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Huaweis Sicherheitschef spricht bei dem Backdoor-Vorwurf im Lawful Intercept Gateway von einem verfrühten Aprilscherz. In dieser Woche hatte die USA auch die Klage gegen Huawei verschärft. (Backdoor, Google)
Autopilot didn’t slow down in seconds before deadly Tesla crash.
Enlarge / The trailer sheared off the roof of Jeremy Banner's car, killing him instantly.
"It really looked like I had plenty of time to go across," an anguished Florida truck driver said in an interview transcript released by the National Transportation Safety Board this week. Unfortunately, he was wrong.
Richard Wood was driving a semi truck on the morning of Friday, March 1, 2019. He pulled onto Florida's SR 7 from a driveway, intending to make a left turn. But as he crossed to the opposite lane, a Tesla Model 3 belonging to Jeremy Banner crashed into the side of the truck. Banner's Tesla went under Wood's trailer, shearing off the roof and killing Banner.
The case attracted wide attention because Banner had engaged Tesla's Autopilot technology. Not only that, the circumstances of Banner's death were almost identical to the first Autopilot-related death in the United States: the death of Josh Brown in 2016. Brown was also killed when Autopilot failed to stop for a semi truck crossing in front of him on a Florida highway.
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Fear the Cambrian explosion!
Enlarge / The game in all its glory on the table. (credit: North Star Games)
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com.
I once spotted a barracuda while scuba diving. It darted in close, shimmering silver, its features reminiscent of a high school bully: lean, sharp, with an underbite that jutted forward in defiance of both authority and band kids.
If I were to build that creature in Oceans, the latest card game from North Star Games, its traits would be Speed, Apex Predator, and Scare The Crap Out Of Fourteen-Year-Old Dan. (That last one is a promo card. It isn’t available, so don’t request it.)
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Ein Zylinder dreht sich und eine Mini-Kathedrale entsteht: Schweizer Forscher arbeiten an einem 3D-Druckverfahren, das Objekte durch Rotation erzeugt. Erste Ergebnisse sind zwar noch winzig, aber trotzdem beeindruckend. (3D-Drucker, Technologie)
Ein Zylinder dreht sich und eine Mini-Kathedrale entsteht: Schweizer Forscher arbeiten an einem 3D-Druckverfahren, das Objekte durch Rotation erzeugt. Erste Ergebnisse sind zwar noch winzig, aber trotzdem beeindruckend. (3D-Drucker, Technologie) UK music group BPI has joined the RIAA in its effort to wipe YouTube download and ripping sites from Google’s search results. Using language inspired by its US counterpart, BPI repeatedly argues that Mpgun.com violates the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. While the search engine has complied with the requests, the site remains easy to find.
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Late last year the RIAA started targeting YouTube ripping sites by sending relatively rare takedown requests to Google.
Instead of the usual DMCA copyright notices, the music group asked the search engine to remove various URLs for alleged violations of the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision.
The sites in question circumvent YouTube’s rolling cipher, which is a technical protection measure that protects audio and video from being copied without permission, the RIAA argued. As such, they should be removed from Google’s search results.
Over the past months, the RIAA has ramped up its efforts, hoping to make it harder for users to find these sites. However, the YouTube rippers themselves weren’t sitting still either. They actively countered the RIAA’s notices by continuously using new URL structures.
We highlighted this development in an article late last month, describing it as a game of whack-a-mole. While the RIAA was the only player on its side, it has now found an ally in its British counterpart, the BPI.
A few days after our whack-a-mole article was published the BPI started sending similar DMCA anti-circumvention notices, targeting the same YouTube downloader the RIAA is after.
Over the past several days, the UK group has sent over a dozen notices. The requests target over a hundred URLs from Mpgun.com, which allegedly circumvents YouTube’s copyright protections.
“To our knowledge, the URLs indicated provide access to a service (and/or software) that circumvents YouTube’s rolling cipher, a technical protection measure, that protects our members’ works on YouTube from unauthorised copying/downloading,” the BPI writes.
This is the same ‘rolling cipher’ the RIAA references, which is another indication that both groups work in tandem.
In fact, the entire statement above is copied verbatim from the RIAA. The BPI only changed the American ‘authorized’ to the British ‘authorised’ and corrected the RIAA’s copyrighted ‘woks’ to ‘works.’
This is the first time the BPI has sent multiple requests of this kind. When looking through the archive we did spot an older notice from October, but that was phrased differently (no cipher mention) and targeted only a single URL.
Whether the extra manpower will lead to any results has yet to be seen. With or without the BPI’s involvement, Mpgun continues to evade and bypass the takedown requests. For now, Google searches for terms such as “YouTube to MP3” and “YouTube downloader” still yield plenty of results, including Mpgun.
In fact, when searching for “MP3 and MP4 YouTube converter,” Mpgun comes up as the first result.
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China is good at conducting clinical research; coordination is another matter.
Enlarge / This photo taken on February 4, 2020 shows a medical staff member (C) marking a test tube containing samples taken from a person to be tested for the new coronavirus at a quarantine zone in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, in China's central Hubei province. (credit: STR/AFP via Getty Images)
In the quarantined Chinese city of Wuhan, health workers fighting the explosive outbreak of a new coronavirus have been improvising for weeks, trying to provide whatever care they can for Covid-19 patients whose symptoms range from a cough and fever to severe pneumonia, septic shock, and organ failure. In addition to treating these symptoms with oxygen therapy, ventilators, and antibiotics, doctors there have also resorted to experimentation. With no approved treatments for any of the illnesses caused by coronaviruses, health workers have been trying everything from steroids and antibodies to drugs normally intended for HIV and influenza. But because these treatments have been dispensed on a case-by-case basis, without any rigorous, centralized tracking of results, it’s hard to know if any of them are effective against the new disease.
Now, researchers in China are racing to launch more systematic tests of these repurposed medicines. Since January 28, scientists have registered 19 clinical trials in China, and at least a few have already begun dosing patients. With initial results expected as early as April, the swift leap into clinical research is an important one for frontline health workers desperate for hard evidence about which therapies work best. The trick will be making sure that evidence stacks up.
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Statt Qualcomms 5G-Modem zu nutzen, möchte Apple wohl eine eigene Antenne für das kommende iPhone bauen. Das könnte nicht ganz einfach werden, denn die Fehlertoleranz für den hochfrequenten Funkstandard ist recht niedrig. (iPhone, Apple)
Als virtuellen Touchscreen bezeichnen die Entwickler ihren Lidar-Sensor namens Glamos. Der kleine Würfel tastet mit Licht einen Halbkreis in der Luft ab und kann so Handbewegungen als Eingaben interpretieren. Auf Kickstarter ist das Zubehör ein ziemlic…
Als virtuellen Touchscreen bezeichnen die Entwickler ihren Lidar-Sensor namens Glamos. Der kleine Würfel tastet mit Licht einen Halbkreis in der Luft ab und kann so Handbewegungen als Eingaben interpretieren. Auf Kickstarter ist das Zubehör ein ziemlicher Erfolg. (Kickstarter, Display) Das Unternehmen Nextmotion hat wichtige Daten seiner Kunden in einer komplett offenen Datenbank abgelegt. Angreifer konnten darauf per IP-Adresse zugreifen. Dazu Hunderttausende Bilder von Gesichtern und Körperregionen von Patienten, die sich einer Sch…
Das Unternehmen Nextmotion hat wichtige Daten seiner Kunden in einer komplett offenen Datenbank abgelegt. Angreifer konnten darauf per IP-Adresse zugreifen. Dazu Hunderttausende Bilder von Gesichtern und Körperregionen von Patienten, die sich einer Schönheitsoperationen unterzogen hatten. (Sicherheitslücke, Web Service) Apple beefed up Files’ functionality in iOS 13 last year.
Apple only recently fully integrated its Files file-and-folder-management app with the rest of its own apps and services on iPhones, but Google has already taken that step with its popular Gmail iOS app.
Google announced in a post on its G Suite updates blog today that users will be able to attach files to emails from folders accessible from the Files app. This feature is coming to both the iPhone and iPad versions of the Gmail app, but Google says it could take a while to reach all users.
Additionally, this means that you can add files from Dropbox by this same method, since you can browse files stored in Dropbox through the Files app when the Dropbox app is installed.
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Huaweis Sicherheitschef spricht bei dem Backdoor-Vorwurf im Lawful Intercept Gateway von einem verfrühten Aprilscherz. In dieser Woche hatte die USA auch die Klage gegen Huawei verschärft. (
Statt Qualcomms 5G-Modem zu nutzen, möchte Apple wohl eine eigene Antenne für das kommende iPhone bauen. Das könnte nicht ganz einfach werden, denn die Fehlertoleranz für den hochfrequenten Funkstandard ist recht niedrig. (
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