Month: April 2018

Unter dem Codenamen Crimson Canyon entwickelt Intel einen NUC8 mit 10-nm-Cannon-Lake-Prozessor und einer Radeon-Grafikeinheit. Nach dem Hades Canyon mit Kaby Lake G und spezieller Vega-GPU ist der Crimson Canyon schon die zweite Zusammenarbeit von Intel und AMD. (Intel NUC, Prozessor)

Das für Mai 2018 geplante Update der Firmware bringt der Xbox One neue Optionen: Nutzer können eine Bildfrequenz von 120 Hz einstellen, dazu kommen Verbesserungen im Hauptmenü und bei der Videobearbeitung. (Xbox One, Microsoft)

Was passiert gerade wo auf der Erde? Das US-Unternehmen Earth Now plant eine Konstellation aus Satelliten, mit denen sich die Welt rund um die Uhr aus dem All betrachten lässt, auch vom Smartphone oder Tablet aus. Zu den Investoren gehört unter anderem Bill Gates. (Satelliteninternet, Bill Gates)

Callya-Flex-Kunden können ihren Tarif wieder über die iPhone-App anpassen. Durch einen Fehler in der App konnten Kunden drei Wochen lang ihre Tarifkonditionen darüber nicht ändern. Vodafone-Kunden sind wegen der langen Wartezeit verärgert. (Vodafone, Mobilfunk)

In addition to website blocking which is running rampant across dozens of countries right now, targeting the domains of pirate sites is considered to be a somewhat effective anti-piracy tool.

The vast majority of websites are found using a recognizable name so when they become inaccessible, site operators have to work quickly to get the message out to fans. That can mean losing visitors, at least in the short term, and also contributes to the rise of copy-cat sites that may not have users’ best interests at heart.

Nevertheless, crime-fighting has always been about disrupting the ability of the enemy to do business so with this in mind, authorities in India began taking advice from the UK’s Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) a couple of years ago.

After studying the model developed by PIPCU, India formed its Digital Crime Unit (DCU), which follows a multi-stage plan.

Initially, pirate sites and their partners are told to cease-and-desist. Next, complaints are filed with advertisers, who are asked to stop funding site activities. Service providers and domain registrars also receive a written complaint from the DCU, asking them to suspend services to the sites in question.

Last July, the DCU earmarked around 9,000 sites where pirated content was being made available. From there, 1,300 were placed on a shortlist for targeted action. Precisely how many have been contacted thus far is unclear but authorities are now reporting success.

According to local reports, the Maharashtra government’s Digital Crime Unit has managed to have 11 pirate site domains suspended following complaints from players in the entertainment industry.

As is often the case (and to avoid them receiving even more attention) the sites in question aren’t being named but according to Brijesh Singh, special Inspector General of Police in Maharashtra, the sites had a significant number of visitors.

Their domain registrars were sent a notice under Section 149 of the Code Of Criminal Procedure, which grants police the power to take preventative action when a crime is suspected. It’s yet to be confirmed officially but it seems likely that pirate sites utilizing local registrars were targeted by the authorities.

“Responding to our notice, the domain names of all these websites, that had a collective viewership of over 80 million, were suspended,” Singh said.

Laxman Kamble, a police inspector attached to the state government’s Cyber Cell, said the pilot project was launched after the government received complaints from Viacom and Star but back in January there were reports that the MPAA had also become involved.

Using the model pioneered by London’s PIPCU, 19 parameters were applied to list of pirate sites in order to place them on the shortlist. They are reported to include the type of content being uploaded, downloaded, and the number of downloads overall.

Kamble reports that a further 89 websites, that have domains registered abroad but are very popular in India, are now being targeted. Whether overseas registrars will prove as compliant will remain to be seen. After booking initial success, even PIPCU itself experienced problems keeping up the momentum with registrars.

In 2014, information obtained by TorrentFreak following a Freedom of Information request revealed that only five out of 70 domain registrars had complied with police requests to suspend domains.

A year later, PIPCU confirmed that suspending pirate domain names was no longer a priority for them after ICANN ruled that registrars don’t have to suspend domain names without a valid court order.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Durch den hohen lauten Ton eines Feueralarms wurden in einem schwedischen Rechenzentrum mehrere Festplatten beschädigt oder zerstört. Dadurch konnte der Börsendienst Nasdaq nicht arbeiten. Das Problem: In ganz Schweden gebe es nicht genug Server, um den Schaden direkt zu beheben. (Festplatte, Speichermedien)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Pacific Rim: Uprising is the most downloaded movie.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.

This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(…)	Pacific Rim: Uprising (Subbed HDrip)	5.9 / trailer
2	(3)	12 Strong	6.8 / trailer
3	(2)	Den of Thieves	7.0 / trailer
4	(1)	Maze Runner: The Death Cure	6.8 / trailer
5	(…)	Red Sparrow (Subbed HDrip)	6.7 / trailer
6	(8)	Black Panther (HDTS)	7.9 / trailer
7	(6)	Hostiles	7.3 / trailer
8	(5)	The Greatest Showman	7.9 / trailer
9	(4)	The Commuter	6.4 / trailer
10	(…)	Bleeding Steel	5.3 / trailer

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Wenn ein autonom fahrendes Auto von Nissan nicht mehr weiterweiß, soll sich ein Callcenter-Mitarbeiter mit den Kameras und anderen Sensoren des Fahrzeugs umschauen und neue Anweisungen geben. (Autonomes Fahren, Nasa)

Bisher hatte AMD nur 65-Watt-Versionen von Raven Ridge im Angebot, nun folgen zwei 35-Watt-Ableger: Die Ryzen mit Vega-Grafik haben weniger Takt, sind aber ansonsten identisch. Beide eignen sich für Mini-ITX-Systeme mit Sockel AM4. (AMD Zen, Prozessor)

Klein, kompakt und leicht: Das neue Intuos-Stift-Tablet zeigt uns, wie überraschend schlank ein Wacom-Produkt werden kann. Trotzdem hat es die gleiche bewährte Digitizer-Stift-Kombination wie wesentlich teurere Geräte. Bei den Makrotasten müssen wir hingegen ein paar Abstriche machen. Ein Test von Oliver Nickel (Wacom, Eingabegerät)