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Asus recently launched six different phones as part of the Zenfone 4 family. But if you’re wondering what happened to the Zenfone 4v that was leaked earlier this year then a) you need better things to wonder about and b) now we’ve got an answer. It looks like the phone is coming to Americ as […]
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Asus recently launched six different phones as part of the Zenfone 4 family. But if you’re wondering what happened to the Zenfone 4v that was leaked earlier this year then a) you need better things to wonder about and b) now we’ve got an answer. It looks like the phone is coming to Americ as […]
Asus Zenfone V coming soon as a Verizon exclusive is a post from: Liliputing
Gab, an app popular with the alt-right, says Google violated antitrust law.
Enlarge / Google CEO Sundar Pichai. (credit: Nguyen Hung Vu)
Gab, a Twitter rival popular with the Breitbart crowd, is suing Google. The lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania federal court on Thursday, argues that Google violated antitrust laws when it rejected Gab's app from its Android app store.
Gab says Google rejected Gab to help its business partner Twitter. Google and Twitter signed a data-sharing deal in 2015, and Gab argues the deal gave Google a financial stake in Twitter's success. The deal "makes the Google search engine immeasurably more valuable," Gab writes in its lawsuit. As a result of the deal, "the two companies' user bases have essentially been merged."
In Gab's view, the decision to block its app from the Play Store "is intended to, and does, unlawfully protect the financial and strategic benefits it enjoys by virtue of its partnership with Twitter, Gab's chief competitor, from other competitors."
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Apple’s limits on tracking will “sabotage the economic model for the Internet.”
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Apple's latest operating systems for the Mac and iPhone will soon be rolling out, and with that comes new restrictions on ad-tracking in the Safari browser.
Adding a 24-hour limit on ad targeting cookies is good for privacy under Apple's new "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" feature. But if you're an advertiser, the macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 Safari browsers spell gloom and doom for the Internet as we know it. The reason is because Safari is making it harder for advertisers to follow users as they surf the Internet—and that will dramatically reduce the normal bombardment of ads reflecting the sites Internet surfers have visited earlier.
Six major advertising groups have just published an open letter blasting the new tracking restrictions Apple unveiled in June. They say they are "deeply concerned" about them:
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Low-cost EVs only really hit the market in 2017.
Enlarge / IEA's findings in graphical form (credit: EIA)
Around the world, the average price of electric vehicles (EVs) rose in 2016, but that's not necessarily cause for alarm according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). When the agency divided the list price of EVs with their range, it found a downward trend in how much bang an EV buyer is getting for their buck.
The average price of EVs sold around the world was at its lowest in 2012, according to data from the annually compiled World Energy Investment 2017 report. In the following five years, that number has been growing steadily—a trend you'd expect to worry advocates who think electrifying a significant part of the auto industry is one of the most important ways to make a dent in CO2 emissions. While higher prices reflect "faster growth in more expensive models," they don't "take account of increases in driving range through battery improvements," the IEA wrote.
Dividing the list price of EVs on the market by their maximum stated driving range shows a different story. In 2012, EVs cost on average $400 per kilometer of range, whereas in 2016 that number was closer to $250 per kilometer of range. If EVs are getting more expensive, they're also becoming more functional. "For now, reductions in battery costs are translating into longer ranges rather than lower vehicle prices," the EIA wrote. "The average price per kilometer of driving range declined by six percent in 2016."
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This July, Luke Nosek reportedly left a big investment firm to focus on SpaceX fundraising.
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AUSTIN, Texas—The September 13 keynote at this year’s Data Center Austin conference seemed like a bit of an oddity: an angel investor, appearing at an IT/data center industry event, reportedly talking about aerospace funding.
Luke Nosek likely doesn’t have any issue with things that appear unusual to outsiders, though. This summer, he made news with what seemed like an odd career decision. Formerly a founding exec at PayPal, Nosek would also become a former founding exec at Founders Fund, the organization he created (along with Silicon Valley figures such as Peter Thiel) to fund “disruptive” endeavors like SpaceX and Facebook within the last decade. Nosek’s new project? According to Axios and The Los Angeles Times, the investor would instead be creating an entirely new firm, Gigafund, whose initial focus would be fundraising for SpaceX and SpaceX alone.
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A few hours ago a cryptocurrency miner appeared on The Pirate Bay website, using the computer resources of visitors to mine Monero coins. The operators of The Pirate Bay haven’t commented on the issue so it remains unclear why the miner was added or by whom, but many users aren’t happy.
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Four years ago many popular torrent sites added an option to donate via Bitcoin. The Pirate Bay was one of the first to jump on board and still lists its address on the website.
While there’s nothing wrong with using Bitcoin as a donation tool, adding a Javascript cryptocurrency miner to a site is of a totally different order.
A few hours ago many Pirate Bay users began noticing that their CPU usage increased dramatically when they browsed certain Pirate Bay pages. Upon closer inspection, this spike appears to have been caused by a Bitcoin miner embedded on the site.
The code in question is tucked away in the site’s footer and uses a miner provided by Coinhive. This service offers site owners the option to convert the CPU power of users into Monero coins.
The miner does indeed appear to increase CPU usage quite a bit. It is throttled at different rates (we’ve seen both 0.6 and 0.8) but the increase in resources is immediately noticeable.
The miner is not enabled site-wide. When we checked, it appeared in the search results and category listings, but not on the homepage or individual torrent pages.
There has been no official comment from the site operators on the issue, but many users have complained about it. In the official site forums, TPB supermoderator Sid is clearly not in agreement with the site’s latest addition.
“That really is serious, so hopefully we can get some action on it quickly. And perhaps get some attention for the uploading and commenting bugs while they’re at it,” Sid writes.
Like many others, he also points out that blocking or disabling Javascript can stop the automatic mining. This can be done via browser settings or through script blocker addons such as NoScript and ScriptBlock.
Whether the miner is a new and permanent tool, or perhaps triggered by an advertiser, is unknown at the point. When we hear more this article will be updated accordingly.
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Das neue G-Drive von G-Technology ist eine wetterfeste externe SSD mit IP67-Schutzart. Dank USB-3.1-Gen2-Geschwindigkeit arbeitet das kompakte G-Drive flott. Angesichts der hohen Kapazität kostet zumindest das große Modell aber auch viel Geld. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)
Das neue G-Drive von G-Technology ist eine wetterfeste externe SSD mit IP67-Schutzart. Dank USB-3.1-Gen2-Geschwindigkeit arbeitet das kompakte G-Drive flott. Angesichts der hohen Kapazität kostet zumindest das große Modell aber auch viel Geld. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien) Nach der geschlossenen Beta für Konsolen starten Sledgehammer Games eine offene Beta für PC-Spieler: Vom 29. September bis zum 2. Oktober 2017 ist Call of Duty WW2 spielbar. Die Systemanforderungen sind niedrig, ein Steam-Account ist Pflicht. (Call of Duty, Server)
Nach der geschlossenen Beta für Konsolen starten Sledgehammer Games eine offene Beta für PC-Spieler: Vom 29. September bis zum 2. Oktober 2017 ist Call of Duty WW2 spielbar. Die Systemanforderungen sind niedrig, ein Steam-Account ist Pflicht. (Call of Duty, Server) Apple hat neben wenig überraschenden Geräten ein Jubiläums-iPhone vorgestellt, das so spannend wie teuer ist. Und auf der IAA 2017 fehlten große Hersteller, es gab aber trotzdem interessante Autos zu sehen. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet)
Apple hat neben wenig überraschenden Geräten ein Jubiläums-iPhone vorgestellt, das so spannend wie teuer ist. Und auf der IAA 2017 fehlten große Hersteller, es gab aber trotzdem interessante Autos zu sehen. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Internet) BREIN has booked another victory against a group of prolific uploaders. The Hollywood backed organization signed settlements with two people connected to the “Libra Release Team.” The group in question shared hundreds of infringing movies and TV-shows on torrent and Usenet sites, focusing on the Dutch market.
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Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has been very active in recent years, targeting uploaders on various sharing sites and services.
This week the anti-piracy group announced yet another victory against a group of frequent copyright infringers in the Netherlands.
BREIN successfully tracked down and settled with two key members of the “Libra Release Team” (LRT), which is estimated to consist of eight to ten people in total.
LRT is best known in the Netherlands for repackaging English movie and TV releases with Dutch subtitles. These were then shared on torrent sites and Usenet forums.
According to court papers, the files in question were uploaded to place2home.org and place2home.net. However, they often spread out over other sites as well. In total, the release team has published nearly 800 titles.
BREIN tracked down the founder of LRT, who had already stopped uploading, and obtained an ex-parte court order against a more recent uploader. Both have settled with the anti-piracy group for a total of 8,000 euros, an amount that takes their financial situations into account.
The uploader was further summoned to and stop his activities effective immediately. If not, an ex-parte court order requires him to pay an additional penalty of €2,000 per day, up to a maximum of €50,000.
The court papers don’t mention how the members were uncovered, but it is likely that they left traces to their real identities online, which is often the case. The group also recruited new members publicly, using Skype and Gmail as contact addresses.
It’s unclear whether the settlements means the end of the Libra Release Team. While the targeted persons are unlikely to pick up their old habit, some of the others may still continue, perhaps under a new name.
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