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Prag will auf Elektrotaxis umstellen
In Prag sollen in wenigen Jahren nur noch elektrisch angetriebene Taxis fahren. Das soll die Luftqualität in der Stadt verbessern.
https://www.heise.de/news/Prag-will-…

Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…

Amazon Prime Video’s ad-free plan is getting a price hike
Amazon Prime Video is raising the price of its ad-free plans from $2.99 / month to $4.99 / month. The tier, which it’s rebranding as Prime Video Ultra, will also come with access to 4K/UHD streams.

Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…

Amazon Prime Video nearly doubles the price to go ad-free and stream 4K video
Amazon Prime Video is raising the price of its ad-free plans from $2.99 to $4.99 per month and removing 4K streaming from Prime subscribers who don’t pay extra.

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service
https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-and-international-partners-disrupt-socksescort-proxy-service

Europol and international partners disrupt ‘SocksEscort’ proxy service – Joint operation targeted malicious proxy service exploiting residential routers worldwide | Europol
On 11 March 2026, Europol in collaboration with law enforcement agencies from Austria, France, the Netherlands, and the United States, alongside Eurojust, executed Operation Lightning. This coordinated effort targeted the malicious proxy service ‘SocksEscort’, which allegedly compromised over 369 000 routers and Internet of Things devices in 163 countries, and offered ‘SocksEscort’ customers over 35 000 proxies in recent years.

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

paris_transportation: Paris Transportation (2016)
A multiplex transportation network of Ile-de-France, jointly representing the road network, train network, and subway network. Nodes are intersections, rail stations or metro stations. Different modes of transportation are given by different layers. Within-layer edges represent direct transference by a particular mode of transportation, and between-layer edges represent the conjunction of those layers at that node.
This network ha…

Nothing muss Smartphone-Preise wegen Speicherkrise erhöhen
Das Londoner Tech-Startup sieht sich in diesem Jahr wegen der Speicherkrise dazu gezwungen, die Preise für seine Smartphones zu erhöhen.
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A survey of 1,692 US physicians: over 80% use AI professionally and the most common use cases are medical research summarization and clinical care documentation (American Medical Association)
https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/ama-

AMA: AI usage among doctors doubles as confidence in technology grows
Cautious optimism remains about the promise of AI.

The Richmond Free Press, a 34-year-old Black-owned weekly, shuts down due to falling ad revenue as the Black press suffers from the dispersion of its readership (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

A Black newspaper in the former capital of the Confederacy is closing
The Richmond Free Press, a Black newspaper in Virginia’s capital city, ceases publication after three decades.

Speicherkrise: Framework erhöht Preise für Notebooks und Desktops
Der US-Computerhersteller Framework kündigt Preiserhöhungen an und begründet diese mit der Speicherkrise. Auch der Desktop-Rechner wird teurer.