April 2016 – Page 7 – news.buyenne.com

Windows 10: Suche erlaubt keine anderen Browser und Suchmaschinen mehr

Alle Cortana-Suchfunktionen in Windows 10 nutzen ab sofort ausschließlich Edge und Bing. Auch das Suchfeld kann nicht mehr länger mit einem anderen Browser oder einer anderen Suchmaschine verknüpft werden. Microsofts Begründung für diesen Schritt ist ungewöhnlich. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

Telefónica: LTE-Netz von E-Plus wird in Testregionen abgeschaltet

In mehreren Testregionen müssen E-Plus-Nutzer LTE im O2-Netz nutzen. Die Versorgung im Frequenzbereich 1.800 MHz wird schrittweise abgeschaltet. (Telefónica, E-Plus)

In mehreren Testregionen müssen E-Plus-Nutzer LTE im O2-Netz nutzen. Die Versorgung im Frequenzbereich 1.800 MHz wird schrittweise abgeschaltet. (Telefónica, E-Plus)

UK Pirate Site Blocking Whack-A-Mole Continues

UK Internet providers have added more than 140 URLs to the national pirate site blocklist. The expansion follows a request from copyright holders who frequently add new proxies for sites that have previously been barred. One of the main targets in the latest round is Unblocked.re, but the operators inform TorrentFreak that they have already switched to a new home.

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

Following a series of High Court orders handed down in recent years, six of the UK’s major ISPs are required to block access to dozens of the world’s most popular ‘pirate’ sites.

Over time the number of blocked URLs has expanded to well over 1,000, with popular torrent, streaming and direct download sites being the main targets.

While research has shown that this approach is somewhat effective, there are plenty of options through which people can circumvent the blockades, including many reverse proxies. Similarly, pirate sites can simply switch to a new domain name to evade the court orders.

To remedy the situation the High Court permits copyright holders to expand the blocklists with new domains, provided that they are alternative ways to reach already blocked websites.

This week more than 140 pirate (sub)domains were added, including several proxies and new domain names that allow access to popular pirate sites including Popcorn Time, RARBG, EZTV, Isohunt, Primewire, TubePlus and Vodly.

TorrentFreak obtained the full list from one of the ISPs which includes mostly reverse proxies. In some cases both the www and the regular URL are listed as not all Internet providers block both by default.

One of the prime targets in this new round is the proxy site unblocked.red. This site was previously operating under the unblocked.li domain name, but switched earlier this year after this was added to the blocklist.

In an attempt to bar access to these new URLs, the Motion Picture Association’s court order now lists 16 new unblocked.red subdomains.

TorrentFreak spoke to the team behind the Unblocked proxy sites, who inform us that they already moved to a new home at Unblocked.tv. This switch took just a few minutes, and the proxy operators believe that the block expansions are much more expensive.

“The cat and mouse game will keep on going on our end, since it’s just a matter of registering a new domain name. However, I believe it is more costly and involves more paperwork on their end to block sites,” the Unblocked team says.

Despite earlier blocks, Unblocked remains very popular in the UK. In that regard the restrictions are not very effective.

“Considering the popularity of Unblocked in the UK, I don’t think their strategy is an effective way to deal with piracy. Our traffic data doesn’t show any major changes after our many domain changes. The same can be seen with our Alexa score in the UK,” the team notes.

Nevertheless, copyright holder will continue with their expansions and blocklist updates.

In addition to various proxy sites, the updated list also includes the IP-address of the private torrent tracker TorrentDay, and several new domains for sites that were previously blocked, including iwannawatch.eu, movie25.ph, popcorn-time.to and torrentcd.net.

And so the whack-a-mole continues, with copyright holders adding new domains to the blocklists, and site owners hopping from domain to domain.

– 149.202.57.94
– 7torrents.one
– ads.livetv.ru
– axxomovies.unblocked.red
– axxomovies.unblockmy.site
– axxomovies.worldproxy.eu
– batmanstream.com
– dl4all.unblockme.eu
– dl4all.unblockmy.site
– eztv.torrentlist.biz
– eztv.torrentlist.org
– eztv.unblocked.red
– eztv.unblockme.al
– eztv.unblockme.eu
– eztv.unblockmy.site
– eztv.worldproxy.eu
– icefilms.unblocked.red
– icefilms.unblockme.al
– icefilms.unblockmy.link
– icefilms.unblockmy.site
– icefilms.worldproxy.eu
– img.isoplex.isohunt.to
– img.livetv.ru
– interface.time-popcorn.info
– isohunt.unblocked.red
– isohunt.unblockme.al
– isohunt.unblockmy.link
– isohunt.unblockmy.site
– isohunt.worldproxy.eu
– iwannawatch.eu
– iwannawatch.net
– iwatchonline.ph
– iwatchonline.se
– iwatchonline.unblocked.red
– iwatchonline.unblockme.al
– iwatchonline.unblockmy.site
– livetvcdn.net
– losmovies.es.prx2.unblocksit.es
– m.livetv.ru
– movie25.ph
– movie25.ph.prx.proxyunblocker.org
– movie25.ph.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk
– movie25.ph.prx.torrentunblock.com
– movie25.ph.prx2.unblocksit.es
– movie25.unblocked.red
– movie25.unblockme.al
– movie25.unblockmy.site
– movie4k.to.prx2.unblocksit.es
– movie4k.unblocked.red
– movie4k.unblockme.al
– movie4k.unblockmy.link
– movie4k.unblockmy.site
– movie4k.worldproxy.eu
– openbay.isohunt.to
– popcorn-time.to
– popcorn-time.to.prx.torrentunblock.com
– popcorn-time.to.prx2.unblocksit.es
– popcorn-time.xyz
– primewire.unblocked.red
– primewire.unblockme.al
– primewire.unblockme.in
– primewire.worldproxy.eu
– rarbg.com.torrentprox.com
– rarbg.torrentlist.org
– rarbg.unblocked.red
– rarbg.unblockme.al
– rarbg.unblockme.eu
– rarbg.unblockmy.site
– s-s.isohunt.to.prx.torrentunblock.com
– s-s.yts.ag.prx.proxyunblocker.org
– s-s.yts.ag.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk
– saint-hosting.nl
– scenesource.unblockme.al
– scenesource.unblockme.eu
– scenesource.unblockmy.link
– scenesource.unblockmy.site
– scenesource.worldproxy.eu
– seventorrents.unblocked.red
– solarmovie.hs.vc
– solarmovie.torrentlist.org
– solarmovie.unblocked.red
– solarmovie.worldproxy.eu
– torrentbutler.eu.wwwunblocker.com
– torrentbutler.unblocked.red
– torrentbutler.unblockme.al
– torrentbutler.unblockme.eu
– torrentbutler.unblockmy.link
– torrentbutler.unblockmy.site
– torrentbutler.worldproxy.eu
– torrentcd.net
– torrentcd.net.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk
– torrentcd.net.prx.torrentunblock.com
– torrentcd.net.prx2.unblocksit.es
– torrentcd.pro
– torrentz-pro.com
– torrentz-pro.net
– torrentz-pro.net.prx.proxywebsite.co.uk
– torrentz-pro.net.prx.torrentunblock.com
– torrentz-pro.net.prx2.unblocksit.es
– tubeplus.com
– tubeplus.unblocked.red
– tubeplus.unblockme.al
– tubeplus.unblockmy.site
– tubeplus.worldproxy.eu
– ua.torrentz.sx
– ua.torrentz.to
– vodly.unblockme.al
– vodly.unblockme.eu
– vodly.unblockmy.link
– vodly.unblockmy.site
– vodly.worldproxy.eu
– watchfreemovies.unblocked.red
– watchfreemovies.unblockme.al
– watchfreemovies.unblockmy.site
– watchfreemovies.worldproxy.eu
– watchseries.unblocked.red
– watchtvseries.unblocked.red
– watchtvseries.unblockme.al
– watchtvseries.unblockme.eu
– watchtvseries.unblockmy.link
– watchtvseries.unblockmy.site
– www.batmanstream.com
– www.img.livetv.ru
– www.iwannawatch.eu
– www.iwannawatch.net
– www.iwatchonline.ph
– www.iwatchonline.se
– www.movie25.ph
– www.popcorn-time.to
– www.popcorn-time.xyz
– www.saint-hosting.nl
– www.torrentcd.net
– www.torrentcd.pro
– www.torrentz-pro.com
– www.torrentz-pro.net
– www.tubeplus.com
– www3.livetv.ru
– www5.livetv.ru
– www8.livetv.ru
– ximg.livetv.ru
– yify.unblockme.eu
– yify.worldproxy.eu
– yourbittorrent.unblockme.eu
– yts.torrentlist.org

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

Free Motion Handling: Festos Ballondrohne verschluckt Gegenstände

Ein Mittelding aus Ballon und Drohne, ausgestattet mit einem Rüssel, der Objekte aufsaugt: Free Motion Handling ist ein Demonstrator, an dem Festo eine Reihe seiner bionischen Entwicklungen präsentiert. (Festo, Technologie)

Ratchet and Clank film review: Straight to video game

Competent, family-friendly film misses mark on character development, action scenes.

Gramercy Pictures

Wait, who's steering this spaceship?

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While video games have been mined as fodder for films many, many times over the past few decades, only a few widely distributed films have gone the all-CGI route. Perhaps that's because 2001's Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within left such a bad taste in filmgoers' mouths, but visually, things have changed in 15 years—both for all-CGI films and for video games.

Current game systems are pumping out film-caliber visuals these days, a fact that the team behind Ratchet and Clank surely must have considered before developing the first feature-length film under the PlayStation Originals brand. You may have expected that effort to lead with a more popular Sony series, like a film about God of War or Uncharted, but Ratchet and Clank does have an edge on those: a bubbly, cartoony style that better suits full-length CGI treatment, as opposed to taking a possible dive down the uncanny valley with those other games' human characters. In good news, Gramercy Pictures avoids such pitfalls with a movie that looks like its game (and there's an affiliated game that looks like the movie).

As with any gaming-related film, however, I went into the film's preview screening wondering who exactly Ratchet and Clank is targeted at. Gamers? Families? CGI junkies? After the 94-minute runtime, however, I still didn't have an answer.

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Toymaker’s website pushes ransomware that holds visitors’ files hostage

Out-of-date Web app on Maisto.com causes site to attack its visitors.

Enlarge (credit: Malwarebytes)

The website belonging to Maisto International, a popular maker of remote-controlled toy vehicles, has been caught pushing ransomware that holds visitors' files hostage until they pay a hefty fee.

Malicious files provided by the Angler exploit kit were hosted directly on the homepage of Maisto[.]com, according to antivirus provider Malwarebytes. The attack code exploits vulnerabilities in older versions of applications such as Adobe Flash, Oracle Java, Silverlight, and Internet Explorer. People who visit Maisto[.]com with machines that haven't received the latest updates are surreptitiously infected with the CryptXXX ransomware. Fortunately for victims in this case, researchers from Kaspersky Lab recently uncovered a weakness in the app that allows users to recover their files without paying the extortion demand. People infected with ransomware in other drive-by attacks haven't been so lucky.

According to Malwarebytes Senior Security Researcher Jerome Segura, the infection on the Maisto homepage was discovered by fellow researchers at website security firm Sucuri. One of the company's tools has detected the site was running an out-of-date version of the Joomla content management system, which is presumed to be the way attackers were able to load the malicious payloads on the homepage.

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Cortana Web searches in Windows 10 will now only be able to open Edge and Bing

Cortana’s growing power means she can’t use third-party search and browsers.

Cortana at work in Windows 10. (credit: Microsoft)

Windows 10 will still let you pick a default browser that isn't Edge, and even if you use Edge or Internet Explorer, it will continue to let you pick a default search engine other than Bing. But in a change which goes into effect today, Web searches that use the Cortana-driven search box in the Windows 10 taskbar will no longer give you any choice: they will always open in Bing, and they will always use Edge to do so.

Microsoft explains that it is making this change because of the smarter capabilities that it has built in to its Cortana digital personal assistant, and the integration this requires of the browser and search engine. For example, the company says that a search for "Pizza Hut" in Cortana will, when opened up in Edge, show locations and directions and rich information. Plans are afoot to make this feature more capable and extensive; eventually you will be able to ask Cortana to "get tickets to Rihanna show," and Windows will find appropriate tickets and streamline a customer's purchase.

This integration requires a common understanding of entities and semantic information about what is being searched for, and how to present this data. Microsoft can offer that in its own platform, but has no consistent, reliable way to do this with other browsers or search engines.

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Senators play terror card to lobby public for backdoor crypto legislation

Quest for the decryption “Golden Key” resumes. Trust us, we’ll get a court order.

(credit: Christiaan Colen)

The two US lawmakers behind legislation requiring the tech sector to build backdoors in encrypted products are playing the terrorism card. In an editorial Thursday in the Wall Street Journal, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) stoke fears that our personal safety is tied to their proposed legislation.

The pair cite what they called an "islamic State-inspired attack last year in Garland, Texas" and the non terror-related murder of a Louisiana pregnant woman named Brittney Mills.

"These are two of the many cases where law enforcement is unable to fully investigate terrorism or criminal activities. In fact, today the FBI is unable to gain access to data on many of the mobile devices they obtain that are password protected," the lawmakers write.

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IDC: Detachable tablet shipments are up, but overall tablet shipments are down

Research firm IDC says tablet makers shipped about 39.6 million units in the first quarter of 2016… which sounds like a lot of tablets until you realize that the number for the same period in 2015 was 46.4 million.

In other words, overall tablet shipments are down by nearly 15 percent.

But as expected, IDC did see growth in one area: 2-in-1 tablets, also sometimes called detachables.

Of course, not everyone agrees on the exact definitions of tablets, detachables, and other relevant terms.

Continue reading IDC: Detachable tablet shipments are up, but overall tablet shipments are down at Liliputing.

In other words, overall tablet shipments are down by nearly 15 percent.

But as expected, IDC did see growth in one area: 2-in-1 tablets, also sometimes called detachables.

Of course, not everyone agrees on the exact definitions of tablets, detachables, and other relevant terms.

Continue reading IDC: Detachable tablet shipments are up, but overall tablet shipments are down at Liliputing.

Google Fiber hits its fifth city, with a limited deployment in Nashville

AT&T and Comcast boosted fiber deployments in advance of Google arrival.

(credit: Google Fiber)

Google Fiber is available in Nashville, Tennessee, its fifth metro area, but for now is only installed in four apartment and condominium buildings, The Tennessean reported yesterday.

"The milestone comes 15 months after Google Fiber announced Nashville as a new market," the paper said. "In the meantime, existing providers AT&T and Comcast have upped their own fiber rollout in Middle Tennessee and have begun offering the ultra-fast connection to area homes and apartments."

A Google Fiber official said it intends to "connect the lion's share of Nashville," including single-family homes, multi-dwelling units, and small businesses, but it's not clear when that will happen. A list of the four buildings where Google Fiber is already installed can be found here, along with a list of many more buildings where "fiber is coming." The four Nashville buildings where Fiber is installed have a little more than 1,110 housing units combined.

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