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A new Carbon Majors Database report, which examines carbon dioxide emissions, found that just 57 companies were responsible for 80 percent of the global carbon dioxide emissions between 2016 and 2022. ExxonMobil, which topped the list of United States companies, contributed 1.4 percent of all global carbon dioxide emissions. It has net zero emissions targets.
Nearly 200 parties adopted the 2015 Paris Agreement, committing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, 58 of the 100 state- and investor-owned companies in the Carbon Majors Database have since increased their production.
The International Energy Agency found coal consumption increased by eight percent over the seven years to 8.3 billion tons — a record high. State-owned Coal India is one of the top three carbon dioxide producers. Russia’s state-owned energy company Gazprom and state-owned oil firm Saudi Aramco rounded out the group.
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YouTube is hyping its exclusive Coachella streaming coverage, which starts next week. The headlining feature is the platform’s multiview experience (already familiar to sports fans) — but who wants to watch up to four stages simultaneously, with audio for one of them. It’s… a music festival. Coachella runs from April 12 to 14 and April 19 to 21.
Finally, after a reveal at CES, the 2024 edition of the Razor Blade 18 arrives for $3,099. The base system has an i9-14900HX processor, 32GB of RAM, 1TB of SSD storage, Wi-Fi 7, a triple-fan cooling system and a six-speaker array with THX spatial audio support. You can equip the laptop with up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (the base model has a 4070 graphics card). In what Razer claims is a first for a laptop, there’s Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, but only if you opt for a 4080 or 4090 GPU.
Over 700 people at Apple have recently lost their jobs, mostly from offices in Santa Clara. The location that dealt with the company’s electric vehicle projects has lost 371 people. There may not be enough space at that new home robot project.
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The Morning After: 80 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions comes from just 57 companies
Say goodbye to your best friend’s neighbor’s great aunt’s Disney+ account. Disney CEO Bob Iger said in an interview with CNBC that the streamer is cracking down on password sharing worldwide this summer. The company enacted the same restrictions for Canadian subscribers last fall.
The move is hardly a surprise, as Disney’s CFO Hugh Johnston shared the plan during an earnings call in February. “Paid sharing is an opportunity for us. It’s one that our competitor is obviously taking advantage of, and one that sits in front of us. We’ve got some very specific actions that we’re taking in the next couple of months.” Disney-owned Hulu started its own crackdown on password sharing on March 14, and both streamers’ terms of service explicitly ban people from using other customers’ login information (Though its latest announcement indicates Disney is actually ready to enforce it).
Streamers across the lineup are restricting password sharing, and it seems to be working — for them, not us. According to analytics firm Antenna, Netflix’s United States signups increased by 102 percent during the first four days after the rule went into effect, compared to the 60 days prior. There were an average of 73,000 new signups daily, far outpacing cancelations. Max will also start restricting sharing this year, fully cracking down in 2025.
Disney+ will start its clampdown in some countries come June, expanding to a second wave of countries in September. It’s unclear as of now which group the US is in, but Disney will likely provide a breakdown when the dates get closer. Disney+ currently costs $8 monthly with ads and $14 monthly for ad-free viewing.
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Disney+ is also cracking down on password sharing
Over the years, Engadget has been the target of a common SEO scam, wherein someone claims ownership of an image and demands a link bank to a particular website. A lot of other websites would tell you the same thing, but now the scammers are making their fake DMCA takedown notices and threats of legal action look more legit with the help of easily accessible AI tools.
According to a report by 404Media, the publisher of the website Tedium received a “copyright infringement notice” via email from a law firm called Commonwealth Legal last week. Like older, similar attempts at duping the recipient, the sender said they’re reaching out “in relation to an image” connected to their client. In this case, the sender demanded the addition of a “visible and clickable link” to a website called “tech4gods” underneath the photo that was allegedly stolen.
Since Tedium actually used a photo from a royalty-free provider, the publisher looked into the demand, found the law firm’s website, and upon closer inspection, realized that the images of its lawyers were generated by AI. As 404Media notes, the images of the lawyers had vacant looks in the eyes that’s commonly seen in photos created by AI tools. If you do a reverse image search on them, you’ll get results from a website with the URL generated.photos, which uses artificial intelligence to make “unique, worry-free model photos… from scratch.” The publisher also found that the law firm’s listed address that’s supposed to be on the fourth floor of a building points to a one-floor structure on Google Street View. The owner of tech4gods said he had nothing to do with the scam but admitted that he used to buy backlinks for his website.
This is but one example of how bad actors can use AI tools to fool and scam people, and we have to be more vigilant as instances like this will just likely keep on growing. Reverse image search engines are your friend, but they may not be infallible and may not always help. Deepfakes, for instance, have become a big problem in recent years, as bad actors continue to use them to create convincing videos and audio not just to scam people, but also to spread misinformation online.
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An old SEO scam has a new AI-generated face
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This hugely dangerous new DoS attack could crash web servers with just a single connection
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New Disney Plus movies: every new film to stream in April 2024