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Apple hat trotz der Einstellung sämtlicher Netzwerk-Hardware ein Firmware-Update für Airport Express, Airport Extreme und Airport Time Capsule mit WLAN 802.11n veröffentlicht. (Apple, 802.11n)
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Der Sieg von Team Liquid bei The International 2017 war kein Zufall, sondern das Ergebnis harter Arbeit. Golem.de hat das Trainingszentrum in Santa Monica besucht und sich mit Teamchef Steven Arhancet über Analyseverfahren und neue Trainingsmethoden im E-Sport unterhalten. Von Peter Steinlechner (E-Sport, Dell) For the first time ever, a Danish court has ordered a local ISP to block access to a news site. ‘The World News’ republishes hundreds of thousands of articles from third-party news sites. The website aims to combat ‘fake news,’ but according to publishers and the court, it infringes the publishers’ copyrights in the process.
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For more than a decade, Denmark has been a testbed for pirate site blockades.
The first blocks date back to 2006, when music industry group IFPI filed a complaint targeting the unlicensed Russian MP3 site AllofMP3.
Not much later, Denmark became the first European country to force an ISP to block access to The Pirate Bay.
Since then, many other pirate sites have received the same treatment. These are typically download or streaming portals, which have been targeted in other countries as well. However, this week, a Fredriksberg court issued a new order that’s more unusual.
The verdict, handed down on Monday, requires local Internet provider TDC to prevent its subscribers from accessing a news portal called ‘The World News‘. Under the Danish ISP Code of Conduct, other major ISPs in Denmark will also implement a similar block.
The news site in question doesn’t offer access to any movies, music or games, but republishes articles from news websites from all over the world, often with photos included.
The site has an archive of millions of articles and can be tailored based on the reader’s location. The news articles all credit their source, but the link that’s included is often not clickable, so the site doesn’t send traffic back to many original publications.
The World News positions itself as a decentralized anti-fake news platform, built on a blockchain, and says it provides readers with ‘verified’ news. The site’s domain is registered in Panama, it’s managed by the U.S. corporation “World News LLC,” and is reportedly operated by people from Ukraine.
While it looks like a rather useful news aggregator, many articles on the site are republished without permission, according to rightsholders. In Denmark, this prompted the anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen (The Rights Alliance) to take the matter to court.
Representing the Danish Media Association, RettighedsAlliancen asked the court to order local Internet provider TDC to block the site. The anti-piracy group has previously submitted similar requests, but this is the first time a news site is targeted.
After reviewing the complaint, this week the Fredriksberg court decided that the site should indeed be blocked by TDC.
“TDC is required to implement a technical solution, for example, DNS blocking, which is suitable to prevent TDC customers from accessing the Internet services that the website mentioned in the claim currently gives access to,” the order reads.
The Danish Media Association is very pleased with the court’s ruling, According to Holger Rosendal, Chief Legal Officer at the industry group, it will help media outlets to protect their copyrights as well as their income.
“It is expensive to produce credible, informative and independent journalism, and thus there is a great need to stop the illegal exploitation of media content, which undermines the media economy and thereby the possibility of continuing news production,” Rosendal says.
At the time of writing, there are over 170,000 Danish news articles featured on The World News. The site only had a few hundred Danish readers per day in recent weeks, but the media companies believe that it had a negative impact nonetheless.
The World News itself appears to be surprised by the blocking order and states that it will remove content when prompted to do so by rightsholders.
“The World News is one of the biggest news aggregators in the world. We gather and analyze news from all media to detect fake news and facts manipulation,” a spokesperson form the site informed TorrentFreak.
“If we break the law in any jurisdiction, we remove any content from our servers for the first request in a few hours. We didn’t receive any notifications about rules violation from Danish media. We are completely on the side of authors and ready to work together.”
RettighedsAlliancen says that it tried to contact the site using the four email addresses listed on the website, as well as the domain name registrant address.
The Danish anti-piracy organization sent the website a cease and desist notice and informed its operators about the lawsuit, giving them an opportunity to defend themselves. RettighedsAlliancen informs TorrentFreak that these emails remained unanswered.
Technically, RettighedsAlliancen is not a media outfit, so both statements may be accurate. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the site will have to be blocked by Internet provider TDC.
RettighedsAlliancen stresses that, in addition to enforcing the news outlets’ copyrights, the blocking order will help to make sure that these publications get the revenue they’re entitled to.
“A blockade will also effectively prevent cash flows from ending up in the hands of criminal backers. The blocked illegal Panama-based service has, among other things, earned money from advertising revenue from visitors to the website – revenue that Danish news media misses,” the anti-piracy group notes.
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Aus Gründen der Sicherheit startet Apple einen Rückruf von Notebooks des Modelljahrgangs 2015. Betroffen sind ausschließlich 15 Zoll große Macbook Pro. (Macbook, Apple)
Die Bildbearbeitungs- und Verwaltungssoftware Adobe Lightroom gibt es jetzt im Apple Mac App Store als Abonnement mit monatlicher Kündigungsmöglichkeit. (Lightroom, Apple)
Google zieht sich aus dem Tablet-Markt zurück und wird keine neuen Geräte mehr herstellen. Stattdessen will sich der Konzern auf Notebooks und ähnliche Geräte konzentrieren. Dabei geht es vor allem um solche mit Chrome OS. (Google, Notebook)
Quantencomputer könnten in Zukunft die heute verwendete Kryptographie brechen. Google und Cloudflare starten ein Experiment, bei dem unter Realbedingungen mit HTTPS getestet werden soll, wie gut Algorithmen, die vor Quantencomputern Schutz bieten, funk…
Quantencomputer könnten in Zukunft die heute verwendete Kryptographie brechen. Google und Cloudflare starten ein Experiment, bei dem unter Realbedingungen mit HTTPS getestet werden soll, wie gut Algorithmen, die vor Quantencomputern Schutz bieten, funktionieren. (Post-Quanten-Kryptographie, Google) Appointees assert that higher fuel-economy standards would cause more deaths.
Enlarge / Cars and trucks drive along Interstate 75/85 June 25, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia. (credit: Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)
The Trump administration has been trying to roll back Obama-era fuel-economy standards for passenger vehicles out to model year 2025. But the state of California and its allies have been fighting this rollback in every venue possible.
Today, energy and commerce subcommittees from the House of Representatives held a joint hearing to question the creators of the proposed fuel-economy-standards rollback. William Wehrum, the Assistant Administrator in the Office of Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Heidi King, the Deputy Administrator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), both responded to questions from representatives on how the two agencies came to propose the new fuel-economy rollback.
Later in the day, a second panel included Mary Nichols, the chairperson of the California Air Resource Board (CARB), which has been the leader of the fight against a fuel economy rollback.
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Only certain 15-inch MacBook Pro models from 2015 are affected.
The 2015 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ]
Today, Apple sent out a press release and published a customer support document announcing a new voluntary recall-and-replace program for certain MacBook Pro models that contain batteries that may overheat, and which may have the potential to be a fire risk.
The recall program is limited to certain 15-inch MacBook Pros from 2015, which were sold "primarily" between 2015 and 2017, Apple says—so pre-Touch Bar, Retina models from near the end of that form factor's life cycle. The company's support page offers a field wherein a consumer can input their serial number to find out if their laptop is affected.
"Because customer safety is a top priority," Apple wrote, "Apple is asking customers to stop using affected 15-inch MacBook Pro units." The company hasn't provided details about the nature of the problem other than to say, "in a limited number of older generation 15-inch MacBook Pro units, the battery may overheat and pose a fire-safety risk."
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So far, attacks are known only to target Mac users involved in cryptocurrency.
Enlarge / The fox animoji. (credit: Samuel Axon)
Hackers exploited a pair of potent zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox to infect Mac users with a largely undetected backdoor, according to accounts pieced together from multiple people.
Mozilla released an update on Tuesday that fixed a code-execution vulnerability in a JavaScript programming method known as Array.pop. On Thursday, Mozilla issued a second patch fixing a privilege-escalation flaw that allowed code to break out of a security sandbox that Firefox uses to prevent untrusted content from interacting with sensitive parts of a computer operating system. Interestingly, a researcher at Google's Project Zero had privately reported the code-execution flaw to Mozilla in mid April.
On Monday, as Mozilla was readying a fix for the array.pop flaw, unknown hackers deployed an attack that combined working exploits for both vulnerabilities. The hackers then used the attack against employees of Coinbase, according to Philip Martin, chief information security officer for the digital currency exchange.
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Apple hat trotz der Einstellung sämtlicher Netzwerk-Hardware ein Firmware-Update für Airport Express, Airport Extreme und Airport Time Capsule mit WLAN 802.11n veröffentlicht. (
Aus Gründen der Sicherheit startet Apple einen Rückruf von Notebooks des Modelljahrgangs 2015. Betroffen sind ausschließlich 15 Zoll große Macbook Pro. (
Die Bildbearbeitungs- und Verwaltungssoftware Adobe Lightroom gibt es jetzt im Apple Mac App Store als Abonnement mit monatlicher Kündigungsmöglichkeit. (
Google zieht sich aus dem Tablet-Markt zurück und wird keine neuen Geräte mehr herstellen. Stattdessen will sich der Konzern auf Notebooks und ähnliche Geräte konzentrieren. Dabei geht es vor allem um solche mit Chrome OS. (
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