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Die Ballons legen einen weiten Weg zurück, bevor sie schnelles Internet nach Ostafrika bringen können. (Project Loon, Google)

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Die Ballons legen einen weiten Weg zurück, bevor sie schnelles Internet nach Ostafrika bringen können. (Project Loon, Google)
Spekulanten waren sogar bereit, Käufern viel Geld zu bieten, um Kontrakte für Fracking-Öl im Mai loszuschlagen, die Produktion bricht schon ein und die Fracking-Blase nun wohl definitiv
Pressing the back button could expose another applicant’s private information.
Enlarge / Small Business Administrator Jovita Carranza is flanked by Donald Trump and Secretary of Treasury Steve Mnuchin on April 2, 2020. (credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Almost 8,000 business owners who applied for a loan from the Small Business Administration may have had their personal information exposed to other applicants, the SBA admitted on Tuesday.
The breach relates to a long-standing SBA program called Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL). It has traditionally been used to aid owners whose businesses are disrupted by hurricanes, tornadoes, or other disasters. It was recently expanded by Congress in the $2.2 trillion CARES Act. In addition to loans, the law authorized grants of up to $10,000 that don't need to be paid back.
The EIDL program is separate from the larger Paycheck Protection Program that was also part of the CARES Act. The SBA says that PPP applicants were not affected by the breach.
We talk with Jane Goodall about a new documentary that tracks her present-day activities.
Enlarge / Dr. Jane Goodall walking with local villagers and staff members of TACARE, one of the many programs of the Jane Goodall Institute. (credit: Michael Haertlein/National Geographic)
A few years ago, National Geographic released a beautifully filmed biopic called Jane on famed primatologist Jane Goodall. The film helped explain how someone with no scientific experience ended up in Africa studying chimpanzees in the hope it would shed light on the origins of human behavior. But, despite a compelling story and restored archival footage, Jane seemed incomplete. While it told the story of how Goodall ended up both a scientist and a public figure, the scenes of her in the present day (to the extent pre-2017 resembles the present day) show that she's left her research behind to become an advocate for conservation.
How she went from the researcher shown in Jane to the head of an international non-profit was left as an exercise to the viewer to figure out. So, I was excited to see that National Geographic had a follow-up documentary, Jane Goodall: The Hope, in the works. What follows is part review and part interview with Goodall.
For me, the hope was that The Hope would trace how Goodall managed the transition from researcher to international environmental advocate. Instead, the film simply gives a picture of what her life is like today, moving among her projects and following her hectic travel schedule. In that sense, the two documentaries act more like bookends on her career.
Nach der Tracing-App und der sog. Datenspende-App plant Gesundheitsminister Spahn nun offenbar eine App zur Überwachung der Einhaltung von Quarantänemaßnahmen
Das geht sogar aus den Zahlen des Robert-Koch-Instituts hervor. Fachleute und Eltern kleiner Kinder mahnen andere Herangehensweisen an
Seagate’s IronWolf and IronWolf Pro NAS drives are all certified SMR-free.
Enlarge / Our set of eight 12TB IronWolf disks is free of SMR—and Seagate says every other IronWolf disk is, too. (credit: Jim Salter)
Seagate Corporate Communications lead Greg Belloni reached out to us today in the wake of our earlier coverage of SMR disks showing up unannounced and in unexpected places.
Belloni confirmed that Seagate is using SMR technology in some desktop hard drives but stressed that the company is not "submarining" SMR disks into NAS (Network Attached Storage) channels.
Seagate confirms that we do not utilize Shingled Magnetic Recording technology (SMR) in any IronWolf or IronWolf Pro drives—purpose-built for NAS solutions. Seagate always recommends to use the right drive for the right application.
We spoke to Belloni at some length on the topic. He did not object to allegations of SMR disks showing up unexpectedly in Seagate's desktop channels but wanted to make very clear that Seagate has no SMR IronWolf or IronWolf Pro drives and no plans to release any.
Netflix kann im ersten Quartal vom Coronavirus stark profitieren. (Netflix, Streaming)
Epic decries “scary, repetitive security pop-ups” for sideloaded apps.
Enlarge / Artist's conception of the experience of installing Fortnite on Android before today.
It's now been over 18 months since Epic Games shook up the mobile-gaming market by refusing to release the Android version of Fortnite: Battle Royale on the Google Play store. At the time, Epic was explicit that avoiding Google's 30 percent "store tax" was part of its motivation for the decision.
And it seemed to be a successful decision for Epic, which managed to rack up 15 million Android downloads for Fortnite in just 21 days without Google Play's help. But now Epic has given up its fight against the platform and made Fortnite available on the Google Play store after all.
The reason for the move, the company says in a statement provided to Ars Technica, is because of a "basic realization":
Zoom has been grabbing a lot of headlines for a user base that ballooned from 10-million daily users to 200-million during the pandemic (and the increased scrutiny that comes with increased use). But other video communications services have also seen a…