October 2016 – Page 41 – news.buyenne.com

Vodafone: 90 GByte Datenvolumen für Hinweise auf Netzlücken

Wer Vodafone auf Lücken im LTE-Netz hinweist, wird als Dankeschön mit Datenvolumen belohnt. Allerdings müssen die verfügbaren 90 GByte dann recht schnell aufgebraucht werden, damit sie nicht verfallen. (Vodafone, Internet)

Civilization 6 im Test: Nachhilfestunde(n) beim Städtebau

Die Globalstrategie von Civilization wird mit dem sechsten Teil realistischer und abstrakter zugleich. Firaxis macht den größten Fortschritt der Serie überraschenderweise nicht beim neuen Städtebau mit seinen Distrikten, sondern im Onlinemodus. (Civilization, Spieletest)

Cloudsoftware: SAP wird trotz eines durchwachsenen Quartals optimistischer

Die Geschäfte des Softwarekonzerns SAP laufen gut. Das Management wird ehrgeiziger als noch zu Jahresbeginn, die Zahl der Mitarbeiter steigt deutlich. Doch der Erfolg an der Börse hat auch seine Kehrseiten. (SAP, ERP)

Elon Musk provides more details about how first Mars colonists will live

During a reddit AMA , the tech mogul fielded questions about colonizing Mars.

When he delivered his Mars colonization presentation at the International Astronautical Conference in September, SpaceX founder Elon Musk spent a lot of time discussing the Interplanetary Transport System rocket and spacecraft, But he offered precious little information about what the firsts visitors' life on Mars would look like.

During an AMA on reddit Sunday afternoon, he filled in a few of those details. After a user named El-Psy-Kangaroo asked about initial missions to Mars, Musk replied that the first "Red Dragon" spacecraft sent to Mars, possibly in 2018 but more likely 2020, would prove the company could land propulsively on the red planet, and then experiment with chemical reactions to find the best way to derive methane and water from the Martian atmosphere. The resulting propellant would, eventually, be used for return missions from Mars.

The first large ITS spacecraft sent to Mars, nicknamed "Heart of Gold" after the ship in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, would likely be filled mostly equipment to build a propellant plant on Mars. The first crewed mission would then carry perhaps a dozen colonists and the equipment needed to build a "rudimentary" base and finish the propellant plant. The company would then try to double the number of flights every 26 months, during each Earth-Mars orbital rendezvous. "We are still far from figuring this out in detail," Musk acknowledged.

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Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing

Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola.

Researchers have devised an attack that gains unfettered "root" access to a large number of Android phones by exploiting a relatively new type of bug that allows adversaries to manipulate data stored in memory chips.

The breakthrough has the potential to make millions of Android phones vulnerable, at least until a security fix is available, to a new form of attack that seizes control of core parts of the operating system and neuters key security defenses. Equally important, it demonstrates that the new class of exploit dubbed Rowhammer can have malicious and far-reaching effects on a much wider base of devices than was previously known, including those running ARM chips.

Previously, some experts believed Rowhammer attacks that altered specific pieces of security-sensitive data weren't reliable enough to pose a viable threat because exploits depended on chance hardware faults or advanced memory-management features that could be easily adapted to repel the attacks. Now, an international team of academic researchers is challenging those assumptions by demonstrating a Rowhammer exploit that alters crucial bits of data in a way that completely roots name brand Android devices from LG, Motorola, Samsung, OnePlus, and possibly other manufacturers. An app containing the researchers' rooting exploit requires no user permissions and doesn't rely on any vulnerability in Android to work.

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iKeepSafe Inadvertently Gives Students a Valuable Lesson in Creators’ Rights

In partnership with pro-copyright group Creative Future, iKeepSafe has launched a competition asking students to submit projects that promote the creation and ethical sharing of content. Whether kids will take the time to read the small print is debatable, but doing so will provide a valuable lesson in getting a fair price for creative works.

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Children and students of all kinds are some of the most valuable assets to society. After all, they’re literally the future of the planet. As a result, hundreds of groups around the world dedicate themselves to protecting their interests, from general welfare and healthcare to Internet safety.

One of the groups dedicated to the latter is the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe), an alliance of policy leaders, educators, law enforcement and technology experts.

iKeepSafe has launched a new initiative in partnership with pro-copyright/anti-piracy group Creative Future called the Contribute to Creativity Challenge.

“We know that when students are given the opportunity to be creative, they not only learn to make conscious choices about sharing their creative work, but they also understand the value of respecting the rights of other creators,” iKeepSafe says.

The challenge is a competition which requires students to submit electronic projects that center around the importance of behaving well online, such as respecting copyright and related rights.

“To participate, each entrant will need to submit an electronic project educating others about the importance of being an ethical, responsible online digital citizen,” iKeepSafe notes.

“The submissions will be judged according to the judging rubric and the winning entries will each receive a $75 Amazon gift card for books or classroom supplies.”

For those submitting entries the exercise of considering what makes a good digital citizen should be an enlightening one. Indeed, the creative process itself should also be enjoyable and educational, further sweetened by the prospect of a few bucks should the entry be a winner.

But for those young creators getting involved, there’s another equally valuable lesson to be learned from this exercise, even at the tender age of 12.

It’s quite likely that some participating students will be considering getting involved in the business of content creation, whether that’s in the music, movie, TV, or publishing sectors. With that in mind, they should consider the terms and conditions of any contracts entered into. This competition is a great place to start.

The Contribute to Creativity Challenge has five pages of T&Cs (pdf). They include rules that submitted content cannot infringe other people’s intellectual property rights or condone any illegal activities, which is fair enough.

However, since this is all about being creative and respecting creators’ rights, we took a look at what rights these young creators will have over their content after it’s submitted to the competition and what uses it will be put to thereafter.

“By entering the Competition, each Entrant hereby grants to Promoter and their assigns, licensees and designees a non-exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, publish, and publicly display the Entry and all elements of the Entry (including, but not limited to, the Entrant’s name, city and country, biographical information, statements, voice, photograph and other likeness (unless prohibited by law)) in whole or in part,” the conditions read.

Of course, some kind of license is required if the competition operators are to be able to do anything with the entries. However, it also means that whether the entrant likes it or not (or even understands the legal jargon), their submitted work can be published along with their photographs until the end of time by iKeepSafe, “in any and all media either now known or not currently known, in perpetuity throughout the universe for all purposes.”

In perpetuity. Universe. All purposes. And, just to be clear, “without notification and without compensation of any kind to Entrant or any third party.” (emphasis ours)

Of course, there will be many students who will relish the thought of their projects gaining some publicity since that could really help their profile. However, it seems likely from the conditions of the competition that what iKeepSafe really wants is free material for upcoming campaigns.

“The Promoter shall have the right, without limitation, to reproduce, alter, amend, edit, publish, modify, crop and use each Entry in connection with commercials, advertisements and promotions related to the Promoter, the sale of Promoter’s products, the Competition and any other competition sponsored by Promoter, in any and all media, now or hereafter known, including but not limited to, all forms of television distribution, theatrical advertisements, radio, the Internet, newspapers, magazines and billboards,” the conditions read.

The eagle-eyed will have noticed that student entrants grant iKeepSafe a non-exclusive license, which usually means that they are also free to exploit their works themselves, a luxury that an exclusive license does not offer. While that’s a good thing, a subsequent clause could conceivably muddy the waters.

“Entrant agrees not to release any publicity or other materials on their own or through someone else regarding his or her participation in the Competition without the prior consent of the Promoter, which it may withhold in its sole discretion,” it reads.

Just to be absolutely clear, there’s no suggestion that iKeepSafe are leading students down a dark path here, since their overall goal of promoting ethical behavior online is a noble one. That being said, would it really hurt to properly compensate student creators featured in subsequent campaigns that will largely exist to help businesses?

After all, the message here is about being ethical, and with Creative Future on board – which represents rightsholders worth billions of dollars – there’s more than a little bit of cash lying around to properly compensate these young creators.

Perhaps the key lesson for students and other creators to be aware of at this early stage is that some companies and organizations will be prepared to exploit their creative work while giving little or indeed absolutely nothing back.

Today it’s a harmless school project competition entry on ethics, but in a few years time it could be something worth millions, ask George Michael.

Finally, if being ethical and responsible really is the goal, perhaps students and competition operators alike should consider a much less restrictive Creative Commons license.

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Edifier E1100 Predator Multimedia Speaker System

Edifier is well known of their quality speaker with unique design, and their new e1100 is also coming with a good looking design. Being dubbed as the “predator” obviously means familiar with the movie “Alien vs Predator”. The E1100 Predator multimedia speaker system has its subwoofer designed like the head of the predator, but minus […]

Zoology review: A tail of individuality in oppressive Russia

Think How Stella Got Her Groove Back mixed with a totalitarian sci-fi dystopia.

Zoology trailer

AUSTIN, Texas—At the genre mecca that is Fantastic Fest, a film about a half-human, half-animal hybrid isn't unusual (see Nova Seed for one example). But Ivan Tverdovsky's Zoology is not straightforward sci-fi. This Russian feature mashes together hyper-realism, a totalitarian society, and midlife self-discovery into a strangely appealing bizarro version of How Stella Got Her Groove Back. If the premise sounds as odd as Anne Hathaway's kaiju movie, it is. But this festival award winner ("Next Wave" Features, first place) is every bit as fun and surprising as Colossal.

If I had a tail...

Natasha works a seemingly routine job in acquisitions at a Russian zoo. At 55-years-old, she's settled into a comfortable routine that she isn't interesting in changing. Keeping in line with the customs of her coastal town, Natasha lives with her aging mother, wears ankle-length skirts and skin-covering sweaters, and generally speaks only when spoken to (which appears to only happen in work meetings and over dinner with Mom).

One day at the office, Natasha faints. Soon after, she's shown (rather artfully) vomiting in the bathroom. Doctors initially give Natasha painkillers for asthenia (extreme physical weakness), but they want to do some follow-ups. Not even office gossip can put a finger on the issue. "Maybe she's pregnant?" one woman suggests over lunch. "Who's the father, then?" says another. "I've never seen her with a man."

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Hohe Phishing-Quote: So einfach ließen sich US-Politiker hacken

Die Veröffentlichungen von Wikileaks bringen die US-Politik in Schwierigkeiten. Die Hacks machen deutlich, welche Gefahren durch die Nutzung populärer E-Mail-Dienste wie Gmail entstehen. (Security, Gmail)

Airbnb legt Klage ein: New York bestraft Anzeigen für kurzfristige Vermietungen

Die Stadt New York geht schärfer gegen die lukrative Nutzung von Wohnraum für Ferienwohnungen vor. Mehrere Tausend Dollar Strafe kann bereits das Einstellen von Angeboten auf Plattformen wie Airbnb kosten. (Startup, Internet)