Apple hat eine Antispam-Meldefunktion in die Webversion des iCloud-Kalenders integriert. Das Unternehmen will so Spam-Nachrichten von Nutzern fernhalten. Für iOS und den Mac gibt es das Feature noch nicht. (Spam, Apple) Month: December 2016
White nationalist’s Twitter account now reinstated
Richard B. Spencer says he will seek to have his other accounts brought back too.
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On Saturday evening, Twitter restored the account of Richard B. Spencer after it had been suspended on November 16, along with several other white nationalist-related accounts.
BuzzFeed News, which was one of the first news sites to report the news on Sunday, noted that Spencer was "banned on a technicality." He apparently had run afoul of Twitter’s rule against "serial and/or multiple accounts."
The news website published Twitter’s e-mail to Spencer, asking him to select one of his accounts to be reinstated, and he chose his own personal account.
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Trump says CIA report that Russia helped his electoral win is “ridiculous”
4 senators: Post’s reporting regarding foreign meddling “should alarm every American.”
Enlarge / US President-elect Donald Trump speaks during the USA Thank You Tour December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (credit: Don Emmert / Getty Images News)
President-elect Donald Trump has continued to flaunt reported assessments by the CIA that the Russian government specifically helped his campaign win the presidential election, calling them "ridiculous." One of Trump’s top advisors, Kellyanne Conway, also dubbed them "laughable and ridiculous" on CBS’s "Face the Nation" on Sunday.
On Friday evening, The Washington Post reported that the CIA has "concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency, rather than just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, according to officials briefed on the matter."
Shortly after the Post published, the Presidential Transition Team sent out a statement to Ars and other media on Friday at 9:35pm ET, essentially mocking the intelligence community:
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ISPs: Blocking The Pirate Bay is Dangerous Censorship
Two major Swedish ISPs are warning that a possible court-ordered Pirate Bay blockade will introduce a dangerous and unwarranted form of censorship. Instead, they encourage copyright holders to collaborate with them to find better solutions to the piracy problem.
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The Pirate Bay is without doubt the most censored website on the Internet.
Countries all around the world have ordered Internet providers to block subscriber access to the torrent site, with Europe being at the forefront.
This week copyright holders and ISPs went to court in Sweden, as part of a prolonged legal battle to have the site blocked on its home turf.
Two years ago Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, Nordisk Film and the Swedish Film Industry filed a lawsuit to force Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget to block access to The Pirate Bay and Swefilmer.
The rightsholders argued that the ISP is liable for the copyright infringements of its customers if it fails to implement a blockade. However, the Stockholm District Court disagreed and sided with the Internet provider in its ruling late last year.
Now, both parties have argued their case before the Appeals Court. A final decision will be issued at a later date, but Bredbandsbolaget and fellow ISP Telenor warn that a blocking requirement will have serious implications.
“It is a dangerous path to go down, which forces Internet providers to monitor and evaluate content on the Internet and block websites with illegal content in order to avoid becoming accomplices,” the companies write in a joint statement.
Copyright holders have pointed out that similar orders were issued in neighboring countries, but the ISPs stress that a mandatory block will be an unprecedented form of censorship under Swedish law.
“The copyright holders argue that the blockades they request are similar to those in neighboring Nordic countries. But with the legislation we have in Sweden, it means rightsholders’ demands require a form of censorship that has no equivalent in any other EU country.”
The ISPs hope that the Court of Appeal will come to the same conclusion as the District Court; that ISPs which merely provide access to the Internet are not complicit in crimes that are committed by their customers.
While Bredbandsbolaget and Telenor don’t expect that the case will go to the Supreme Court, they believe that the rightsholders will try to convince lawmakers to make blocking requests easier. This is not the right way to go, they say.
“We don’t think that tougher legislation and blocking requirements are an effective way to stop the illegal distribution of copyrighted works on the Internet,” the ISPs note.
Instead, they urge media companies and Internet providers to start collaborating to come to effective and mutually agreeable solutions. Thus far, they have shown little interest in doing that, the ISPs note.
“We hope that the rightholders will be more open to dialogue when this lawsuit is over,” they conclude.
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Rocket Internet: Delivery Hero übernimmt Foodpanda
Zwei große Plattformen für Essenbestellungen werden zusammengelegt. An beiden ist Rocket Internet beteiligt. In die verlustreichen Firmen sind 1,5 Milliarden US-Dollar Risikokaptal geflossen. (Rocket Internet, Onlineshop)
Zwei große Plattformen für Essenbestellungen werden zusammengelegt. An beiden ist Rocket Internet beteiligt. In die verlustreichen Firmen sind 1,5 Milliarden US-Dollar Risikokaptal geflossen. (Rocket Internet, Onlineshop) Sunday deals (12-11-2016)
Missed your chance to pick up an Amazon Fire tablet for $33.33 on Black Friday? Well, you can’t do that anymore… but you can still save some money.
Amazon is currently selling its cheapest tablet for $40, which is $10 less than the list price. You can also opt for a multi-color 3-pack of tablets for a $30 discount, or save on other Amazon products including eReaders and smart speakers.
Here are some of today’s best deals.
Continue reading Sunday deals (12-11-2016) at Liliputing.
Missed your chance to pick up an Amazon Fire tablet for $33.33 on Black Friday? Well, you can’t do that anymore… but you can still save some money.
Amazon is currently selling its cheapest tablet for $40, which is $10 less than the list price. You can also opt for a multi-color 3-pack of tablets for a $30 discount, or save on other Amazon products including eReaders and smart speakers.
Here are some of today’s best deals.
Continue reading Sunday deals (12-11-2016) at Liliputing.
Surprise virus in child mummy unravels thousands of years of disease history
The oldest sample of smallpox is younger than we thought, bucking ancient reports.
Enlarge (credit: Duggan et al. | Current Biology)
From the pockmarked mummified pharaohs of ancient Egypt to the epic triumph of complete global eradication, smallpox had a remarkable history. But that lengthy history may be in for a massive revision, thanks to a little mummy found in the crypt of a Lithuanian church.
The mummy, thought to be of a child between the ages of two and four who died sometime between 1643 and 1665, teemed with the genetic remains of the bygone virus. That smallpox DNA was the oldest ever found—yet it was quite young, evolutionarily speaking. In fact, genetic analysis of the preserved smallpox blueprints, published Thursday in Current Biology, suggests that smallpox is just hundreds of years old, not millennia as many had thought. The finding stands to rewrite the virus' storied past.
Reports of blistering, puss-packed rashes have speckled historical records for thousands of years. The dimpled pharaohs and spotted plagues in China during the 4th century were considered proof that the smallpox virus—aka Variola—plagued humankind for a long, long time. Smallpox caused massive outbreaks throughout Europe in the 17th century and devastated populations in the New World. But, in 1796, it became the first disease for which there was a vaccine. And in 1979, smallpox was declared the first—and still only—infectious disease of humans to be globally eradicated. (Rinderpest, an infectious disease of cattle and some other animals, has also been eradicated.)
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Keine Vollstreckung: Berufung im Barzahl-Protest gegen Rundfunkgebühr
Der Barzahlprotest gegen den Rundfunkbeitrag geht in die nächste Instanz. Jetzt muss der Hessische Verwaltungsgerichtshof entscheiden. (
Windows on ARM64 will support Win32 apps through emulation, but native apps can be compiled for ARM64 too
Next year Microsoft plans to roll out a version of Windows 10 that will let you run classic Windows apps on a device with a 64-bit ARM-based processors including the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip.
This would hardly be the first version of Windows for ARM, but it is expected to be one of the first to use emulation to let you run unmodified Win32 apps such as Adobe Photoshop.
But if developers take an extra step and recompile their software to support ARM64 chips, then you don’t need emulation… which could lead to better performance.
Next year Microsoft plans to roll out a version of Windows 10 that will let you run classic Windows apps on a device with a 64-bit ARM-based processors including the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip.
This would hardly be the first version of Windows for ARM, but it is expected to be one of the first to use emulation to let you run unmodified Win32 apps such as Adobe Photoshop.
But if developers take an extra step and recompile their software to support ARM64 chips, then you don’t need emulation… which could lead to better performance.
One-upping the NES Classic Edition with the Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie
NES Classic is back—but still hard to get—so we’re again resurfacing our DIY guide.
Andrew Cunningham
In November 2016, Nintendo surprised everyone by going back to its roots and releasing the NES Classic. The delightful emulator/nostalgia-fest sparked unanticipated demand, including near-instant supply issues and 200-percent-plus markups in secondary markets. So in December of 2016, we decided to build our own version instead.
Last April, Nintendo bizarrely halted sales of the hot-selling retro console, sparking us to resurface this guide. And with the news that Nintendo relaunched the console this week—but yet again supply is an early hurdle for interested gamers—we're re-running this piece to help those of you with a DIY streak once build your own, more flexible alternative. Hardware recommendations have been updated and lightly edited to reflect current availability and pricing for June 2018.
Against my better judgment, I’ve tried a couple of times to snag one of those adorable little $60 mini NES Classic Editions—once when Amazon put some of its limited stock online and crashed its own site, and once when Walmart was shipping out small quantities every day a couple of weeks ago. In both cases, I failed.
But the dumb itch of nostalgia can’t always be scratched by logical thoughts like “do you really need to pay money for Super Mario Bros. 3 again,” and “Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest is probably the weakest of the three NES Castlevania games.” Since it’s not entirely clear if or when those little mini NESes will become readily available, I decided to funnel that small wad of expendable cash and the desire for some nostalgia-fueled gaming into a DIY project.
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