Ohne Fahrer in einem Ford Fusion: Seit einigen Tagen rollen in Pittsburgh mehrere Uber-Wagen autonom über die Straßen. Insassen haben die Gelegenheit zu sehen, was das Fahrzeug 'sieht'. (Uber, Auto) Month: September 2016
Torrent Site Founder Faces Outrageous Damages Claim, Lawyer Says
A lawyer who represents Julian Assange and took part in The Pirate Bay trial says a file-sharing case he’s currently involved in has the most unreasonable claims for damages he’s ever seen. Per E. Samuelson says the case against the founder of torrent site SwePiracy contains a claim for more than $3m in damages, for a single movie.
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Founded back in 2006, SwePiracy grew to become one of the most famous private torrent sites on the Swedish scene. With that reputation came attention from anti-piracy groups and local authorities
In the wake of the “guilty” verdict in the Pirate Bay trial during April 2009, SwePiracy disappeared offline. It reappeared just a few weeks later.
Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån (now Rights Alliance) said that during this downtime, the operators of the site took measures to improve their security. However, three years later those efforts proved futile.
In February 2012, police in Sweden and the Netherlands took coordinated action to shut down the site and earlier this year its 24-year-old operator appeared in court for the first time facing several years in prison.
Despite the prosecution admitting that the site had likely been created for fun, it’s alleged SwePiracy raised $100,000 from donations. As a result, the pursuit of damages against its operator was to be made “according to The Pirate Bay model”, i.e extremely aggressively.
This week the now 25-year-old appeared in court again, facing charges that he assisted in the unlawful distribution of a large number of movies. As is customary in such cases, the prosecution has homed in on a smaller sample of 27 movies in its evidence.
“They earned a lot of money, they spread huge amounts of pirated content and this [man] is one of the key players. Therefore, it is important that those involved are sentenced to severe punishment,” said Henrik Pontén of Rights Alliance, who represent Nordisk Film, one of the plaintiffs in the case.
One of five companies acting against SwePiracy, Nordisk is reportedly being the most aggressive. The film distributor is demanding more than $3m (20m kronor) in damages for a single low-budget movie.
SwePiracy defense lawyer Per E. Samuelsson, who also represents Julian Assange and previously took part in The Pirate Bay trial, says the claims are the most unreasonable he’s ever witnessed in his 35 years as a lawyer.
“I think this is the most unreasonable claim for damages I have been through. The idea that [this type of film] could cause 20-25 million kronor in damages on an illegal file-sharing site is totally absurd from every point of view,” he said.
Swedish news outlet SVT reported an exchange in court between Samuelsson and Pontén, in which the former argued that his client had started the site as a child, for fun.
“My client started [SwePiracy] when he was 14 years old. It was purely a prank,” Samuelsson said.
“That’s not true,” Pontén objected. “He was not fourteen years old when he committed these acts. At some point, he has certainly been fourteen, but when he did this he was criminally responsible and earned lots of money.”
The verdict will be handed down at a later date.
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Analyse: iPhone 7 mit Intel-Modem, 3 GByte RAM und InFO-Packaging
Apple setzt nicht mehr einzig auf Qualcomm-, sondern auch auf Intel-Modems und gibt zumindest dem iPhone 7 Plus mehr RAM als bisher. Das System-on-a-Chip ist zwar groß, die Platine dank neuer Packing-Methoden für SoC und Flash-Speicher aber extrem flach. (Pirates Release 4K ‘Hateful Eight’ despite Legal Version Not yet Available
A pirated 4K copy Tarantino’s epic ‘The Hateful Eight’ has started to be distributed online, despite a legal 4K copy not yet available, in the U.S. at least.The 40GB+ file is mostly still available only on private trackers at the moment, but its origin…
A pirated 4K copy Tarantino's epic 'The Hateful Eight' has started to be distributed online, despite a legal 4K copy not yet available, in the U.S. at least.
The 40GB+ file is mostly still available only on private trackers at the moment, but its original source could point to a breakthrough in decryption.
According to the information released with the pirated movie, the original source of the 4K transfer appears to be from the legal Russian VOD service, Okko.
Okka, like most legal VOD services, adhere to Hollywood's stringent requirements for copy protection, using the highly secure Digital Cinema Package (DCP). The info file for the pirated videos suggests the source was from a file called DCP.mxf - MXF (Material Exchange Format) files are indeed used in DCP.
No crack has ever been announced for files packaged this way, which would make the 'Hateful Eight' rip the first of its kind. It could also be the case that the people behind the release are intentionally misleading downloaders as to the real source of their file, in order to protect their source.
What is also interesting, and perhaps equally frustrating, is that no legal option to watch the epic film in 4K, originally shot in Ultra Panavision 70 and in 4K, is available in the U.S. and most other regions. This then may be a case of pirates stepping up to serve an under-served market.
[Via TorrentFreak]
HOTAS: Logitech übernimmt Saitek
Mad Catz verkauft Saitek an Logitech. Damit erhalten die Schweizer Zugriff auf Flight- und Space-Sim-Peripherie. Die Controller-Unterseiten für den Landwirtschafts-Simulator und Star Citizen sind derweil offline geschaltet, ihre Zukunft ist offenbar ungewiss. (Logitech, Eingabegerät)
Mad Catz verkauft Saitek an Logitech. Damit erhalten die Schweizer Zugriff auf Flight- und Space-Sim-Peripherie. Die Controller-Unterseiten für den Landwirtschafts-Simulator und Star Citizen sind derweil offline geschaltet, ihre Zukunft ist offenbar ungewiss. (Logitech, Eingabegerät) Die Woche im Video: Hallo Echo, hallo Apple, hallo EU
Wir haben iOS10 und das neue WatchOS getestet und Amazons Echo ausprobiert. Auch die EU war fleißig und beschäftigte sich mit Breitbandausbau, Leistungsschutzrecht und Störerhaftung. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server)
Wir haben iOS10 und das neue WatchOS getestet und Amazons Echo ausprobiert. Auch die EU war fleißig und beschäftigte sich mit Breitbandausbau, Leistungsschutzrecht und Störerhaftung. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Server) Tesla disputes Mobileye’s accusations, Mobileye shoots back
The sensor maker and the autonomous car maker are on the outs publicly.
Mobileye Co-founder, CTO, and Chairman Amnon Shashua speaks at a Volkswagen press event at CES 2016. (credit: Getty Images | David Becker)
On Friday, autonomous components maker Mobileye put out a press release saying that the latest comments by Tesla on the falling-out between the two companies were “incorrect and can be refuted by the facts.”
The spat began when Tesla and Mobileye announced the end of their partnership after a fatal accident in Florida involving a Telsa owner who had been using his vehicle in semi-autonomous mode. Tesla said that the accident occurred because the car crashed into a left-turning truck, and with the glare of the sun, the car’s cameras couldn’t see the truck and didn’t brake for it.
After that, the two companies seemed to move on: in September, Tesla announced that the eighth version of its Autopilot firmware would rely more heavily on radar than it has before, despite the company having said previously that optical cameras were sufficient. Mobileye and Delphi also announced that they would be bringing a fully-autonomous system to automakers everywhere by 2020.
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Hands-on with the HP Elite x3 smartphone + desktop and notebook docks
The HP Elite x3 is one of the most powerful Windows smartphones to date. It has a 6 inch, high-resolution display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage.
But what really makes this phone stand out is that it’s designed to work not only as a mobile phone, but also as a desktop or laptop computer.
The Elite x3 is up for pre-order from the Microsoft Store, and the phone should begin shipping later this month.
The HP Elite x3 is one of the most powerful Windows smartphones to date. It has a 6 inch, high-resolution display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage.
But what really makes this phone stand out is that it’s designed to work not only as a mobile phone, but also as a desktop or laptop computer.
The Elite x3 is up for pre-order from the Microsoft Store, and the phone should begin shipping later this month.
Mozilla checks if Firefox is affected by same malware vulnerability as Tor
Weakness in certificate pinning protections may open users to MitM attacks.
Mozilla officials say they're investigating whether the fully patched version of Firefox is affected by the same cross-platform, malicious code-execution vulnerability patched Friday in the Tor browser.
The vulnerability allows an attacker who has a man-in-the-middle position and is able to obtain a forged certificate to impersonate Mozilla servers, Tor officials warned in an advisory. From there, the attacker could deliver a malicious update for NoScript or any other Firefox extension installed on a targeted computer. The fraudulent certificate would have to be issued by any one of several hundred Firefox-trusted certificate authorities (CA).
While it probably would be challenging to hack a CA or trick one into issuing the necessary certificate for addons.mozilla.org, such a capability is well within reach of nation-sponsored attackers, who are precisely the sort of adversaries included in the Tor threat model. In 2011, for instance, hackers tied to Iran compromised Dutch CA DigiNotar and minted counterfeit certificates for more than 200 addresses, including Gmail and the Mozilla addons subdomain.
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Bookeen Cybook Ocean eReader gets optional Solar Leaf Cover
It’s been about a year and a half since Bookeen announced it was working on an eBook reader with a solar panel. Now it’s finally available. Sort of.
None of the company’s eReaders actually have a built-in solar panel. But now you can buy a €60 solar cover for the Bookeen Cybook Ocean eReader.
Attach the cover to the eReader and leave it out in the sun and you should get about 30 minutes of reading time from an hour of charging time (assuming it’s a bright day).
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It’s been about a year and a half since Bookeen announced it was working on an eBook reader with a solar panel. Now it’s finally available. Sort of.
None of the company’s eReaders actually have a built-in solar panel. But now you can buy a €60 solar cover for the Bookeen Cybook Ocean eReader.
Attach the cover to the eReader and leave it out in the sun and you should get about 30 minutes of reading time from an hour of charging time (assuming it’s a bright day).
Continue reading Bookeen Cybook Ocean eReader gets optional Solar Leaf Cover at Liliputing.