Month: January 2020

In der Koalition bahnt sich ein Streit über die Videoüberwachung an Bahnhöfen und Flughäfen an. Während Innenminister Seehofer die Gesichtserkennung breit ausrollen will, gibt es Widerstand aus der SPD. (Gesichtserkennung, Datenschutz)

With tens of millions of visitors per month, MangaDex is a real force in the manga community.

The site’s status as an unofficial provider of manga ‘scanlations’ (scanned copies with translations) is valued by fans, many of whom are keen to experience harder-to-find content in languages other than their native tongue.

Last week, however, MangaDex fans had to go without their usual fix. The site went down with staff reporting that a server migration and database maintenance were underway. The platform eventually returned yesterday but not under its usual .org domain.

According to an announcement by moderator ‘Zephyrus’, MangaDex was forced to switch to MangaDex.cc due to legal issues.

“Our .cc domain is temporary for now,” he writes. “Our .org domain was acquired via our reseller, who has removed us from CF and have stopped supporting us due to legal pressure.”

‘CF’ is a reference to Cloudflare, the US-based CDN company utilized by millions of regular sites as well as large volumes of ‘pirate’ sites and services.

While MangaDex was down, TorrentFreak discovered that during December 2019 the site was targeted in a DMCA subpoena filed by attorney Evan Stone on behalf of VIZ Media, LLC, mentioning a chapter of ‘Boruto’.

It remains unclear whether that specific problem caused the downtime during the past few days but MangaDex has now confirmed the reason for the DMCA subpoena.

“To anyone paying attention to the news, the Boruto chapter in question was an official English rip. Uploading official chapters has always been against our rules, and we’d appreciate your continued assistance in reporting any content that breaks our rules in the future,” Zephyrus notes.

“Thanks to all our users for staying vigilant and reporting all official sources, early releases, troll chapters and all other content that breaks our rules.”

Interestingly, someone claiming to be a former admin of a manga fan group hit Reddit yesterday to issue an apology for triggering the DMCA subpoena. Claiming to be from ‘Boltmangacolor’, a group that has been coloring Boruto manga since February 2019, the individual said it was their colored upload that caused the problem.

“We used to upload our works on imgur, but then switched to mangadex because of efficiency reasons; we meant in no way to infringe any rules, we honestly didn’t know such a rule even existed, and that it could cause all of these problems,” the person wrote.

“Please note that this is in no way related to the Boruto community or the Boruto manga itself, but only to us admins who uploaded and chose the scans to color. We stopped working with the team a month ago, so stuff like this will never happen again. We are deeply, tremendously sorry.”

In the meantime, MangaDex says it’s still in the process of migrating content, meaning that some older chapters may not be available on the new server. In any event, the forecast is for the site to be back to its previous form in the early part of this week.

Additionally, MangaDex says it also has issues in respect of funding the platform. The alarm bells don’t seem to be ringing too loudly at the moment but Zephyrus says that due to its reseller terminating support for handling site donations, other avenues are being explored. If all else fails, ads may appear on the site “as a last resort.”

The site is currently operating relatively smoothly via MangaDex.cc but the scanlation platform believes that it will return to MangaDex.org when the “transfer to our new provider completes.”

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Nach Netgear wird auch TP-Link Mesh-Router mit dem neuen Standard Wi-Fi 6 anbieten. Der Hersteller verspricht teilweise sehr hohe Flächenabdeckung und schnelle Datenraten. Die Realität sieht meist etwas anders aus. (TP-Link, WLAN)

This week we have three newcomers in our chart.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is the most downloaded movie.

The data for our weekly download chart is estimated by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are Web-DL/Webrip/HDRip/BDrip/DVDrip unless stated otherwise.

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This week’s most downloaded movies are:

Movie Rank	Rank last week	Movie name	IMDb Rating / Trailer
Most downloaded movies via torrents
1	(…)	Maleficent: Mistress of Evil	6.8 / trailer
2	(1)	Joker	8.8 / trailer
3	(…)	Frozen 2 (DVDScr)	7.2 / trailer
4	(2)	Zombieland Double Tap	7.1 / trailer
5	(…)	Black and Blue	5.9 / trailer
6	(4)	Jexi	6.2 / trailer
7	(3)	Ad Astra	6.9 / trailer
8	(6)	Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood	7.9 / trailer
9	(9)	The Addams Family	5.8 / trailer
10	(8)	Ford v Ferrari (DVDScr)	8.3 / trailer

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and more. We also have VPN reviews, discounts, offers and coupons.

Mit den Services von Amazon, IBM, Microsoft und Google kann jeder recht einfach Bilder analysieren, ohne die genauen Mechanismen dahinter zu kennen. Die Anwendungen unterscheiden sich aber stark - vor allem im Funktionsumfang. Von Miroslav Stimac (Gesichtserkennung, IBM)

Netzwerkport, USB und Netzteil: Die neuen HP-Büromonitore E24d G4 und E27d G4 haben eine Dockingstation integriert. Das soll über einen einzelnen USB-Typ-C-Anschluss funktionieren. (CES 2020, Display)

In erster Linie will das US-Unternehmen Fisker sein Elektroauto Fisker Ocean per Leasing zur Verfügung stellen. Doch bei der Vorführung des Prototyps kündigte sein Schöpfer Henrik Fisker einen Verkaufspreis für das Auto an. (Elektroauto, Technologie)

Am 8. Dezember hatte die Uni Gießen ihre Server nach einem Online-Angriff heruntergefahren. Nun geht die Hochschule nach und nach wieder online. Um die Dienste wieder nutzen zu können, müssen Studenten und Mitarbeiter jedoch erst physisch neue Passwörter abholen. (Malware, Virus)

Seit Jahren redet Amazon über einen Einstieg in den Betrieb eigener Shops. Passiert ist jedoch bisher noch nichts. (Amazon, Onlineshop)

PC-Monitore für HDR-Gaming werden größer und heller: Acer und Asus haben 32-zöllige 4K-Modelle mit 1.400 Nits angekündigt, die durch Mini-LEDs erleuchtet werden. DCI-P3-Farbraum und G-Sync gibt es ebenfalls. (Display, HDR)