Month: August 2016

Next major Windows 10 update coming in 2017

Next major Windows 10 update coming in 2017

Now that Microsoft has released Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the company is starting to hint at what’s coming next: not much… until 2017.

While Microsoft will continue to release regular updates to Windows 10, for the rest of the year most of those updates will focus on bug fixes, security updates, and other enhancements. You’ll have to wait until next year for major new features.

Microsoft says the Anniversary Update is the “last feature update for 2016,” but that two new feature updates are coming in 2017.

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Next major Windows 10 update coming in 2017

Now that Microsoft has released Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the company is starting to hint at what’s coming next: not much… until 2017.

While Microsoft will continue to release regular updates to Windows 10, for the rest of the year most of those updates will focus on bug fixes, security updates, and other enhancements. You’ll have to wait until next year for major new features.

Microsoft says the Anniversary Update is the “last feature update for 2016,” but that two new feature updates are coming in 2017.

Continue reading Next major Windows 10 update coming in 2017 at Liliputing.

Open Source Support: Mozilla finanziert schnellen Python-Interpreter PyPy

Als Teil seines Open-Source-Unterstützungsprogramms finanziert Mozilla den schnellen Python-Interpreter PyPy mit 200.000 US-Dollar. Mozilla nutzt Pypy für seine eigene Infrastruktur. (Mozilla, Python)

Als Teil seines Open-Source-Unterstützungsprogramms finanziert Mozilla den schnellen Python-Interpreter PyPy mit 200.000 US-Dollar. Mozilla nutzt Pypy für seine eigene Infrastruktur. (Mozilla, Python)

No major US hurricanes in 11 years. Odds of that? 1-in-2,300.

Earl is dead, now, as yet another hurricane has avoided the United States.

Hurricane Earl on Wednesday, shortly before it made landfall in Belize. (credit: NOAA)

On Thursday some meteorologists (who are by nature a cheesy lot) had an opportunity to channel their inner Dixie Chick and sing "Goodbye Earl" as yet another hurricane went into the Yucatan Peninsula to die. Most of the rest of the United States yawned—another hurricane in the Atlantic, and no harm done.

But the hurricane was remarkable precisely because of this. Earl, which attained a maximum wind speed of 80 mph before striking Belize, marked another in a long line of hurricanes that have formed in the Atlantic basin—the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico—but have not affected the United States.

Consider some of the following statistics: the last hurricane to reach the Gulf of Mexico was Ingrid in September, 2013. The current, nearly three-year-long drought for the Gulf has not been equaled since at least 1851. The drought in hurricanes that make Florida landfalls is even more pronounced. The Sunshine State, which juts into the Atlantic Ocean like a lightning rod for tropical weather, has not been hit by a hurricane since Wilma (2005). Earl was in fact the 67th Atlantic hurricane in a row to not make landfall in Florida, according to hurricane scientist Phil Klotzbach. The previous record was a mere 33 hurricanes, a streak between Hurricanes David (1979) and Elena (1985).

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Nach Bitcoin-Hack: Bitfinex-Diebe wollen jetzt spenden

Nachdem Angreifer bei Bitfinex Bitcoin im Wert von rund 72 Millionen US-Dollar entwendet haben, wollen sie offenbar einen Teil davon spenden. Insgesamt 1.000 Bitcoin sollen so den Eigentümer wechseln. Bitfinex selbst arbeitet an einer eigenen Entschädigungsstrategie. (Bitcoin, Sicherheitslücke)

Nachdem Angreifer bei Bitfinex Bitcoin im Wert von rund 72 Millionen US-Dollar entwendet haben, wollen sie offenbar einen Teil davon spenden. Insgesamt 1.000 Bitcoin sollen so den Eigentümer wechseln. Bitfinex selbst arbeitet an einer eigenen Entschädigungsstrategie. (Bitcoin, Sicherheitslücke)

OLG Köln: Tagesschau-App könnte verboten werden

Im jahrelangen Streit über die Zulässigkeit der Tagesschau-App zeichnet sich eine Niederlage des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks ab. Dem Gericht sind die Inhalte offenbar zu presseähnlich. (ARD, Internet)

Im jahrelangen Streit über die Zulässigkeit der Tagesschau-App zeichnet sich eine Niederlage des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks ab. Dem Gericht sind die Inhalte offenbar zu presseähnlich. (ARD, Internet)

Activision Blizzard: Overwatch schlägt World of Warcraft

Mehr aktive Spieler als jemals bei World of Warcraft, ein schnellerer Abverkauf als bei Diablo 3 in China: Mit einem derart großen Erfolg von Overwatch hatte wohl auch Activision Blizzard nicht gerechnet. Der Konzern meldet über alle Reihen hinweg einen neuen Höchststand an Onlinespielern. (Activision Blizzard, Activision)

Mehr aktive Spieler als jemals bei World of Warcraft, ein schnellerer Abverkauf als bei Diablo 3 in China: Mit einem derart großen Erfolg von Overwatch hatte wohl auch Activision Blizzard nicht gerechnet. Der Konzern meldet über alle Reihen hinweg einen neuen Höchststand an Onlinespielern. (Activision Blizzard, Activision)

Batman im Kurztest: Interaktiver Milchbubi

Ein paar schick inszenierte Kämpfe, aber auch lange Dialoge mit einem seltsam blassen Bruce Wayne: In der ersten Episode der Telltale-Serie rund um Batman kommen zwar Fans des dunklen Ritters auf ihre Kosten – aber wer einfach spannende Unterhaltung sucht, wird enttäuscht. (Batman, Spieletest)

Ein paar schick inszenierte Kämpfe, aber auch lange Dialoge mit einem seltsam blassen Bruce Wayne: In der ersten Episode der Telltale-Serie rund um Batman kommen zwar Fans des dunklen Ritters auf ihre Kosten - aber wer einfach spannende Unterhaltung sucht, wird enttäuscht. (Batman, Spieletest)

Megaupload 2.0 Will Link File Transfers to Bitcoin Transactions

Kim Dotcom is teasing fresh information about his Megaupload 2.0 project set to launch in January 2017. Noting that every file transfer will be linked to a bitcoin transaction, Dotcom says the new platform will take decentralization, anonymity & encryption “to the next level”.

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

dotcom-laptopFollowing a few hints dropped early last month, Kim Dotcom later confirmed he was working on a brand new file-sharing platform with a familiar name.

Now partially confirmed as Megaupload (or possibly Megaupload 2.0), the site is set to launch in January 2017, an event that will coincide with the 2012 closure of the original site and the massive police raid against its operators.

Over the past few days Dotcom has taken to Twitter to drip feed various nuggets of information about his upcoming service. The first came on Tuesday when he said that he couldn’t wait to launch “groundbreaking innovations” that will take Bitcoin “mainstream.”

After concentrating on his usual array of political tweets, a few hours ago Dotcom stepped on the Megaupload gas, underlining its links to Bitcoin.


The suggestion that there will be currency changing hands for people sharing files using Megaupload 2.0 is certainly an intriguing one. Dotcom previously said the site will launch with Megaupload 1.0’s user database, which could amount to 100 million users. That’s a lot of users, a lot of files, and potentially lots of money.

The term ‘Bitcache’ also raises questions. A project of the same name already exists but Dotcom appears to have something else in mind.

“Nobody will upload to any other cloud after Megaupload’s Bitcache goes live. 100 million Bitcache wallets,” he said this morning.

For now, Dotcom doesn’t seem interested in revealing solid information about Bitcache. However, in response to a user who asked whether Dotcom had considered Bitcoin’s block size issues, the German suggested that ‘bitcache’ would solve the problem.


The links between the under-development file-sharing platform and Bitcoin are clearly ones Dotcom is keen to promote. The entrepreneur often suggests that his followers should invest in this, or avoid that, but this morning his message was clear. Buy Bitcoin. Now.

“Buy Bitcoin while cheap. Like right now. Trust me,” he said. “Bitcoin = $2000+ 2017.”

Further details will be revealed on January 20, 2017, during the launch of Megaupload 2.0, an event that is already developing an interesting guest list.

This morning, financial journalist and guru Max Keiser said he will be in attendance, declaring the project “Big news for Bitcoin.”

Also of interest is new information which suggests that developers will be able to build their open projects using the cloud-storage features of Dotcom’s new platform.

“Megaupload 2.0 will be available ‘white label’. You can use any domain, free of charge, for your cloud sharing needs. Bitcache enabled,” he adds.

The launch date for Megaupload 2.0 is a little over five months away so Dotcom and those collaborating with him certainly have their work cut out if they are to deliver as promised. That being said, if they can pull this rabbit out of the hat it could be the shot in the arm the file-sharing world has been longing for.

“Megaupload 2.0 takes decentralization, anonymity & encryption to the next level. A nightmare for those who want to mass surveil & censor,” Dotcom concludes.

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

Torrentz.eu: Größte Torrent-Meta-Suche stellt Dienst ein

Nur wenige Wochen, nachdem mit Kickass Torrents eine der größten Bittorrent-Plattformen geschlossen wurde, ist nun auch die wohl größte Meta-Suche für Torrents, Torrentz.eu, offline. Warum, ist aber nicht klar. (Bittorrent, Tauschbörse)

Nur wenige Wochen, nachdem mit Kickass Torrents eine der größten Bittorrent-Plattformen geschlossen wurde, ist nun auch die wohl größte Meta-Suche für Torrents, Torrentz.eu, offline. Warum, ist aber nicht klar. (Bittorrent, Tauschbörse)