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Die Alarmanlage Nest Secure kann seit Kurzem auch mit Sprachbefehlen umgehen – dass in dem Gerät ein Mikrofon steckt, war zuvor unbekannt. (Nest, Google)
Obwohl Union und SPD in ihrem Koalitionsvertrag des Gegenteil vereinbart haben, stimmt die Bundesregierung auf EU-Ebene für Uploadfilter. Mehrere andere EU-Staaten lehnten die Einigung auf die “Merkelfilter” bis zuletzt ab. (Urheberrecht, Leistungsschu…
Obwohl Union und SPD in ihrem Koalitionsvertrag des Gegenteil vereinbart haben, stimmt die Bundesregierung auf EU-Ebene für Uploadfilter. Mehrere andere EU-Staaten lehnten die Einigung auf die "Merkelfilter" bis zuletzt ab. (Urheberrecht, Leistungsschutzrecht) Mit Ares und Helios hat ARM zwei Neoverse genannte Designs für Cloud-Server entwickelt: Neoverse E1 ist für Durchsatz optimiert und nutzt SMT, wohingegen Neoverse N1 über mehr Rechenleistung verfügt. (ARM-Server, Prozessor)
Mit Ares und Helios hat ARM zwei Neoverse genannte Designs für Cloud-Server entwickelt: Neoverse E1 ist für Durchsatz optimiert und nutzt SMT, wohingegen Neoverse N1 über mehr Rechenleistung verfügt. (ARM-Server, Prozessor) LG will unveil its next flagship phone in a few days, but the company has already explained that the upcoming LG G8 ThinQ will have a Time of Flight (ToF) camera with 3D, depth-sensing capabilities. Now the company is explaining a little more about how…
LG will unveil its next flagship phone in a few days, but the company has already explained that the upcoming LG G8 ThinQ will have a Time of Flight (ToF) camera with 3D, depth-sensing capabilities. Now the company is explaining a little more about how the ToF module can be used… not only in the […]
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“The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret,” Google says.
Enlarge / You can't see it, but there is actually a microphone in here. (credit: Nest)
Google's Nest smart home brand is in hot water this week after news surfaced (via Daring Fireball) that its home security system, Nest Secure, shipped with an undisclosed microphone. Google activated the microphone earlier this month for Google Assistant functionality, but that meant the device sat in users' homes for up to a year as an unknown potential listening device.
Nest Secure launched last year as a $500 home security system. It's just a collection of door, window, and motion sensors, along with a small desktop box that acts as a hub for the devices and a security code keypad. It has a speaker for alarms and other sounds, but it isn't something you would ever expect to have a microphone.
Google gave a statement to Business Insider yesterday, saying, “The on-device microphone was never intended to be a secret and should have been listed in the tech specs. That was an error on our part.” According to the company, "the microphone has never been on and is only activated when users specifically enable the option.”
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No pre-approval needed for player-made content on Microsoft’s console.
Enlarge / Surviving Mars will be the first Xbox One game to allow the upload of user-created mods without pre-approval.
In a console industry first, Paradox Interactive and Microsoft are allowing Xbox One players to get direct access to game modifications created on the PC without any pre-approval from the console maker or publisher.
This isn't the first time players have been able to add their own modified content to a console game. Bethesda enabled Fallout 4 mods on Xbox One back in May 2016 and on PlayStation 4 months later. Paradox itself followed with a similar modding program for the Xbox One version of Cities: Skylines early last year.
But the player-made mods made available on those and other console games in the past had one major distinction from their PC cousins: they had to be individually and manually approved by the platform holder and game publisher for potential content and security issues.
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Die Telefónica hat die Netzfusion in Deutschland endlich abgeschlossen. Verluste schreibt der Netzbetreiber jedoch weiterhin. (Telefónica, Mobilfunk)
Die Telefónica hat die Netzfusion in Deutschland endlich abgeschlossen. Verluste schreibt der Netzbetreiber jedoch weiterhin. (Telefónica, Mobilfunk) Von Fans programmierte Modifikationen für Konsolenspiele sind anders als bei PC-Games noch eine Seltenheit. Jetzt bieten das Entwicklerstudio Paradox Interactive und Microsoft für das Aufbauspiel Surviving Mars solche Erweiterungen an – weitere Titel s…
A new ‘blacklist’ published by Rights Alliance and the Association of Swedish Advertisers is designed to keep advertising off ten pirate sites, The Pirate Bay and Fmovies included. Unfortunately, at least three sites in the list carry suspect ads that are designed to deceive but are likely to survive the purge.
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In many regions of the world, copyright holders, anti-piracy companies, and authorities are teaming up to tackle the problem of pirate sites.
In the past, emphasis was placed on aggressive shutdowns but increasingly there is a tendency to “follow the money”, a strategy that aims to starve site operators of their income while making sites less lucrative to run.
A big part of this is restricting the amount of quality advertisers prepared to have their ads appear on pirate sites. Indeed, there are significant programs in the United States and Europe dedicated to encouraging companies to stay away from pirate sites.
Over in Sweden, one such initiative was announced in 2015 by Rights Alliance and the Association of Swedish Advertisers. The headline was that 600 advertisers had banned The Pirate Bay from their networks but there were actually an additional nine sites on the worst offenders list, most of which have now faded away.
Now, less than four years later, the partnership has published a new and updated blacklist containing ten domains,
“Advertising finances the illegal services,” says Sara Lindbäck,
“After a major survey, we can see that gaming companies are the largest advertisers. By updating the blacklist, we make it easy for all advertisers, including the gaming companies, not to place their advertising on the illegal services.”
The top 10 list of ‘worst-offending’ pirate sites to be avoided by advertisers in Sweden reads as follows:
Given that only a handful of these domains looked immediately familiar to us (branding aside), we checked them out, one by one. The Pirate Bay needs no explanation, of course, but others warrant further explanation.
At the time of writing, DreamfilmHD.cc is currently non-operational but Lindbäck informs TF that the site might only be “down temporarily” and since it has had a lot of advertising placed on it for a long time, its place on the list is justified. However, SimilarWeb reports a worldwide site-rank in excess of a million, so its importance seems limited.
Nyafilmer.com
Both Swefilmer.eu and Streamtajm.com, on the other hand, are much less significant, with the former barely moving the traffic needle and the latter bringing in around 750,000 visitors per month. Dreamfilm.fun isn’t listed by SimilarWeb but according to Alexa, it pulls in around 200k visitors per month.
That brings us to the final three sites in the list, which we’ll bundle together since they have something in common on the advertising front.
Nyafilmer.tv, Dreamfilm.pro, and Swesub.net are all streaming platforms. The former is very tiny, with a world site-rank in excess of four million, but the others appear to be growing and derive most of their traffic from Swedish visitors. However, all three use a particularly irritating form of advertising.
As a test, we chose to search for the movie Aquaman on the sites, since it’s new and shouldn’t be available to stream legally, especially via a pirate site. After clicking the thumbnail, the user is greeted with an embedded video player at the top of the screen (the real movie is
Needless to say, Aquaman did not play. Instead, the user is greeted with this message (translated);
The link takes users to GamesHeaven.net (we’re not going to link) which claims that the movie is available there for ‘free
However, this site does not have this movie at all (or most others that users sign up to receive for that matter) and actually requires people to enter credit card details, which, as this thread and others show, often goes nowhere good. This platform, and others that are based on the same underlying
This type of advertising is extremely misleading so pirate (and other) sites should consider not directing their customers to such platforms in this manner when they clearly don’t have the content being claimed. If people want to pay for movies, they should go to platforms like Netflix, that
Unfortunately, however, not even Sweden’s advertising ban is likely to prevent these ads from appearing on lower-tier pirate sites since we’re informed they’re based overseas and quite lucrative. Also, since the underlying services do indeed have other (albeit less popular) licensed content available, they’ve been running along trouble free for years.
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Analysis: Elon Musk is difficult to work for. That doesn’t mean Tesla is in trouble.
Enlarge / Elon Musk in 2018. (credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Tesla announced Wednesday that it is replacing general counsel Dane Butswinkas, who had been on the job for only two months. Tesla Legal Vice President Jonathan Chang will take the job.
The groundbreaking electric carmaker has suffered a number of senior executive departures in the last couple of years—and some were of surprisingly short tenure. Last September, Chief Accounting Officer Dave Morton announced that he was leaving after less than a month on the job.
Tesla short-sellers have revelled in this kind of news. Especially last year, as Tesla was struggling to ramp up Model 3 production and Musk was dealing with the fallout from several self-inflicted problems, critics portrayed each departure as the latest sign that rats were fleeing a sinking ship.
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Die Alarmanlage Nest Secure kann seit Kurzem auch mit Sprachbefehlen umgehen - dass in dem Gerät ein Mikrofon steckt, war zuvor unbekannt. (
Von Fans programmierte Modifikationen für Konsolenspiele sind anders als bei PC-Games noch eine Seltenheit. Jetzt bieten das Entwicklerstudio Paradox Interactive und Microsoft für das Aufbauspiel Surviving Mars solche Erweiterungen an - weitere Titel sollen folgen. (
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