Month: November 2017

Systemkamera: Leica CL verbindet Retro-Design mit neuester Technik

Leica entwickelt sein APS-C-System weiter und hat nun die CL vorgestellt, die sich vor allem durch einen höher auflösenden Sensor, einen schnelleren Autofokus und ein etwas verändertes Aussehen von der TL unterscheidet und an klassische Leicas erinnert…

Leica entwickelt sein APS-C-System weiter und hat nun die CL vorgestellt, die sich vor allem durch einen höher auflösenden Sensor, einen schnelleren Autofokus und ein etwas verändertes Aussehen von der TL unterscheidet und an klassische Leicas erinnert. (Leica, Digitalkamera)

Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results

Google and several leading Russian search engines have completely wiped 786 ‘pirate’ sites from their search results. That’s according to telecoms watch Rozcomnadzor, which reports that the search providers delisted the sites after ISPs were ordered by a Moscow court to permanently block them.

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Late July, President Vladimir Putin signed a new law which requires local telecoms watchdog Rozcomnadzor to maintain a list of banned domains while identifying sites, services, and software that provide access to them.

Rozcomnadzor is required to contact the operators of such services with a request for them to block banned resources. If they do not, then they themselves will become blocked. In addition, search engines are also required to remove blocked resources from their search results, in order to discourage people from accessing them.

Removing entire domains from search results is a controversial practice and something which search providers have long protested against. They argue that it’s not their job to act as censors and in any event, content remains online, whether it’s indexed by search or not.

Nevertheless, on October 1 the new law (“On Information, Information Technologies and Information Protection”) came into effect and it appears that Russia’s major search engines have been very busy in its wake.

According to a report from Rozcomnadzor, search providers Google, Yandex, Mail.ru, Rambler, and Sputnik have stopped presenting information in results for sites that have been permanently blocked by ISPs following a decision by the Moscow City Court.

“To date, search engines have stopped access to 786 pirate sites listed in the register of Internet resources which contain content distributed in violation of intellectual property rights,” the watchdog reports.

The domains aren’t being named by Rozcomnadzor or the search engines but are almost definitely those sites that have had complaints filed against them at the City Court on multiple occasions but have failed to take remedial action. Also included will be mirror and proxy sites which either replicate or facilitate access to these blocked and apparently defiant domains.

The news comes in the wake of reports earlier this month that Russia is considering a rapid site blocking mechanism that could see domains rendered inaccessible within 24 hours, without any parties having to attend a court hearing.

While it’s now extremely clear that Russia has one of the most aggressive site-blocking regimes in the world, with both ISPs and search engines required to prevent access to infringing sites, it’s uncertain whether these measures will be enough to tackle rampant online piracy.

New research published in October by Group-IB revealed that despite thousands of domains being blocked, last year the market for pirate video in Russia more than doubled.

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Android: Google bekommt Standortdaten auch ohne GPS-Aktivierung

Ein Hintergrunddienst sendet offenbar Standortdaten von Android-Nutzern an Google, auch wenn diese kein GPS verwenden. Dafür verantwortlich ist der Firebase-Cloud-Messaging-Dienst. Das Unternehmen will die umstrittene Praxis künftig unterlassen. (Daten…

Ein Hintergrunddienst sendet offenbar Standortdaten von Android-Nutzern an Google, auch wenn diese kein GPS verwenden. Dafür verantwortlich ist der Firebase-Cloud-Messaging-Dienst. Das Unternehmen will die umstrittene Praxis künftig unterlassen. (Datenschutz, Smartphone)

Kabelnetz: Primacom darf Kundendaten nicht weitergeben

Ein Primacom-Standardvertrag erlaubte in der Vergangenheit die Weitergabe von Kundendaten an Dienstleister. Ein Urteil des Landgerichts Leipzig wird von dem Kabelnetzbetreiber akzeptiert. (Tele Columbus, Verbraucherschutz)

Ein Primacom-Standardvertrag erlaubte in der Vergangenheit die Weitergabe von Kundendaten an Dienstleister. Ein Urteil des Landgerichts Leipzig wird von dem Kabelnetzbetreiber akzeptiert. (Tele Columbus, Verbraucherschutz)

Intel confirms security vulnerabilities in Intel Management Engine

Intel has come under fire recently for bundling hidden firmware on some chips. While Intel Management Engine provides some hardware-based security and power management features, it’s also a completely closed-source bit of code that comes bundled …

Intel has come under fire recently for bundling hidden firmware on some chips. While Intel Management Engine provides some hardware-based security and power management features, it’s also a completely closed-source bit of code that comes bundled with most recent Intel processors, and which cannot be easily disabled by users who may decide they don’t need […]

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RIP net neutrality: FCC chair releases plan to deregulate ISPs

Vote to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules scheduled for December 14.

(credit: Free Press)

The Federal Communications Commission today announced its plan to deregulate the broadband industry and eliminate net neutrality rules, setting up a December 14 vote to finalize the repeal.

As expected, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is proposing to reverse the commission's classification of home and mobile ISPs as common carriers, eliminating the legal justification for the net neutrality rules and numerous other consumer protections. The Republican-controlled FCC is likely to vote 3-2 along party lines in favor of Pai's plan at its regular monthly meeting in December, ignoring Internet users who voiced widespread support for net neutrality rules.

Pai's decision is a big win for cable companies, telcos, and mobile carriers that will no longer face regulation of their broadband businesses under Title II of the Communications Act. Pai ignored numerous calls from consumer advocates, website operators, and Internet users who urged the FCC to preserve the rules that force Internet providers to treat all Web content fairly.

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SX-10 Aurora Tsubasa: NECs Beschleuniger nutzt sechs HBM2-Stacks

Vektorkarte statt Intels Xeon Phi oder Nvidias Tesla: NEC zeigt mit dem SX-Aurora Tsubasa einen Rechner für Supercomputer, der eine sehr hohe Leistung liefert. Das Topmodell ist wassergekühlt, drei Varianten sollen Anfang 2018 erscheinen. (NEC, Compute…

Vektorkarte statt Intels Xeon Phi oder Nvidias Tesla: NEC zeigt mit dem SX-Aurora Tsubasa einen Rechner für Supercomputer, der eine sehr hohe Leistung liefert. Das Topmodell ist wassergekühlt, drei Varianten sollen Anfang 2018 erscheinen. (NEC, Computer)

New hardware lets any computer run an interactive, 3D interface

Video: Box projects a 3D display, tracks your fingers as you interact with it.

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My first experience with a hologram was, like so many other people's, completely fictional: a small, blue figure projected from R2-D2 in the original Star Wars. About a decade later, I got a taste of the real-world state of the art from New York City's Museum of Holography, now closed. Holograms did exist in all their 3D glory, but they were static. You committed to displaying one image when the hologram was made, and that was it. No animated messages from princesses.

But there has been progress since. Holographic displays with actual refresh rates—albeit painfully slow ones—and other approaches have been described, but products based on any of this have yet to appear. Meanwhile, non-holographic approaches to 3D have taken off. TV and movie screens feature 3D viewing with simple glasses but don't allow interactions. Immersive goggles and gear do allow interaction, but only for the people wearing the goggles, which isolates them from anyone nearby.

So we were intrigued when we got an offer to visit Looking Glass, a Brooklyn-based company that's offering what they're calling Holoplayer One, a 3D projection system that lets users interact with the projected images, all without goggles or glasses. And, perhaps most importantly, it was almost ready for market.

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There’s no good reason for the new PlayStation VR headset to exist

Modular design should allow for minor upgrades at a lower price.

You'd be forgiven if you didn't realize that Sony released the second version of its PlayStation VR headset this month. The new version (model number CUH-ZVR2) was announced with minimal fanfare in October because there's really not much to make fanfare about. This is a minor revision that fixes some small design flaws with last year's launch hardware and does not alter the headset's core specs (resolution, field-of-view, refresh rate, etc.) in any way.

After comparing the two headsets over the last few days, though, I came away wondering why the PSVR v2 even exists in the first place. Rather than requiring a completely new headset (which retails for $200 to $300 standalone, depending on sales), the improvements made to the v2 model could and should have been available to existing PSVR owners as modular replacements for a fraction of the cost.

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Virtual Reality: Huawei und TPCast wollen VR mit 5G streamen

Weg von stationären oder mobilen Headsets hin zu einer Cloud-Lösung: Huawei und TPCast planen Virtual Reality über den 5G-Standard. Auch Augmented Reality und Mixed Reality sollen so in Zukunft komplett drahtlos umgesetzt werden. (VR, Server)

Weg von stationären oder mobilen Headsets hin zu einer Cloud-Lösung: Huawei und TPCast planen Virtual Reality über den 5G-Standard. Auch Augmented Reality und Mixed Reality sollen so in Zukunft komplett drahtlos umgesetzt werden. (VR, Server)