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Twitter folgt bei der Sortierung der Timeline wohl dem großen Konkurrenten Facebook: Bereits in den kommenden Tagen soll die Timeline nicht mehr grundsätzlich chronologisch sortiert werden – sondern zumindest auf Wunsch auch so, wie Algorithmen es richtig finden. (Twitter, Soziales Netz) 
Twitter folgt bei der Sortierung der Timeline wohl dem großen Konkurrenten Facebook: Bereits in den kommenden Tagen soll die Timeline nicht mehr grundsätzlich chronologisch sortiert werden - sondern zumindest auf Wunsch auch so, wie Algorithmen es richtig finden. (Twitter, Soziales Netz) 
Freies Surfen für Hunderte Fahrgäste, auch bei Tempo 250 und im Tunnel: Das hat sich die Bahn vorgenommen – aber es dauert wohl auf einigen Strecken noch länger als erwartet. Unbegrenzt Daten herunterladen werden die Passagiere auch nicht können. (Deutsche Bahn, WLAN) 
Freies Surfen für Hunderte Fahrgäste, auch bei Tempo 250 und im Tunnel: Das hat sich die Bahn vorgenommen - aber es dauert wohl auf einigen Strecken noch länger als erwartet. Unbegrenzt Daten herunterladen werden die Passagiere auch nicht können. (Deutsche Bahn, WLAN) 
The China-based cracking group that recently bemoaned Denuvo’s anti-piracy system as all but unbreakable has delivered a second surprise announcement. 3DM says it will stop working on single-player games cracks for at least a year so it can assess whether genuine sales will be affected.
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One of the hottest topics in the game piracy scene in late 2015 surrounded the Avalanche Studios/Square Enix title Just Cause 3.
Released on December 1, 2015, pirates were eager to get their hands on the game for free. However, JC3 is protected by the latest iteration of Denuvo, an anti-tamper technology developed by Denuvo Software Solutions GmbH. Denuvo is not DRM per se, but acts as a secondary encryption system protecting underlying DRM products.
All eyes had been on notorious Chinese game cracking group/forum 3DM to come up with the goods but last month the group delivered a killer blow to its fans.
According to the leader of the group, the very public ‘Bird Sister’ (also known as Phoenix), the game was proving extremely difficult to crack. In fact, Bird Sister said that current anti-piracy technology is becoming so good that in two years there might not be pirated games anymore.
One month on from those words and Just Cause 3 still hasn’t been cracked and today brings even more bad news for those hoping to obtain the best gaming titles for free. Taking to her personal blog once more, Bird Sister has just announced an immediate end to the cracking activities of 3DM.
“We just had an internal meeting. Starting at the Chinese New Year, 3DM will not crack any single-player games,” Bird Sister says.
For those wondering, the Chinese New Year is next Monday, February 8.
“Cracks by overseas warez groups will still get posted on the [3DM] forum, and we will actively deal with these,” the group’s leader adds.
It is not entirely clear what “actively deal with” means, but the suggestion is that these cracks will not be allowed on the 3DM BBS/forum.
What is perhaps most interesting, however, is the group’s apparent reasoning for ceasing their cracking activities. Denuvo was previously cited as a headache for the group but this time around that technology isn’t mentioned.
Instead, 3DM essentially indicates they’re taking part in an experiment to see how the lack of cracks affects the legitimate market.
“We’ll take a look at the situation in a year’s time to see if genuine sales have grown,” Bird Sister says.
There can be little doubt that the effective withdrawal of 3DM from the piracy market will be received as a huge blow to the group’s fans internationally who have come to rely on it for their pirate fix. There is a modicum of good news for the Chinese though, since 3DM will still work on translating and localizing games for its internal market.
The announcement comes on the heels of yesterday’s earnings report from Square Enix, the company behind Just Cause 3 and fellow Denuvo-protected (and also yet to be cracked) title Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Square Enix of America and Europe CEO Phil Rogers said both games had enjoyed “solid starts” but stopped short of revealing sales stats.
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… und Safe Harbor heißt künftig EU-US-Privacy-Shield. Außerdem hat sich die Community über die Youtuber Fine Bros. aufgeregt. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) 
... und Safe Harbor heißt künftig EU-US-Privacy-Shield. Außerdem hat sich die Community über die Youtuber Fine Bros. aufgeregt. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) 
Verizon Wireless tests limit of net neutrality rules by zero-rating own data.
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam. (credit: Fortune Live Media)
Verizon Wireless is testing the limits of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules after announcing that it will exempt its own video service from mobile data caps—while counting data from competitors such as YouTube and Netflix against customers' caps.
The only way for companies to deliver data to Verizon customers without counting against their data caps is to pay the carrier, something no major rival video service has chosen to do. While data cap exemptions are not specifically outlawed by the FCC's net neutrality rules, the FCC is examining these arrangements to determine whether they should be stopped under the commission's so-called "general conduct standard." The FCC is already looking into data cap exemptions—also known as zero-rating—implemented by Comcast, AT&T, and T-Mobile USA.
Verizon last month announced its new "FreeBee Data 360" program in which content providers can pay to send zero-rated data to customers. Verizon has also been pushing its new "Go90" streaming video service, and yesterday it added a perk to Go90's mobile app: free data.
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After nearly two decades of planning, James Webb nears completion.
This week the James Webb Space Telescope team used a robotic am to install the last of the telescope's 18 mirrors onto the telescope structure. (credit: NASA)
After years of delays and cost overruns, the James Webb Space Telescope is finally coming together. This week the 18th and final primary mirror segment of the telescope was installed onto the support structure at Goddard Space Flight Center. From here, additional optics must be installed, and the telescope requires testing to ensure it can withstand the forces of a rocket launch anticipated in late 2018.
Each of the hexagon-shaped mirrors weighs 40 kg and spans 1.3 meters. After launch, the telescope will be flown to the second Lagrange point of the Earth-Sun system, about 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. From there, it will begin observations. When deployed in space, the telescope will have a 6.5-meter diameter.
"Completing the assembly of the primary mirror is a very significant milestone and the culmination of over a decade of design, manufacturing, testing, and now assembly of the primary mirror system," said Lee Feinberg, optical telescope element manager at Goddard. "There is a huge team across the country who contributed to this achievement."
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Fast-food salads or not, eating out is bad for your health according to new studies.
(credit: Tim Deering/Flickr)
In an effort to offer healthier menu items, McDonald’s has unveiled a new salad with a “nutrient-rich lettuce blend with baby kale,” shaved parmesan, and chicken (grilled or fried). Like many fast-food salads, it may seem like a healthy option at first, but it’s not. The salad, when paired with the restaurant’s Asiago Caesar Dressing, packs more fat, calories, and salt than a double Big Mac—that’s a sandwich with four beef patties.
(credit: McDonald's)
While the nutrition check on a McDonald’s item may not come as a shock, the unhealthy salad option falls into a bigger trend of restaurant meals—fast food or not, eating out is hard on your waistline and health.
(credit: McDonald's)
In one recent study, researchers found that 92 percent of large-chain, local-chain, and mom-and-pop restaurants served meals that exceeded the calorie intake for a healthy meal. The study included 364 meals from restaurants in three cities: Boston, San Francisco, and Little Rock, Arkansas. The meals covered American, Chinese, Greek, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Thai, and Vietnamese-style cuisine.
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Thanks to the brand new Torrents-Time browser plug-in The Pirate Bay has just transformed itself into the world’s largest streaming video portal. The notorious torrent site now embeds ‘Stream It!” links next to all video torrents enabling them to be played in a window without users ever having to leave the site.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Earlier this week a new piece of software debuted alongside promises to revolutionize how people use torrents.
Covered in our earlier article, Torrents-Time is a browser plug-in for Windows and Mac that allows people to view torrents embedded in a webpage and without need for an external torrent client.
The Torrents-Time team promised that their technology could transform any website into a simple to use streaming portal. Indeed, the first public application was Popcorntime-Online.io, a browser-based edition of Popcorn Time that for the first time used peer-to-peer transfers rather than resource hungry HTTP.
But just days later and a new and even more powerful partner has emerged.
Last evening The Pirate Bay became the first general torrent index to utilize Torrents-Time technology. The site has now placed Torrents-Time links next to all of its video torrents, meaning that users with the plug-in can watch videos on The Pirate Bay without using a stand-alone torrent client or even leaving the page.
As illustrated in the image above the Torrents-Time links are labeled ‘Stream It! (BETA)’. Once clicked the user is given the chance (if he hasn’t done so already) to install the software. From there a popup window appears containing a video player. Clicking the ‘play’ button delivers an advert to buy a VPN which warns that IP addresses are exposed.
At this point users have the option to subscribe to a VPN for a period ranging from a day to a year or, if they prefer, they can click the ‘close’ button in the right hand corner of the advert to skip. At this point the software uses trackers, DHT and PEX in order to find other peers with the required content.
Once a number of peers have been found and enough content has been buffered, playback can begin. The player is a basic but functional affair, with the addition of subtitling and casting features for those with Chromecast, Airplay and DNLA devices to hand.
With The Pirate Bay jumping on board, Torrents-Time has received a huge shot in the arm and will probably enjoy some decent revenues too. For its part, TPB has transformed from the world’s second largest torrent site (KAT has that crown for now) into the world’s largest streaming portal.
The question now is when and if other torrent sites will find the Torrents-Time package attractive enough to jump on board.
Update: Torrentproject.se, Videomax.is and Online.porntime.ws will soon feature Torrents-Time functionality. And according to the team, KickassTorrents will also join the club this Sunday or Monday.
“We are certain that in no time we’ll be embedded in all torrent sites who care to move-on with this evolution,” the Torrents-Time team informs TF.
“We will allow everybody to watch any movie they wish from torrent sites who embed us, when they want, without having to store someone’s file on their hard disk. It’s ‘watching together’ or ‘Co-Watch’ technology, made possible by Torrents Time.”
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Eine ältere Fehlermeldung von Apple sorgt für neue Diskussionen: Ab iOS 9 sorgen unautorisierte Komponenten - etwa für den Touch-ID-Fingerabdrucksensor - in einem iPhone für die Fehlermeldung "Error 53". Der Hersteller verteidigt dieses Vorgehen. (
Die Firma Escape Dynamics wollte einen mikrowellenbetriebenen Raumgleiter bauen, der kleine Nutzlasten kostengünstig in den Orbit bringen sollte. Nun ist die Firma pleite. (
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