Month: November 2018

"Ein wildes Drachkin erscheint!": Blizzard arbeitet anscheinend an einem neuen Warcraft-Titel, der sich am Mobile Game Pokémon Go orientiert. Es soll immersiver sein als die Vorlage und auch Einzelspielerinhalte bieten. (WoW, MMORPG)

Salzlaugen aus Perchloraten würden selbst auf dem Mars flüssiges Wasser ermöglichen. Messungen, nach denen solches Wasser auf dem Planeten tatsächlich existiert, wurden jetzt aber als falsch erkannt. (Mars, Nasa)

Die Rennsimulation F1 2018 unterstützt per Beta-Branch die Grafikschnittstelle Direct3D 12. Entwickler Codemasters möchte so austesten, ob und wo das API für Spieler von Vorteil ist. Die ersten Resultate sind zumindest bei AMDs Radeon-Grafikkarten positiv. (DirectX-12, Grafikhardware)

Es kann losgehen: Im Januar wird die Raumkapsel von SpaceX erstmals unbemannt ins All starten, die von Boeing folgt im März. Nach bemannten Tests im Sommer sollen die beiden US-Raumfahrtunternehmen in der zweiten Hälfte 2019 mit den regulären Flügen zur ISS beginnen. (Raumschiff, Technologie)

Die Android-App Quicksy will eine Brücke schlagen zwischen Nutzern des XMPP-Protokolls und der Möglichkeit, Kontakte über die Telefonnummer zu finden. (XMPP, Instant Messenger)

Bei Amazon gab es eine Datenpanne, die E-Mail-Adressen und Namen von Kunden standen im Netz. Was genau passiert ist, weiß jedoch keiner. Der Konzern schweigt sich über Details aus. (Amazon, Datenschutz)

Nach einem schweren Datenleck ist der Chatanbieter Knuddels noch einmal glimpflich davongekommen. Das Bußgeld nach der DSGVO fiel niedrig aus, weil das Unternehmen gut mit dem Datenschutzbeauftragten kooperierte. (Passwort, PHP)

By offering acces to high quality movies and TV-shows, steaming site Flixtor has steadily grown its userbase in recent years.

The site, not to be confused with the defunct torrent streaming app Flixtor, has been operating with minimal downtime. This week that changed.

On Tuesday morning the site moved away from CDN provider Cloudflare. Flixtor’s domain nameservers were changed from to those of its registrar Njalla, and the A records were removed.

As a result, anyone who tried to access the site would see an error message in their browser. After a few hours, the site added an A record, setting it to localhost (127.0.0.1), which means that it’s still unusable.

Since the trouble started there have been no updates from the operators.

While the trouble may be due to a technical or hosting issue, it’s worth noting that Flixtor’s backup domains, including Flixtor.is and Flixtor.se, are also suffering the same problem.

Flixtor

TorrentFreak reached out to Flixtor’s domain registrar Njalla who noted that the domain name is technically working just fine, as it resolves to the listed IP-address. In this case, that’s an unusable address, but it suggests that any changes were made by a person in control of the domain names.

Whatever the reason may be, Flixtor’s users will have to miss their favorite streaming site, for now.

That’s especially painful for the users that paid for VIP access, which started at $14.95 per month. Some hope to get a refund, but it’s uncertain if that will ever happen.

“Refund would be great, I paid for 2 years just a few weeks ago, but I wouldn’t count on it, I guess just a learning for me to never pay anything like this anymore,” one user commented on Reddit.

While the downtime has lasted for more than three days, the site may eventually reappear. TorrentFreak has reached out to a contact address associated with Flixtor, but at the time of writing, we have yet to hear back.

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

By offering acces to high quality movies and TV-shows, steaming site Flixtor has steadily grown its userbase in recent years.

The site, not to be confused with the defunct torrent streaming app Flixtor, has been operating with minimal downtime. This week that changed.

On Tuesday morning the site moved away from CDN provider Cloudflare. Flixtor’s domain nameservers were changed from to those of its registrar Njalla, and the A records were removed.

As a result, anyone who tried to access the site would see an error message in their browser. After a few hours, the site added an A record, setting it to localhost (127.0.0.1), which means that it’s still unusable.

Since the trouble started there have been no updates from the operators.

While the trouble may be due to a technical or hosting issue, it’s worth noting that Flixtor’s backup domains, including Flixtor.is and Flixtor.se, are also suffering the same problem.

Flixtor

TorrentFreak reached out to Flixtor’s domain registrar Njalla who noted that the domain name is technically working just fine, as it resolves to the listed IP-address. In this case, that’s an unusable address, but it suggests that any changes were made by a person in control of the domain names.

Whatever the reason may be, Flixtor’s users will have to miss their favorite streaming site, for now.

That’s especially painful for the users that paid for VIP access, which started at $14.95 per month. Some hope to get a refund, but it’s uncertain if that will ever happen.

“Refund would be great, I paid for 2 years just a few weeks ago, but I wouldn’t count on it, I guess just a learning for me to never pay anything like this anymore,” one user commented on Reddit.

While the downtime has lasted for more than three days, the site may eventually reappear. TorrentFreak has reached out to a contact address associated with Flixtor, but at the time of writing, we have yet to hear back.

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

BKA-Chef Münch will nicht nur die tatsächliche, sondern auch die gefühlte Sicherheit verbessern. Das gilt auch bei der Bekämpfung von Internetkriminalität. (Anonymität, Netzwerk)