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Cataclysm: Bioware entfernt Glück im großen Update für Anthem

Es ist vermutlich die letzte Chance für das Actionspiel Anthem: Bioware hat das Update auf Version 1.30 als bis zu 15 GByte großen Patch veröffentlicht. Neben überfälligen Änderungen wie dem Verzicht auf “Glück” bei Rüstungen gibt es eine neue Währung …

Es ist vermutlich die letzte Chance für das Actionspiel Anthem: Bioware hat das Update auf Version 1.30 als bis zu 15 GByte großen Patch veröffentlicht. Neben überfälligen Änderungen wie dem Verzicht auf "Glück" bei Rüstungen gibt es eine neue Währung und einen weiteren Spielmodus. (Anthem, Rollenspiel)

People don’t want to see workers replaced by a robot—themselves excepted

When it’s your own job, you’d rather not be replaced by another person.

There has been extensive public discussions of how automation may fundamentally change the job market, eliminating so many positions that some sort of universal income will be required. While the universal income discussion may be new, anxieties about machinery and automation replacing human work go back over a century, with worries growing with the advent of robotics and machine-learning algorithms.

In general, it's clear that people worry about jobs lost due to automation. But they tend to worry about job losses in general. To find out whether job losses due to automation produce a distinct set of worries, researchers did an extensive study to how people respond to job loss. It turns out they are concerned when other people are displaced by automation. But when it comes to themselves, they'd rather be displaced by an algorithm than a person.

Social concerns vs. social status

The researchers involved in the new work—Armin Granulo, Christoph Fuchs, and Stefano Puntoni—cite an extensive survey of European residents which showed that they tend to view robots as displacing human employment. This worry was true even for students and management employees, who aren't currently at risk of being replaced themselves. The researchers suggest there are two ways to interpret this. One is that this is based on personal worries that they may end up in a job that's vulnerable to automation, or it could be a more general pro-social view, driven by concern for other people losing their job.

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Smartphones with 64MP cameras coming soon (and 108MP eventually)

The megapixel wars have returned. There are a handful of smartphones on the market with cameras capable of capturing images up to 48MP. But soon the first phones with 64MP cameras will be available. Chinese phone makers Xiaomi and Oppo are racing to an…

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Alveo U50: Xilinx bringt FPGA-Beschleuniger als Low-Profile-Karte

Mit der Alveo U50 erweitert Xilinx sein Portfolio an FPGA-Beschleunigern um eine Low-Profile-Version für eine höhere Leistungsdichte. Die Karte nutzt daher HBM2-Stapelspeicher für besonders viel Bandbreite. (Xilinx, Maschinelles Lernen)

Kompression: Antiviren-Programme stolpern über ZIP-Bombe

Eine besondere ZIP-Datei kann bei vielen Antiviren-Programmen zu extrem hoher CPU-Last führen und sie praktisch außer Gefecht setzen. Mit Tricks gelang es einem Sicherheitsforscher, extrem hohe Datenkompressionsraten zu erreichen. (Anti-Virus, Browser)

Opensignal: Mobilfunk viel langsamer als Netzbetreiber angeben

Die von Mobilfunk-Betreibern angegebenen Datenraten zwischen 500 und 225 MBit/s werden praktisch nie erreicht. In der Realität sind es nur knapp 30 MBit/s. (Long Term Evolution, Handy)

Fairphone 3 coming soon (ethically sourced materials, modular design)

The folks at Fairphone have been offering smartphones built from ethically-sourced components since late 2013. But in all that time the company has only actually shipped two models. Now a third is on the way. Evan Blass posted an image of the upcoming …

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Materialkunde: Wissenschaftler aus England erschaffen 2D-Gold

Forscher in England haben zwei Atome dicke Goldplättchen erzeugt. Das 2D-Gold könnte in einigen Jahren als effektiver und günstiger Katalysator eingesetzt werden. Anwendungen in elektronischen Geräten sind ebenfalls denkbar. (Nanotechnologie, Technolog…

PS5018-E18: Phisons PCIe-Gen4-SSD-Controller liefert 7 GByte/s

Mit dem E18-Controller will Phison deutlich schnellere NVMe-SSDs bauen als mit dem E16-Chip: Die sequenziellen Transferraten sollen von 5 GByte/s auf 7 GByte/s steigen, zudem fallen die IOPS höher aus. (Solid State Drive, IBM)

What all the stuff in e-mail headers means—and how to sniff out spoofing

Parsing email headers needs care and knowledge—but it requires no special tools.

Come to think of it, maybe you shouldn't open this one at all.

I pretty frequently get requests for help from someone who has been impersonated—or whose child has been impersonated—via email. Even when you know how to "view headers" or "view source" in your email client, the spew of diagnostic wharrgarbl can be pretty overwhelming if you don't know what you're looking at. Today, we're going to step through a real-world set of (anonymized) e-mail headers and describe the process of figuring out what's what.

Before we get started with the actual headers, though, we're going to take a quick detour through overview of what the overall path of an email message looks like in the first place. (More experienced sysadmin types who already know what stuff like "MTA" and "SPF" stand for can skip a bit ahead to the fun part!)

From MUA to MTA, and back to MUA again

The basic components involved in sending and receiving email are the Mail User Agent, and Mail Transfer Agent. In the briefest possible terms, an MUA is the program you use to read and send mail from your own personal computer (like Thunderbird, or Mail.app, or even a webmail interface like Gmail or Outlook) and MTAs are programs that accept messages from senders and route them along to their final recipients.

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