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Microsoft hat ein neues Insider Build von Windows 10 veröffentlicht. Es bietet einige neue Funktionen und eine Reihe von Fehlerkorrekturen. Allerdings sind zwei besonders lästige Fehler weiterhin vorhanden. (Windows 10, Microsoft) 
Microsoft hat ein neues Insider Build von Windows 10 veröffentlicht. Es bietet einige neue Funktionen und eine Reihe von Fehlerkorrekturen. Allerdings sind zwei besonders lästige Fehler weiterhin vorhanden. (Windows 10, Microsoft) 
The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent are in again. ‘Kung Fu Panda 3′ tops the chart this week, followed by ‘Deadpool’ ‘The Hateful Eight’ completes the top three.
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This week we have two newcomers in our chart.
Kung Fu Panda 3 is the most downloaded movie.
The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise.
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| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | IMDb Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (2) | Kung Fu Panda 3 (Webrip) | 8.0 / trailer |
| 2 | (1) | Deadpool (HDTS) | 8.6 / trailer |
| 3 | (…) | The Hateful Eight | 8.0 / trailer |
| 4 | (4) | The Big Short | 8.1 / trailer |
| 5 | (9) | The Revenant (DVDscr) | 8.2 / trailer |
| 6 | (3) | Victor Frankenstein | 6.1 / trailer |
| 7 | (…) | Gods of Egypt (HDTS) | 5.7 / trailer |
| 8 | (6) | Spectre | 7.9 / trailer |
| 9 | (5) | Creed | 8.0 / trailer |
| 10 | (7) | Ride Along 2 | 5.8 / trailer |
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Ein unbekannter Hobbypilot soll in den Niederlanden eine DJI Phantom 2 auf eine Höhe von 3,4 km geflogen haben. Der Drohnenflug hat eine Kontroverse in der Szene ausgelöst. (Drohne, Technologie) 
Ein unbekannter Hobbypilot soll in den Niederlanden eine DJI Phantom 2 auf eine Höhe von 3,4 km geflogen haben. Der Drohnenflug hat eine Kontroverse in der Szene ausgelöst. (Drohne, Technologie) 
Der Skywall 100 vom britischen Startup Openworks Engineering soll kleine Drohnen vom Himmel holen. Das System sieht wie ein schultergestütztes Boden-Luft-Flugabwehrraketensystem aus, verschießt jedoch ein Netz. (Drohne, Technologie) 
Der Skywall 100 vom britischen Startup Openworks Engineering soll kleine Drohnen vom Himmel holen. Das System sieht wie ein schultergestütztes Boden-Luft-Flugabwehrraketensystem aus, verschießt jedoch ein Netz. (Drohne, Technologie) 
Three researchers attempt to bring some rigor to the math of melody.
(credit: Claire Thompson via Flickr)
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science wrapped up last week in Washington, DC. One particularly enjoyable and informative highlight was a session on Mathematics and Music, which presented some work in progress by three prominent researchers in this area.
Noam Elkies of Harvard University presented the first talk, titled “The Entropy of Music: How Many Possible Pieces of Music Are There?” He illustrated his points with virtuosic turns on a keyboard. His basic idea was to apply concepts similar to those used in statistical mechanics and information theory to approach the question posed in his title. Elkies addressed how much a piece of music needs to change before it is a different piece, rather than a variation on the original. He also talked about how much information remains when the redundancy of repeated themes in a piece is accounted for.
Elkies did not address the problem of musical semantics in enough depth to make a compelling case that his statistical approach could generate real insight. But his lecture ended with an impressive performance, from memory, of a piece made from a baroque-style repeating arpeggiation where the root of the chord changed from measure to measure based not on a conventional harmonic progression, but on the digits of π. The result was an intriguingly disorienting congress of order with randomness, evoking something like an inebriated Buxtehude.
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Transmission, one of the most used non-commercial BitTorrent clients, has the dubious honor of becoming the first OSX application to be infected by ransomware. Users who install the malicious application risk having their computers encrypted, with attackers demanding a Bitcoin payment to decrypt it.
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With millions of active users, Transmission is one of the most used BitTorrent clients around, particularly for Mac users.
The application has been around for more than a decade and has a great reputation. However, this weekend several users started to report malware problems in the Transmission forums.
The malware in question was identified as “OSX.KeRanger.A” and several users reported that it’s linked to Transmission 2.90.
Today, their suspicions were confirmed by researchers from Palo Alto Networks who published a warning and an overview of the technical details on their website.
“Attackers infected two installers of Transmission version 2.90 with KeRanger on the morning of March 4. When we identified the issue, the infected DMG files were still available for downloading from the Transmission site,” they write.
KeRanger is so-called ransomware which effectively encrypts the victim’s computer. The attackers then promise to decrypt it if a ransom is paid, amounting to one Bitcoin in this case.
“The malware then begins encrypting certain types of document and data files on the system. After completing the encryption process, KeRanger demands that victims pay one bitcoin (about $400) to a specific address to retrieve their files,” the researchers explain.
“Additionally, KeRanger appears to still be under active development and it seems the malware is also attempting to encrypt Time Machine backup files to prevent victims from recovering their back-up data.”
Apple was also informed about the issue and has since revoked the abused certificate and updated its XProtect antivirus signature.
As Ars Technica points out, the “KeRanger” ransomware is notable as it’s the first Mac-targeted ransomware that’s been reported in the wild.
The Transmission team, meanwhile, has added a warning message to their site, alerting users to upgrade their clients right away.
“Everyone running 2.90 on OS X should immediately upgrade to 2.92, as they may have downloaded a malware-infected file. This new version will make sure that the ‘OSX.KeRanger.A’ ransomware is correctly removed from you computer,” the warning reads.
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Rogue copy of BitTorrent client results in KeRanger install, which demands 1 bitcoin.
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A security research firm announced Sunday its discovery of what is believed to be the world’s first ransomware that specifically goes after OS X machines.
"This is the first one in the wild that is definitely functional, encrypts your files and seeks a ransom,” Ryan Olson, of Palo Alto Networks, told Reuters.
The KeRanger malware, which imposes a 72-hour lockout window unless the victim pays 1 bitcoin ($410 as of this writing), appears to have been first discovered via a rogue version of Transmission, a popular BitTorrent client.
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Die Ransomware Keranger hat am Wochenende die Rechner von Mac-Nutzern befallen. Die Malware verschlüsselt die Dateien der Nutzer und umgeht Apples Gatekeeper-Schutz. Verteilt wurde der Schadcode über ein beliebtes Filesharing-Programm. (
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Wer Installationspakete der aktuellen oder älterer OS-X-Versionen aus dem Mac App Store installieren will, die vor dem 14. Februar 2016 erstellt oder heruntergeladen wurden, erhält eine Fehlermeldung des Installers mit dem Hinweis, dass die Daten manipuliert sein könnten. (
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