Kein weihnachtliches Leuchten an verschiedenen Cisco-Routern für den WAN-Traffic. Der US-Netzwerkausrüster hat zwei LEDs und zwei Widerstände auf der Materialliste vergessen. (Router, DSL) 
The Climb: Virtuelles Klettern mit Crytek
Ungesichert in die Steilwand: Exklusiv für Oculus Rift arbeitet Crytek an der Klettersimulation The Climb. Golem.de konnte in einer frühen Version probekraxeln. (
On the road in the Flux Capacitor, Europe’s fastest street-legal EV
The souped-up electric car from the ’70s will blow the doors off a Tesla Model S.
Jonny Smith is a British car journalist (you may know him best from Fifth Gear) with an interesting perspective on all things automotive. His current project—called the Flux Capacitor—is no exception. The idea is simple: take one 1970s electric vehicle—the kind that (fairly or not) gave electric cars a bad name—and replace the running gear and batteries with something much more up-to-date, making Europe's fastest street-legal EV in the process. We've been eagerly following Smith's project for a while now, and while visiting the UK last month finally we got the opportunity to take a closer look and go for a ride.
Is it surprising that we love the Flux Capacitor here at Ars? After all, overclocking older hardware and the color orange are two things intimately associated with this site. The Flux Capacitor started life as an Enfield 8000, an EV commissioned by a Greek tycoon following the oil shock of 1973. It was designed by John Ackroyd—also responsible for the Thrust 2 land speed record car—and featured an aluminum body, eight 12v batteries, and a direct drive 8hp (6kW) electric motor. It had a top speed of 40mph (64km/h), hit 30mph (48km/h) in 12.5 seconds, and had a range of between 35 and 55 miles (56-89km).
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Ashley Madison: Nutzer des Seitensprungportals werden mit Briefen erpresst
Offenbar sind Erpresser in den USA jetzt dazu übergegangen, ehemalige Ashley-Madison-Nutzer per Post zu erpressen – und nicht mehr nur per Mail. Das könnte jedoch zum Problem für die Kriminellen werden. (Sicherheitslücke, Server) 
Offenbar sind Erpresser in den USA jetzt dazu übergegangen, ehemalige Ashley-Madison-Nutzer per Post zu erpressen - und nicht mehr nur per Mail. Das könnte jedoch zum Problem für die Kriminellen werden. (Sicherheitslücke, Server) 
Seven Pirate Bay Domains Have Been Suspended
Following issues last week, more domains linked to The Pirate Bay have also been suspended. The problems, which are related to ICANN’s verification system, affect at least seven domains including ThePirateBay.com. The website of anti-censorship tool Pirate Browser is also affected.
Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Taken for granted by hundreds of millions of Internet users on a daily basis, domain names are part of the crucial glue holding the Internet together.
Websites can exist without domains but finding sites using IP addresses alone represents a huge step back for most humans who find words more convenient than long sequences of numbers.
Last week The Pirate Bay had a serious issue with one of its key domains, when the original ThePirateBay.org was suspended by its registrar EuroDNS due to an ICANN verification complaint.
That problem was fixed several days later with a switch to a new registrar but the site has issues affecting a much broader range of domains.
First up and illustrated below, ThePirateBay.com is now under suspension following action by EuroDNS. Once again the problems appear to stem back to verification issues with domain governing body ICANN.
Since January 1, 2014, ICANN has required that the contact details provided to register a domain are verified annually. If this doesn’t happen, problems like those now facing The Pirate Bay can occur.
As a result, similar suspension pages are now also displayed on several other Pirate Bay related domains including ThePirateBay.net, PirateBay.net and PirateBay.org. While none of these domains are currently being utilized as main domains for the site, all were being held as backups in case of an emergency.
Also affected today are domains related to Pirate Browser, the TOR-based anti-censorship tool released by The Pirate Bay during August 2013.
Less than a year after its release the tool had been downloaded more than five million times but earlier today its three main domains – piratebrowser.com, piratebrowser.net and piratebrowser.org – were all reporting suspensions.
It’s somewhat ironic that one of the most popular website/domain unblocking tools has itself become blocked due to a domain issue. However, for those keen to download PirateBrowser the site still exists at its less-memorable IP address of 151.80.2.54.
All seven domains identified by TorrentFreak as being under suspension are registered to the same person, Pirate Bay co-founder Fredrik Neij. He is also the official registrant of dozens of other Pirate Bay-related domains but the others are not registered with EuroDNS and don’t appear to be affected by the current issues.
Since last week’s problems with ThePirateBay.org were solved by transferring the domain to Canada-based EasyDNS, it’s likely that a similar process will bring the currently suspended domains back to life in the not too distant future.
In the meantime The Pirate Bay sails on, almost as if nothing had happened.
Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Digitalisierung: Kaum ein Beruf komplett durch Computer ersetzbar
Durch Digitalisierung werden keine ganzen Berufsgruppen verschwinden. Doch bei fast der Hälfte der Beschäftigten könnten Computer immerhin einen erheblichen Teil des Jobs übernehmen. (
Klang Games: Von Eve Online nach Berlin
Die aus Island stammenden Entwickler von Klang Games haben früher an Eve Online gearbeitet, jetzt machen sie ihr eigenes Ding: das kunterbunte Hardcore-MMO-Jump-and-run Rerunners – das Elemente aus Eve aufgreift. Golem.de hat mit den Machern gesprochen. (Games, Eve Online) 
Die aus Island stammenden Entwickler von Klang Games haben früher an Eve Online gearbeitet, jetzt machen sie ihr eigenes Ding: das kunterbunte Hardcore-MMO-Jump-and-run Rerunners - das Elemente aus Eve aufgreift. Golem.de hat mit den Machern gesprochen. (Games, Eve Online) 
Raumfahrt: Nasa sucht Mars-Entdecker
Jetzt online bewerben: Die Nasa sucht Menschen aus allen Lebensbereichen, die zum Nachbarplaneten fliegen wollen. Die Anforderungen sind allerdings nicht ganz ohne. (Nasa, Raumfahrt)
Jetzt online bewerben: Die Nasa sucht Menschen aus allen Lebensbereichen, die zum Nachbarplaneten fliegen wollen. Die Anforderungen sind allerdings nicht ganz ohne. (
Remote-Code-Execution: Joomla-Update stopft kritische Sicherheitslücke
Das freie CMS Joomla bekommt ein eiliges Sicherheitsupdate. Alle Versionen der Software sind betroffen. Die Lücke ermöglicht die Ausführung von Code über einen gefälschen User-Agenten. Die Lücke wird bereits aktiv ausgenutzt. (Joomla, Sicherheitslücke) 
Das freie CMS Joomla bekommt ein eiliges Sicherheitsupdate. Alle Versionen der Software sind betroffen. Die Lücke ermöglicht die Ausführung von Code über einen gefälschen User-Agenten. Die Lücke wird bereits aktiv ausgenutzt. (Joomla, Sicherheitslücke) 
Rechtzeitig zum Weihnachtsgeschäft führt die US-Luftfahrtbehörde FAA eine Registrierungspflicht für Multicopter ein: Wer künftig in den USA eine Drohne fliegen will, muss diese künftig mit einer personenbezogenen Nummer kennzeichnen. (
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