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Here are the intriguing toxins that spice up our favorite holiday dishes

There’s little risk and the FDA is on it—but it’s food for (morbid) thought.

As the adage goes, the dose makes the poison. But the same can be said for our foods—a morbid morsel to chew on during your holiday noshing.

While still safe to eat, our favorite dishes have a dark side—a striking amount are laced with toxic and deadly substances. In fact, we flirt with intriguingly dangerous ingredients not just during the holidays, but daily. Potentially poisonous substances arrive in our foods through contamination and hazardous production conditions, and toxins are also naturally present in many plants. Nearly all are present at such low amounts that they pose little risk. But, in large enough quantities or if safety monitoring fails, some of our favorite dishes could easily turn against us.

This leaves the Food and Drug Administration with the tricky task of keeping our foods safe—and knowing when they slip into the realm of poisons.

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Wahlkampfhilfe: “Finden Sie Ihre Wähler auf Facebook”

Facebook hilft Politikern auf der ganzen Welt aktiv dabei, Wahlen zu gewinnen. Auch vor einer Zusammenarbeit mit rechten Parteien und umstrittenen Regierungen macht das Werbeunternehmen dabei offenbar nicht halt. Ethikregeln, die das verhindern könnten…

TV Technica 2017: Our 10 favorite watches

TV’s continued niche-ification means there’s plenty of excellent tech moments to enjoy.

Warning: This story discusses a handful of specific moments from TV in 2017. Though we’ve strived to avoid spoilng anything major, please note this list includes specific references to Stranger Things 2, Mr. Robot S3, Master of None S2, and Last Week Tonight among others.

More and more big players started entering the TV game in 2017: Facebook and Apple began devoting resources to original content, and old media stalwarts such as CBS and Disney decided a standalone streaming service was worth an investment. The downside of this seemingly imminent TV future is obvious: if you think it’s hard to find a show to talk about at work now, wait 'til we all have to subscribe to 15 different services to stay up on the latest darling of TV critics.

Still, the upsides may be worth navigating that headache. There has never been more room and opportunity for a diverse set of creators to get their shot. And that ever-increasing mass of shows to sample means it’s better than ever for fans of certain television niches. Whether you want things that are only teen-focused, tech-focused, or terror-focused, chances are, multiple options exist and a few of them will be well worth a binge-weekend investment.

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How do you change the most important law in Internet history? Carefully

Op-ed: Changes to law shielding websites from liability for user posts should be minor.

Congress has spent much of the past year grappling with a heartbreakingly difficult issue: victims who are prohibited by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act from suing the websites where they were sex-trafficked.

Unfortunately, some of the debate has been sidetracked by a misunderstanding of how the statute works and a recent court case that interpreted it. Section 230 is one of the most important laws in the history of the Internet, and before we amend the statute to fix problems, we need to understand precisely what the problems are.

Twenty-six words within Section 230 shield websites from many types of claims arising from user content: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.” For example, if a newspaper publishes a defamatory article, the subject can sue the newspaper publisher for defamation. But under Section 230, if a user posts a defamatory comment on Twitter, the subject cannot successfully sue Twitter for defamation (but can sue the tweeter).

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beA: Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer verteilt HTTPS-Hintertüre

Im Rahmen des besonderen elektronischen Anwaltspostfachs (BeA) forderte die Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer ihre Mitglieder dazu auf, ein Root-Zertifikat zu installieren, zu dem der private Schlüssel öffentlich ist. Ein gravierendes Sicherheitsrisiko, das di…

Raumfahrtpionier: US-Astronaut Bruce McCandless gestorben

Großer Sprung statt kleiner Schritt: Vor dem ersten Raumausflug ohne Sicherung hatte Bruce McCandless mit einem markigen Spruch, der auf Neil Armstrong anspielte, für gute Stimmung gesorgt. Nun ist der Raumfahrtpionier im Alter von 80 Jahren gestorben….

Raumfahrt: Musks Tesla Roadster ist startklar

Montiert auf einer Halterung, zwischen den beiden Teilen der Nutzlastverkleidung der Falcon Heavy: So zeigen Fotos, die Elon Musk auf Instagram veröffentlicht hat, das Elektroauto Tesla Roadster, das mit der Rakete von SpaceX in wenigen Wochen zum Mars…

Deezer Tries to Shut Down ‘Hacked’ Pirate Versions

The music industry is gravely concerned with pirate sites, but there are gaping holes in legal services as well. This is also true for the France-based streaming service Deezer, which is trying to rid the web from “hacked” versions that allow people to download music freely.

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Nowadays there are dozens of ways for people to pirate free music. Torrent sites, direct downloading portals, stream ripping, you name it.

While the music industry tries to crack down on these unauthorized services, there are also plenty of problems close to home.

Legitimate streaming platforms such as Spotify and Tidal has been used to rip music from, and the same is true for the French streaming giant Deezer.

Through various applications, the public can freely access and download the entire Deezer library, completely hassle-free.

Take Deezloader, for example, which makes it surprisingly easy to grab high-quality tracks, complete with proper titles and tags. Want to download a full album in one click? No problem. A custom playlist of dozens of songs? Done.

Deezloader

Deezer is obviously not happy with these applications. Through DMCA notices the company does its best to take them down. This week it sent a notice to the developer platform GitHub, targetting several of these tools.

“The following projects, in the paragraph below, make available a hacked version of our Deezer application or a method to unlawfully download the music catalogue of Deezer, in total violation of our rights and of the rights of our music licensors,” Deezer wrote.

“..therefore ask that you immediately take down the projects corresponding to the URLs below and all of the related forks by others members who have had access or even contributed to such projects.”

GitHub was quick to respond and removed access to (forks of) applications such as Deezloader, DeezerDownload, Deeze, Deezerio, Deezit, and Deedown. Instead, users who try to access these repositories now see the following notice.

Deezgone?

While the DMCA notice helps to make these projects unavailable, at least on GitHub, the applications still work. They’re also widely available through other sites and forums.

These tools have been around for a while and despite Deezer’s most recent efforts, the music’s still playing

Deezer refers to the pirate applications as “hacked” versions and appears to be unable block them from accessing its own servers. That’s a worrying prospect for the company.

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Netzspeicher: Tesla-Speicher verhindert Stromausfall in Australien

Wegen des Ausfalls eines Kohlekraftwerks hätten Menschen im Süden Australiens früher eine Weile ohne Strom auskommen müssen. Der von Tesla gebaute und kürzlich in Betrieb genommene Netzspeicher hat den Stromausfall verhindert. (Tesla, Technologie)

Torrent Links Disappear From Torrentz2

The popular torrent meta-search engine Torrentz2 is no longer linking to external sites. This makes the site pretty much unusable for torrent scavengers. At this point, it’s unknown whether it’s the result of technical issues, or something else.

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Last year, Torrentz.eu decided to close its doors. Without prior warning, all torrent listings were removed from the meta-search engine.

As is often the case with torrent sites, this gap was quickly filled. Just several hours after Torrentz has thrown the proverbial towel, several ‘copies’ popped up, eager to take its place.

The most successful alternative, in terms of traffic, is the elegantly named Torrentz2.eu. Unlike many others, Torrentz2 has always been upfront with its users and never claimed to be an official resurrection.

They just wanted to do what Torrentz did, or even better. This worked, as millions of users were drawn to the site. However, since a few days Torrentz2 is no longer listing any torrent links.

People can still search for files, but the site only lists file details and no links to third-party sites where these can be downloaded.

No links?

The problems first started earlier this week and have been persistent since at least Thursday.

To the broader public it’s unclear what’s causing the issue. It could very well be a technical problem that can be addressed easily, or perhaps something more severe.

Interestingly, new torrent data is still being added to the site. The links to other torrent sites are missing, however, which makes it pretty much unusable.

TorrentFreak reached out to the operator to find out more but we haven’t heard back yet. If we received a response the article will be updated accordingly.

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