Netflix says it took down nine pieces of content across its global platform since it began operations 23 years ago, after receiving government demands to do so. The majority, five of such requests, came from the Singapore government, which issued its most recent demand earlier this year involving The Last Hangover. The US media streaming company […] More

The Brazilian government has created a special commission aimed at tackling electronic fraud.

Created by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) under the National Consumer Defense Council, the commission will include representatives of antitrust regulator Cade, as well as the National Confederation of Commerce, the consumer defense bodies from the states of São Paulo, Tocantins and Porto Alegre, the Federal Public Defender’s Office, and the the Central Bank. This commission follows the recent creation of a working group, which is providing an assessment of the current online fraud landscape. The working group has the involvement of bodies such as the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban) and the Central Bank.According to the MoJ, the working group will publish a final report listing proposals for combatting online fraud. The group is also due to meet with the National Data Protection Authority.In September, the MoJ started negotiations with Febraban about creating a National Cybercrime Strategy. According to Febraban, the discussions are informed by the National Strategy Against Corruption and Money Laundering, which is led by the Ministry of Justice and has been in place since 2003.The idea is to “expand the identification and repression” of the actors responsible for cybercrimes, the commission said. Other goals include jointly developing platforms for sharing fraud data, training security forces in cybersecurity and digital fraud issues, and leading public awareness campaigns on cyber risks and fraud. More

Anthropic / ZDNETZDNET’s key takeawaysAnthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1. The model exceeds the predecessor’s performance on complex tasks. It is available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI.In May, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, which the company dubbed its most powerful model yet and the best coding model in the world. Only three months later, Anthropic is upping the ante further by launching the highly anticipated Claude Opus 4.1, which now takes its predecessor’s crown as Anthropic’s most advanced model. The Opus family of models is the company’s most advanced, intelligent AI models geared toward tackling complex problems. As a result, Claude Opus 4.1, released on Tuesday, excels at those tasks and can even one-up its predecessor on agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning, according to Anthropic. The model also comes as the industry is expecting the launch of OpenAI’s GPT-5 soon.Also: OpenAI could launch GPT-5 any minute now – what to expectHow does Claude Opus 4.1 perform?One of the most impressive use cases of Claude Opus 4 was its performance on the SWE-bench Verified, a human-filtered subset of the SWE-bench, a benchmark that evaluates LLMs’ abilities to solve real-world software engineering tasks sourced from GitHub. Claude Opus 4’s performance on the SWE-bench Verified supported the claim that it was the “best coding model in the world.” As seen in the post above, Opus 4.1 performed even higher.  More

Kerry Wan/ZDNETI love March Madness, at least when my team is invited to the Big Dance. I even enjoy watching other teams play their hearts out like everything is on the line — because it is. While NCAA basketball continues to be broadcast in standard HD, the games can look clear, bright, and beautiful on most modern TVs. Part of that appeal, though, is owed to your TV’s motion-smoothing capabilities. Also: How to watch March Madness 2025: The best streaming optionsFor many people, motion smoothing is only appropriate for gaming and watching live sports; enthusiasts typically prefer turning off the feature to watch anything else because it can detract from the filmmaker’s original intent, making on-screen images seem artificial or hyper-realistic. This is what’s called the “soap opera effect.” It’s a perfectly descriptive metaphor that probably requires no explanation. You can see it all too well: the cinematic film should not look like a daytime soap; you shouldn’t feel like you’re on the set with the actors. But it is appealing to feel like you’re in the stadium watching your team with thousands of fans. The soap opera effect makes sense for live sporting event broadcasts. More

A decision that Apple unilaterally took in February 2020 has reverberated across the browser landscape and has effectively strong-armed the Certificate Authority industry into bitterly accepting a new default lifespan of 398 days for TLS certificates. Following Apple’s initial announcement, Mozilla and Google have stated similar intentions to implement the same rule in their browsers. […] More