"Das sehr idealistische Anliegen der Türkei"
Der Deutschlandfunk, der Karabachkrieg und der Waffenstillstand
Der Deutschlandfunk, der Karabachkrieg und der Waffenstillstand
Month: November 2020
Trump admin puts a hold on TikTok ban it seems to have forgotten about
The administration’s attention appears to have wandered into other fields.
Enlarge / TikTok's US fate is up in the air, but at least you can still download and patch it. (credit: SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images)
The Department of Commerce has put a stay on enforcing an executive order that would have forced popular short-form video app TikTok to suspend all US operations as of midnight tonight. This is a tacit admission that the proposed ban isn't actually particularly important to the administration any longer.
Commerce said the orders against TikTok are on hold "pending further legal developments" in multiple lawsuits, The Wall Street Journal reports.
President Donald Trump earlier this year signed two executive orders relating to TikTok. The first, on August 7, declared the app to be a national emergency. A second (PDF), issued one week later, gave ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, 90 days to divest the app to a US owner.
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macOS Big Sur launch appears to cause temporary slowdown in even non-Big Sur Macs
Even Macs that didn’t upgrade to Big Sur had problems.
Enlarge / A promotional image for macOS Big Sur. (credit: Apple)
Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues that included apps taking minutes to launch, stuttering and non-responsiveness throughout macOS, and other problems. The issues seemed to begin close to the time when Apple began rolling out the new version of macOS, Big Sur—but it affected users of other versions of macOS, like Catalina and Mojave.
Other Apple services faced slowdowns, outages, and odd behavior, too, including Apple Pay, Messages, and even Apple TV devices.
It didn't take long for some Mac users to note that trustd—a macOS process responsible for checking with Apple's servers to confirm that an app is notarized—was attempting to contact a host named oscp.apple.com but failing repeatedly. This resulted in systemwide slowdowns as apps attempted to launch, among other things.
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Lilbits: Pixel 5 custom ROMs, GPD Win 3 gameplay, and Plasma Mobile updates
Less than a month after the Google Pixel 5 began shipping to customers, developers have created the first custom ROM for the phone. GPD’s next handheld gaming computer probably won’t ship until Q2, 2020, but the company is starting to show…
Less than a month after the Google Pixel 5 began shipping to customers, developers have created the first custom ROM for the phone. GPD’s next handheld gaming computer probably won’t ship until Q2, 2020, but the company is starting to show off gameplay on a prototype of its new Tiger Lake-powered handheld. And a group […]
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In a nightmare year, Victor Glover is on the verge of living his dream
“My heart is low, my head is level, and my faith is high.”
Enlarge / NASA announced in August 2018 that Victor Glover would be flying aboard the first operational Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station. (credit: NASA)
Victor Glover says he does not want the attention. Not for this, at least. And I believe him.
"I wish that there wasn't anything to talk about, but that's not the world that we live in," the NASA astronaut acknowledged during a recent interview.
The time we live in is the year 2020, an age that finds the United States riven yet again by racial tensions, sparked to life by the killing of George Floyd in May and exacerbated by an extraordinarily tense presidential election.
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Deskop-Betriebssystem erschienen: Das ist neu in MacOS Big Sur
Apple hat mit MacOS Big Sur eine neue Version seines Mac-Betriebssystems veröffentlicht – mit neuer Benutzeroberfläche und weiteren Änderungen. (MacOS 11.0 Big Sur, Apple)
Apple hat mit MacOS Big Sur eine neue Version seines Mac-Betriebssystems veröffentlicht - mit neuer Benutzeroberfläche und weiteren Änderungen. (MacOS 11.0 Big Sur, Apple) Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ From DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results
Search engines generally aim to return the most relevant results, but that’s not always the case. Earlier this year we reported how popular pirate sites were dropping from Google’s top results and the same appears to be happening in DuckDuckGo as well now, with Bing not staying behind.
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Over the past few years the entertainment industries have repeatedly asked search engines to step up their game when it comes to their anti-piracy efforts.
In addition to processing takedown notices, Google and Bing are now also actively working with rightsholders to take more proactive measures.
Takedown+
Google, for example, downranks sites for which it regularly receives valid takedown notices. This isn’t new but this year the search engine apparently stepped up its game even further, making the homepages of several top pirate sites unfindable.
Instead of pointing people to the official domains of popular pirate sites such as 1337x, NYAA, and LimeTorrents, Google directed users to copycats that had nothing to do with these sites. This wasn’t due to DMCA takedown requests either.
When we covered our findings we contrasted the results with those from alternative search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Bing, which both showed the real sites as the first results. This led us to the conclusion that Google was actively manipulating its results.
Popular Sites Vanish From DuckDuckGo
Today, a few months later, the ‘disappearance’ issue is no longer unique to Google. Popular pirates sites have started to disappear from other search engines as well, including DuckDuckGo.
For example, when we searched for 1337x a few weeks ago the official 1337x.to domain was the top result, as shown here. Today, however, that domain isn’t listed on the first few pages as can be seen below. The official 1337x domain has simply disappeared.
The same applies to several other pirate brands. When we search for RarBG the official rarbg.to domain is nowhere to be found and the same is true for Torrentz2.eu. Even the site of the popular games repacker Fitgirl has vanished, as several Redditors also noticed.
Ironically, DuckDuckGo does still list information from Wikipedia on the side, which does list the proper authoritative domain, as shown below.
While it’s clear that ‘something’ is happening here we don’t know what. TorrentFreak reached out to DuckDuckGo through various channels to get a comment on our findings, but the company has yet to respond.
Takedown Notices?
The most likely scenario is that the pages were removed following DMCA takedown notices. However, in that case, you often see another URL from the same domain taking over the top spot. Not just some random copycat site. We don’t see any page from the official domain in the top 100 results.
Also, the homepage of 1337x.to, which recently disappeared, doesn’t list any copyright-infringing content, so removing that would be quite broad by itself.
DuckDuckGo is not the only search engine that appears to be following in Google’s footsteps. The same is happening at Bing. For example, when we search for “fitgirl repacks” there, the official fitgirl-repacks.site doesn’t show up.
Bing Wipes Out Fitgirl
Unlike DuckDuckGo, Bing notes at the bottom of the page that “some results have been removed.” In the case of Fitgirl, that’s an understatement because a more narrow search for the fitgirl-repacks.site domain shows that all results have been removed.
These mystery disappearances don’t apply to all pirate sites. The official Pirate Bay domain, for example, was removed in Bing but still shows up as the first result in DuckDuckGo, at least for now.
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SpaceX Starlink has some hiccups, as expected, but users are impressed
“Link stability is a little rough,” but Netflix works great, one user says.
Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle's Coeur d'Alene National Forest. (credit: Wandering-coder)
When SpaceX opened the Starlink public beta last month, the company told users to expect "brief periods of no connectivity at all" over the first few months. It's one of the reasons that SpaceX calls this testing period the "Better Than Nothing" beta.
Early reports from Starlink beta testers confirm that users are suffering from this problem to some extent. But Starlink's overall performance has wowed beta testers, many of whom previously had no access to modern broadband speeds.
"Link stability is a little rough," Reddit user Exodatum wrote on the Starlink subreddit yesterday. "We're getting jumps bad enough to disconnect us from connection-sensitive servers every 5-10 minutes, but things like Netflix are working perfectly. We watched Airplane! as an inaugural stream and it was fabulous." (Buffering deployed by Netflix and other streaming services can keep videos running when there are brief Internet problems.)
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What is Parler, and why is everyone suddenly talking about it?
Twitter’s been ramping up fact-checking. Parler promises the opposite.
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images)
Hundreds of millions of Americans—and our counterparts worldwide—watched the US election and its high-drama aftermath unfold on social media over the past week or so. Most of us were using Facebook or Twitter, but in the immediate wake of Election Day, a new social media platform suddenly rocketed to the top of the app download charts: Parler.
Conservative politicians, such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), have been evangelizing Parler to their followers for more than a year and have been joined by right-wing media personalities. Conservatives have now redoubled their efforts to evade "censorship," as Twitter works overtime to fact-check false claims about the election.
What is Parler?
Parler is a Twitter-style social media platform that first launched in 2018. As with Twitter, it's built around a newsfeed of accounts you can choose to follow, and users can upload images in addition to creating posts of up to 1,000 characters (Twitter caps posts at 280). In addition to being available by Web, Parler has both iOS and Android apps available.
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NanoPi R4S is a tiny headless PC with RK3399 processor and two Gigabit Ethernet ports
The NanoPi R4S is a tiny, low-power computer from FriendlyELEC is a 2.6″ x 2.6″ single-board PC with a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor and 4GB of RAM. With two Ethernet ports but no video output, the little device is designed for use a…
The NanoPi R4S is a tiny, low-power computer from FriendlyELEC is a 2.6″ x 2.6″ single-board PC with a Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core processor and 4GB of RAM. With two Ethernet ports but no video output, the little device is designed for use as a headless computer or compact router rather than a desktop computer that […]
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