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Für den ersten Schuss gar nicht so schlecht: Das erste Plasma ist in der Forschungsanlage Wendelstein 7-X in Greifswald hergestellt worden. Wir waren dabei - auch mit der Videokamera. (Kernfusion, Wissenschaft)

Die Franzosen müssen nicht um ihre offenen WLAN-Hotspots bangen. Auch das Tor-Netzwerk soll nicht blockiert werden, sagt Premierminister Manuel Valls. Tor auf technischer Ebene zu blockieren, wäre ohnehin eine ambitionierte Aufgabe, wie Beispiele zeigen. (TOR-Netzwerk, WLAN)

Aus der Anhörung bei der Bundesnetzagentur zum Exklusivantrag der Telekom sind Informationen bekanntgeworden. Danach soll Vectoring im ländlichen Raum kaum stattfinden. Doch die Telekom widerspricht energisch der Darstellung und legt andere Angaben vor. (Vectoring, DSL)

Der Hacker Morgan Marquis-Boire war bei Google für den Schutz der Netzwerke verantwortlich, enttarnte zahlreiche Überwachungstechnologie-Unternehmen und ist jetzt für die IT-Sicherheit von Glenn Greenwald und die seiner Kollegen zuständig. Ein Porträt. (Malware, Virus)

While entertainment companies and their anti-piracy allies continue to try, removing copyright-infringing content from the Internet is a huge challenge.

Media can indeed be removed from file-hosting and storage sites, but removing content from BitTorrent networks is a daunting prospect that cannot be achieved by attacking one central point. It’s a multi-pronged effort that returns mixed results, at best.

To this end content providers are focusing on making pirated content harder to find. While it may still exist, if users can’t easily locate it then download numbers will drop – they hope. As a result, one of the focus points is the role that search engines play in helping people to discover infringing content and infringing sites.

While slow, progress has been steady in the United States and Europe, with Google now downranking sites in search results based on the number of DMCA notices filed against them. Now it is the turn of Russia to ramp up the pressure on search engines via local telecoms watchdog Roskomnadzor.

This week the agency, best known for its work to have infringing sites blocked at the ISP level, announced it would create a working group to examine, among other things, the regulation of search engine results.

Just like in the US and elsewhere, rightsholders want search engines including market leader Yandex to either demote or entirely remove infringing sites from search results to make pirate content harder to find. Roskomnadzor agrees that things can be done, but note that it won’t be easy.

“I do not think that Yandex is on the side of the pirates,” said Roskomnadzor chief Alexander Zharov.

“Take a look at what will happen when the work begins on the permanent blocking of pirate sites. The position of rights holders is understandable, but this issue will not be solved today,” he said.

In comments to Russian news outlet Izvestia, Zharov said that the regulation of search results will be considered by a working group comprised of rightsholders, search engine representatives, and other online platforms.

In the meantime, however, Yandex suggests that rather than simply looking at how pirate sites could be attacked, perhaps legitimate content providers learn from their example to make legitimate products more visible.

“Maybe we should think about what could be done to promote legal consumption. The guys who tout the illegal content do an excellent job with their task. Maybe we should look on the positive side,” said Marina Yanina, Vice President of Corporate Relations at Yandex.

Perhaps unsurprisingly Yandex also mirrored sentiments previously held by Google. Since rightsholders have tools to remove content at its source, perhaps they should do so. When that is successful, content will not appear in search results.

“Copyright protection on the Internet is needed, and we encourage copyright holders to apply directly to the hosting providers [hosting the content]. If illegal content disappears from those sites, then the links disappear from search results,” Yandex said.

The working group will have other challenges too, including finding a solution to the problem of website block circumvention. According to Roskomnadzor the rise of mobile apps and other resources are enabling people to get around bans, despite aggressive action being taken by the Moscow Court.

Also, it appears that the country’s website blocking mechanism was ill-prepared to tackle so-called mirror sites – domains that spring up offering identical content to sites already blocked at the ISP level. The working group will be tasked to define in legal terms what a mirror site is, with the possibility of adding such operations to court orders when blocks are handed down.

The working group’s findings will be announced in February 2016.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

In einer Reddit-Frage-Session haben sich eine Reihe von Android-Managern den Fragen der Community gestellt. Einiges an Kritik mussten sie für das Pixel C einstecken - und haben nebenbei verraten, dass die nächste Android-Version endlich einen nativen Split-Screen-Modus erhalten soll. (Google, Android)

Der langjährige Chef von EA Sports Peter Moore soll bei Electronic Arts eine neue Sparte für E-Sport aufbauen. In dem Milliardenmarkt möchte der Konzern künftig mit hauseigenen Reihen wie Fifa, Madden und Battlefield mitmischen. (E-Sport, Electronic Arts)

In den vergangenen Wochen und Monaten haben wir elektronisches Spielzeug und Bastelsets für Elektronik- und Programmiereinsteiger ausprobiert. Eine Übersicht für den Wunschzettel zu Weihnachten. (Arduino, Lego)

In seinem juristischen Feldzug gegen Adblocker hat der Axel-Springer-Verlag vor dem Landgericht Stuttgart eine Niederlage erlitten. Im Streit gegen den Youtuber Tobias Richter setzt der Verlag aber auf seinen jüngsten Erfolg in Hamburg. (AdBlocker, Virus)

In Las Vegas will der Elektroautohersteller Faraday Future ein Autowerk aufbauen und rund eine Milliarde US-Dollar investieren. Bis das erste Fahrzeug des Unternehmens, das vom chinesischen Milliardär Yueting Jia finanziert wird, auf den Markt kommt, wird allerdings noch viel Zeit vergehen. (Faraday Future, GreenIT)