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While he didn't exactly pull a rabbit out of his hat, general manager Howie Roseman just pulled off one of the best Eagles drafts in recent memory.

How good was it? According to Wikipedia, Harry Houdini couldnt have done any better.

If you typed Rosemans name into the popular online encyclopedia recently, you may have learned that Roseman was born in Brooklyn, is a part-time magician and a master of all the draft.

Those last two things have since been deleted, but not before the team could post the entry on their social media account. The problem with Wikipedia is that anyone can anonymously edit its content without permission. It would have been just as easy to say that Roseman had a horrible 2023 NFL Draft, but too many are on the record saying otherwise.

ESPNs Mel Kiper gave the Eagles draft an A. He thinks Roseman "crushed it" by filling clear needs with Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith and the trade for DAndre Swift. Sportingnews.coms Vinny Iyer did Kiper one better and gave Phillys draft an A+. Iyer also liked the Swift trade and sees Alabama OT Tyler Steen as a great future stash for a veteran offensive line.

USA Todays Nate Davis also gave the Eagles an A+ and believes Roseman had the best draft of any general manager. He was particularly impressed with getting Smith with the 30th pick and sees the Eagles as favorites to reach Super Bowl LVIII.

All make valid points, but Rosemans greatest trick might be winning over Philadelphias demanding fanbase. No one seems to remember when Roseman used a first-round pick to draft a 26-year-old firefighter named Danny Watkins in 2011, or the time he passed on LSUs Justin Jefferson to take TCUs Jalen Reagor.

None of that matters anymore. All Eagles fans know now is that Roseman just added some of the drafts best talent to one of the NFLs deepest rosters.

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CHENNAI: Flagging the perils of relying on information available in crowd-sourced websites like Wikipedia, Madras high court has quashed an NIA court's order refusing to discharge a person charged under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act.The special court for NIA cases had extracted description of a banned organisation from Wikipedia and rejected the plea of Ziyavudeen Baqavi, who had been accused of sharing posts from a social media account of a 'fundamentalist' organisation.He was charged for sedition under the IPC and for offences under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. Challenging the same, he moved the special court for discharge from the case.His plea was rejected by the special court which relied on contents shared in Wikipedia to conclude the 'aim and objective' of the alleged fundamentalist organisation.However, a division bench of Justice M Sundar and Justice M Nirmal Kumar disapproved of the special court's conclusion and observed that courts must refrain from relying on crowd-sourced websites like Wikipedia in legal dispute resolution.Concurring with the submissions of Baqavi, the bench said, "the special court explicitly relied on Wikipedia for description of the entity. This apart, the special court order was silent with respect to the case laws cited by the petitioner and had merely brushed aside the same without any discussion on the case laws."The bench then set aside the order and remanded back the matter to the special court for fresh consideration.

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Not to be outdone by the UK's copycat DMCC bill yesterday, European regulators have let the world know about the first few tech giants to make their super strictly monitored hitlist under its own antitrust regs, aimed at curtailing the power of Big Tech.

In an announcement, the European Commission unveiled the first few companies designated as Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) under its e-commerce law, the Digital Services Act (DSA).

The VLOPs listed include many of the usual suspects, although Wikipedia was something of a surprise its transparency reports will be an interesting read and who knew online retailer Zalando was that big?

The Commission said it was "bolstering its expertise with in-house and external multidisciplinary knowledge" including the recently launched European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency among other things companies on the list will need to look at how algorithm use affect their interfaces and "recommender systems", with the EC especially interested in the latter. It has also asked the the platforms to allow better "data access" for researchers so they can assess systemic risks and create a "publicly available repository of advertisements."

As we explained last week, the companies must detail how their algorithms work, and be transparent about how their software allows advertisers to target users or recommend content. The new rules are expected to apply from January 1, 2024.

There's a full list in the box, but the VLOSEs are a mere two: Google (which had a 93 percent share last time we checked) and (quiet at the back) Bing. If you go by Statcounter's numbers, Microsoft's search engine has only 2.88 percent of the market (down from 3.1 percent in March 2022), but that's still the second biggest search engine in the world. Moreover, it reaches at least 45 million monthly active users established in or located in the EU that was the metric the Commission used for everybody on the list, VLOSEs and VLOPs alike.

Microsoft's Bing search engine actually passed the 100 million daily active users milestone not long after launching its AI-powered Bing Chat feature, which it said was drawing in new users, although it was "fully aware we remain a small, low, single digit share player." Good old DuckDuckGo didn't get a look-in.

Following their designation, companies on these lists will have to comply within four months with the full set of new obligations under the DSA. These include watching out for systemic risks ranging from how illegal content and disinformation can be amplified on their services, to protection of minors online and their mental health. They will also be expected to have plain language Ts&Cs, and give users "clear information on why they are recommended certain information." Users must also be able to "opt out from recommendation systems based on profiling" and the services must label all ads and inform users on who is promoting them.

Their first annual risk assessment reports need to be submitted to the Commission by the end of August.

The list does not appear to be complete: VLOPS and VLOSEs aren't the full extent of the "gatekeepers" the EU's designations for the massive systemic players which eat up the internet and touch almost everyone with a computer across the globe, no matter how hard they are trying to run open source OSes on homegrown hardware.

If you'd noticed that none of the cloud platforms were listed (Azure, GCP, AWS), that's because they'll be dealt with by the DSA's "sister legislation", the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DMA will take aim at "core platform services" including cloud gatekeepers potentially doling out hefty fines or even requiring companies to offload assets or cease operating within EU borders. This can be a powerful tool, especially when one considers the situation Apple got into when it was last year forced to ditch its Lightning port or be forced to lose the $95.12 billion the European single market is worth to Apple.

Margrethe Vestager, exec vice-president for EC Digital, commented: "The whole logic of our rules is to ensure that technology serves people and the societies that we live in not the other way around. The Digital Services Act will bring about meaningful transparency and accountability of platforms and search engines and give consumers more control over their online life. The designations made today are a huge step forward to making that happen."

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Analysis by Shastri Ramachandaran

The question is no longer whether China can broker peace in Ukraine. More pertinent would be to ask what will follow the Xi-Zelensky talk now that Xi has emerged at the top of the list of prospective peacemakers in Ukraine.

NEW DELHI, 28 April 2023 (IDN) Chinese President Xi Jinpings long and meaningful telephone conversation with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on 26 April has set the cat among the pigeons in the U.S.-led West that is fighting a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

The question is no longer whether China can broker peace in Ukraine. More pertinent would be to ask what will follow the Xi-Zelensky talk now that Xi has emerged at the top of the list of prospective peacemakers in Ukraine.

Just months ago, few would have seen China as a peace broker between Ukraine and Russia. But after China brought together Saudi Arabia and Iran in Beijing and set the two West Asian powers on the path to normalising their relations, there can be no doubt that China is serious. Xi appears to have a plan, if not a solution, for at least cessation of hostilities if not peace.

Soon after Xis two-day state visit to Moscow last monthduring which he referred to Russian President Vladimir Putin as his dear friend and proposed a general, if not vague, 12-point peace planZelensky invited him to Kyiv for talks. He pointed out that the two had made no contact after the war began in February 2022, although they had been in touch before.

Neither needed to mention that China is Ukraines largest trading partner and has vital economic interests to protect that country. China has also heavily invested in major transport infrastructure projects in Ukraine. These are long-term interests and call for a long-term perspective, which may explain Xis readiness to work towards building strategic ties with Ukraine. And, what better way to do it than as a peace broker at this critical juncture?

Given the growing distrust between Kyiv and Washington and also between the U.S. and its leading allies in Europe, as exposed by the recently leaked Pentagon documents, Zelensky decided to bite the bullet and woo the Chinese president. He had good reasons to, for China proclaimed itself to be firmly on the side of peace, although it had not condemned Russias war in Ukraine. While Xi flaunted his bonds with Putin, he made it known that he was neutral on the Russian military operation in Ukraine.

When Xi said that Kyiv should seize the opportunity and build up favourable conditions for the political settlement, it was, doubtless, a reference to the growing distrust between Ukraine and the U.S.

Substantively, in his talk with Zelensky, Xi reiterated Beijings long-standing position that mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity is the political foundation of China-Ukraine relations. On the Ukraine war, Xi impressed on Zelensky that Chinas core stance is to facilitate talks for peace, as per the 12-point plan set out on February 24. He also made it clear that Beijing would be proactive in pressing for dialogue and negotiation as the only way forward.

Xi proposed that China will make its efforts for an early ceasefire and restoration of peace. Of course, few expect this to happen in the near term. But the fact that China will send a Special Representative on Eurasian Affairs to Ukraine and other countries for in-depth exchanges with all parties on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis is a clear signal of Xis earnestness.

Taller European leaders such as Frances Emmanuel Macron and Germanys Olaf Scholz may be inclined to support the Chinese initiative, given their explicit aversion to being trapped in the bloc-versus-bloc politics of the U.S.

Note: The author is an Editorial Consultant at WION TV and a Senior Editorial Consultant at IDN-INPS. This story first appeared as Spotlight in WION and is being reproduced with the author's permission. [IDN-InDepthNews]

Image (Left-right): Chinese President Xi Jinping (Xinhua) and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine (Wikipedia). Collage by IDN-INPS.

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