Month: August 2017
Smart Home: Thermostat E soll Nicht-Nerds begeistern
Nest stellt eine neue Version seines smarten Thermostats vor. Dabei handelt es sich um das erste neue Modell seit der Produkteinführung 2011. Das Nest Thermostat E hat einen günstigeren Einstiegspreis und ist einfacher aufgebaut. (Nest, Smart Home)
Perfect Copy Hits Piracy Scene as ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ Runs into Piracy Trouble
A pristine, high definition copy of the Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson comedy action hit ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ has been uploaded to piracy sites, just as the movie was building up a head of steam at the box office.Occurring only a few days after th…
A pristine, high definition copy of the Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson comedy action hit 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' has been uploaded to piracy sites, just as the movie was building up a head of steam at the box office.
Occurring only a few days after the film's theatrical release in North America, the upload, marked as a "Web-DL" release (suggesting it has been ripped from a web/streaming source), features 1080p clarity, with 5.1 channel audio, no watermarks and even includes the full English subtitles.
At first, it wasn't clear how such a perfect copy could be obtained so soon after the film's release, especially since the film has yet to open in numerous other markets including Australia and parts of Europe. But it soon became apparent that Netflix Japan had somehow managed to secure instant streaming rights to the film, and the film has been available for streaming on the platform for a short while. This makes Netflix Japan the most likely source for the pirated video, and would also explain the good quality of the rip.
The film's production company, Millennium Films, will not be pleased at this turn of events especially considering the company's tough stance against pirates in the past.
The pirated version of 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' was the most popular download on BitTorrent last week.
[via TorrentFreak]
Backblaze: Verbraucher-HDDs nicht schlechter als Enterprise-Modelle
Im zweiten Quartal 2017 hat Backblaze viele Beobachtungen aufgezeichnet. Die Ausfallquote der meisten Festplatten ist über das Quartal konstant geblieben. Außerdem sind Verbrauchermodelle von Seagate-Platten ähnlich zuverlässig wie deren Enterprise-Modelle – zumindest noch. (Backblaze, Speichermedien)
Smartphone: Essential veröffentlicht Kundendaten durch E-Mail-Fehler
Peinlicher Fehler bei Essential: Eine falsch konfigurierte Mailingliste führte dazu, dass zahlreiche private Daten von Kunden mit anderen Kunden geteilt wurden. Das Unternehmen hat sich entschuldigt. Nach wie vor warten viele Kunden auf vorbestellte Smartphones. (Security, Smartphone)
Mobile-Games-Auslese: Alchemisten, Katzen und 20-seitige Rollenspielwürfel
Die interessantesten Mobile Games der vergangenen Wochen bieten für jeden Geschmack etwas – von Horror über echte Rollenspiele bis hin zu wackeren Katzen. Golem.de hat sechs Spiele für die Hosentasche ausgesucht. Von Rainer Sigl (Mobile Games, Games)
BMW: So soll der Elektro-Mini aussehen
BMW zeigt auf der IAA in Frankfurt einen rein elektrisch betriebenen Mini. Der Mini Electric Concept braucht keinen Kühlergrill und soll 2019 auf den Markt kommen. (BMW, Technologie)
Vision EQ Fortwo: Smart als Taxi ohne Lenkrad und Fahrer
Der Smart von morgen holt seine Fahrgäste ab, bringt sie zum Ziel und steht dann anderen zur Verfügung. So stellt sich Daimler die Zukunft vor und zeigt vor der IAA den Vision EQ Fortwo. Lenkrad und Fahrer sind nicht erforderlich. (Autonomes Fahren, Technologie)
Feds: Man jailed for not decrypting drives has “chutzpah” to ask to get out
Prosecutors use Yiddish to describe man imprisoned 2 years for contempt of court.
Federal prosecutors wrote to a US judge Wednesday saying that a child-porn suspect jailed for nearly two years for refusing to decrypt his hard drives should remain jailed until he complies with a court order to unlock them. The defendant has a lot of "chutzpah" to even ask to get out of jail while he appeals the contempt-of-court order to the US Supreme Court, prosecutors said in a new court filing.
The dispute concerns a now-fired Philadelphia cop who has been jailed since September 30, 2015 for refusing to decrypt two hard drives that authorities found at his residence as part of a federal child-porn investigation. Lawyers for Francis Rawls want him released pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, which has never decided on whether forcing somebody to decrypt hardware amounts to a Fifth Amendment violation.
"He does not offer to comply with the original order, nor does he assert that it is impossible for him to do so. Nevertheless, he asks the Court to allow him to go free. The Court should deny the motions," federal prosecutor Michael Levy wrote (PDF) the federal judge who will preside over a hearing on the dispute Thursday.
AT&T absurdly claims that most “legitimate” net neutrality comments favor repeal
AT&T ignores finding that 98.5% of unique comments favor net neutrality rules.
Despite a study showing that 98.5 percent of individually written net neutrality comments support the US's current net neutrality rules, AT&T is claiming that the vast majority of "legitimate" comments favor repealing the rules.
The Federal Communication Commission's net neutrality docket is a real mess, with nearly 22 million comments, mostly from form letters and many from spam bots using identities stolen from data breaches. AT&T is part of an industry group called Broadband for America that just funded a study that tries to find trends within the chaos.
As we wrote earlier today, that study (conducted by consulting firm Emprata) found fewer than 1.6 million filings appear to have "originated from individuals that took the time to type a personalized comment." Of those, 1.52 million were against FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to repeal the current Title II net neutrality rules, while just 23,000 were in favor of repeal.