Month: June 2018

Düstere Höhlensysteme, eine prächtige Stadt in Südamerika und die Apokalypse: Im nächsten Tomb Raider erlebt Lara Croft wieder spannende Abenteuer. Beim Anspielen konnte Golem.de das ungewöhnliche System der Schwierigkeitsgrade kennenlernen. (Tomb Raider, Square Enix)

Through a series of new proposals, the European Commission is working hard to modernize EU copyright law.

These plans have not been without controversy. In particular, Article 13 of the proposed Copyright Directive has been widely criticized as it would pressure online services to monitor and filter uploaded content.

The article states that online services are liable for any uploaded content unless they take “effective and proportionate” action to prevent copyright infringements, as identified by copyright holders.

That also includes preventing allegedly infringing files from being reuploaded, which implies some form of hash filtering and continuous monitoring of all user uploads.

Today, the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliament (JURI) voted on the issue. With a 15 to 10 majority, the Article 13 proposal of Rapporteur Voss was adopted. This means that the plans move ahead in their current form, despite massive public outcry.

Over the past year, we have repeatedly covered the widespread opposition. Legal scholars, digital activists, politicians, all worried that the upload restrictions would violate the rights of regular Internet users.

In recent weeks, the wave of protests swelled. More prominent figures sounded the alarm bell, including Internet pioneer Vint Cerf, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle, and Jimmy Wales from Wikipedia.

The campaign was picked up by the public as well. Roughly 320,000 people have signed petitions urging lawmakers to reject the plans and over the last week more than 50,000 tweets went up mentioning the #SaveYourInternet hashtag.

In addition to Article 13, there was also considerable pushback against Article 11, which is regularly referred to as the “link tax.” This proposal was accepted as well, with a 13 to 12 majority.

Now that the proposal has passed the Committee the plans will move to plenary before progressing towards the final vote on copyright reform next spring.

It also means that they are now much harder to stop or change. That has been done before, such as with ACTA, but achieving that type of momentum will be a tough challenge.

Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda, who suggested alternatives to the controversial proposals, is disappointed with the outcome. However, she’s not giving up yet.

“These measures will break the internet. People will run into trouble doing everyday things like discussing the news and expressing themselves online. Locking down our freedom to participate to serve the special interests of large media companies is unacceptable,” Reda says.

“I will challenge this outcome and request a vote in the European Parliament next month. We can still overturn this result and preserve the free internet.”

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Oppo hat mit dem Find X sein neues Smartphone mit sehr dünnem Rahmen um das Display vorgestellt. Das erreicht der chinesische Hersteller durch einen technischen Trick: Ein ausfahrbarer Schlitten im oberen Bereich beinhaltet die duale Hauptkamera sowie die Frontkamera - eine Notch hat das Gerät nicht. (Oppo, Smartphone)

Elektroautos montiert Tesla bereits in Europa. Eine Akkufertigung ist geplant. In einem Tweet hat Elon Musk Deutschland als Standort ins Spiel gebracht. Das ergibt Sinn. Der Tweet könnte aber auch eine Ablenkung sein. Eine Analyse von Werner Pluta (Tesla, Elektroauto)

Ersten Benchmarks zufolge taktet AMD den 32-kernigen Threadripper 2990X mit 3 GHz Basistakt und 4,2 GHz Boost. Der 250-Watt-Ryzen benötigt überdies kein neues Mainboard, sondern nur ein UEFI-Update. (AMD Zen, Prozessor)

Es wird keinen UKW-Blackout geben. Laut Media Broadcast werden Divicon und Uplink ab dem 1. Juli 2018 die Antennen direkt anmieten und schrittweise ihre Sender an die Antennen der Antenneneigner anschließen. (Internet, Freenet)

Apples Airpower-Ladematte soll iPhones, Airpods und die Apple Watch gleichzeitig aufladen, doch rund 280 Tage nach Ankündigung ist das Gerät noch immer nicht auf den Markt gekommen. (Induktion, Apple)

Das vom Milliardär Li Ka-shing unterstützte Unternehmen WE Solutions aus Hongkong will ein Werk in Schanghai errichten, um 3D-gedruckte Elektroautos zu produzieren. Diese sollen vornehmlich im Taxibetrieb fahren. (Elektroauto, 3D-Drucker)

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Canonical may have stopped developing/supporting a version of Ubuntu for smartphones and tablets. But the folks at UBPorts have kept the idea of a touch-friendly version of Ubuntu alive for the past year. Now the team has released Ubuntu Touch RC OTA-4, which is the first version based on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus. That’s significant […]

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