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Review: Jaws is a much better board game than we had any right to expect

Clear the beach… because we’re going to play a surprisingly good game.

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com.

If I had predicted a brand new Jaws tabletop game in 2019—one that would actually be excellent—you might have called me crazy. And yet here we are: Jaws the board game is a marvel.

Leave it to the design studio Prospero Hall to resurrect this 44-year old film in a new cardboard format. This group of designers has been responsible for recent hits such as Horrified, Jurassic Park: Danger!, and even the Funkoverse Strategy Game. They design mass-market titles that bridge the gap between gaming hobbyist and random Target shopper.

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Why customers love Tesla despite its many mistakes

“They’re not the little guy any more,” journalist Kirsten Korosec says.

Journalist Ed Niedermeyer remembers the exact moment he became a Tesla skeptic: Memorial Day weekend 2015. That's when Niedermeyer traveled to the Tesla Supercharger facility in Harris Ranch, California to see Tesla's first (and, it turned out, only) battery-swap facility.

At a live demo two years earlier, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had shown a Model S getting a replacement battery pack in 90 seconds—compared with four minutes to refuel a conventional car. Now that the technology was available to the public, Niedermeyer wanted to see it in action.

"I was down there three or four days," Niedermeyer told Ars recently. "There was a ton of traffic and a ton of lines for the Superchargers." Some people faced multi-hour waits. Tesla brought in spare Superchargers powered by diesel generators to speed things along. But the battery-swap facility stayed closed.

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Milan: AMD plant Zen 3 mit acht Kernen pro CCX

Die nächste Ausbaustufe der Zen-CPU-Architektur erhält einige Änderungen: Ein einzelner Chip scheint nicht mehr aus zwei Blöcken aufgebaut zu sein, sondern nur aus einem. Das optimiert die internen Latenzen. (AMD Zen, Prozessor)

Windows 10 19H2: Microsoft unterstützt favorisierte CPU-Kerne besser

Seit Wochen arbeitet Microsoft daran, das 19H2-Update für Windows 10 fertigzustellen. Es integriert einen überarbeiteten Scheduler, damit bei Prozessoren deren schnellste CPU-Kerne priorisiert werden. (Windows 10, Microsoft)

New gel lets us spread flame retardant before wildfires start

The formula coats plants thoroughly and sticks to them even through light rain.

Firefighters from Stockton, Calif., put out flames off of Hidden Valley Rd. while fighting a wildfire, Friday, May 3, 2013 in Hidden Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Mel Melcon)

The last few years have seen horrific fire seasons in California, resulting in destruction, deaths, and economic damage. And with climate change continuing unabated, things are set to get worse.

Prevention is better than firefighting; avoiding carelessness is one way to reduce the huge number of human-caused wildfires. But a paper in PNAS this week reports a new option for wildfire prevention: a fire retardant-carrying gel that coats vegetation in a thin film, keeping that vegetation safe from fire long enough to see it through fire season. If it is demonstrated to be safe, it could allow us to spray high-risk areas at the start of fire season and keep protection through until heavy rains start.

Short-term retardants

Wildfire plays an important ecological role, but human activities make the natural fire season much worse—hot dry weather has tripled the length of the season, while humans cause 85 percent of fires. None of the fire retardants available at the moment last for very long. Some of them can stop a fire only as long as they're wet. Once the water in these gels has evaporated (which can happen in less than an hour thanks to the heat of a wildfire), they're no longer effective.

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Android-Messenger: Signal-Sicherheitslücke erlaubt Belauschen von Nutzern

Ein Fehler in Signal ermöglicht es, einen Sprachanruf aufzubauen, ohne dass der Empfänger diesen annehmen muss. Damit könnten Personen belauscht werden. Ein Update steht bereit. (Signal, Android)

Sensei Ten: Steelseries erneuert Klassiker mit Pixart-Sensor

Die Sensei Ten entspricht optisch der rund ein Jahrzehnt alten Steelseries Xai, hat aber einen modernen Pixart-Sensor integriert. Mit der symmetrischen Maus will der dänische Hersteller vor allem Spieler ansprechen. (Maus)

London Retailer Convicted for Selling Pirate Streaming Boxes

The City of London Magistrates’ Court has convicted a local retailer for selling streaming boxes that provided access to pirated content, including controversial BeoutQ broadcasts. The Premier League prosecuted the man, who was sentenced to 300 hours of unpaid community service for a combination of copyright and fraud offenses.

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Pirate streaming boxes remain widely appealing to a broad audience. At a fraction of the normal costs, they open the door to all sorts of broadcasts, including football matches.

On the sports side, BeoutQ has shown to be is a thorn in the side of many rightsholders. It launched in 2017 and ever since various parties have tried to stop it’s infringing activity.

While BeoutQ remains widely available today, the Premier League can chalk up a new victory with the conviction of a London seller of streaming boxes. The devices in question offered access to BeoutQ as well as several other illegal channels, such as beIN and Sky.

The conviction, handed down by the City of London Magistrates’ Court this week, follows a joint investigation from the English Football League and FACT. The Premier League subsequently prosecuted the 39-year-old seller, Ammar Al-Silawi, with success.

Following a trial earlier this month, Mr. Al-Silawi received a sentence of 300 hours of unpaid community service. In addition, the vendor is required to pay the Premier League’s legal costs.

The sentencing is unique, according to the Premier League. In the UK, it’s the first time that selling pirate set-top boxes was deemed to be an act of communicating infringing copies of copyright works to the public. This is in line with the Filmspeler judgment from the European Court of Justice.

“The law is very clear that the sale of ISDs is illegal and it is an issue taken very seriously by both the police and the courts,” says Kevin Plumb, Premier League Director of Legal Services.

“We will continue to investigate and pursue all suppliers of illegal streaming services, regardless of the size or scale of their operation, to protect the intellectual property that enables the Premier League to be so competitive and compelling.”

FACT is equally pleased with the outcome and Chief Executive Kieron Sharp notes that it serves as a stark warning to other vendors.

“The message is now unequivocal; if you sell a device that provides access to content that is not licensed or owned by you, you will face a criminal conviction. Illicit retailers should be aware of the Court’s view that ignoring a cease and desist notice was a clear aggravating factor in this case,” Sharp says.

While the rightsholders certainly have something to be pleased about, the community order sentence pales in comparison with earlier pirate streaming vendor convictions, which resulted in multi-year prison sentences.

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Some iPhone 6S units aren’t turning on, so Apple launched a repair program

The problem affects phones made between October 2018 and August 2019.

The iPhone 6S is the new baseline for iOS 13.

Apple has posted notice of a new repair program to address an issue that prevents some iPhone 6S and 6S Plus phones from turning on.

“Apple has determined that certain iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus devices may not power on due to a component that may fail," the page for the program says. The program is wordily called "iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Service Program for No Power Issues."

It does not affect all iPhone 6S and 6S Plus units; rather, it affects phones in a certain serial number range that corresponds to some handsets sold between October of 2018 and August of 2019. The iPhone 6S was discontinued in North America throughout that window, but the company continued to make and sell it for some other regions.

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The broken record: Why Barr’s call against end-to-end encryption is nuts

Barr, DHS Secretary, UK, and Australia say end-to-end encryption will help child abusers.

The US, UK, and Australia want Facebook to hold off on end-to-end encrypting Messenger until they have a way to inject themselves into the conversation.

Here we go again.

US Attorney General William Barr is leading a charge to press Facebook and other Internet services to terminate end-to-end encryption efforts—this time in the name of fighting child pornography. Barr, acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan, Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, and United Kingdom Secretary of State Priti Patel yesterday asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to hold off on plans to implement end-to-end encryption across all Facebook Messenger services "without including a means for lawful access to the content of communications to protect our citizens."

The open letter comes months after Barr said in a speech that "warrant-proof" cryptography is "extinguishing the ability of law enforcement to obtain evidence essential to detecting and investigating crimes" and allowing "criminals to operate with impunity, hiding their activities under an impenetrable cloak of secrecy." The new message echoes a joint communiqué issued by the US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand (the "Five Eyes") from July, which stated:

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