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Nutzer der Social-Media-App Clubhouse sind offenbar von einem Hackerangriff betroffen. Es geht um 1,3 Millionen Datensätze. (Hacker, Soziales Netz)
Nutzer der Social-Media-App Clubhouse sind offenbar von einem Hackerangriff betroffen. Es geht um 1,3 Millionen Datensätze. (Hacker, Soziales Netz) Lightning strikes in the far north could double by 2100.
Enlarge / Lightning strikes in the far north of Canada. (credit: Sandra Angers-Blondin)
The Arctic isn't doing so hot. That’s because it is, in fact, too hot. It’s warming at least twice as fast as the rest of the planet, which is setting off vicious feedback loops that accelerate change. Ice, for instance, is more reflective than soil, so when it melts, the region absorbs more solar energy. More dark vegetation is growing in northern lands, absorbing still more of the sun’s heat. And when permafrost thaws, it releases gobs of greenhouse gases, which further warm the climate.
The Arctic has gone so bizarro that lightning—a warm-weather phenomenon most common in the tropics—is now striking near the North Pole. And according to new modeling, the electrical bombardment of the region will only get worse. By the end of the century, the number of lightning strikes across the Arctic could more than double, which may initiate a shocking cascade of knock-on effects—namely, more wildfires and more warming. “The Arctic is a rapidly changing place, and this is an aspect of the transformation that I'm not sure has gotten a whole lot of attention, but it's actually really consequential,” says UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain, who wasn’t involved in the research.
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Mit 6G sollen im Terahertz-Bereich Terabit-Datenraten pro Sekunde erreicht werden. Dazu kommen AI und millimetergenaue Ortung. (Mobilfunk, Handy)
Wie die Corona-Krise einen alten Konflikt der offenen Gesellschaft zuspitzt
Die Geschichte als Basis, Zusammenarbeit mit der Community und Crunch: Golem.de hat mit den Entwicklern von Age of Empires 4 gesprochen. Von Peter Steinlechner (Age of Empires, Microsoft)
Die Geschichte als Basis, Zusammenarbeit mit der Community und Crunch: Golem.de hat mit den Entwicklern von Age of Empires 4 gesprochen. Von Peter Steinlechner (Age of Empires, Microsoft) Teil 2 der Serie über Bewusstsein, Philosophie, Religion und Naturwissenschaft
“Geoengineering” ist der Versuch, den Strahlungshaushalt der Erde zu beeinflussen oder freigesetzte Treibhausgase der Atmosphäre wieder zu entziehen. Jetzt wurde ein riskantes Experiment in Schweden abgesagt
A report from anti-piracy group Rights Alliance reveals that the volume of Danish visits to pirate sites remained steady in 2020 but the overall number of users of illegal services dropped by almost 18%. Rights Alliance attributes the decrease to several initiatives including site-blocking, but also a tendency for users to consume pirated content on legal platforms such as YouTube and Facebook.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
As one of the most popular anti-piracy tools, site-blocking attracts plenty of attention.
Originally a mechanism to prevent static torrent and streaming sites from reaching their audiences, site-blocking is now just as likely to encompass relatively nimble live TV and sports streaming platforms too.
Over the past several years, Danish anti-piracy group Rights Alliance has invested considerable resources into blocking all kinds of pirate sites, with interesting results.
Last year, Rights Alliance revealed that in 2019 its work had resulted in 141 sites being blocked by the majority of ISPs in the country. Citing a MediaVision survey covering the same period, the anti-piracy group concluded that around 450,000 Danes were using illegal sites, between them chalking up around 146 million visits annually.
In its latest annual report made available this week, Rights Alliance (RA) reveals that it had 196 “illegal domains” blocked in 2020, up 55 on the previous year. The focus was on “mirror sites”, i.e sites that look identical to their previously blocked counterparts while attempting to circumvent blocking with automated redirection systems and new domain names.
RA says that mirrors have a “volatile nature” in that they have a shorter lifespan, are harder to find, and thus require special handling when it comes to blocking. In part, however, this can be dealt with via court-ordered dynamic blocking injunctions which are currently in place covering a wide range of content including movies, music, TV series, literature and live sports.
Overall, RA observed a decrease in ‘pirate’ site users last year, down from 450,000 in 2019 to around 370,000 users in 2020. Interestingly, however, the overall number of visits to pirate sites in 2020 remained stable at around 12 million visits per month, i.e very little change when compared to the 146 million reported overall in 2019.
RA believes that the decrease in identified users can be in part attributed to blocking but concedes that VPNs and third-party DNS services play a part, as does migration to other platforms where piracy is less easily monitored.
“Unfortunately, the decline in the number of users is probably also due to the fact that the users have moved to other platforms where consumption cannot be immediately measured in the data sets of MediaVision and SimilarWeb,” RA writes.
“A new challenge that has become clearer in recent years is the increasing decentralization of illegal content to legal services, such as YouTube and Facebook. Here it is not possible to measure illegal consumption and the users are not necessarily aware that they are consuming illegal content, as the service itself is legal.”
Rights Alliance and its rightsholder partners are not defenseless in this scenario, since legal ‘UGC’ platforms are more likely to respond to takedown requests than pirate sites. Additionally, both YouTube and Facebook have their own suites of anti-piracy tools and will be required to respond to important aspects of the new EU Copyright Directive. Rights Alliance says it has this under control.
“In 2020, we have therefore intensified the work with the platforms’ responsibility for copyright infringement – i.e through dialogue with the platforms and in the work of implementing Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive in Danish law,” RA notes.
The Rights Alliance Annual Report 2020 can be found here (Danish, pdf)
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Director Neil Burger discusses how his film delves into the core of human nature
Tye Sheridan and Lily-Rose Depp star in Director Neil Burger's science fiction film, Voyagers.
A crew of young people on a lifelong expedition to colonize a distant planet grow frustrated with their rigidly controlled existence and begin to rebel, putting the mission at risk, in Voyagers. Director Neil Burger's (Limitless) new film is part classic space epic, part mystery and part dark psychological thriller. All those elements serve as a framework to explore questions of morality, freedom, power, and the fundamental core of human nature.
(Some spoilers below, but no major reveals.)
Burger was inspired by two vivid mental images. "The first was a group of young people sitting around inside a spaceship," he said. "They were disheveled, zoned out, and looking like predators resting after a hunt. I don't know where that image came from. But the second [image] implied a story: that same group of people chasing another crew member down the narrow corridor of the ship, pursuing him like an animal."
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