motion” nerds enjoying movie nights of Raiders of the Lost Ark and They Live, to movie posters lining the walls of the RIM offices and featured on Doug’s t-shirts. Johnson perfectly described how necessary referencing other media was to his film when he explained “Pop culture that we think of as just nerdy ephemera, I believe sincerely, winds up dictating what technologists create that will become the future.” Well timed needle drops help ground the work in its specific world of a nerds 1996, 2003, and 2007, and frequent Johnson collaborator (and aforementioned co-star of Nirvanna the Band) Jay McCarrol brings a pumping synth score, not too dissimilar to Trent Reznor’s work in The Social Network, but with a uniquely quirkier, lo-fi essence that fits perfectly with the indie feel of both the film itself and its subject matter.

Thankfully we’re not entirely deprived of Johnson’s charismatic, comedic screen presence in BlackBerry. While not the Orson Wells-style leading man both in front of and behind the camera he was in his previous works, he still features in Blackberry as the third of our main 3 characters, Doug Fregin, co-engineer/creator of the famous phone, who acts in a way as the film’s audience surrogate. Despite Doug being a “goof” as Balsillie describes him, he’s the heart of the main three characters, the moral center to which we compare Balsillie’s shrewd cunning, lies, and manipulations, and Lazaridis’s tragic moral downfall from tech idealist to bottom-line businessman. Doug is undoubtedly a character in the typical “Johnsonian mold” - a movie quoting, John Carpenter t-shirt and sweatband wearing, ninja turtle loving hyperactive who uses Star Wars references in business meetings. In fact, the character seems molded in the film more on Johnson than the real man, given that, as Johnson explained, he’s a “true cipher… has never done a taped interview,” leaving Johnson with room for interpretation.

However, while Johnson delivers a more lighthearted, comedy performance, as a director he pulls some impressive dramatic performances from Howerton and Baruchel. It’s true that the movie is, at its core, a dark comedy, so there’s some great comedy in the lead performances, Howerton delivering that trademark snark and unhinged rage his Always Sunny character has become known for and Baruchel with his awkward nerdiness. I have no doubt Howerton’s scene in which he, in a rage, screams “I’m from Waterloooooo! Where the vampires hang out!” - in a moment that must be seen to be believed - will become a quoted classic before long. But the characters aren’t just farce Social Network parodies, they have depth and drama to them, a credit to Johnson’s directing and Howerton and Baruchel’s acting. You feel Balsillie’s underlying insecurity and attraction to power that drives him. You hurt seeing Lazaridis slowly turning into what he once stood against and the tragedy of him reaching his ethical “point of no return” when he agrees to the BlackBerry touchscreen phone being manufactured overseas, in order to meet budget and deadline. We also get some delightful supporting performances from the likes of Saul Rubinek, Rich Sommer, Cary Elwes, and Michael Ironside as an imposing, rotund, bolo tie wearing, hard ass COO.

BlackBerry is a tragic tale of ambition and passion succumbing to ego and greed, and in so it’s not only a movie about the tech sector, but also about the struggle of making art. Lazaridis struggles, and ultimately fails, to maintain integrity while creating a technology he loves and believes in against a world run by people like Balsillie who only seek profit and status, quality be damned as long as it sells. Anyone who makes art, especially films, is up against the same problem. There will always be Mike Lazaridis and Matt Johnson’s, there will always be Jim Balsillie’s and David Zaslav’s, and there will always be a struggle between the two: art and commerce. The tragedy comes when the creator, like Lazaridis, loses their principles, and begins creating not for the love of it, but out of obligation and out of profit. The triumphs come when the creator finds a way to take what they love, what they’re good at, and what is meaningful to them, - their vision - and deliver it to the masses with the heart intact, as Johnson has done throughout his career, now with BlackBerry more than ever. It’s up to the creator to stand fast and endure to create their meaningful works, as oftentimes the sharks will get along either way, as we see in the end credits with Balsillie, who avoided any jail time for his stock fraud committed while co-CEO of BlackBerry.

While I don’t think they're for everybody, Matt Johnson's works capture the modern media deluged culture that we all exist in better than any other modern artist or filmmaker. His movies are always about movies, whether they narratively are or not, just as our lives have become subsumed by media consumption, regurgitation, and reinterpretation. We now live in a world where almost every movie and TV show is at our fingertips 24/7 - a religion, the upgrade to dreaming, the codex we classify our existence on - and his film-making style and characters reflect that. The characters, especially the characters Johnson portray, speak in a lingua franca of movies quotes. His camera is alive and involved in the action, often literally, just as our cameras and screens are every day. His editing blends the real world with the movie world, blurring the lines. His movies are not documentaries, but they’re certainly not just fiction, something in between, a dreamlike blend for our media-soaked minds. I’ve never been one good at the rigid definitions of “modernism” and “post modernism” in art, but I have to believe Johnson is the cutting edge of whatever “post-post-post…Modern” stage we’re at currently. The Dirties is about media’s role in the lives of a youth more connected but also alienated than ever before. Operation Avalanche takes the uniquely western art form of film and uses it to represent how governments often use media to manufacture their own fictions to control the public narrative. Nirvanna the Band the Show shows how media influences our everyday lives, friendships, personalities, and dreams. And now BlackBerry serves as a cautionary tale for the fate an artist can fall to if they let their work become a product instead of a passion and art. As we drift further into the oblivion of inevitable ecological, political, social collapse, media becoming the God of our reality, Matt Johnson is our guru, beaming our media-soaked psyche back on to the screen, creating innovative, funny, compelling stories of life through the lens of a movie-fed world.

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Today marks two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This week, we detailed the growing crisis in Eastern Ukraine, which is now littered with deadly mines. As it fights back the invading Russian forces, Ukraine’s government is working to develop new mine-clearing technology that could help save lives around the globe.

A leaked document obtained by WIRED has revealed the secret placement of gunshot-detection sensors in locations around the United States and its territories. According to the document, which ShotSpotter's parent company authenticated, the sensors, which are used by police departments in dozens of metropolitan areas in the United States, are largely located in low-income and minority communities, according to WIRED’s analysis, adding crucial context in a long-running debate over police use of the technology.

Speaking of leaks, WIRED this week obtained 15 years of messages posted to an internal system used by members of the US Congress. The House Intelligence Committee used the “Dear Colleagues” system to warn lawmakers of an “urgent matter”—something that has not happened since at least 2009. That urgent matter, which was quickly leaked to the press, turned out to be related to Russian military research of space-based weapons. But some sources say the matter wasn’t urgent at all, and the warning was instead an attempt by House Intelligence leadership to derail a vote on privacy reforms to a major US surveillance program.

On Tuesday, a coalition of law enforcement agencies led by the UK’s National Crime Agency disrupted the LockBit ransomware gang’s operation, seizing its infrastructure, dark-web leak site, and code used to carry out its attacks against thousands of institutions globally. Although ransomware attacks resulted in a record $1.1 billion in ransom payments last year, Anne Neuberger, a top US cyber official in the Biden administration, tells WIRED how the 2021 ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline has transformed the ways American institutions defend against and respond to such attacks.

In dual wins for privacy this week, the Signal Foundation began its rollout of usernames for its popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app. The update will allow people to connect without having to reveal their phone numbers. Meanwhile, Apple began to future-proof its encryption for iMessage with the launch of PQ3, a next-generation encryption protocol designed to resist decryption from quantum computers.

And there’s more. Each week, we highlight the news we didn’t cover in-depth ourselves. Click on the headlines below to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.

A Mysterious Leak Exposed Chinese Hacking Secrets

Hundreds of documents linked to a Chinese hacking-for-hire firm were dumped online this week. The files belong to i-Soon, a Shanghai-based company, and give a rare glimpse into the secretive world of the industry that supports China’s state-backed hacking. The leak includes details of Chinese hacking operations, lists of victims and potential targets, and the day-to-day complaints of i-Soon staff.

“These leaked documents support TeamT5’s long-standing analysis: China's private cybersecurity sector is pivotal in supporting China’s APT attacks globally,” Che Chang, a cyber threat analyst at the Taiwan-based cybersecurity firm TeamT5, tells WIRED. Chang says the company has been tracking i-Soon since 2020 and found that it has a close relationship with Chengdu 404, a company linked to China’s state-backed hackers.

While the documents have now been removed from GitHub, where they were first posted, the identity and motivations of the person, or people, who leaked them remains a mystery. However, Chang says the documents appear to be real, a fact confirmed by two employees working for i-Soon, according to the Associated Press, which reported that the company and police in China are investigating the leak.

“There are around eight categories of the leaked files. We can see how i-Soon engaged with China's national security authorities, the details of i-Soon’s products and financial problems,” Chang says. “More importantly, we spotted documents detailing how i-Soon supported the development of the notorious remote access Trojan (RAT), ShadowPad,” Chang adds. The ShadowPad malware has been used by Chinese hacking groups since at least 2017.

Since the files were first published, security researchers have been poring over their contents and analyzing the documentation. Included were references to software to run disinformation campaigns on X, details of efforts to access communications data across Asia, and targets within governments in the United Kingdom, India, and elsewhere, according to reports by the New York Times and the The Washington Post. The documents also reveal how i-Soon worked for China’s Ministry of State Security and the People’s Liberation Army.

According to researchers at SentinelOne, the files also include pictures of “custom hardware snooping devices,” such as a power bank that could help steal data and the company’s marketing materials. “In a bid to get work in Xinjiang–where China subjects millions of Ugyhurs to what the UN Human Rights Council has called genocide–the company bragged about past counterterrorism work,” the researchers write. “The company listed other terrorism-related targets the company had hacked previously as evidence of their ability to perform these tasks, including targeting counterterrorism centers in Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

Avast Fined for Selling People’s Browsing Data

The Federal Trade Commission has fined antivirus firm Avast $16.5 for collecting and selling people’s web browsing data through its browser extensions and security software. This included the details of web searches and the sites people visited, which, according to the FTC, revealed people’s “religious beliefs, health concerns, political leanings, location, financial status, visits to child-directed content and other sensitive information.” The company sold the data through its subsidiary Jumpshot, the FTC said in an order announcing the fine.

The ban also places five obligations on Avast: not to sell or license browsing data for advertising purposes; to obtain consent if it is selling data from non-Avast products; delete information it transferred to Jumpshot and any algorithms created from the data; tell customers about the data it sold; and introduce a new privacy program to address the problems the FTC found. An Avast spokesperson said that while they “disagree with the FTC’s allegations and characterization of the facts,” they are “pleased to resolve this matter.”

Scammers Sent Apple 5,000 Fake iPhones, Hoped to Get Real Devices in Return

Two Chinese nationals living in Maryland—Haotian Sun and Pengfei Xue—have been convicted of mail fraud and a conspiracy to commit mail fraud for a scheme that involved sending 5,000 counterfeit iPhones to Apple. The pair, who could each face up to 20 years in prison, according to the The Register, hoped Apple would send them real phones in return. The fake phones had “spoofed serial numbers and/or IMEI numbers” to trick Apple stores or authorized service providers into thinking they were genuine. The scam took place between May 2017 and September 2019 and would have cost Apple more than $3 million in losses, a US Department of Justice press release says.

Fingerprints Cloned From the Sound They Make on Your Screen

Security researchers from the US and China have created a new side-channel attack that can reconstruct people’s fingerprints from the sounds they create as you swipe them across your phone screen. The researchers used built-in microphones in devices to capture the “faint friction sounds” made by a finger and then used these sounds to create fingerprints. “The attack scenario of PrintListener is extensive and covert,” the researchers write in a paper detailing their work. “It can attack up to 27.9 percent of partial fingerprints and 9.3 percent of complete fingerprints within five attempts.” The research raises concerns about real-world hackers who are attempting to steal people’s biometrics to access bank accounts.

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What Makes The Nissan Qashqai A Great Family SUV

All-round competence distinguishes the best family cars and allows them to slot seamlessly into a life of school runs, supermarket car parks, day trips and visits to the beach. This article sees how the new Nissan Qashqai measures up

The original Nissan Qashqai, which went on sale in 2007, was one of the most significant cars of recent years.

Ubiquity - for it went on to become a top 10 best-seller, year after year after year... - and its prosaic nature - this is a family car, no more and no less - as well as the passage of time has perhaps softened the impact made by this strangely-named, British-built vehicle.

But it was the Qashqai that lit the blue touchpaper under the shift from the family hatchbacks that populated our roads then towards the SUVs they are awash with now.

As with the Apple iPhone, which launched in the same year, Nissan had come up with a product that the public would really want - even if they hadn't realised it just yet.

The Qashqai concept, which has gone on to become the template for pretty much every family SUV since is a simple one. It's a family car with the approximate footprint of a hatchback and just as easy to drive and as affordable to run, but 'crossed over' with the advantage of some 4x4-esque elevated ride height, a raised driving position and a bit more room for passengers.

Nissan wasn't the first to come up with a 'crossover'. Notably, three Japanese competitors got there first, in the shapes of the Toyota RAV4 (1994), Honda CR-V (1996) and Subaru Forester (1997). Those with longer memories may even recall the Matra Rancho - in production from 1977 to 1984) as an even earlier European effort on the theme.

However, with the Qashqai, Nissan managed to hit European car buyers' sweet spot - its crossover was the right size, the right price, and the right car at the right time.

It was the gateway drug that led to the plethora of SUVs and crossovers - a semantic distinction, really - that flood our roads these days.

The Qashqai may have a host of imitators and rivals, but it still sells very well, thank you very much. It's become one of those cars that people repeat-buy because it fits into their lives so well.

That being said, though it was still a strong seller, the second-generation Qashqai had become rather off-the-pace by the time Covid started sweeping around the world.

The all-new third-generation model was launched abroad at the start of 2021 but, as with many cars which debuted during the pandemic, you could be forgiven for missing its arrival because other, more important things were going on at the time.

Which would be something of a shame, for this new Qashqai is a rather fine family car. It doesn't do anything particularly extraordinary, but it does do all the important things very well.

It is this all-around competence that distinguishes the best family cars, that allows them to slot seamlessly into a life of school runs, supermarket car parks, day trips and visits to the beach.

Some might regard these as humble - humdrum even - duties, but what higher calling is there for a family car than to become part of the family?

After selling millions of Qashqais, Nissan has the brief nailed. Here are just two examples of the way they've thought about how to make your life easier.

First, the back doors open really wide - I didn't have a protractor to hand, but they must swing by almost 90 degrees. Anyone with experience of loading children into car seats and checking seat belts is fastened properly will know how important that sort of access is.

Second, the boot is properly useful. Of course, it's large and can obviously carry lots of stuff. But it's the way the boot floor works that elevates the Qashqai. There's a two-part false floor - carpeted on one side, with a sort of rubber on the other for whenever mucky wellies and scooters are getting carted about - which can be used to divide the boot into two large sections. Your shopping need never rolls around again. Or your family's wet coats and shoes soak the things that have to be kept dry. Yes, other cars have something similar. But honestly, it's just easy to use it in the Nissan.

The back seat is generous, and the headroom is notably good even for lankier rear passengers. The hump in the middle of the floor is low too, so the middle passenger in a three-abreast arrangement shouldn't have much to complain about. There are also USB sockets back there, to keep teenagers happy...

Those in the front will feel as if they are in a far more spacious car than the last Qashqai. This new model is a big step up not only in perceived space but in the quality of the materials and build. The dashboard is nicely designed, though a slightly retro feel to the graphics on the digital dashboard and central infotainment screen rather jar with the crisp modernity of the rest of the interior.

At least Nissan has managed to do the sensible thing and keep real knobs and switches for the heating controls, rather than bury them in a touchscreen sub-menu.

To these eyes, the exterior styling is a massive improvement on the previous Qashqai, which was rather inoffensive and bland. This new Qashqai has a bold, in yer face front treatment, all sharp creases and attitude, with LED slashes for the lights and a very large Nissan badge. There's an unmistakable family identity shared with the latest Juke and the new electric SUV, the Ariya.

That being said, the front treatment isn't as wilfully odd as a Hyundai Tucson; it is eye-catching though, perhaps the new Kia Sportage is in similar visual territory.

Nor is the Nissan as adventurous as those cars once your eye moves from the front towards the back of the vehicle. But it is a cohesive, neat design, and one we will doubtless become very familiar with.

Engines are 1.3-litre petrol - you can't buy a diesel any longer - in either 96kW or 110kW tune - and you can have a six-speed manual or a CVT automatic transmission. You can specify four-wheel-drive, though only with the more powerful engine and CVT combination.

None of those set-ups is going to make the hairs stand up on the back of the neck of a keen driver, but the Qashqai isn't that sort of car. It just goes about its business, getting you and the family from A to B in a quiet, fuss-free manner. The handling is similarly low-key. But that's OK - as I've emphasised, the Qashqai is the essence of family transport, not a hot hatch in disguise, which is clearly what Nissan knows its customers want.

They also want many safety gadgets, judging by the sheer quantity of 'systems' aboard the Qashqai - and very good they are, too.

It's worth noting that a new electrified drivetrain should arrive later. Called 'e-power', it uses a petrol engine to generate electricity, which is stored in a battery, which in turn is used to power an electric motor.

The petrol engine is not connected to the wheels at all, meaning the e-power car is essentially an electric car with its own onboard charging station.

It certainly addresses range anxiety - though perhaps 'charger anxiety' is more accurate - and could be a useful step between petrol engines and a fully electric near future. Alternatively, it could be a bunch of over-complicated compromises... We'll have to wait to try it and find out for ourselves.

The Nissan Qashqai was once a truly distinctive product, but that has been lost in the face of its own popularity and the explosion in demand for SUVs in general. The latest version has taken the family SUV template and refined it even further, with Nissan creating a car that is highly competent in all areas and greater than the sum of its parts. It's an excellent family car and comes highly recommended.

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French antitrust regulators have penalized Apple a record €150 million ($162.4 million) for allegedly abusing its market power in the mobile advertising market. The reason behind this sanction is the company's use of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) technology, aimed at limiting the tracking of users' behavior across multiple apps on iPhones and iPads. As for the privacy feature, which has stirred a lot of debate in the technology and advertising industries, the fine is Apple's first major regulatory move. The ruling by the French competition authority is just a year after the European Union fined Apple a whopping €1.8 billion for allegedly undermining competitors in the music streaming industry by exploiting unfair means in its App Store. The increased scrutiny is an extension of broader concerns regarding the way tech giants deal with their market dominance, especially in terms of user privacy and digital advertising. DMS WIKI, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons At a press conference, French Competition Authority chief Benoit Coeure minimized the threat of retaliation by the United States, especially former President Donald Trump, after he previously warned EU against issuing fines on U.S. firms. Coeure asserted that there were no political considerations involved and that the action of the French authority was only motivated by competition law. "We enforce competition law in an apolitical way," Coeure said, adding that U.S. regulators are likely to persist with their aggressive enforcement of antitrust legislation, especially against digital platforms. At the center of the matter is Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature, which allows users to choose which apps are allowed to monitor their activity for advertising purposes. Although this functionality was launched with the explicit objective of promoting user privacy, some advertisers, app developers, and mobile game makers have criticized it. According to these critics, ATT has rendered digital advertising on Apple's platforms more difficult and expensive, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses and third-party advertisers who base their ad targeting on user information. Apple has expressed its disappointment with the French ruling but has also indicated that it will not be required to make any immediate changes to the App Tracking Transparency tool itself. In a statement, the firm observed, "Although we are disappointed by today's ruling, the French Competition Authority has not mandated any specific changes to ATT." Apple also observed that the regulator had not specified any particular changes the firm needs to make to its app. Rather, it now falls to Apple to ensure that it will follow the judgment in the future. The French probe of Apple's ATT usage began in 2021 and involves measures taken through 2023. The case was initiated by the complaints lodged by various advertising groups, online publishers, and internet networks. They alleged that Apple was using its market dominance in the mobile segment to destroy competition in digital ads. The French Competition Authority in its statement found that the goal of ATT – the protection of personal data – was legitimate, but its application was "neither necessary nor proportionate" to ensure the achievement of that purpose. The authority concluded that the tool disproportionately injured smaller publishers, who rely significantly on the gathering of third-party data in order to finance their activities. The French regulator highlighted the vulnerability of smaller advertisers to the new world created by ATT. Without the ability to follow user activity between apps, these smaller entities see increased ad costs and lower ad effectiveness in reaching their target markets. These companies depend upon accurate information to construct effective advertising campaigns, and ATT's limitations made that more challenging. Consequently, several have contended that the privacy feature has disproportionately benefited bigger companies, including Apple itself, that can better withstand the blow of making such changes. Following the ruling, the organizations that had complained to the French authorities hailed the ruling as a win for advertisers. Organizations such as Alliance Digitale, Syndicat des Regies Internet (SRI), Union des Entreprises de Conseil et d'Achat Média (Udecam), and Groupement des Éditeurs de Services en Ligne were pleased with the result, describing it as a strong victory for their industry. These companies had long contended that Apple's policies were not only about defending user privacy but a strategic step to secure its own place in the mobile advertising ecosystem. With the legal and regulatory environment regarding digital privacy changing every day, Apple is currently also under investigation from other European nations, such as Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania, all of which are examining the impact of ATT on competition in their respective markets. The French case was only one facet of a broader wave of antitrust investigations into the way big tech platforms leverage their market power to shape advertising and data-gathering practices. The continuing investigations in these nations indicate that the European Union's regulatory approach to digital privacy and competition is only going to strengthen in the months ahead. Apple is now in the position of having to navigate these probes and possibly modifying its privacy policies. Although the company does not necessarily have to change the ATT tool right away, the constant pressure from European regulators might compel the tech giant to rethink how it weighs user privacy against the requirements of smaller advertisers. The results of these investigations are likely to have significant precedents for the ways in which technology companies everywhere will address questions surrounding user data, digital privacy, and competition. This is just one slice of a more comprehensive narrative on how corporate might, competition, and privacy work together in the tech industry. It is not certain whether Apple would radically change its business practices or whether it will persist in defending its policies against mounting legal challenges as regulators on both sides of the Atlantic ratchet up their examination of big tech companies. The whole digital advertising sector, still struggling with the evolving needs of privacy, transparency, and reasonable competition, is in jeopardy, not only Apple. Read the full article

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New Pebble smartwatches are coming, but they wont get along with the iPhone

Remember Pebble? The company made cool, versatile, affordable smartwatches a decade ago, before shutting down in late 2016 and selling most of its assets to Fitbit (which itself was acquired by Google in 2021). Now, Pebble is back — sort of. Eric Migicovsky, founder of the original Pebble, is restarting the brand with two PebbleOS watches, set to launch later this year. Given that Pebble’s…

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In Xiaomi 12X: compact, grip is more happy than iPhone 12 - Pretent Studio - VVS

At the end of 2021, Xiaomi launched three completely new phones of Xiaomi 12 series. In particular, the Xiaomi 12X is considered to be easy to access when the machine only has a Snapdragon 870 chip a few prices of about 11.47 million. Currently, the device has returned to Vietnam in a portable form with a price of VND 14 million. In today’s article, let’s take a look at this Xiaomi 12X! The…

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[ad_1] Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Seasoned Bollywood actors Deepak Tijori and Sheeba Chaddha have lent their moves for Truecaller’s latest campaign. The new films convey the feeling Truecaller users may feel when they receive a phone call that has been correctly identified, now that Truecaller finally works on iPhone.   Truecaller finally works on iPhone The campaign embodies the spirit of ‘dance like no one’s watching’ and showcases how Live Caller ID lookup on Truecaller adds a long-awaited layer of protection and trust to communication for iPhone users. Watch the two films here: Deepak Tijori and Sheeba Chaddha. Speaking about the films, Ashwani Sinha, Vice President, Global Brand at Truecaller said, “The films try to capture a moment of undiluted jubilation that one may experience when something were to happen after a long, long wait. Now that Truecaller finally works as effectively on iPhones as it does on Android, we decided to celebrate and share our ‘mic drop’ moment with iPhone users in a mutually relatable manner!” Elaborating on the idea behind the campaign, Binaifer Dulani & Prashant Gopalakrishnan, Founding Partners at Talented add “When every call is no longer a guessing game, instead a moment of clarity, you can finally enjoy your ringtone again. In a film without dialogue; conscious elements like body language, music, choreography, and sets work harder. With Truecaller finally arriving for iPhone users, this marks a monumental milestone in Truecaller's India journey.” About Truecaller Truecaller is an essential part of everyday communication for over 433 million active users, with more than a billion downloads since launch and close to 56 billion unwanted calls identified and blocked in 2024 alone. The company has been headquartered in Stockholm since 2009 and has been publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since October 2021. Visit www.truecaller.com for more information. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments); if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '311356416665414'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Seasoned Bollywood actors Deepak Tijori and Sheeba Chaddha have lent their moves for Truecaller’s latest campaign. The new films convey the feeling Truecaller users may feel when they receive a phone call that has been correctly identified, now that Truecaller finally works on iPhone.   Truecaller finally works on iPhone The campaign embodies the spirit of ‘dance like no one’s watching’ and showcases how Live Caller ID lookup on Truecaller adds a long-awaited layer of protection and trust to communication for iPhone users. Watch the two films here: Deepak Tijori and Sheeba Chaddha. Speaking about the films, Ashwani Sinha, Vice President, Global Brand at Truecaller said, “The films try to capture a moment of undiluted jubilation that one may experience when something were to happen after a long, long wait. Now that Truecaller finally works as effectively on iPhones as it does on Android, we decided to celebrate and share our ‘mic drop’ moment with iPhone users in a mutually relatable manner!” Elaborating on the idea behind the campaign, Binaifer Dulani & Prashant Gopalakrishnan, Founding Partners at Talented add “When every call is no longer a guessing game, instead a moment of clarity, you can finally enjoy your ringtone again. In a film without dialogue; conscious elements like body language, music, choreography, and sets work harder. With Truecaller finally arriving for iPhone users, this marks a monumental milestone in Truecaller's India journey.” About Truecaller Truecaller is an essential part of everyday communication for over 433 million active users, with more than a billion downloads since launch and close to 56 billion unwanted calls identified and blocked in 2024 alone. The company has been headquartered in Stockholm since 2009 and has been publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since October 2021. Visit www.truecaller.com for more information. !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s) if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function()n.callMethod? n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments); if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0'; n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0; t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)(window,document,'script', 'https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq('init', '311356416665414'); fbq('track', 'PageView'); [ad_2] Source link

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Events 1.9 (after 1930)

1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster. 1945 – World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf. 1957 – British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden resigns from office following his failure to retake the Suez Canal from Egyptian sovereignty. 1959 – The Vega de Tera dam fails, triggering a disastrous flood that nearly destroys the town of Ribadelago and kills 144 residents. 1960 – President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser opens construction on the Aswan Dam by detonating ten tons of dynamite to demolish twenty tons of granite on the east bank of the Nile. 1961 – British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland spy ring in London. 1962 – Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, then known as the "Advanced Saturn", to carry human beings to the Moon. 1964 – Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag in the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians. 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 1992 – The Assembly of the Serb People in Bosnia and Herzegovina proclaims the creation of Republika Srpska, a new state within Yugoslavia. 1992 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12. 1996 – First Chechen War: Chechen separatists launch a raid against the helicopter airfield and later a civilian hospital in the city of Kizlyar in the neighboring Dagestan, which turns into a massive hostage crisis involving thousands of civilians. 1997 – Comair Flight 3272 crashes in Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan, killing 29 people. 2003 – TANS Perú Flight 222 crashes on approach to Chachapoyas Airport in Chachapoyas, Peru, killing 46 people. 2004 – An inflatable boat carrying illegal Albanian emigrants stalls near the Karaburun Peninsula en route to Brindisi, Italy; exposure to the elements kills 28. This is the second deadliest marine disaster in Albanian history. 2005 – Mahmoud Abbas wins the election to succeed Yasser Arafat as President of the Palestinian National Authority, replacing interim president Rawhi Fattouh. 2005 – The Sudan People's Liberation Movement and the Government of Sudan sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement to end the Second Sudanese Civil War. 2007 – Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco. 2011 – Iran Air Flight 277 crashes near Urmia in the northwest of the country, in icy conditions, killing 78 people. 2014 – An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others. 2015 – The perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris two days earlier are both killed after a hostage situation; a second hostage situation, related to the Charlie Hebdo shooting, occurs at a Jewish market in Vincennes. 2015 – A mass poisoning at a funeral in Mozambique involving beer that was contaminated with Burkholderia gladioli leaves 75 dead and over 230 people ill. 2021 – Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 crashes north of Jakarta, Indonesia, killing all 62 people on board.

[how2fit]

The start of the new year is the perfect time to reset your healthy living goals, and Apple Fitness+ is here to help. The subscription fitness and wellness service just cranked out a massive selection of new programs and workouts, helping users to try new things and stay engaged as they dive into 2025. The new programs roll out on January 6 on iPhones, iPads, Apple TV, and Apple Watches, so you have a little time to prepare. But there are a lot of new programs in the mix, and it can be overwhelming to wade through it all, whether you’re new to the service or a seasoned user. With that in mind, these are the biggest new programs to have on your radar. 'Three Perfect Weeks of Strength' Strength training is having a moment right now, and this new program is designed to get you up to speed. It’s a progressive three-week plan to target major muscle groups through 12 half-hour workouts. The program is designed to help give you results and can be repeated with heavier weights as you get stronger. 'Strength, Endurance, and Agility for Pickleball' Pickleball earned a huge fandom with the general public in 2022, and it’s now one of the world’s fastest-growing sports. This Apple Fitness+ program features professional pickleball champion Catherine Parenteau running you through a mix of her own training exercises with the goal of helping you become a better pickleball player. Photo: Apple 'Yoga Peak Poses' This program really zeros in on the details of single peak poses in yoga, including dancer's pose (Natarajasana), revolved hand to big toe pose (Parivrtta Hasta Padangusthasana), and crow pose (Kakasana). Each session has a 10-minute prep flow to warmup, followed by a 10-minute practice session. 'Introduction to Breath Meditation' Research1 has linked meditation and breath work to lower stress levels, but it can be tricky to know where to start. The program “Introduction to Breath Meditation” gives followers simple techniques to help tamp down on stress and improve focus. The programs are just 10 minutes, too. Apple Fitness+ is also launching new Artist Spotlight series (which dedicates a workout playlist to one artist), featuring Janet Jackson, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, and Kendrick Lamar. New episodes of “Time to Walk,” which encourages users to walk to stories and songs from famous people, will roll out, too. Those feature episodes from Steve Aoki, Lana Condor, Rita Ora, Daddy Yankee, and Maddie Ziegler. And, if dance is more your speed, So You Think You Can Dance’s Alex Wong will release a 20-minute dance workout. You can subscribe to Apple Fitness+ for $9.99/month or $79.99/year. Starting January 3, Strava users can get three months free (head to strava.com for more info). Well+Good articles reference scientific, reliable, recent, robust studies to back up the information we share. You can trust us along your wellness journey. Bartlett L, Buscot MJ, Bindoff A, Chambers R, Hassed C. Mindfulness Is Associated With Lower Stress and Higher Work Engagement in a Large Sample of MOOC Participants. Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 10;12:724126. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.724126. PMID: 34566805; PMCID: PMC8461060.

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Europe changed the rules of the internet this week when the Digital Markets Act took effect, holding the biggest tech companies to tough new standards. Now the world is waiting to see which giant will be first to fall foul of the law. One of the architects of the DMA says Apple is a strong candidate for the first formal investigation, describing the company as “low hanging fruit.”

Apple has faced intensifying pressure in recent years from competitors, regulators, and courts in both Europe and the US, over the restrictions it places on app-makers who must rely on its App Store to reach millions of users. Yesterday Apple terminated the developer account of Fornite publisher Epic Games which has challenged the company in US courts and recently announced its intention to launch a rival to the Apple App Store.

German MEP Andreas Schwab, who led the negotiations that finalized the DMA on behalf of the EU Parliament, says that makes Apple a likely first target for non-compliance. “[This] gives me a very clear expectation that they want to be the first,” he tells WIRED. “Apple’s approach is a bit weird on all this and therefore it's low hanging fruit.”

Schwab is not involved in enforcement of the DMA. That’s overseen by the European Commission, which has already demanded “further explanation” as to why Apple terminated Epic’s account and is evaluating whether this violates the DMA.

“Apple’s approach to the Digital Markets Act was guided by two simple goals: complying with the law and reducing the inevitable, increased risks the DMA creates for our EU users,” says the company in a statement sent to WIRED by Apple spokesperson Rob Saunders. Apple has said on its website that alternative app stores carry the risk of malware, illicit code and other harmful content.

The DMA’s rules that aim to “break open” tech platforms require Apple to allow iPhone users to download apps from places other than Apples’ official App Store. The Epic Games Store, announced in January, intended to be launched by the Fortnite-maker Epic, would have been the first alternative app store to take advantage of the new system.

Apple tells WIRED it had the right to terminate Epic’s accounts according to a 2021 California court ruling. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has been a vocal critic of what he styles as Apple’s “app store monopoly” for years, although in January the US supreme court denied a request to hear the latest episode in a lengthy antitrust dispute between the two companies in a victory for the smartphone maker.

The DMA went into force at midnight on March 7 in Brussels—3 pm in Silicon Valley. From that moment, six of the world’s biggest tech companies—Apple, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and TikTok’s Beijing-based owner ByteDance—must comply with a suite of new rules designed to improve competition in digital markets.

In addition to Apple having to allow outside apps, Microsoft Windows will no longer have Microsoft-owned Bing as its default search tool; users of Meta’sWhatsApp will be able to communicate with people on rival messaging apps; and Google and Amazon will have to tweak their search results to create more room for rivals. Companies that don’t comply with the new rules can be fined up to 20 percent of their global turnover.

The new rules should cause the European internet to “change for the better,” says Schwab, a center-right MEP. “To allow more openness, more fairness, and most of all more innovation and therefore new services—that’s the idea.”

Schwab’s comments add to a recent chorus of criticism targeting Apple. The EU’s antitrust chief, Margarethe Vestager, told Bloomberg earlier this week that the DMA will initially focus on sorting out big tech’s app stores. “I think it’s important you can have more than one app store on your phone,” she said on Tuesday.

Following Apple’s removal of Epic, the tone in the hallways of the Commission had become more urgent. “Under the #DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers to silence developers," said Thierry Breton, the EU's industry chief, on X on Thursday, apparently referring to allegations by Epic's Sweeney that Apple had blocked the company's account because of the CEO’s critical Tweets. “I have asked our services to look into Apple’s termination of Epic’s developer account as a matter of priority.”

Flexing the DMA’s powers on Apple’s App Store would advertise how the law can improve life online for the general public, Schwab says. “I think the App Store would be a good example to show what we want to achieve with the DMA,” he says. “They will just see more apps and they will like these apps.”

Giving people choice over where they get mobile apps by requiring Apple and Google to permit alternative app stores on devices is seen as a key pillar of the DMA. In addition to giving users more choice, app developers will also gain more opportunities to to innovate, increasing competition, says Schwab. “With alternative app stores we can make markets a bit broader.”

[thecioconnect]

Apple Intelligence Arrives on October 28 for iPhones, iPads, and Macs

Apple is set to release Apple Intelligence with the iOS 18.1 update, launching on October 28. This long-awaited feature will bring advanced AI capabilities to compatible iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

For those who recently purchased an iPhone 16 and felt its AI features were missing, the wait is almost over. As reported by Bloomberg, the update was initially planned for mid-October but was delayed to ensure a bug-free and reliable experience. Apple has also been preparing its servers for private cloud computing to handle the expected surge in AI-related activity.

What’s New in iOS 18.1?

The iOS 18.1 update introduces Apple’s first set of AI-powered features, including:

Text Authoring and Editing Tools: Enhanced writing and editing support.

An Updated Siri: Smarter, more intuitive interactions.

Notification Summaries: A streamlined approach to managing alerts.

Photo Cleanup Tools: Remove unwanted elements from your photos.

Memory Creation: Curated photo memories generated automatically.

These features mark the beginning of Apple’s journey into AI integration. Future updates will bring additional functionalities, such as:

On-Device Image Generation

Visual Intelligence

Genmoji (AI-powered emoji creation)

ChatGPT-Powered Siri Enhancements

Apple plans to introduce at least one new AI feature with each major iOS 18 release, culminating in the launch of iOS 19 at WWDC 2026.

Compatible Devices

iPhones

After the iOS 18.1 update, the following iPhone models will support Apple Intelligence:

iPhone 16 Series: Including the entry-level iPhone 16, priced at Rs 79,900, making it the most affordable Apple Intelligence-compatible device.

iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max: Last year’s flagship models.

iPads and Macs

Apple Intelligence will also be available on iPads and Macs powered by the M series Silicon, including:

iPad Pro M1: Released in 2021.

MacBook Air M1: Launched in 2020 and now available for under Rs 60,000.

What’s Next?

Apple Intelligence represents a significant leap forward in AI-driven technology for everyday use. With the initial rollout on October 28 and consistent updates planned for the future, Apple users can expect an evolving experience that integrates cutting-edge AI features into their devices.

Stay tuned as Apple continues to revolutionize the way we interact with technology.

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Made-in-India iPhone

Apple’s iPhone 16 series, produced in India, is set to become available worldwide within a few days of its sales launch, according to The Economic Times. This is a significant milestone, as it’s the first time a globally released product made in India will be distributed internationally so quickly, highlighting the growth of India’s manufacturing sector and the Make-in-India initiative.

Apple will unveil the iPhone 16 series on Monday, with global sales expected to start 10 to 12 days later. Foxconn, a major Apple supplier, has already started producing the series in India.

For the first time, the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max models will also be shipped from Indian factories to international markets. The iPhone 16 is anticipated to be one of Apple’s most advanced devices, featuring new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

This move to India as a major production hub is part of Apple’s strategy to diversify its manufacturing, especially amid rising geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China, the report added.

India’s Role in Global iPhone Production

In 2021, iPhone 13 models manufactured in India were available globally several months after their release. By 2022, this lag was shortened to less than two weeks for the iPhone 14. Last year, Apple managed to produce the iPhone 15 simultaneously in both India and China, although the Indian-made devices were only available locally on the first day of sales.Read More-https://voiceofleaders.com/