Jailbreak for Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (current-gen)

There’s good news for folks looking to jailbreak Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite eReader: there’s a new method for doing that. But there’s also bad news: Amazon has just begun rolling out a firmware update that breaks compati…

There’s good news for folks looking to jailbreak Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite eReader: there’s a new method for doing that. But there’s also bad news: Amazon has just begun rolling out a firmware update that breaks compatibility with this method. So if you think you might want to jailbreak the 10th-gen Kindle Paperwhite (also known […]

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MindGeek: The secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube

Porn is everywhere, but the company which owns the most-popular sites is out of sight

MindGeek: The secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube

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Mario Salieri was shooting a pornographic movie in a lavish Prague villa two decades ago when he first caught sight of the computer geeks who were about to upend his industry.

“The owner of the villa asked me if we could offer a sandwich to a young computer programmer who had been renting a room,” says Mr. Salieri. “The boy was pale and visibly hungry.”

A few years later, Mr. Salieri discovered that “the boy” had bought his first Rolls-Royce Phantom. Like other coders, he had made a fortune selling advertising on the early free-to-watch porn sites, which today attract hundreds of millions of visits every day.

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Docsis 3.1: Telekom verspricht im Kabelnetz kürzere koaxiale Abschnitte

Der drittgrößte Kabelnetzbetreiber im Telekom-Konzern sieht sich den anderen im Netz überlegen. Der Ausbau mit Docsis 3.1 ist vor Vodafone und Tele Columbus abgeschlossen. (Docsis 3.1, Telekom)

Der drittgrößte Kabelnetzbetreiber im Telekom-Konzern sieht sich den anderen im Netz überlegen. Der Ausbau mit Docsis 3.1 ist vor Vodafone und Tele Columbus abgeschlossen. (Docsis 3.1, Telekom)

China collects Moon samples, may not share with NASA due to Wolf Amendment

The country returned about 2kg of rocks from the Moon’s surface.

Workers at the landing site of the return capsule of China's Chang'e 5 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 17, 2020.

Enlarge / Workers at the landing site of the return capsule of China's Chang'e 5 probe in Siziwang Banner, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on Dec. 17, 2020. (credit: Xinhua/Ren Junchuan via Getty Images)

China's increasingly ambitious space program completed a 23-day mission on Wednesday that culminated in the return of about 2kg of rocks from the Moon. During the final phase of the mission, a singed spacecraft carrying the lunar cargo landed in Mongolia and was recovered by Chinese teams.

This Chang'e 5 mission represents a significant success for China and its space program, becoming only the third nation—after the United States with its crewed Apollo program and the Soviet Union with a robotic program in the 1970s—to return samples from the Moon.

During a post-landing news conference, Chinese officials said they would emulate the United States and Soviet Union in sharing the samples with international partners, including the United Nations. However, sharing material with the United States seems unlikely due to the Wolf Amendment, a law passed by Congress in 2011 that prohibits direct cooperation with China.

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Amazon’s answer to SpaceX Starlink delivers 400Mbps in prototype phase

Amazon offers peek into development of antenna for Project Kuiper user terminal.

Illustration of Amazon's satellite user-terminal antenna.

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Amazon's competitor to SpaceX Starlink is moving through the prototype-development phase, with the company announcing yesterday that it has "completed initial development on the antenna for our low-cost customer terminal."

Amazon said its "Ka-band phased-array antenna is based on a new architecture capable of delivering high-speed, low-latency broadband in a form factor that is smaller and lighter than legacy antenna designs," and that the "prototype is already delivering speeds up to 400Mbps." Performance will get better in future versions, Amazon said.

Amazon in July received Federal Communications Commission approval to launch 3,236 low-Earth orbit satellites. The company says it plans to invest over $10 billion in its satellite-broadband division, which it calls Project Kuiper.

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Point-to-Multipoint: Swisscom Glasfaserausbau darf Konkurrenz nicht ausschließen

Die Wettbewerber von Swisscom haben die Wettbewerbskommission um Hilfe gebeten, weil deren Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP)-Bauweise bei FTTH sie ausschließen würde. Swisscom bestreitet dies. (Swisscom, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)

Die Wettbewerber von Swisscom haben die Wettbewerbskommission um Hilfe gebeten, weil deren Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP)-Bauweise bei FTTH sie ausschließen würde. Swisscom bestreitet dies. (Swisscom, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)