March 2019 – Page 18 – news.buyenne.com

Chromium-Browser: Vivaldi 2.4 erhält Browser-Profile

Der auf Chromium basierende Browser Vivaldi steht in einer neuen Version bereit. Damit gibt es für Vivaldi-Nutzer Browser-Profile, um parallel verschiedene Browser-Instanzen komplett unabhängig voneinander nutzen zu können. (Vivaldi, Browser)

Police and FACT Raids Target “£3 Million” Pirate TV Operation

UK police and Trading Standards officers, with assistance from anti-piracy outfit FACT, have conducted raids targeting a pirate TV operation. Shop premises and homes were searched and equipment worth an alleged £100k was seized. Two men have been arrested on suspicion of fraud.

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Piracy of TV content is an extremely hot topic at the moment, with IPTV and often associated card-sharing systems proving a huge thorn in the sides of content owners and broadcasters alike.

The latest news comes in the wake of raids carried out Monday in London by police, Trading Standards, and anti-piracy outfit the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).

The action, described as targeting a “£3 million fraud operation”, came as part of an investigation to “download, encrypt and widely distribute TV content from Sky, Virgin and BT.”

Local sources in Ilford, where officers raided a shop, say the operation was carried out in partnership with Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham Trading Standards. Two homes were also raided and searched.

Two men were arrested on suspicion of fraud, with police claiming that the suspects generated £600,000 per year from their activities. A list of 3,000 subscribers to their services, which was found in the shop, is now in the hands of the authorities.

A figure of £3 million has been placed on the estimated fraud although it remains unclear whether that’s the total revenue of the ‘pirate’ business or the amount the broadcasters are claiming in losses.

According to the Ilford Recorder, equipment worth £100,000 – including computers, servers, and set-top boxes – was seized by the councils’ Trading Standards officers.

TorrentFreak contacted the Federation Against Copyright Theft for further details on the operation but at the time of writing, we are yet to receive a response. It therefore remains unclear whether the targets were running an IPTV operation alongside ‘pirate’ set-top box sales, or perhaps offering card-sharing services.

“This type of fraud, on this scale has an impact upon providers of TV channels, steals their income and can lead to increased costs for legitimate subscribers,” said Councillor Robert C. Littlewood, Cabinet Member for Crime, Safety & Community Cohesion.

“Investigations are ongoing and Redbridge Trading Standards are continuing with enforcement action to bring the offenders before the courts, including the seizure of illegal assets gained from the fraud.”

News of action against pirate TV providers has suddenly become an extremely hot topic recently.

Last week, three men from the UK were jailed for a total of 17 years for running a pirate TV operation, which more recently including illegal streaming.

Just a day a later, news broke that police across Europe had dismantled what they claimed to be the biggest illegal IPTV network targeted thus far in the region, worth an estimated eight million euros. Five people were arrested.

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Elektromobilität: Scholz findet Gefallen an VWs Subventionsplänen

Volkswagen fordert von der Bundesregierung einen umfangreichen Maßnahmenkatalog zur Förderung der Elektromobilität. Bundesfinanzminister Olaf Scholz (SPD) ließ nun durchblicken, dass er daran Gefallen findet. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

In eigener Sache: Was du schon immer über Kubernetes wissen wolltest

Kubernetes ist als Werkzeug für die Container-Orchestrierung so fortschrittlich wie komplex. In Kooperation mit dem Webhoster Syseleven bietet Golem.de in Berlin eine Weiterbildung für Softwareentwickler und Sysadmins an. (Golem.de, Applikationen)

Elektroauto: Teslas Einstiegs-Model-3 verzögert sich

Tesla nimmt seit Ende Februar 2019 Bestellungen für die 35.000 US-Dollar teure Version des Model 3 an. Trotz der angegebenen Lieferfrist von vier Wochen ist jedoch noch kein einziges Auto ausgeliefert worden. (Tesla, Technologie)

E-Tron: Produktionsprobleme durch fehlende Akkus

Audi soll ein Problem bei der Produktion seiner Elektroautos haben: Einem Medienbericht zufolge wird der Autohersteller nicht mit genügend Akkus beliefert. (Audi, Technologie)

Blu-ray, Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending March 16, 2019

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending March 16, 2019, are in. The magical sequel to a spin-off film franchise is this week’s top seller. Find out which movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra…

The results and analysis for DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales for the week ending March 16, 2019, are in. The magical sequel to a spin-off film franchise is this week's top seller. Find out which movie it was in our weekly DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray sales stats and analysis feature.

Amazon: Skype-Unterstützung für Echo-Lautsprecher verfügbar

Nach einer mehrmonatigen Verzögerung startet Amazon die Skype-Telefonie für Echo-Geräte. Neben normalen Anrufen sind Videotelefonate möglich, sofern die passenden Geräte verwendet werden. (Amazon Alexa, Skype)

Senate vote puts Green New Deal resolution to bed

Protest votes from Democrats came after no hearings on the resolution were scheduled.

On Tuesday afternoon, US Senators voted 0-57 on whether to take a vote on the Green New Deal, according to The Hill. Fifty-three Republicans, three Democrats, and an Independent from Maine voted not to advance the resolution, and 43 Democrats voted "present," essentially taking no official side in the vote.

The Green New Deal is a sweeping but non-binding resolution, unofficially committing the United States to radically update its energy grid with renewable energy in a span of 10 years. The plan would be accomplished through major infrastructure projects akin to those seen during the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's time.

The plan, sponsored by Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in the Senate and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in the House, has been extraordinarily controversial. It's been panned as "socialism" on the right and tacitly disavowed by more moderate Democrats in Republican-leaning states.

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Lion Air 737 MAX crew had seconds to react, Boeing simulation finds

Boeing test pilots determine crash was unavoidable if MCAS wasn’t shut down in 40 seconds.

A passenger jet emblazoned with Lion Air logos taxis down a runway.

In testing performed in a simulator, Boeing test pilots recreated the conditions aboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it went down in the Java Sea in October, killing 189 people. The tests showed that the crew of the 737 MAX 8 would have only had 40 seconds to respond to the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System’s (MCAS’s) attempts to correct a stall that wasn’t happening before the aircraft went into an unrecoverable dive, according to a report by The New York Times. by

While the test pilots were able to correct the issue with the flip of three switches, their training on the systems far exceeded that of the Lion Air crew—and that of the similarly doomed Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed earlier this month. The Lion Air crew was heard on cockpit voice recorders checking flight manuals in an attempt to diagnose what was going on moments before they died.

One of the controls—the electric stabilizer trim thumbswitch on the pilot’s control yoke—could temporarily reset MCAS’s control over stabilizers. The Lion Air pilots hit this switch over 24 times, buying them some time—but MCAS’ stall prevention software kicked in afterwards each time because of faulty data coming from the aircraft’s primary angle of attack sensor.

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