April 2019 – Page 12 – news.buyenne.com

Unternehmenschat: Slack will bei 140 Millionen US-Dollar Verlust an die Börse

Wie Spotify will nun auch der Betreiber des Chatdienstes Slack per Direktplatzierung an die Börse. Das Unternehmen macht zwar einen Verlust von rund 140 Millionen US-Dollar, konnte seinen Umsatz in den vergangenen Jahren aber massiv steigern. (Slack, I…

Chat-Netzwerk: Mozilla will eigenen IRC-Dienst abschalten

Das alte IRC-Protokoll ist über 20 Jahre alt und erfreut sich vor allem in Open-Source-Communitys weiter großer Beliebtheit. Firefox-Hersteller Mozilla will seine eigene IRC-Server nun aber aus organisatorischen Gründen abschalten. (IRC, Instant Messen…

iOS: Apple soll gegen alternative Screen-Time-Apps vorgehen

Einem Medienbericht zufolge soll Apple viele verschiedene Apps behindert oder gar aus dem Appstore entfernt haben, die die mit dem Gerät verbrachte Zeit kontrollieren können. Apple bietet eine solche Funktion seit vergangenem Jahr selbst an. (Apple, iO…

Stream-Master: Mifcom baut doppelten 11.500-Euro-Rechner

Der Stream-Master ist ein Komplett-PC, der ein Highend-System mit einem zweiten Rechner samt Capture-Card in einem gemeinsamen Gehäuse kombiniert. Mifcom verkauft zudem schallgedämmte Streamboxen mit Ryzen-CPU und RTX-Grafikkarte, um per OBS zu streame…

RK3588: Rockchip nutzt künftig 14-nm- und 8-nm-Verfahren

Mit dem RK3588 plant Rockchip ein neues SoC, das bei Samsung im 8LPP-Node gefertigt wird. Für Set-Top-Boxen und Chips für künstliche Intelligenz wechselt der chinesische Hersteller auf den 14-nm-Prozess. (Prozessor, Smartphone)

1,550 years ago, someone ate a rattlesnake whole—and we have poo to prove it

What would you do to bring rain to the desert?

Sometime around 450 CE in the Chihuahuan Desert, one brave soul ate a whole rattlesnake raw. If you think that takes guts, imagine passing an 11mm (0.43 inch) fang afterward. The desiccated coprolite—archaeologists’ term for ancient poop—contained the scales and bones of the snake along with remnants of a small rodent and an assortment of edible desert plants. It’s a great example of how coprolites can give archaeologist a direct (sometimes unnervingly direct) look at what ancient people ate.

The dry desert climate preserves things we don’t always think about. When archaeologists first excavated the layers of sediment in Conejo Shelter, a rock shelter high on the wall of a canyon in Texas’ Lower Pecos Valley, they found nearly 1,000 coprolites buried in a corner near the entrance, which looks like it served as an ancient latrine. Those coprolites provide a valuable record of what ancient indigenous people living in the area ate.

The people who lived at Conejo Shelter were only there seasonally, foraging in the challenging environment of the desert. Their routes through the area would have depended on water sources: the three rivers that meet in the Lower Pecos, along with scattered natural springs and rainwater that collected in reservoirs in the bedrock. They would have eaten desert rodents, rabbits, fish, lizards, and perhaps a very rare deer now and then, along with desert plants like yucca, wild onion, and agave, which they baked in earth ovens. And at least once, someone ate a whole rattlesnake without bothering to skin or cook it first.

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HP TouchPad refuses to die, receives Android 9 Pie custom ROMs

It’s been almost 8 years since HP launched the HP TouchPad tablet for $499, saw how poorly it was selling and then quickly marked it down to $99 and sold off remaining inventory in a fire sale… prompting bargain hunters to snatch them up an…

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Victims of Prenda Law ‘Copyright Trolls’ Can Now Register for Restitution

After admitting to several criminal acts, Prenda Law attorneys John Steele and Paul Hansmeier will be sentenced a few weeks from now. In addition to prison sentences, the court may order the two to pay restitution. To facilitate this process, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Minnesota is inviting victims of the fraudulent anti-piracy lawyers to come forward.

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In an effort to turn piracy into profit, copyright holders have chased alleged BitTorrent pirates through courts all over the world.

This so-called copyright troll scheme was also used by the firm Prenda Law. However, the lawyers involved started to break the law themselves.

The firm was accused of all sorts of wrongdoing including identity theft, misrepresentation, and even deception. Most controversial was the shocking revelation that Prenda uploaded their own torrents to The Pirate Bay, creating a honeypot for the people they later sued over pirated downloads.

This eventually caught the attention of the US Justice Department. In 2015 we first reported that two Pirate Bay co-founders had been questioned by Swedish police, acting on behalf of the FBI. The feds were interested in the honeypot evidence, to build a case against Prenda.

A year later the investigation was finished, resulting in a criminal indictment against Prenda attorneys Paul Hansmeier and John Steele. The US Government accused the two of various crimes, including money laundering, perjury, mail, and wire fraud.

Since then both defendants have both signed plea agreements. They now face years in prison. While it is by no means illegal to go after file-sharers, the Prenda attorneys crossed a line by repeatedly lying to or misleading the courts.

The US prosecutor recently recommended a 12.5-year prison sentence for Paul Hansmeier, who instructed his brother to upload torrents of videos he produced himself. In doing so he misled the court, as he made it appear as if the videos were from a third-party company.

In total, Prenda Law generated roughly $3,000,000 from the fraudulent copyright lawsuits they filed at courts throughout the United States.

Thus far very little has been said about the victims of the scheme but with the final sentencing coming up, this has changed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the District of Minnesota is now allowing people who were targeted by the scheme to register for restitution.

“HANSMEIER and STEELE were charged and convicted of orchestrating a multi-million dollar fraud scheme in which they obtained payments from victims to settle sham pornography film copyright infringement lawsuits,” the Attorney’s Office writes.

“At the sentencing hearing, the Court may, but is not required to, order HANSMEIER and STEELE to pay restitution to the victims of their scheme.”

The list of potential victims includes everyone who paid a settlement to any of the related companies, including Steele Hansmeier Law, Prenda Law, Alpha Law, Anti-Piracy Group, AF Holdings, Ingenuity 13, Guava LLC, Livewire, and LW Systems.

The Attorney’s Office encourages all potential victims to fill out a form, so it can identify whether they were indeed defrauded by the defendants. The information provided will be shared with the court, but it won’t be available publicly.

The sentencing for both defendants is scheduled for June 4, before Judge Joan N. Ericksen in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Here, it will be decided whether the two defendants must pay restitution, which is not a given.

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Some good news for far-future sea level rise

New model finds processes that could help slow loss at some glaciers.

Velocity of recent ice flow around Antarctica. Thwaites Glacier is one of the smaller purple regions on the left side of this image.

Glaciers are moody things with a myriad of personalities. Some are pretty stubborn, refusing to melt too much as Earth’s climate warms. But others are quite sensitive, with the potential to shrink more than you might expect if you push them too far.

Much of this has to do with the shape of the bedrock beneath. Some glaciers that touch the ocean have bedrock bases that slope downward as you head inland. If the glacier starts retreating downhill, seawater can flow in and float the ice more and more easily, destabilizing it so it retreats faster.

Each marine glacier has a “grounding line”—the point where ice stops resting on solid ground and starts floating, instead, like a canoe shoving off from shore. When you hear about an “ice shelf," that’s the floating portion of the glacier. The position of the grounding line along the bedrock is where topography plays such a big role. But a new study from a team led by NASA’s Eric Larour shows how the bedrock can move, too, making these sensitive glaciers a little less sensitive.

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Intel: Apple entscheidet sich für Qualcomm- statt Intel-Modems

Eine Zeit lang standen Intel und Apple laut Medienberichten in Verhandlungen miteinander. Der Chiphersteller sollte das Modem für iPhones und iPads liefern. Stattdessen kommt Qualcomm ins Spiel. Derweil sucht Intel wohl einen Käufer für seine Mobilfunk…