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You know how Google was planning to shut down its social network next year because apparently Google+ is a buggy mess riddle with security vulnerabilities that the company can’t be bothered to fix because not enough people actually use it anyway?…
You know how Google was planning to shut down its social network next year because apparently Google+ is a buggy mess riddle with security vulnerabilities that the company can’t be bothered to fix because not enough people actually use it anyway? Yeah, apparently Google found another security vulnerability recently. And while it’s been patched up, […]
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Amazon is running sales on Kindle, Fire, and Echo products today, but those aren’t the only tech deals available for holiday shoppers on this “Green Monday.” Best Buy and Target are offering some impressive deals on iPads. A bunch of …
Amazon is running sales on Kindle, Fire, and Echo products today, but those aren’t the only tech deals available for holiday shoppers on this “Green Monday.” Best Buy and Target are offering some impressive deals on iPads. A bunch of Chromebooks and Windows laptops and convertibles are on sale. And today’s a pretty good day […]
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Super-solid found by comparing materials that can and cannot be super-solids.
Enlarge / Computer artwork of the nucleus of a helium atom, or an alpha particle given off during radioactive decay. The nucleus consists of two positively charged protons (red) and two neutral neutrons (green) surrounded by a quantum cloud of gluons, a type of subatomic particle. (credit: Getty Images)
In recent months, I’ve mentioned super-solids a couple of times, which is a bit unusual for something we haven't been sure actually exists. However, a recent paper seems to offer some quite strong confirmation that super-solids are real. That means it is time to delve into the weird and wonderful world of low-temperature helium.
Helium is, without a doubt, the Universe’s weirdest material, beating out molecular hydrogen by a rather long nose. The key to helium’s strangeness is that it is normally a boson: a helium-4 atom consists of two protons, two neutrons, and two electrons, which sums to an even number, making a composite boson.
What does all that mean? It means that when cold enough, a group of helium atoms can enter the same quantum state. Even though they are spread out over a whole vessel, they all know something about the condition of their distant neighbors. This enables the helium atoms to flow without resistance, a state called a superfluidity. It's good company among other weird and wonderful properties of helium.
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Es sollte schneller fahren als jedes Auto zuvor und sogar schneller sein als der Schall. Es war aber langsamer als die Pleite: Das britische Bloodhound Project ist insolvent. (Auto, Technologie)
Es sollte schneller fahren als jedes Auto zuvor und sogar schneller sein als der Schall. Es war aber langsamer als die Pleite: Das britische Bloodhound Project ist insolvent. (Auto, Technologie) The UK Government has committed £2 million to fund the ongoing “Get it Right” anti-piracy campaign until 2021. Under this program, UK Internet providers and rightsholders have teamed up to warn alleged pirates and educate the public at large on how to access content through ‘genuine’ channels.
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Four years ago, copyright indistry groups and Internet providers teamed up to fight online piracy in the UK.
Backed by the Government, they launched several educational campaigns under the “Get it Right” banner.
Under the program, ISPs send out piracy warnings to subscribers whose accounts are used to share copyright-infringing material. This started early last year and has been ongoing since.
There haven’t been any official updates in a while, nor is it known how many alerts are going out on a monthly basis. However, it appears that copyright holders and the UK Government are happy with the progress thus far.
Late last week the Government announced that it will continue its support for the ‘Get it Right’ campaign. It will allocate £2 million in funding as part of a £20 million boost to the UK’s creative industries.
“This package will take the sector from strength to strength by arming the next generation of creatives with the necessary skills and giving businesses in the sector the support they need to succeed,” says Margot James, Minister for the Creative Industries.
It’s unclear what the future plans are. The official ‘Get It Right’ page hasn’t changed much in recent years. However, it’s expected that the email warning program, targeted at alleged pirates, will continue.
We are not aware of any public reports on the effectiveness of the campaign. However, Ian Moss, Public Affairs director at the music industry group BPI, suggests that there is data suggesting that it works.
“The research into the campaign has shown it really makes a difference and that a positive campaign that is relevant to fans can help change the way people think about accessing content online,” Moss says.
“The Government’s continuing commitment to the successful campaign is warmly welcomed.”
This isn’t the first time that the UK Government has financially supported the ‘Get it Right’ campaign. It also contributed £3.5 million to the program at the start.
While it’s hard to measure a direct return on investment, the Government previously justified the spending with an expected increase in sales tax. This would be achieved by converting pirates into legitimate customers.
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The Governments official announcement is available here. Via gamesindustry.
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Plug-and-play hardware lacks even basic functional security for crucial bootrom.
Enlarge / The PlayStation Classic's internal USB, removed and picked at as part of the hacking effort. (credit: Yifan Lu / Twitter)
In the days since the PlayStation Classic's official release, hackers have already made great progress in loading other PlayStation games (and even non-PlayStation software) onto the plug-and-play device. What's more, it seems some sloppy cryptography work on Sony's part is key to unlocking the device for other uses.
Console hackers yifanlu and madmonkey1907 were among those who were able to dump the PlayStation Classic's code via the system's UART serial port in the days after its release. From there, as yifanlu laid out on Twitter, the hackers found that the most sensitive parts of the system are signed and encrypted solely using a key that's embedded on the device itself, rather than with the aid of a private key held exclusively by Sony. In essence, Sony distributed the PlayStation Classic with the key to its own software lock hidden in the device itself.
Further examination by yifanlu during a series of marathon, Twitch-streamed hacking sessions found that the PlayStation Classic also doesn't seem to perform any sort of signature check at all for the sensitive bootrom code that's loaded when the system starts up. That makes it relatively trivial to load any sort of payload to the hardware from a USB device at startup, as yifanlu demonstrated with a video of a Crash Bandicoot prototype running on the PlayStation Classic last week.
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Gegen Ende 2019 erscheint eine große Erweiterung namens Iceborne für Monster Hunter World, ein paar Monate davor tritt der Hexenmeister an. Die Hauptfigur aus The Witcher 3 soll mit seiner typischen Mischung aus Schwertkampf und Magie auf die Jagd gehe…
Gegen Ende 2019 erscheint eine große Erweiterung namens Iceborne für Monster Hunter World, ein paar Monate davor tritt der Hexenmeister an. Die Hauptfigur aus The Witcher 3 soll mit seiner typischen Mischung aus Schwertkampf und Magie auf die Jagd gehen. (Monster Hunter World, Rollenspiel) Der freie Zugang zur Datenbank mit den amtlichen Gesetzblättern ist alles andere als komfortabel. Das will die Open Knowledge Foundation nun ändern und riskiert damit einen Rechtsstreit. (Open Data, Urheberrecht)
Der freie Zugang zur Datenbank mit den amtlichen Gesetzblättern ist alles andere als komfortabel. Das will die Open Knowledge Foundation nun ändern und riskiert damit einen Rechtsstreit. (Open Data, Urheberrecht) Verizon was accused of filing false 4G coverage map, triggering investigation.
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Four months after receiving a complaint claiming that Verizon "grossly overstated" its 4G LTE coverage in government filings, the Federal Communications Commission says that at least one carrier is apparently guilty of significant rules violations.
The FCC did not name any specific carrier in its announcement and did not respond to our question about whether Verizon is among the carriers being investigated. But the investigation was apparently triggered by a complaint about Verizon filed in August by the Rural Wireless Association (RWA).
The RWA, which represents rural carriers, made its case to the FCC by submitting speed test data. The speed tests showed the Verizon network wasn't providing 4G LTE service in areas that Verizon claimed to cover, according to the RWA.
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Samsung’s hardly the only company working on smartphones with hole-punch displays. Huawei sub-brand Honor has just unveiled its first phone with a tiny hole in the screen for front-facing camera. But it’s the rear camera on the Honor View 2…
Samsung’s hardly the only company working on smartphones with hole-punch displays. Huawei sub-brand Honor has just unveiled its first phone with a tiny hole in the screen for front-facing camera. But it’s the rear camera on the Honor View 20 which may be more interesting — it’s a 48MP camera with a Sony IMX586 image […]
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