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Die von Islamisten übernommene Anschlagstechnik wurde nach Trumps Amtsantritt propagiert und jetzt in mehreren Städten gegen Black-Lives-Matter-Demonstranten von Polizisten und Rechtsextremisten eingesetzt
Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Vom viel zu langsamen Kohleausstieg, sibirischer Rekordhitze und dem Ende der römischen Republik
This week Apple confirmed that it’s preparing to transition from Intel to ARM chips for upcoming Mac computers, and the upcoming macOS Big Sur will be the company’s first desktop operating system designed for Apple Silicon chips based on AR…
VR company also announces sunset plans for older Go wireless headsets.
Behold: the Oculus Quest, as photographed in my messy home. [credit: Sam Machkovech ]
Since its launch last year, Oculus has kept tight control over the library of software on the wireless Quest headset, applying what the company called a "quality-first approach" to app approval. Today, Oculus pledged to loosen that control with a new app-distribution path to be rolled out early next year.
In a blog post today, Oculus says its console-like curation approach for Quest has been a success, highlighting over $100 million in Quest content sales in its first year. That same tight curation will still apply for the main Quest store going forward.
But Oculus now says it will also be adding "a new way for developers to distribute Quest apps" in early 2021. This new channel "will enable developers to share their apps to anyone with a Quest, without having to be accepted into the Oculus Store, and without the need for sideloading," the company writes.
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Order even blocks workers from transferring to US offices of their own companies.
Enlarge / Illustration of a green card sitting on an open passport. Green card holders are not currently affected by the new order, but the administration says immigration-restricting order will leave 525,000 jobs vacant this year for US citizens to fill. (credit: Epoxydude | Getty Images)
Tech firms are pushing back against the Trump administration after President Donald Trump yesterday issued an order suspending the issuance of a wide range of work visas, including the type that allows high-skilled workers and their families to enter the country and work for American technology companies.
Monday's proclamation renews and expands on an earlier order issued in April.
Both the April and June orders claim that admitting workers from other nations at this time would put the United States at an economic disadvantage while the nation tries to recover from massive job losses related to COVID-19. The new order extends the existing limitations on immigration into the US through at least the end of the year, and it additionally prohibits several categories of non-immigrant worker visas from being issued in the back half of 2020. The visas now being limited include types H-1B, which applies to high-skilled degree-holding workers; H-2B, which applies to temporary workers in non-agricultural industries; J, which applies to exchange visitors, both educational and professional; and L, which applies to individuals transferring to a US location within the company for which they already work.
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Apple will stop blocking bug fixes over App Store guideline violations.
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Apple took to its developer website to announce a number of new initiatives, services, and tools for developers today. Most of what the company listed are evolutions of the standard offerings it promotes at its ongoing developer conference, but one line item appears to be a direct response to the recent controversy over App Store guidelines raised by Dropbox—which we wrote about at length last week.
Moving forward, the Cupertino company says it will no longer hold up bug fixes over guideline violations except where legal concerns are at play. Apple also says that it will offer new channels for developers to challenge its judgments.
Apple came under fire after it rejected a bug-fix update to email app Hey, which is made by Basecamp. Apple told the app's developers that the app would have to incorporate Apple's own system for in-app purchases or risk being delisted. Apple also claimed it should have rejected the app to begin with but that it only noticed the issue when reviewing the bug-fix submission.
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Unfortunately, all 3 additions are currently available only to big organizations.
Microsoft is moving forward with its promise to extend enterprise security protections to non-Windows platforms with the general release of a Linux version and a preview of one for Android. The software maker is also beefing up Windows security protections to scan for malicious firmware.
The Linux and Android moves—detailed in posts published on Tuesday here, here, and here—follow a move last year to ship antivirus protections to macOS. Microsoft disclosed the firmware feature last week.
All the new protections are available to users of Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection and require Windows 10 Enterprise Edition. Public pricing from Microsoft is either non-existent or difficult to find, but according to this site, costs range from $30 to $72 per machine per year to enterprise customers.
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BitTorrent is a decentralized technology but most torrent sites rely on a centralized infrastructure that can be seized or taken down. The Tribler torrent client, which is developed by the Delft University of Technology eliminates these weaknesses. As a result, it can provide a safe haven for torrent sites, which is confirmed by a quick browse through the client’s torrent channels.
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The Tribler client has been around for almost 15 years. During that time it has developed into a truly decentralized BitTorrent client.
Unlike other torrent software, the project is managed by a group of researchers who have their main lab at the Delft University of Technology.
From the early days, project leader Professor Johan Pouwelse strived to create a file-sharing tool that would be impossible to censor or shut down. Later, Triber also added several anonymity features.
“The only way to take it down is to take the Internet down,” Pouwelse told us previously.
Last week the latest stable version of the torrent client was released. As its userbase is limited the announcement didn’t get much airtime. However, when we decided to take a closer look at the latest release, it’s clear that some pirates are using it to its full potential.
Tribler is different from most other torrent apps because it also allows users to find torrents. In addition, people can create and follow channels that archive curated content. This all happens without any central servers getting involved.
In theory, torrent sites can republish all their files on a Tribler channel. This would then be virtually impossible to shut down, as all the metadata – including the channel itself – is shared across the network.
When these channels were first introduced a few years ago there wasn’t much action, but today there are some pretty big channels on there. While they may not be ‘official’ copies of torrent sites, it’s clear where they source their material from.
The largest channel on Tribler at the moment is “RuTracker unofficial,” which lists more than two million torrents from the popular torrent site. RuTracker is currently banned in Russia but through Tribler, these files are easily accessible.
Other popular channels also carry the names or brands of known pirate sites. This includes NYAA Torrents, with most than 60,000 files, as well YIFY, MVGroup, and EZTV. There are also more generic names such as ‘ebooks’, ‘Sci-Fi Movies’ and ‘Things and stuff.’
These channels will all survive and live on as long as people continue to seed the files, even if the sites from where they originate are long gone. If outsiders have the desire, they are impossible to shut down, just as intended.
TorrentFreak spoke to Professor Johan Pouwelse who says that the Tribler team has no control over the content that appears in the client. The researchers just offer technology, which appears to be popular among pirates.
“Tribler is deliberately created as a system without kings. It avoids all gatekeepers and gives all power to the people. It’s social and popular stuff floats to the top. This is an open network that efficiently taps into existing BitTorrent content,” Pouwelse says.
Professor Pouwelse couldn’t remove any files if he wanted to and the same is true for channels, which are torrent swarms on their own. This also means that they thrive when more people use them.
“Tribler channels should be as robust as BitTorrent swarms themselves. Actually, Tribler channels are BitTorrent swarms with magnet links,” Pouwelse notes.
While a truly decentralized torrent client with anonymity features is certainly impressive, the technology also has its downsides. Discovering new content can take time, as all information comes from other people in the network. Also, more anonymity means more bandwidth usage and slower downloads.
This means that, for the average torrent user, Tribler can be frustrating at times. However, that doesn’t take anything away from the fact that it’s the most technically progressive torrent client out there. Aside from decentralization and anonymity, there’s a built-in crypto economy as well.
The new 7.5 release that came out last Friday is available for download on the official site. It includes several smaller updates and improvements as well as a complete overhaul of the internal core, which should make the application faster and less resource-intensive.
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Latest Pew poll of 11,000 US adults shows (almost) everybody wants more solar.
In the United States, the public has long had a divided opinion on the science of climate change—a divide that's the product of an all-consuming culture war. As such, asking people whether thermometers have measured warming or whether research shows human activities caused that warming has more or less really been a question about someone’s preferred political party.
But that's been gradually changing, and the latest Pew Research Center poll shows that support for actions to address climate change continues to grow. And there are clear majorities in favor of many of them.
The poll results are based on a survey of nearly 11,000 US adults in late April and early May.
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Chuwi’s LarkBox is a Windows 10 desktop computer crammed into a case that measures just about 2.4″ x 2.4″ x 1.7″ and which weighs less than 4.5 ounces. With a 10-watt Intel Celeron J4115 quad-core processor based on Intel Gemini…
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