Month: March 2020

FreeNAS is a free and open source operating system designed for network-attached storage (NAS) devices. For much of the past decade, the project has been led by the folks at iXsystems, which has also produced an enterprise version of the software called TrueNAS. Now iXsystems has announced that FreeNAS and TrueNAS are merging. Moving forward […]

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Google steht offenbar kurz davor, die Gesichtsentsperrung des Pixel 4 endlich abzusichern: Es ist eine Einstellung aufgetaucht, die die Notwendigkeit geöffneter Augen vorschreibt. Funktionieren tut sie allerdings noch nicht. (Pixel 4, Google)

Microsoft bringt ein UEFI-Update für den Surface Laptop 3 heraus. Die Akkulaufzeit und Stabilität des Notebooks mit AMD-Ryzen-Chip sollen so verbessert werden. (Surface, Microsoft)

Verstärkung für GPU-beschleunigte Cloud-Storage-Software mit künstlicher Intelligenz: Nvidia hat Swiftstack gekauft. Das Software-Unternehmen hat Kunden wie Bet365, Ebay, Paypal, Verizon und auch Nvidia. (Nvidia, Storage)

The “repeat infringer” issue remains a hot topic in US courts after rightsholders filed lawsuits against several ISPs.

These Internet providers are accused of not doing enough to stop copyright infringers on their networks, even after receiving multiple ‘copyright infringement’ notifications.

Last December, one case resulted in a guilty verdict against Cox. Following a jury trial, the company was ordered to pay a billion dollars in damages to a group of major record labels.

Following the verdict, many of the labels shifted their focus to the next target, ISP Grande Communications. This case was scheduled to go to trial last week but, at the last minute, it was postponed until September.

This decision came after the court advised both parties that it only had time for a six-day trial, as opposed to the ten days originally requested. Both the defendant and plaintiffs argued that considering the extensiveness of the case, this was not enough, so they filed a request for a delay.

“The Parties do not believe that six days is an adequate amount of time to try this case. Accordingly, the Parties request that the Court continue the trial setting and reset it at a time that allows for ten trial days,” Grande and the record companies informed the court.

Last week U.S. District Judge David Ezra granted the request. This means that the case will be postponed for several months, with the new trial taking place in September.

The extra time will also allow both parties to resolve some of their outstanding differences. Both sides submitted several motions to exclude information from the trial and they hope to narrow these requests in the coming months.

In addition, jury selection has also been postponed. This means that the record labels must wait a bit longer before they can ask potential trial jurors if they read TorrentFreak.

Drom: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, torrent sites and more. We also have an annual VPN review.

Wissenschaftler beschäftigen sich derzeit mit dem Coronavirus. Google, Intel und Lenovo stellen ihnen dafür unterschiedliche Hilfsmittel zur Verfügung, um das Virus und seine Funktionsweise besser zu verstehen. (Coronavirus, Google)

Security researchers at Positive Technologies have discovered a security vulnerability affecting most Intel processors released in the past 5 years. Intel has already taken steps to mitigate against some possible attacks… but because the vulnerability is in the boot ROM (the first thing that loads when a chip is powered up), there’s no way to […]

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Nächstes Jahr soll die kommerzielle Nutzung der Raumstation von Seiten der Nasa beginnen. Die Firma Axiom hat SpaceX den Auftrag für einen Dragon-Flug erteilt. Astronauten sollen den Aufbau von Axiom-Raumstationsmodulen und einer eigenen Raumstation vorbereiten. Von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (ISS, Nasa)

Die Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (BPjM) sieht durch Coin Master zwar Gefährdungspotenzial für Kinder und Jugendliche - auf dem Index der Jugendschützer landet die Casino-App aber nicht. Auslöser für die Untersuchung war eine Kampagne von Jan Böhmermann. (Jugendschutz, Games)

Sonos verändert sein Trade-Up-Programm und verlangt nicht mehr, dass ältere Lautsprecher unbrauchbar gemacht werden müssen. Wer beim Kauf eines neuen Sonos-Produkts ein altes gegenrechnen lässt, kann das alte Modell weiter verwenden. (Sonos, Sound-Hardware)