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200 GameStop closures planned ahead of “a much larger tranche” coming

Earnings continue to tumble as company outlines ambitious turnaround plan.

Major gaming retailer GameStop says it will be closing "between 180 and 200 underperforming stores" in the next six months. That statement comes following 195 store closures in the last 12 months and what the company says it expects will be "a much larger tranche of closures over the coming 12 months to 24 months."

While that might seem like drastic news at first glance, even hundreds of store closures could have a relatively small impact on a chain that still has 5,700 locations worldwide. And GameStop CFO Jim Bell said in a recent earnings call that 95 percent of those stores still show positive earnings, suggesting the bottom hasn't totally fallen out of the chain's locations across the board.

GameStop is spinning the current set of closures as an effort to "optimiz[e] the store portfolio" through "de-densification" in certain markets that have multiple stores serving "overlapping trade areas." That said, it's always a bad sign when a retailer is planning on closing stores instead of opening new ones. And for GameStop, it's a sign that comes after months of bad news, including major layoffs, executive departures, a failed corporate sale attempt, cratering earnings reports, and a stock price that continues to tumble.

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Archaeologists unearth mass graves from Mongol invasion of Russia

DNA says several people buried in a mass grave after the 1278 attack were related.

Archaeologists excavated part of the old city center of Yaroslavl, Russia, between 2005 and 2010 as part of an effort to restore its cathedral. During the digs, they discovered nine medieval mass graves holding the remains of at least 300 people, dating from the sack of the city by Mongols. It took another several years for their bones, the ancient DNA preserved within them, and some centuries-old blowfly larvae, to reveal a family tragedy set against the wider backdrop of Mongol expansion.

Fire and bodies lying in the snow

In the first half of the 1200s, Mongol leader Batu Khan (the grandson of Genghis Khan) conquered parts of modern-day Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Caucasus, adding them to what became known as the Golden Horde. He swept westward with an army of 130,000 soldiers, and for the cities in his path, the only options were surrender or slaughter. Smolensk opted to surrender and pay tribute to the Khanate, but 18 other cities—including Moscow and the capital of the principality that, at the time, ruled Yaroslavl—fell to fire and the sword.

The Mongol army reached Yaroslavl in February 1238. Many of the people buried in the mass graves afterward had clearly died violently; their bones carried the marks of stabbing, cutting, and blunt trauma. Some of the bones also showed signs of having been burned, probably in the fire that accompanied the attack, according to historical documents and archaeological evidence. Several of the graves had been the basements of houses and outbuildings; after the buildings burned down in the fire, the survivors or the conquerors found the exposed basements convenient places to dispose of the dead.

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Gigabit Symposium: Bundesministerium will Glas über Oberleitungen ermöglichen

Das Bundesverkehrsministerium will alles tun, um den Glasfaser-Ausbau auch über Masten und Mini- und Microtrenching zu ermöglichen. Im Mobilfunk sollen Small Cells genehmigungsfrei werden. (Glasfaser, Breko)

ID Charger: VW bringt günstige Wallbox auf den Markt

Nach der Präsentation des Elektroautos ID.3 hat Volkswagen auch seine Wallboxen vorgestellt. Die einfachste Variante ist noch deutlich günstiger als die zuletzt vom ADAC getesteten Ladeeinrichtungen. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Uber lays off another 435 people to stem big losses

New layoffs come on top of 400 marketing workers let go in July.

Uber has laid off 435 people in engineering and product roles, the company's latest effort to stem growing losses. Uber laid off around 400 people in its marketing department in July.

"Previously, to meet the demands of a hyper-growth startup, we hired rapidly and in a decentralized way," Uber said in an email to employees. "While this worked for Uber in the past, now that we have over 27,000 full-time employees in cities around the world, we need to shift how we design our organizations."

Uber says that the layoffs represent about 8 percent of the engineering and product workforce. The two rounds of layoffs, put together, amount to about 3 percent of the company's workforce. Techcrunch reports that 85 percent of the layoffs were in the United States.

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Chuwi UBook 2-in-1 tablet with Intel Amber Lake coming soon

Chuwi launched a 2-in-1 Windows tablet called the UBook earlier this year. With a kickstand and keyboard support, it’s basically a Microsoft Surface-style tablet with a starting price of under $500. But despite featuring a high-resolution display…

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Popular Torrent Site MKVCage Faces Lawsuit and Goes Offline

Popular torrent site MKVCage, which also distributes torrents on other sites, is being sued by the makers of the action film Hellboy. Soon after the lawsuit was filed the site went offline, but for now it’s unknown whether the downtime is related to the legal issues.

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A group of movie companies has been very active in the US District Court for the District of Hawaii over the past several months.

Various copyright infringement lawsuits and DMCA subpoenas were filed against prominent players in the piracy ecosystem, ranging from Popcorn Time through YTS and Showbox.

Today, we can add another target to the growing list, the popular torrent uploader/group MKVCage.

MKVCage uploads its encodes across various torrent sites and has gathered a dedicated following over the past few years. The group also operates its own site at MKVCage.com, where the latest releases are also shared. However. over the past few days, this site has become unresponsive.

The downtime started soon after the makers of the movie “Hellboy” filed a complaint at a Hawaii federal court. The movie company believes that the site is run by a person named Muhammad Faizan, who stands accused of promoting and distributing pirated copies of their movie.

“Defendant Faizan operates an interactive website mkvcage.com and
previously mkvcage.fun which includes a library of torrent files for copyright protected motion pictures, including Plaintiff’s. The torrent files can be used by a BitTorrent client application to download and reproduce motion pictures for free and without license,” the complaint reads.

The filmmakers add that the defendant creates the torrent files that are made available on the website, including “Hellboy.2019.720p.HC.HDRip.x264-MkvCage.Com.mkv,” which are then distributed to the site’s users. The name of the site is often included in the title, to boost the site’s profile.

“Defendant Faizan sometimes includes words such as’MkvCage.com’ in the titles of the torrent files he creates in order to enhance his reputation for the quality of his torrent files and attract users to his interactive MKVCAGE website,” the complaint notes.

The movie company obtained the name of the site’s alleged operator from Namecheap, in response to a DMCA notice. The same person is also listed as the registrant for the domains mkvcage.com, mkvcage.ws, mkvcage.cc and mkvcage.me, and used PayPal to pay for at least one of those.

At this point, it is unclear whether the current downtime is a direct result of the complaint that was filed. MKVCage’s latest upload at external websites, such as 1337x, was two days ago. We will update this article if more information becomes available.

In addition to MKVCage, the same lawsuit also targets the smaller torrent site iBit.uno and its unnamed operator. TorrentFreak reached out to iBit, but a representative of the site didn’t want to comment on the allegations.

The people behind both sites stand accused of contributory copyright infringement among other things, and Faizan also faces a count of direct copyright infringement.

The movie company requests compensation for the damage it suffered. It also request an injunction, so it can request third-party services such as hosting providers, ISPs, search engines, and domain registrars, to stop facilitating access to the sites.

The injunction request is quite broad and could affect a wide range of companies. At this point, however, it hasn’t been granted yet, so that can’t explain the current downtime.

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A copy of the complaint from HB Productions (Hellboy) is available here (pdf)

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Reparierbarkeit: Fairphone 3 bekommt volle Punktzahl bei iFixit

Beim neuen Fairphone 3 setzt der Hersteller wieder auf austauschbare Module – was den Teardown für iFixit natürlich etwas erleichtert hat. Auch abseits der Module ist das Smartphone offenbar leicht zu reparieren, was zu einer vollen Punktzahl von 10 ge…

Beim neuen Fairphone 3 setzt der Hersteller wieder auf austauschbare Module - was den Teardown für iFixit natürlich etwas erleichtert hat. Auch abseits der Module ist das Smartphone offenbar leicht zu reparieren, was zu einer vollen Punktzahl von 10 geführt hat. (Fairphone, Smartphone)

Rock Pi X is a $39 single-board computer with an x86 chip (Intel Atom x5-Z8300)

Since Raspberry Pi launched its first $35 computer in 2012, a bunch of other companies have entered the space with their own small, cheap, single-board computers. And, like the Raspberry Pi, most of them are powered by ARM processors. But Radxa‘s…

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Mozilla: Firefox testet eingebauten Cloudflare-VPN

Mozilla legt das Test-Pilot-Programm des Firefox neu auf und startet mit einem Experiment für einen privaten Netzwerk-Proxy für den Browser. Diesen soll der Netz-Dienstleister Cloudflare betreiben. (Firefox, Browser)