奥斯卡奖直播从 2029 年起从 ABC 切换到 YouTube
奥斯卡颁奖典礼自 1976 年起一直由迪士尼的 ABC 转播,但从 2029 年起它将由全球最大的视频平台、Google 的 YouTube 免费转播。ABC 转播权到 2028 年第 100 届颁奖典礼截至。YouTube 的转播除了颁奖典礼外,还将提供大量花絮,包括红地毯前秀、幕后花絮、访谈、电影教育节目,播客等等。Google 还将为美国电影艺术与科学学院博物馆藏品数字化提供协助。YouTube 的目标是打造成为全世界最强大的平台,获得全球最有知名度的颁奖典礼无疑是其一大成就。 via Solidot
奥斯卡颁奖典礼自 1976 年起一直由迪士尼的 ABC 转播,但从 2029 年起它将由全球最大的视频平台、Google 的 YouTube 免费转播。ABC 转播权到 2028 年第 100 届颁奖典礼截至。YouTube 的转播除了颁奖典礼外,还将提供大量花絮,包括红地毯前秀、幕后花絮、访谈、电影教育节目,播客等等。Google 还将为美国电影艺术与科学学院博物馆藏品数字化提供协助。YouTube 的目标是打造成为全世界最强大的平台,获得全球最有知名度的颁奖典礼无疑是其一大成就。 via Solidot
伊朗的水危机
伊朗的水危机严重到总统宣布要迁都,但远水解不了近渴,迁都预计将需要花费数十年时间花费上千亿美元,无法缓解当前的危机。水文学家表示这场危机的直接原因是降雨量不足,但根源可以追溯到过去半个世纪鲁莽的水利工程。伊朗在 20世纪后半期是世界三大水坝建设国之一,数十座水坝建在原本水量不足以维持其正常运转的河流上,水库没有解决缺水,反而因为水面蒸发加剧流失,同时降低下游河流的水流量,导致湿地和地下水资源枯竭。今天水坝后的许多水库都干涸了。上游的阿富汗也在修建水坝,导致进入伊朗境内的河流水量减少。地表水资源匮乏,地下水情况则更糟糕。过去 40 年伊朗打了逾百万口井,配备了大功率水泵,目的是灌溉干旱的农田,实现粮食自给自足。但结果是曾经储量丰富的含水层遭到过度抽取。过去二十年伊朗地下水储量损失逾 210 立方公里。一项国际研究发现,全球过度抽取地下水的 50 个含水层有 32 个位于伊朗。水文专家表示伊朗正处于水资源破产的边缘。 via Solidot
伊朗的水危机严重到总统宣布要迁都,但远水解不了近渴,迁都预计将需要花费数十年时间花费上千亿美元,无法缓解当前的危机。水文学家表示这场危机的直接原因是降雨量不足,但根源可以追溯到过去半个世纪鲁莽的水利工程。伊朗在 20世纪后半期是世界三大水坝建设国之一,数十座水坝建在原本水量不足以维持其正常运转的河流上,水库没有解决缺水,反而因为水面蒸发加剧流失,同时降低下游河流的水流量,导致湿地和地下水资源枯竭。今天水坝后的许多水库都干涸了。上游的阿富汗也在修建水坝,导致进入伊朗境内的河流水量减少。地表水资源匮乏,地下水情况则更糟糕。过去 40 年伊朗打了逾百万口井,配备了大功率水泵,目的是灌溉干旱的农田,实现粮食自给自足。但结果是曾经储量丰富的含水层遭到过度抽取。过去二十年伊朗地下水储量损失逾 210 立方公里。一项国际研究发现,全球过度抽取地下水的 50 个含水层有 32 个位于伊朗。水文专家表示伊朗正处于水资源破产的边缘。 via Solidot
ACM 所有出版物开放获取
美国计算机协会(ACM)宣布,从 2026 年 1 月起 ACM 数字图书馆所有出版物和相关文献都将开放获取。此举反映了全世界计算机领域长期以来日益增长的呼声,即研究应当更易获取、更易发现、更易复用。ACM 表示对于所有开放获取的出版物:作者保留知识产权:作品将受益于更广泛的影响力和可见度:研究成果将免费向全球所有人开放,提升阅读量、引用率和实际应用价值;学生、教育工作者和研究人员都将受益;促进合作、透明度和累积进步,增强计算机学科的整体发展。和其它开放获取出版物类似,ACM 将对发表的论文收取处理费用,每篇收取 1450 美元,低收入国家的作者有折扣。 via Solidot
美国计算机协会(ACM)宣布,从 2026 年 1 月起 ACM 数字图书馆所有出版物和相关文献都将开放获取。此举反映了全世界计算机领域长期以来日益增长的呼声,即研究应当更易获取、更易发现、更易复用。ACM 表示对于所有开放获取的出版物:作者保留知识产权:作品将受益于更广泛的影响力和可见度:研究成果将免费向全球所有人开放,提升阅读量、引用率和实际应用价值;学生、教育工作者和研究人员都将受益;促进合作、透明度和累积进步,增强计算机学科的整体发展。和其它开放获取出版物类似,ACM 将对发表的论文收取处理费用,每篇收取 1450 美元,低收入国家的作者有折扣。 via Solidot
字节跳动签署出售 TikTok 美国业务的协议
TikTok CEO 周受资通知员工,TikTok 母公司字节跳动与甲骨文、银湖资本以及阿布达比 AI 投资机构 MGX 签署协议成立合资企业,接管 TikTok 美国业务。交易预计将在明年 1 月 22 日完成。根据协议:甲骨文、银湖与 MGX 各持有 15% 股权;30.1% 由字节跳动现有投资人关联实体持有;字节跳动保留 19.9%。合资公司的董事会有 7 人,多数为美国人。美国用户数据将储存在甲骨文的服务器上,而算法将根据美国用户资料重新训练。TikTok在美国有逾 1.7 亿活跃用户。 via Solidot
TikTok CEO 周受资通知员工,TikTok 母公司字节跳动与甲骨文、银湖资本以及阿布达比 AI 投资机构 MGX 签署协议成立合资企业,接管 TikTok 美国业务。交易预计将在明年 1 月 22 日完成。根据协议:甲骨文、银湖与 MGX 各持有 15% 股权;30.1% 由字节跳动现有投资人关联实体持有;字节跳动保留 19.9%。合资公司的董事会有 7 人,多数为美国人。美国用户数据将储存在甲骨文的服务器上,而算法将根据美国用户资料重新训练。TikTok在美国有逾 1.7 亿活跃用户。 via Solidot
Trump's Social Media Business Is Merging With a Nuclear Fusion Company
December 19, 2025 at 03:00PM
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Trump's Social Media Business Is Merging With a Nuclear Fusion Company
Tony Isaac shares a report from CNN: President Donald Trump's social media and crypto company is making a huge bet on a far different industry -- nuclear fusion, a potentially lucrative albeit commercially unproven energy technology that could help power…
Google AI Summaries Are Ruining the Livelihoods of Recipe Writers
December 19, 2025 at 06:00PM
December 19, 2025 at 06:00PM
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Google AI Summaries Are Ruining the Livelihoods of Recipe Writers
Google's AI Mode is synthesizing "Frankenstein" recipes from multiple creators, often stripping away context and accuracy and siphoning traffic and ad revenue away from food bloggers in the process. Many recipe writers warn this shift amounts to an "extinction…
Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
December 19, 2025 at 09:00PM
December 19, 2025 at 09:00PM
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Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content
An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Direct navigation -- the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser -- has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of "parked" domains -- mostly expired…
Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two 'Destructive and Disruptive' Cyberattacks
December 19, 2025 at 10:01PM
December 19, 2025 at 10:01PM
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Denmark Says Russia Was Behind Two 'Destructive and Disruptive' Cyberattacks
The Danish government has accused Russia of being behind two "destructive and disruptive" cyberattacks in what it describes as "very clear evidence" of a hybrid war. From a report: The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that…
Apple Becomes a Debt Collector With Its New Developer Agreement
December 19, 2025 at 10:42PM
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Apple Becomes a Debt Collector With Its New Developer Agreement
Apple released an updated developer license agreement this week that gives the company permission to recoup unpaid funds, such as commissions or any other fees, by deducting them from in-app purchases it processes on developers' behalf, among other methods.…
Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide
December 19, 2025 at 11:33PM
December 19, 2025 at 11:33PM
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Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide
More carbon dioxide in the environment is making food more calorific but less nutritious -- and also potentially more toxic, a study has found. From a report: Sterre ter Haar, a lecturer at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and other researchers at the…
ACM To Make Its Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 2026
December 20, 2025 at 12:08AM
December 20, 2025 at 12:08AM
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ACM To Make Its Entire Digital Library Open Access Starting January 2026
The Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, announced that all publications and related artifacts in the ACM Digital Library will become freely available to everyone starting January 2026. Authors will…
'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot'
December 20, 2025 at 12:54AM
December 20, 2025 at 12:54AM
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'How Lina Khan Killed iRobot'
iRobot, the Bedford, Massachusetts-based company that brought the Roomba vacuum cleaner into American homes over its 35-year history, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday and will be acquired by Picea, its Chinese contract manufacturer that also produces competing…
Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says
December 20, 2025 at 01:30AM
December 20, 2025 at 01:30AM
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Uber is Hiring More Engineers Because AI is Making Them More Valuable, CEO Says
Uber is hiring more engineers rather than fewer because AI tools have made them "superhumans," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said, pushing back against the industry trend of using productivity gains to justify headcount cuts. Speaking on the "On with Kara Swisher"…
2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
December 20, 2025 at 02:11AM
December 20, 2025 at 02:11AM
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2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
The television industry's brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings -- a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manufacturers…
Microsoft AI Chief: Staying in the Frontier AI Race Will Cost Hundreds of Billions
December 20, 2025 at 02:52AM
December 20, 2025 at 02:52AM
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Microsoft AI Chief: Staying in the Frontier AI Race Will Cost Hundreds of Billions
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman estimates that staying competitive in frontier AI development will require "hundreds of billions of dollars" over the next five to ten years, a sum that doesn't even account for the high salaries companies are paying individual…
FTC: Instacart To Refund $60M Over Deceptive Subscription Tactics
December 20, 2025 at 03:30AM
December 20, 2025 at 03:30AM
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FTC: Instacart To Refund $60M Over Deceptive Subscription Tactics
alternative_right writes: Grocery delivery service Instacart will refund $60 million to settle FTC claims that it misled customers with false advertising and unlawfully enrolled them in paid subscriptions. Instacart partners with over 1,800 retailers to provide…
All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe's Problem
December 20, 2025 at 04:02AM
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All That Cheap Chinese Stuff Is Now Europe's Problem
President Trump's closure of the de minimis customs loophole in May -- which previously allowed Chinese packages valued under $800 to enter the U.S. duty-free -- has redirected a flood of cheap goods toward Europe, where similar exemptions for packages under…
Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works
December 20, 2025 at 04:41AM
December 20, 2025 at 04:41AM
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Microsoft Made Another Copilot Ad Where Nothing Actually Works
Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform…
Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs
December 20, 2025 at 05:40AM
December 20, 2025 at 05:40AM
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Riot Games Is Making an Anti-Cheat Change That Could Be Rough On Older PCs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we've written before, this is software that runs with more elevated privileges…
YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website
December 20, 2025 at 06:20AM
December 20, 2025 at 06:20AM
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YouTuber's Livestream Appears On White House Website
The White House says it's investigating how a personal-finance YouTuber's livestream briefly appeared on the White House's official live video page. The creator says he has no idea how his video ended up there. The Associated Press reports: The livestream…