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Das NXP-Werk im US-Bundesstaat Arizona fertigt Galliumnitrid-Halbleiter für 5G-Geräte, unter anderem für die Verteidigungsindustrie. (NXP, 5G)
The 8th-gen iPad changes nothing but the guts—but these are some solid guts.
The back of the 2020 iPad. [credit: Samuel Axon ]
Last month, Apple revealed and launched the 8th-generation iPad. You might have forgotten; it was overshadowed by a radically redesigned iPad Air, two new Apple Watches, and other announcements from the company. But nonetheless, this is likely to be one of the most popular iPads, if not the most popular in Apple's lineup because of one thing: price.
At $329 with 32GB of storage and $429 with 128GB, it's going to be ubiquitous in environments where cutting-edge features aren't called for, like point-of-sale, industrial use, and in schools. But it's also going to be a content consumption device for a wide array of consumers.
All that said, there's very little different about this year's iPad compared to the last. In fact, it all comes down to performance. So we're going to go over just that today, along with a few quick notes on how it compares to the previous model.
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Google, Apple and other Internet platforms that offer copyright-infringing movie, TV show and music apps, face the possibility of being blocked by ISPs in Russia after a new law came into effect this week. The draconian measure will only come into play if sites offering pirate apps fail to quickly comply with copyright complaints filed by local telecoms watchdog Roscomnadzor.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
For well over a decade copyright holders have been developing their capabilities to block sites at the ISP level. Specially crafted “no fault” injunctions obtained around the world mean that thousands of sites are now inaccessible (at least directly) by local audiences.
Of course, piracy hasn’t stood still since the first blockade was put in place in Denmark around 2006. Site operators have come up with various techniques to nullify ISP blocking but over the past several years a new threat has emerged. Piracy-enabling apps that provide access to movies, TV shows, music and live sports are now favored by millions of users and they are not so easy to block.
These apps typically aggregate content from a range of underlying pirate mechanisms, which can move, shift and mutate at the will of their developers. Blocking this content is a grand game of whack-a-mole so, over in Russia, copyright holders and the government have come up with new legislation to restrict access to the apps themselves.
After two years in the making, this summer the final text of new amendments to copyright law were adopted by the State Duma. After being signed by President Putin the law came into effect this week, October 1, 2020, with a goal to put pressure on app developers and the pirate app ecosystem itself, rather than tackle illegal content directly.
While apps of all kinds need developers, those developers need a platform from where to reach the public. Given today’s mobile markets, that’s likely to mean Google Play or Apple’s App Store which together dominate the market.
Being listed on either is a great start to building a large audience for a pirate app so the new law wants to stop that in its tracks, before it becomes too much of a problem. All app distributors, therefore, will have to remove pirate apps quickly from their platforms or face the consequences.
The system will be implemented as follows. Copyright holders will file complaints about pirate apps with telecoms regulator Roscomnadzor, which will determine, within 72 hours, who is hosting the software. This could be Apple or Google, another index of apps, or indeed any other web resource.
Once the location has been identified, Roscomnadzor will send a copyright infringement notice (in English and Russian) directly to the platform detailing the infringing content in the complaint and whose rights it breaches. Along with that will come a demand to restrict access to that content which in most cases is likely to mean a complete removal of the app itself.
The platform will then be required to identify the person who uploaded the software, typically its developer, that a notice of infringement has been filed. The developer or other responsible party will then have 24 hours to address the infringement within their software, such as the provision of copyright-infringing movies or TV shows. This could mean implementing restrictions so that the app doesn’t continue to infringe or even the wholesale removal of the app from the distribution platform itself.
If the developer takes no action to remedy the situation, the responsibility for preventing ongoing infringement will fall back to the app distribution platform, such as Apple, Google or any other site/system with similar functionality. They will then have to remove or block access to the software to avoid becoming a target themselves.
“In case of refusal or inaction of the owner of the software application, the owner of the information resource on which the software application is located, or another person who provides the placement in the information and telecommunication network, including the Internet, of the software application, are obliged to restrict access to the corresponding software application no later than the expiration of three working days from the date of receipt of the notification,” the law reads.
In the event that neither the software developer nor the distributor takes remedial action to prevent the infringement listed in the complaint, Roscomnadzor will now be able to issue an instruction to have the distributor itself blocked by all Internet service providers in Russia.
Whether ISPs will be able to precisely prevent access to specific apps will remain to be seen but in the past there have been instances of over-blocking due to technical issues or limitations, leaving other aspects of platforms or indeed their entire operations blocked in Russia. The new law doesn’t seem to require surgical blocking either.
“In case of refusal or inaction of the owner of the information resource, the hosting provider or another person specified [..] shall be obliged to restrict access to the relevant information resource immediately after the expiration of a day after receiving the [original] notification,” it reads.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Der Polestar 2 muss zurückgerufen werden, weil die Elektroautos plötzlich nicht mehr fahren und abgeschleppt werden müssen. (Elektroauto, Technologie)
Der Polestar 2 muss zurückgerufen werden, weil die Elektroautos plötzlich nicht mehr fahren und abgeschleppt werden müssen. (Elektroauto, Technologie) New clues indicate that APT28 may be behind mysterious intrusion disclosed last week.
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A warning that unidentified hackers broke into an agency of the US federal government and stole its data is troubling enough. But it becomes all the more disturbing when those unidentified intruders are identified—and appear likely to be part of a notorious team of cyberspies working in the service of Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU.
Last week the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory that hackers had penetrated a US federal agency. It identified neither the attackers nor the agency, but it did detail the hackers' methods and their use of a new and unique form of malware in an operation that successfully stole target data. Now, clues uncovered by a researcher at cybersecurity firm Dragos and an FBI notification to hacking victims obtained by WIRED in July suggest a likely answer to the mystery of who was behind the intrusion: They appear to be Fancy Bear, a team of hackers working for Russia's GRU. Also known as APT28, the group has been responsible for everything from hack-and-leak operations targeting the 2016 US presidential election to a broad campaign of attempted intrusions targeting political parties, consultancies, and campaigns this year.
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Manchmal sind sie willkommen, häufiger eher nicht: Polizisten haben es schwer. Die aktuelle Kritik wegen “racial profiling” und Rechtsextremen in den eigenen Reihen macht es nicht einfacher. Höchste Zeit, sich den Job mal genauer anzusehen
An der Tokioter Börse gab es einen Speicherfehler und auch das Backup versagte. (Börse, Passwort)
Checkouts of digital books from a popular service are up 52% since March.
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Before Sarah Adler moved to Maryland last week, she used library cards from her Washington, DC, home and neighboring counties in Virginia and Maryland to read books online. The Libby app, a slick and easy-to-use service from the company OverDrive, gave her access to millions of titles. When she moved, she picked up another card, and access to another library’s e-collection, as well as a larger consortium that the library belongs to. She does almost all of her reading on her phone, through the app, catching a page or two between working on her novels and caring for her 2-year-old. With her husband also at home, she’s been reading more books, mostly historical romance and literature, during the pandemic. In 2020, she estimates, she has read 150 books.
Adler buys books “rarely,” she says, “which I feel bad about. As someone who hopes to be published one day, I feel bad not giving money to authors.”
Borrowers like Adler are driving publishers crazy. After the pandemic closed many libraries’ physical branches this spring, checkouts of ebooks are up 52 percent from the same period last year, according to OverDrive, which partners with 50,000 libraries worldwide. Hoopla, another service that connects libraries to publishers, says 439 library systems in the US and Canada have joined since March, boosting its membership by 20 percent.
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Angepasster Name und viel Leistung: Die Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) mit Zen-3-Technik erscheinen bereits in wenigen Wochen. (AMD Zen, Prozessor)
Vor 35 Jahren reiste Marty McFly zurück in die Zukunft – vom Jahr 1985 ins Jahr 1955. Wir machen eine Zeitreise zurück ins Jahr 1985, als dieser Meilenstein der Popkultur zum phänomenalen Erfolg wurde. Von Peter Osteried (Zurück in die Zukunft, Disney)…
Vor 35 Jahren reiste Marty McFly zurück in die Zukunft - vom Jahr 1985 ins Jahr 1955. Wir machen eine Zeitreise zurück ins Jahr 1985, als dieser Meilenstein der Popkultur zum phänomenalen Erfolg wurde. Von Peter Osteried (Zurück in die Zukunft, Disney) 
Das NXP-Werk im US-Bundesstaat Arizona fertigt Galliumnitrid-Halbleiter für 5G-Geräte, unter anderem für die Verteidigungsindustrie. (
An der Tokioter Börse gab es einen Speicherfehler und auch das Backup versagte. (
Angepasster Name und viel Leistung: Die Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) mit Zen-3-Technik erscheinen bereits in wenigen Wochen. (
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