Weil die Fahrzeuge weniger als gedacht verschleißen, hebt Tesla die bisher bei allen Autoherstellern geltenden Serviceintervalle für einen Werkstattcheck auf. Außerdem kommt das Empfehlungsprogramm zurück. (Tesla, Technologie)
Weil die Fahrzeuge weniger als gedacht verschleißen, hebt Tesla die bisher bei allen Autoherstellern geltenden Serviceintervalle für einen Werkstattcheck auf. Außerdem kommt das Empfehlungsprogramm zurück. (Tesla, Technologie)
Unternehmen aus sieben Ländern schließen sich unter Führung des Volkswagen-Konzerns und Northvolt zur European Battery Union (EBU) zusammen. So soll die Forschung an Stromspeichern vorangetrieben werden. (VW, Technologie)
Unternehmen aus sieben Ländern schließen sich unter Führung des Volkswagen-Konzerns und Northvolt zur European Battery Union (EBU) zusammen. So soll die Forschung an Stromspeichern vorangetrieben werden. (VW, Technologie)
Fans hoffen seit Jahren darauf, nun ist das Rollenspiel Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 angekündigt. Golem.de hat sich eine frühe Version angeschaut und mit den Entwicklern gesprochen. (GDC 2019, Rollenspiel)
Fans hoffen seit Jahren darauf, nun ist das Rollenspiel Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 angekündigt. Golem.de hat sich eine frühe Version angeschaut und mit den Entwicklern gesprochen. (GDC 2019, Rollenspiel)
Disney has completed the acquisition of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. in a $71 billion deal.Disney CEO Bob Iger called the deal “a historic day for our company” in an internal memo to the combined staff of both companies, even though the merger is likely…
Disney has completed the acquisition of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. in a $71 billion deal.
Disney CEO Bob Iger called the deal "a historic day for our company" in an internal memo to the combined staff of both companies, even though the merger is likely to lead to 4,000 layoffs in the short-term.
In a full statement, Iger pointed to the long term value of the deal, despite the fact that finalisation of the deal has caused Disney shares to slide by more than 4%.
"This is an extraordinary and historic moment for us - one that will create significant long-term value for our company and our shareholders," Iger said in a statement. "Combining Disney’s and 21st Century Fox’s wealth of creative content and proven talent creates the preeminent global entertainment company, well positioned to lead in an incredibly dynamic and transformative era."
The acquisition deal includes not only the major Hollywood studio and its home entertainment arm, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, it also includes Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox 2000 Pictures, Fox Family and Fox Animation; Fox’s television creative units, 20th Century Fox Television, FX Productions and Fox21; FX Networks; National Geographic Partners; Fox Networks Group International; Star India; and Fox’s interests in Hulu, Tata Sky and Endemol Shine Group.
This also means that the "Big Six" Hollywood studios are now the "Big Five", with Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros. and Columbia making up the list. Or it could be considered the "Massive One", Disney, and the "Big Four", since Disney now has more than double the market share of all other studios, and more than Universal, Paramount and Columbia combined.
Disney's acquisition of Fox also means that it now owns Fox's share of streaming platform Hulu, and is now the majority owner of the platform. Disney has previously outlined the future of Hulu, which will exist side-by-side with Disney's upcoming streaming platform, Disney+.
In conjunction with Europol, police forces in Spain, UK, and Denmark, have carried out what is being described as the “largest ever” operation against a pirate IPTV network. Five people have been arrested, accused of crimes including IP violations, fraud, and money laundering.
Over the past several years, consumers have been increasingly turning to ‘pirate’ IPTV providers with the key aims of cutting bills and gaining convenient access to vast swathes of live TV and on-demand video.
But for rightsholders and broadcasters, these unlicensed platforms present a growing threat as they undermine existing business models with what are increasingly high-quality services.
The latest effort to stem the tide appears to be a significant one. Spain’s National Police says that in cooperation with police forces from the UK, Denmark, and Europol, it has conducted “the largest operation in Europe” against the illegal distribution of content via IPTV.
Police carried out 14 simultaneous raids, eight of them in Spain (in Malaga, Madrid and Alicante), four in Denmark, and two in the UK. Five people were arrested and now stand accused of a variety of crimes, from IP offenses to fraud and money laundering. Ten others gave statements to police.
Image: Spain National Police
The investigation began in late 2015 following a complaint filed by the UK’s Premier League against a Malaga-based website offering IPTV subscription packages providing “a multitude of international conditional access channels”, i.e, otherwise premium subscription-based content.
Following the complaint, police in Spain made efforts to verify the illegal activity, which included the provision of more than 800 television channels, on demand content, and radio stations. The packages offered by the unlicensed provider cost between 40 and 460 euros per month.
The investigation revealed various social network accounts through which the service attracted more customers, plus a network of 20 additional websites offering the same product.
“The strategy used by those investigated was to use a multitude of servers and change them periodically, gradually creating new web pages to form a framework that, in principle, had no relationship. In this way they aimed not to be detected by the National Police and continue profiting from the crime,” a statement from the National Police reads.
Officers in Spain determined that the business was being operated through Spanish companies but subscription payments from customers in more than 30 countries were made to a company in Gibraltar.
Investigations led the police to conclude they were dealing with a “specialized international criminal organization” with connections to Spain, Denmark, the UK, Latvia, Netherlands, and Cyprus.
“After a detailed investigation, the police discovered a link between the holding companies and the beneficiary bank accounts of the subscriptions, always belonging to the members of the organization,” Spanish police note.
“The research found that, to make the trail more difficult, they increasingly displayed less content and, in addition, they were using anonymization systems. They had evolved technologically in a way that was allowing them to increase the volume of customers, since they offered different ways of accessing the viewing of increasingly innovative channels.”
During the operation, police say they “disconnected” 66 servers involved in the crime while further identifying the locations of other servers that were part of the network. Police says they identified 11 server ‘farms’, with some comprising more than 44 servers.
Current police estimates suggest that the people behind the operation “obtained an economic benefit” of around 8 million euros with 1.6 million euros diverted to companies abroad since 2013. It’s alleged that the money was laundered through businesses that appeared respectable.
“To give the illicit business the appearance of legality and to launder the profits, they created companies with lawful activity and a stated objective related to the provision of telecommunications services, internet and hardware,” Spanish police explain.
“On the one hand, they had the technical and technological infrastructure necessary to carry out their legal business (fiber operators) and also the illicit business (illegal IPTV subscriptions). On the other, they were authorized operators for fiber. It served as an argument for customers to believe that they were also in the business of distributing foreign channels.”
The operators, therefore, allegedly mixed legal revenue with illegal, in order to raise as little suspicion as possible. However, that didn’t stop the police from noticing their luxury lifestyles.
“Those arrested resided in luxury urbanizations on the Malaga coast, using high-end vehicles that were continually being renewed. In fact, the operation involved 12 high-end vehicles, in addition to bank accounts and real estate,” Spain’s National Police conclude.
“We’re tired of generating PowerPoint journeys that don’t go anywhere.”
Enlarge/ Vice President Mike Pence, center in Mission Control Houston, will oversee all space decisions made by the Trump administration. (credit: NASA)
One of the panelists who will appear at a National Space Council meeting next Tuesday said to expect "a few fireworks" during the discussion, which will focus on NASA's efforts to return humans to the Moon. The meeting of this council that oversees US spaceflight policy will be held in Hunstville, Ala., and led by Vice President Mike Pence.
University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist Jack Burns, one of six speakers scheduled for the meeting, said the current timeline for NASA to send humans to the Moon lacks urgency. NASA has talked about landing its astronauts on the Moon before the end of the 2020s, and the president's budget proposal for the coming fiscal year allows for this to happen as early as 2028.
"The timeline is too slow, and that's one of the things that I'm going to be talking about next Tuesday," Burns said. If pushed, how soon could NASA put humans back on the Moon? The year 2025, Burns replied. "And I know some in the administration would like to do it even faster than that," he added. "We're going to see a few fireworks."
Unencrypted user credentials stored on Facebook internal servers as far back as 2012.
Enlarge/ Facebook Lite users made up the majority of Facebook accounts exposed internally by plaintext password logging, according to a Facebook spokesperson.
Facebook has mined a lot of data about its users over the years—relationships, political leanings, and even phone call logs. And now it appears Facebook may have inadvertently extracted another bit of critical information: users' login credentials, stored unencrypted on Facebook's servers and accessible to Facebook employees.
Brian Krebs reports that hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their credentials logged in plain text by various applications written by Facebook employees. Those credentials were searched by about 2,000 Facebook engineers and developers more than 9 million times, according to a senior Facebook employee who spoke to Krebs; the employee asked to remain anonymous because they did not have permission to speak to the press on the matter.
In a blog post today, Facebook Vice President of Engineering, Security, and Privacy Pedro Canahuati wrote that the unencrypted passwords were found during "a routine security review in January" on Facebook's internal network data storage. "This caught our attention because our login systems are designed to mask passwords using techniques that make them unreadable. We have fixed these issues and, as a precaution, we will be notifying everyone whose passwords we have found were stored in this way."
Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin made headlines Tuesday after revealing in a radio interview that he had purposefully exposed his nine unvaccinated children to chickenpox, drawing swift condemnation from health experts.
In case anyone needs a refresher on why you shouldn’t deprive children of safe, potentially lifesaving vaccines or purposefully expose them to serious, potentially life-threatening infections, here’s a quick rundown.
Chickenpox is nothing to mess with
Though most children who get the itchy, highly contagious viral disease go on to recover after a week or so of misery, chickenpox can cause severe complications and even death in some. Complications include nasty skin infections, pneumonia, brain inflammation, hemorrhaging, blood stream infections, and dehydration.
Für Kanzlerin Merkel ist die europäische Einigung zum Urheberrecht wichtiger als der Koalitionsvertrag. Einen entscheidenden Faktor für den Kompromiss mit Frankreich zu den Uploadfiltern verschweigt sie aber im Bundestag. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Urheber…
Für Kanzlerin Merkel ist die europäische Einigung zum Urheberrecht wichtiger als der Koalitionsvertrag. Einen entscheidenden Faktor für den Kompromiss mit Frankreich zu den Uploadfiltern verschweigt sie aber im Bundestag. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Urheberrecht)
The federal government on Thursday warned of a serious flaw in Medtronic cardio defibrillators that allows attackers to use radio communications to surreptitiously take full control of the lifesaving devices after they are implanted in a patient.
Defibrillators are small, surgically implanted devices that deliver electrical shocks to treat potentially fatal irregular heart rhythms. In recent decades, doctors have increasingly used radios to monitor and adjust the devices once they're implanted, rather than using older, costlier, and more invasive means. An array of implanted cardio defibrillators made by Medtronic rely on two types of radio-based consoles for initial setup, periodic maintenance, and regular monitoring. Doctors use the company's CareLink Programmer in clinics, while patients use the MyCareLink Monitor in homes to regularly ensure the defibrillators are working properly.
No encryption, no authentication, and a raft of other flaws
Researchers from security firm Clever Security discovered that the Conexus Radio Frequency Telemetry Protocol (Medtronic's proprietary means for the monitors to wirelessly connect to implanted devices) provides no encryption to secure communications. That makes it possible for attackers within radio range to eavesdrop on the communications. Even worse, the protocol has no means of authentication for legitimate devices to prove they are authorized to take control of the implanted devices. That lack of authentication, combined with a raft of other vulnerabilities, makes it possible for attackers within radio range to completely rewrite the defibrillator firmware, an exploit that's rarely seen affecting most medical device vulnerabilities to date.
Weil die Fahrzeuge weniger als gedacht verschleißen, hebt Tesla die bisher bei allen Autoherstellern geltenden Serviceintervalle für einen Werkstattcheck auf. Außerdem kommt das Empfehlungsprogramm zurück. (Tesla, Technologie) 
Unternehmen aus sieben Ländern schließen sich unter Führung des Volkswagen-Konzerns und Northvolt zur European Battery Union (EBU) zusammen. So soll die Forschung an Stromspeichern vorangetrieben werden. (
Fans hoffen seit Jahren darauf, nun ist das Rollenspiel Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 angekündigt. Golem.de hat sich eine frühe Version angeschaut und mit den Entwicklern gesprochen. (
Für Kanzlerin Merkel ist die europäische Einigung zum Urheberrecht wichtiger als der Koalitionsvertrag. Einen entscheidenden Faktor für den Kompromiss mit Frankreich zu den Uploadfiltern verschweigt sie aber im Bundestag. (
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