September 2017 – Page 116 – news.buyenne.com

Initial Coin Offerings verboten: China geht gegen Kryptowährungsbetrüger vor

In China kann künftig nicht mehr in Initial Coin Offerings investiert werden. Die chinesische Zentralbank hat entsprechende Investments verboten, sogar bestehende Token sollen zurückerstattet werden. Der Kurs von Bitcoin und Ethereum reagierte deutlich. (Bitcoin, Server)

Virtual Reality: Sensics’ Headset löst mit 2.880 x 1.600 Pixeln auf

Einer der Mitbegründer von OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality) verkauft ein Headset, das mehr Bildpunkte aufweist als die Konkurrenz. Es wird von zwei Lüftern gekühlt, damit der Nutzer wenig schwitzt, und integriert Hand-Tracking. (VR, OLED)

Stellenmarkt: IT-Spezialisten verdienen deutlich weniger als Ingenieure

Golem.de bietet seinen Lesern die Möglichkeit, über einen Gehaltscheck ihr Einkommen zu überprüfen und zu vergleichen. Eine erste Analyse der Zahlen zeigt die gleiche regionale Verteilung gut bezahlter IT-Jobs wie in anderen Branchen sowie deutliche Gehaltsunterschiede zwischen IT-Spezialisten und Ingenieuren. (Golem.de, Internet)

Lucasfilm fires the director of Star Wars Episode IX

It’s the second time Lucasfilm has changed Star Wars directors this year.

Lucasfilm has fired Colin Trevorrow as director of Star Wars: Episode IX. The final installment of the nine-part Star Wars saga is slated for release in 2019.

"Colin has been a wonderful collaborator throughout the development process but we have all come to the conclusion that our visions for the project differ," says a statement on the Star Wars website.

Lucasfilm hasn't announced a replacement for Trevorrow.

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From Apple to Y Combinator—tech sector denounces new “Dreamers” plan

“It’s against our values to turn our backs on #DREAMers,” Uber’s new CEO tweeted

Leading technology-sector bosses denounced President Donald Trump's move Tuesday to end a program that had prevented the deportation of so-called "Dreamers," people who illegally came to the US as children.

Apple chief Tim Cook told employees in an e-mail that "We issue an urgent plea for our leaders in Washington to protect the Dreamers so their futures can never be put at risk in this way again." Cook has tweeted that 250 people who are Dreamers work for Apple.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took to his social media network, saying Trump's decision was "cruel."

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Boston Red Sox caught red-handed using Apple Watch to steal signs

Boston was apparently stealing signs from opposing teams’ catchers and pitchers.

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I don't know if baseball was one of the sports that Apple originally targeted when it created the Apple Watch, but it has nevertheless found a home there, according to the New York Times. On Tuesday afternoon the newspaper reported that Major League Baseball determined that the Boston Red Sox "executed a scheme to illicitly steal hand signals from opponents' catchers" against a number of teams.

Victimized teams include the New York Yankees, whose general manager filed the complaint with the league. At issue are the coded signs that catchers send pitchers during games. The Yankees apparently believe that the Red Sox had been stealing those signs and were using Apple Watches as a way to discreetly pass that information on to their players. After all, it's easier to hit the ball if you have a good idea where to find it.

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‘Game of Thrones Season 7 Pirated Over a Billion Times’

Data published by piracy monitoring firm MUSO suggests that the seventh season of Game of Thrones was pirated more than one billion times. Most of the traffic was generated by unauthorized streaming services, with torrent and direct downloads accounting for just a small piece of the pie, roughly fifteen percent.

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The seventh season of Game of Thrones has brought tears and joy to HBO this summer.

It was the most-viewed season thus far, with record-breaking TV ratings. But on the other hand, HBO and Game of Thrones were plagued by hacks, leaks, and piracy, of course.

While it’s hard to measure piracy accurately, streaming in particular, piracy tracking outfit MUSO has just released some staggering numbers. According to the company, the latest season was pirated more than a billion times in total.

To put this into perspective, this means that on average each episode was pirated 140 million times, compared to 32 million views through legal channels.

The vast majority of the pirate ‘views’ came from streaming services (85%), followed by torrents (9%) and direct downloads (6%). Private torrent trackers are at the bottom with less than one percent.

Pirate sources

Andy Chatterley, MUSO’s CEO and Co-Founder, notes that the various leaks may have contributed to these high numbers. This is supported by the finding that the sixth episode, which leaked several days in advance, was pirated more than the season finale.

“It’s no secret that HBO has been plagued by security breaches throughout the latest season, which has seen some episodes leak before broadcast and added to unlicensed activity,” Chatterley says.

In addition, the data shows that despite a heavy focus on torrent traffic, unauthorized streaming is a much bigger problem for rightsholders.

“In addition to the scale of piracy when it comes to popular shows, these numbers demonstrate that unlicensed streaming can be a far more significant type of piracy than torrent downloads.”

Although the report shares precise numbers, it’s probably best to describe them as estimates.

The streaming data MUSO covers is sourced from SimilarWeb, which uses a sample of 200 million ‘devices’ to estimate website traffic. The sample data covers thousands of popular pirate sites and is extrapolated into the totals.

While more than a billion downloads are pretty significant, to say the least, MUSO is not even looking at the full pirate landscape.

For one, Muso’s streaming data doesn’t include Chinese traffic, which usually has a very active piracy community. As if that’s not enough, alternative pirate sources such as fully-loaded Kodi boxes, are not included either.

It’s clear though, which doesn’t really come as a surprise, that Game of Thrones piracy overall is still very significant. The torrent numbers may not have grown in recent years, but streaming seems to be making up for it and probably adding a few dozen million extra, give or take.

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Total Global Downloads and Streams by Episode

Episode one: 187,427,575
Episode two: 123,901,209
Episode three: 116,027,851
Episode four: 121,719,868
Episode five: 151,569,560
Episode six: 184,913,279
Episode seven (as of 3rd Sept): 143,393,804
All Episode Bundles – Season 7: 834,522
TOTAL (as of 3rd September) = 1,029,787,668

Total Breakdown By Type

Streaming: 84.66%
Torrent: 9.12%
Download: 5.59%
Private Torrent: 0.63%

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

Lexar storage will live on… at least in name

Micron announced in June that it would be killing off its Lexar line of storage products including USB flash drives, S cards, and related products. But it looks like new products with the Lexar name may be on the way. Chinese flash storage company Longsys has acquired the Lexar trademark and branding rights from Micron. […]

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Senate Democrats fight FCC plan to lower America’s broadband standards

You can’t fix the US broadband problem by redefining it, senators tell FCC.

Senate Democrats are fighting a Federal Communications Commission proposal that could lower America's broadband standards by redefining what counts as broadband Internet access.

Under standards imposed during the Obama administration, the FCC says that all Americans should have access to home Internet service offering speeds of at least 25Mbps downstream and 3Mbps upstream, as well as access to mobile Internet. When the FCC makes its annual judgment of whether broadband is being deployed to all Americans quickly enough, the commission thus analyzes whether all parts of the country have both fast home Internet and mobile service.

But FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's proposal suggests that cellular Internet could be counted as a full substitute for home Internet access rather than a complement to it. Moreover, his proposal suggests that mobile wouldn't even have to meet the 25/3Mbps speed standard—instead, a 10Mbps/1Mbps mobile connection could suffice.

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Lenovo agrees to pay $3.5 million fine for Superfish, promises not to do it again

A few years after Lenovo was caught pre-installing adware on computers without informing customers, the company has reached a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission and 32 state attorneys general from across the United States. Among other things, Lenovo will pay $3.5 million, get consent from customers before installing any similar software in the […]

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