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Google gives up on Google Allo, hopes carriers will sort out RCS messaging

After the failure of Allo, Google cedes control of Android messaging to the carriers.

It's time for another chapter in the saga of Google's messaging mess. This latest news comes from The Verge, which reports that Google will be abandoning its most recent messaging app failure, Google Allo, in favor of a renewed push for the carrier-controlled RCS (Rich Communication Services) protocol.

Google Allo was Google's attempt at a WhatsApp clone, and it launched just a year-and-a-half ago with a laundry list of deficiencies. It used a phone-centric login system and didn't support using a Google account. It only worked on one device at a time and didn't have an interface for desktop or laptop computers. Distribution wasn't great either, as Allo wasn't one of the mandatory Google apps included in every Android phone. None of this really mattered since Allo didn't support sending SMS messages, so there was no one to talk to anyway. Google's other chat service, Google Hangouts, was better in nearly every way.

With such a half-baked launch, the real unknown for Google Allo was what kind of resources Google would throw at it. Like Android, which also entered a market late in the game, Allo needed a massive amount of resources to catch up to the competition. Instead, we were treated to an absolutely glacial development pace that mostly focused on new sticker packs. It took a full year before Allo addressed one of its biggest flaws—not working on a desktop—and even then, login was handled by a janky QR code pairing system that only worked on one extra device at a time. Google users expect a Google account-based login that works on all devices all the time, just like Hangouts.

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Security: Iranische Hacker erlangen Daten von 25 deutschen Unis

Wissenschaftliche Dokumente und Dissertationen: Iranische Hacker haben Zugang zu Daten von mehreren deutschen wissenschaftlichen Instituten erhalten. Die Spur führt zum Mabna-Institut in Teheran – eine Einrichtung, die bereits öfter in den Medien aufta…

Wissenschaftliche Dokumente und Dissertationen: Iranische Hacker haben Zugang zu Daten von mehreren deutschen wissenschaftlichen Instituten erhalten. Die Spur führt zum Mabna-Institut in Teheran - eine Einrichtung, die bereits öfter in den Medien auftauchte. (Cybercrime, Instant Messenger)

Cloudflare Kicks Out Torrent Site For Abuse Reporting Interference

Cloudflare has terminated its services to the anime torrent site NYAA.si. According to Cloudflare, the pirate site tried to interfere with and thwart the operation of the company’s abuse reporting systems. The site’s operator, however, says he’s not aware of any wrongdoing.

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As one of the leading CDN and DDoS protection services, Cloudflare is used by millions of websites across the globe.

The company’s clients include billion dollar companies and national governments, but also personal blogs, and even pirate sites.

Copyright holders are not happy with the latter category and are pressuring Cloudflare to cut their ties with sites like The Pirate Bay, both in and out of court.

Cloudflare, however, maintains that it’s a neutral service provider. They forward copyright infringement notices to their customers, for example, but deny any liability for these sites.

Generally speaking, the company only disconnects a customer in response to a court order, as it did with Sci-Hub earlier this year. That’s why it came as a surprise when the anime torrent site NYAA.si was disconnected this week.

The site, which is a replacement for the original NYAA, has millions of users and is particularly popular in Japan. Without prior warning, it became unavailable for several hours this week, after Cloudflare removed it from its services. So what happened?

TorrentFreak spoke to the operator who said that the exact reason for the termination remains a mystery to him. He reached out to Cloudflare looking for answers, but the comany simply stated that it’s about “avoiding measures taken to avoid abuse complaints,” as can be seen below.

One of Cloudflare’s messages

The operator says he hasn’t done anything out of the ordinary and showed his willingness to resolve any possible issues. However, that hasn’t changed Cloudflare’s stance.

“We asked multiple times for clarification. We also expressed that we were willing to attempt to work with them on whatever the problem actually was, if they would explain what they even mean.

“Naturally, I have been stonewalled by them at every stage. I’ve contacted numerous persons at Cloudflare and nobody will talk about this,” NYAA’s operator adds.

TorrentFreak asked Cloudflare for more details and the company confirmed that the matter was related to interference with its abuse reporting systems, without providing further detail.

“We determined that the customer had taken steps specifically intended to interfere with and thwart the operation of our abuse reporting systems,” Cloudflare’s General Counsel Doug Kramer informed us.

Cloudflare’s statement suggests that the site took active steps to interfere with the abuse process. The company added that it can’t go into detail, but says that the reason for the termination was shared with the website owner.

The website owner, on the other hand, informs us that he has no clue what the exact problem is. NYAA.si occasionally swaps IP addresses and have recently set up some mirror domains, but these were all under the same account. So, he has no idea why that would interfere with any abuse reports.

“I’m honestly unsure of what we could have done that ‘circumvents” their abuse system,” NYAA’s operator says, adding that the only abuse reports received were copyright related.

It’s unlikely, however, that copyright takedown notices alone would warrant account termination, as most of the largest torrent sites use Cloudflare.

NYAA’s operator says he can do little more than speculate at the point. Some have hinted at a secret court order while Japan’s recent crackdown on manga and anime piracy also came to mind, all without a grain of evidence of course.

Whatever the reason, NYAA.si now has to move on without Cloudflare, while the mystery remains.

“Frankly, this whole thing is a joke. I don’t understand why they would willingly host much bigger sites like ThePirateBay without any issue, or even ISIS, or the various hacking groups that have used them over time,” the operator says.

If more information about the abuse process interfere becomes available, we’ll definitely follow it up.

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Deutsche Telekom: Gericht bestätigt Stopp von Vorratsdatenspeicherung

Die Telekommunikationsprovider sind nicht zur anlasslosen Speicherung von Verbindungs- und Standortdaten verpflichtet. Dazu gibt es nun erstmals ein Urteil in einem Hauptsacheverfahren zugunsten der Deutschen Telekom. (Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Datensch…

Intel Crimson Canyon NUC coming soon, with Cannon Lake-U CPU, AMD Radeon 500 graphics?

Intel’s first 10nm chips are on the way, and while they’ll still be positioned as part of Intel’s 8th-gen Core processor family, they’ll be based on the company’s new “Cannon Lake” architecture. We already had a good idea that some of the first Cannon …

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Android 8.0: LG V30, Moto Z und HTC U Ultra bekommen Oreo

In den letzten Tagen haben einige Smartphones ein Upgrade auf Android 8.0 bekommen, darunter auch LGs Topgerät V30. Zusätzlich erhalten Nutzer des Oneplus 5 und 5T sowie des Razer Phones Android 8.1. (Android 8.0, LG)

Verteilte Datenbank: Apples FoundationDB wird Open-Source-Software

Die verteilte Datenbank FoundationDB steht unter der Apache-2.0-Lizenz. Besitzer Apple will eine Community um das Projekt aufbauen, die Erweiterungen entwickeln soll. (NoSQL, Apple)

Gameforge: Erstes Urteil gegen Betreiber illegaler Spieleserver

Cyperia und Hardcore Reloaded: Mit diesen nicht lizenzierten Spieleservern für Metin 2 haben die Betreiber sechsstellige Gewinne erzielt. Nun hat ein Gericht eine erste, relativ milde Strafe ausgesprochen – auch, weil der Hauptangeklagte Einblick in di…

Audi E-Tron: Ein Akku-Doppelbett für die Jagd auf Tesla

In wenigen Monaten will Audi mit seinem ersten vollelektrischen Auto auf den Markt kommen. Beim Ladekonzept des E-Tron orientiert sich der deutsche Hersteller am US-Konkurrenten Tesla. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (Audi, Technologie)

Netflix film examines why NASA shunned women astronauts in early days

Since then, NASA has begun to redeem itself by taking steps toward gender parity.

This June, the world will mark the 55th anniversary of the first woman flying into space. Valentina Tereshkova, an amateur Russian skydiver, spent nearly three days in orbit inside a spherical Vostok 6 capsule. The first American woman, physicist Sally Ride, would not follow Tereshkova into space for another two decades.

A new documentary on Netflix, Mercury 13, examines the question of why NASA did not fly women in space early on and, in particular, focuses on 13 women who underwent preliminary screening processes in 1960 and 1961 to determine their suitability as astronauts. The film offers a clear verdict for why women were excluded from NASA in the space agency's early days—"good old-fashioned prejudice," as one of the participants said. Mercury 13 will be released Friday.

The film admirably brings some of these women to life, all of whom were accomplished pilots. There is Jerrie Cobb, who scored very highly in the preliminary tests and gave compelling testimony before Congress in an attempt to open NASA's early spaceflight programs to women. Another key figure is pilot Jane B. Hart, married to a US Senator from Michigan, whose experience in the project compelled her to become one of the founders of the National Organization for Women.

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