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Im Frühling erscheint einem neuen Bericht zufolge das iPhone 5SE. Das stehe für Special Edition oder 5S Enhanced und sei der Name des kommenden 4-Zoll-iPhones. Das Smartphone soll die Ausstattung und die Technik des iPhone 6 und des iPhone 6S verbinden. (Apple, Smartphone) 
Im Frühling erscheint einem neuen Bericht zufolge das iPhone 5SE. Das stehe für Special Edition oder 5S Enhanced und sei der Name des kommenden 4-Zoll-iPhones. Das Smartphone soll die Ausstattung und die Technik des iPhone 6 und des iPhone 6S verbinden. (Apple, Smartphone) 
It’s now common knowledge that users of Netflix in one country can often get access to a better range of movies and TV shows if they use a proxy or VPN. While Netflix is trying to clamp down on the practice, what kind of benefits can be achieved by bypassing the company’s controls? uNoGS has the answers.
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Netflix has just announced its expansion into 130 more countries around the globe but the company’s penetration hasn’t always been so deep. Millions of potential customers outside the United States have had to wait for the service to land on their shores to become a customer – well that was the theory at least.
An open secret for years and common knowledge during the past couple of weeks, it’s possible – and easy – to be a customer of Netflix in one country and gain access to it from another.
Before the service landed on their shores last year this meant that Australians with no official access to the service have been able to view using a VPN. Equally, users with limited local libraries have been able to fool Netflix into thinking they’re American – with all the riches that provides.
Last week Netflix announced that it had begun cracking down on these content-tourists (or VPN pirates as they’re sometimes called) in order to appease rightsholders but for those who can still beat the system, what are they enjoying? The answer to that question and more can be found by visiting the ‘unofficial Netflix online Global Search’ or uNoGS for short.
uNoGS is essentially a searchable database which allows users to see which content is available on Netflix in any given area in the world. For instance, when Netflix unceremoniously curtailed my viewing of Donnie Brasco in the UK earlier this month, a search on uNoGS revealed the movie was still on the service and accessible from 22 other countries.
This means that by using a VPN to switch countries I was able to continue viewing, but uNoGS actually goes a step further by providing details on which VPN, proxy or DNS providers can provide access on a movie-by-movie basis.
For example, selecting TorGuard reveals options in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
Selecting Private Internet Access reveals five usable servers located in Finland, France, Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland. Since the language is also displayed by uNoGS, those seeking English audio are able to rule out the second and fourth options.
Interested by the project, TorrentFreak caught up with uNoGS operator Brian to find out more about his baby.
“uNoGS is very much a one man show juggled as a hobby between work and family life. I initially built the site just for myself because the few sites that were providing a service like this were extremely limited in terms of search functionality,” Brian says.
“I wanted to be able to see what was available in every country, when it was added, when it was supposed to expire and when it actually expired. Once I completed the initial build for myself I decided to share it with everyone and uNoGS went live in early May 2015.”
Brian says the site’s aim is to provide an overview of what’s on in every country served by Netflix globally and to provide users with advanced search functionality to find titles by name as well as a variety of specific parameters. In addition to dates of availability, uNoGS provides details on audio tracks and subtitling. It also offers TV series data plus iMDb and Rotten Tomatoes listings.
Also available are total movie and TV show counts for each country. Found here, the table reveals the United States as the best Netflix region by far, with ‘French Southern Territories’ the most under-served.
In total, uNoGS indexes content available on Netflix in 243 territories and updates the same on a daily basis, but Brian suggests that in an ideal world his service wouldn’t be needed.
“Traditional media outlets like cable, satellite and terrestrial tv are dead but they haven’t fully realized this yet. Most of them are trying to hang on to their lucrative commercial models which they love but consumers hate,” he explains.
“At the moment these different providers have enough money to buy up the rights to a variety of shows making the geo-restrictions necessary. In time, this will change as more and more viewers go to disruptive services which charge a fair monthly fee and allow users to watch titles on their own terms. With the moves that Netflix is currently making, hopefully these changes will come sooner rather than later.”
In the meantime Netflix is in the clutches of copyright holders who it admits trying to appease with its recent VPN clampdown. TorrentFreak began speaking with uNoGS early January before that particular news broke but in our conversations back then, Brian made an accurate prediction.
“In the future with the advent of tools like Smartflix and search engines like uNoGS, I think [region switching] will become more mainstream and eventually upset the content providers enough to push Netflix to take action. I think this will be a shame but most likely inevitable,” he correctly concluded.
“Overall I think the VPN/DNS switchers are a good thing and most likely keep people from obtaining media through less official methods.”
uNoGS can be found here, complete with API access for those interested.
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Diese Woche wurde viel über einen neunten Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem spekuliert. Netflix hatte Gutes und Schlechtes zu vermelden, und Linux hat eine vermeidbare Lücke. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) 
Diese Woche wurde viel über einen neunten Planeten in unserem Sonnensystem spekuliert. Netflix hatte Gutes und Schlechtes zu vermelden, und Linux hat eine vermeidbare Lücke. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) 
Comms software has been widely blamed for enabling denial-of-service attacks.
Microsoft has rolled out a new version of the desktop Skype client that should make users of its service a little safer from denial-of-service attacks. The Skype client has long leaked IP address information, allowing other users on the network to determine which IP address is being used by an account. A number of online services of various degrees of shadiness offer instant IP address lookups, and historically at least, these have worked effectively.
This leakage has been particularly widely abused in gaming communities. Many professional Dota 2 games last year were disrupted by denial-of-service attacks. Players were forcibly disconnected from the game, causing their team to play at a 4-versus-5 disadvantage. Skype, which is often used for coordinating games and in-team communication, was routinely fingered as the culprit since it leaks the IP address information of the players and thus enables these attacks.
The information leakage is likely a relic of Skype's peer-to-peer nature; the IP address of each user had to be disseminated in order to enable direct peer-to-peer connections to those users. But for some time, the client has had an option to hide your IP address from people who aren't on your contact list. In this mode, any traffic between non-contacts goes through Microsoft's servers, and IP addresses aren't readily disclosed. Judicious use of this option protects your address from the various IP address lookup services, thereby protecting against denial of service attacks.
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There’s no shortage of cheap, tiny computers with Intel Atom processors these days. But Chinese device maker Voyo’s latest model is one of the first that I’ve seen to feature an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid state storage, and a USB Type-C port. That makes the Voyo V3 one of […]
Voyo V3 is a mini PC with Atom x7, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage is a post from: Liliputing
There’s no shortage of cheap, tiny computers with Intel Atom processors these days. But Chinese device maker Voyo’s latest model is one of the first that I’ve seen to feature an Intel Atom x7-Z8700 processor, 4GB of RAM, 128GB of solid state storage, and a USB Type-C port. That makes the Voyo V3 one of […]
Voyo V3 is a mini PC with Atom x7, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage is a post from: Liliputing
Cigna, being bought by Anthem, is temporarily barred from new Medicare plans.
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Cigna Corp. announced Friday that it is temporarily banned from enrolling new customers in its Medicare Advantage and standalone prescription-drug plans following an October audit from the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
In a letter dated January 21, the CMS reported that “widespread and systemic failures” at the insurer resulted in customers being denied medical coverage and prescriptions they rightly had access to. After customers filed grievances about being inappropriately denied services, Cigna failed to properly address those complaints, the CMS said.
The problems at Cigna, which the agency noted has a “long-standing history of non-compliance,” created a “serious threat to the health and safety of Medicare beneficiaries.” Those beneficiaries are people over 65 and young people with disabilities.
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“It’s amazing the shit law enforcement leave online, accessible by some Google-fu.”
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In 2015, the FBI seized a Tor-hidden child-porn website known as Playpen and allowed it to run for 13 days so that the FBI could deploy malware in order to identify and prosecute the website’s users. That malware, known in FBI-speak as a "network investigative technique," was authorized by a federal court in Virginia in February 2015.
In a new revelation, Vice Motherboard has now determined that this operation had much wider berth. The FBI’s Playpen operation was effectively transformed into a global one, reaching Turkey, Colombia, and Greece, among others.
Motherboard’s Joseph Cox wrote on Twitter on Friday that he was able to find a document describing this infiltration as something called "Operation Pacifier" by using creative "Google-fu."
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Minero wants to tax every USB hub sold, but it will skip Newegg’s house brand.
Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng mourns the lack of patent trolls willing to challenge him: "I never get invited to parties anymore." (credit: Newegg)
A shell company that sued dozens of computer peripheral makers has quickly dropped Newegg house brand Rosewill from its list of defendants. The motion to dismiss, filed yesterday, comes just days after Newegg's lawyers filed notices of their appearance in the case.
Minero Digital LLC dismissed its case against Rosewill one day after Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng authorized his outside lawyer to try to settle the case in exchange for a "nominal donation to charity." During that conversation (the attorneys' first discussion about the case), Newegg's outside counsel said that although the proposed agreement wouldn't pay Minero anything, it was likely to be Newegg's best and final offer. He suggested Minero search the Internet for news articles about Newegg's policies on settling "patent troll" type cases. (The short version: Newegg doesn't pay patent trolls.)
The next day, Minero dismissed the lawsuit against Rosewill. The dismissal is without prejudice, which means it could be re-filed in the future.
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A variety of activities aim to beef up the encyclopedia’s science content.
We recently published a bit of a rant about many Wikipedia science entries leaving a lot to be desired. In response, we were informed that an effort to improve that situation was already brewing. In fact, we're now happy to point out that the Wiki Education Foundation has declared 2016 the Wikipedia Year of Science.
The Wiki Education Foundation is a nonprofit that helps provide teachers and college-level instructors with the tools they need to get their students engaged in projects intended to improve Wikipedia. For example, the teachers could assign a class to improve entires in a specific topic area and use materials provided by the foundation to help the students edit entries and provide proper references.
This year, thanks to support from the Simons Foundation and Google, the Wiki Education Foundation is targeting entries in the sciences. The effort has already produced new materials for instructors to use, monthly themes (February's is zoology), and a general goal to improve biographical information for female scientists.
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Microsofts neue Version des Messengers Skype verbirgt von Haus aus die IP-Adresse. Das verbessert den Schutz der Privatsphäre und soll Dota-2-Spieler vor DDoS-Attacken in Turnieren bewahren. (
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