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Die Regelung vom Juni 2017 soll verlängert und verbessert werden. Ein Ende von ‘Roam like at home’ wäre undenkbar. (Roaming, Vodafone)
Both users need Google Messages, RCS needs to be on, and it’s for 1:1 chats only.
Enlarge / If you and your chatting partner are both on Google Messages and both have RCS enabled, you'll see these lock icons to show that encryption is on. (credit: Google)
Google has announced that end-to-end encryption is rolling out to users of Google Messages, Android's default SMS and RCS app. The feature has been in testing for months, and now it's coming to everyone.
Encryption in Google Messages works only if both users are on the service. Both users must also be in a 1:1 chat (no group chats allowed), and they both must have RCS turned on. RCS was supposed to be a replacement for SMS—an on-by-default, carrier-driven text messaging standard. RCS was cooked up in 2008, and it adds 2008-level features to carrier messaging, like user presence, typing status, read receipts, and location sharing.
Text messaging used to be a cash cow for carriers, but with the advent of unlimited texting and the commoditization of carrier messaging, there's no clear revenue motivation for carriers to release RCS. The result is that the RCS rollout has amounted to nothing but false promises and delays. The carriers nixed a joint venture called the "Cross-Carrier Messaging Initiative" in April, pretty much killing any hopes that RCS will ever hit SMS-like ubiquity. Apple executives have also indicated internally that they view easy messaging with Android as a threat to iOS ecosystem lock-in, so it would take a significant change of heart for Apple to support RCS.
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Chinese smartphone maker started out as a sub-brand of Huawei, but the company recently spun off to become a standalone company. And now it’s launching a new line of smartphones that will have something you can’t find on any recent Huawei …
Chinese smartphone maker started out as a sub-brand of Huawei, but the company recently spun off to become a standalone company. And now it’s launching a new line of smartphones that will have something you can’t find on any recent Huawei models – the new Honor 50 series phones will be available with the Google Play […]
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The small rockets are not cheap, but they are effective.
Enlarge / A Minotaur rocket launches the NROL-111 mission on Tuesday. (credit: Trevor Mahlmann)
For the first time in nearly eight years, a Minotaur 1 rocket launched into space Tuesday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The rocket, which is derived from Cold-War-era surplus missiles, carried three classified satellites into orbit for the US National Reconnaissance Office.
This was the first launch of the four-stage Minotaur 1 rocket since a demonstration mission for the Air Force in 2013, which also orbited 23 CubeSats. Although the current mission was delayed for more than two hours by poor weather on Tuesday morning, it successfully launched at 9:35 am ET (13:35 UTC).
The Minotaur 1, which has the capacity to launch a little more than 500 kg into low-Earth orbit, is a mix of decades-old technology and modern avionics. The vehicle's first and second stage are taken from a repurposed Minuteman I missile, the first generation of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. These missiles were in service from 1962 to 1965 before they were phased out in favor of the Minuteman II and Minuteman III missiles. The latter ICBMs are still in silos today.
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As chair, Khan could bring a new approach to antitrust enforcement.
Enlarge / Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee nomination hearing on Capitol Hill on April 21, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images)
President Joe Biden named Lina Khan chair of the Federal Trade Commission just hours after her confirmation in the Senate as one of the agency's five commissioners. It’s an unusual move—newly nominated commissioners are seldom elevated to chair immediately—and it likely signals that the Biden administration will be taking a hawkish approach to antitrust enforcement, particularly when it comes to Big Tech platform companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.
Though Khan is certain to take a harsher view on platforms, the FTC is unlikely to begin dismantling Big Tech tomorrow. “Lina Khan has pushed the academic conversation on tech, and now she has to push the agenda at the FTC,” Shane Greenstein, a professor at Harvard Business School, told Ars. “A lot of the day to day at the FTC has little to do with tech, and a lot of the agenda is just not up to the chairman. It comes inbound from consumer complaints, merger proposals, etc. It will be interesting to see how she manages that—and with a divided Congress. That just has to be challenging.”
While she may have a rocky trail ahead of her, Khan’s confirmation vote of 69-28 was relatively straightforward by modern standards. Her nomination was expected as far back as early March, but her elevation to chair came as a surprise. “If you walk back through the modern or earlier history of the FTC, I can’t remember an instance where the White House has named an individual to be a commissioner, then once that person was confirmed by the Senate, designated that person to be the chair,” William Kovacic, former FTC chair, said to Axios.
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Im ersten Quartal 2021 zahlten Kryptominer wohl 500 Millionen für Grafikkarten. Der Markt ist volatiler denn je. (Grafikhardware, Nvidia)
Im ersten Quartal 2021 zahlten Kryptominer wohl 500 Millionen für Grafikkarten. Der Markt ist volatiler denn je. (Grafikhardware, Nvidia) Game developer Bungie has filed a lawsuit against cheat seller AimJunkies.com for offering the popular ‘Destiny 2 Hacks’ suite for sale. The complaint, filed at a federal court in Seattle, also targets the alleged maker of the cheats. All defendants stand accused of various forms of copyright and trademark infringement.
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Cheating is a way for mediocre gamers to fool themselves into feeling superior.
Unfortunately, the cheaters’ urge to artificially boost their scores and their egos ruins the fun for legitimate gamers. This is a major concern for game developers who are doing their best to prevent this activity.
Banning cheaters helps but in some cases it’s simply not enough. This is something the American video game developer Bungie realizes all too well. This week, the company filed a lawsuit targeting cheat seller AimJunkies.com and the alleged creators of the software, Phoenix Digital Group.
“Defendants develop, advertise, use, and distribute a software cheat that purports to give players an unfair advantage in Destiny 2,” Bungie writes in a complaint filed at a Seattle federal court.
“Defendants are infringing Bungie’s copyrights and trademarks, circumventing technological measures protecting access to Destiny 2, and breaching and inducing other players to breach Bungie’s Limited Software License Agreement.”
According to Bungie, it is vital to Destiny 2’s success that cheaters are kept out of the game.
The cheats directly harm other players, who may quit playing because of them. This hurts the image of the game directly and could lead to a decrease in sales. At the same time, the cheaters get in-game rewards, without really earning them.
“Cheaters ruin the experience of playing Destiny 2. Not only do cheaters impair the enjoyment of gameplay by non-cheaters with whom they interact in-game; cheaters illegitimately obtain and thereby devalue the in-game rewards that non-cheaters obtain legitimately,” Bungie writes.
The developer says it already invests significant resources in anti-cheat solutions, but the defendants appear to have found a way around them.
The accusations revolve around the “Destiny 2 Hacks” cheat that was sold for $34.95/month on AimJunkies.com. According to the complaint, Phoenix Digital was listed as the seller of this cheat.
At the time of writing “Destiny 2 Hacks” is no longer available on the AimJunkies site but an archived copy of the page remains available.
The lawsuit lists AimJunkies as a defendant but also targets the Arizona company Phoenix Digital Group and several of its members, who allegedly created the software.
Interestingly, the “Destiny 2 Hacks” may have hurt the cheaters as well. Bungie believes that the software was also used to install malware and other harmful software on the computers of its users.
The allegations against the defendants include various copyright claims. These include copying and distributing Destiny 2 code and circumventing technological protection measures, which violates the DMCA.
Through the lawsuit, Bungie hopes to stop the sale of the cheat which has already been achieved, it seems. In addition, the game developer requests an injunction prohibiting the defendant from engaging in or enabling future copyright and trademark infringements.
To compensate for the damages that were suffered Bungie also requests damages for trademark and copyright infringement, which can potentially run in the millions.
This isn’t the first time that Bungie has taken action against cheaters in court. Earlier this year it teamed up with Riot Games and sued cheat maker GatorCheats. This case was eventually settled for $2 million.
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A copy of the complaint Bungie filed against AimJunkies and Phoenix Digital Group at the Seattle federal court is available here (pdf)
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Die neue Ticwatch E3 hat eingebautes GPS, einen schnellen Prozessor und kommt mit Googles Wear OS. 200 Euro kostet die Uhr. (Smartwatch, Fitness)
Die neue Ticwatch E3 hat eingebautes GPS, einen schnellen Prozessor und kommt mit Googles Wear OS. 200 Euro kostet die Uhr. (Smartwatch, Fitness) OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has announced that the company plans to “further integrate” with Oppo, another Chinese phone maker (but one that makes smartphones which are not typically sold in North America). The move probably won’t have much…
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau has announced that the company plans to “further integrate” with Oppo, another Chinese phone maker (but one that makes smartphones which are not typically sold in North America). The move probably won’t have much impact on consumers moving forward, but it means we’re likely to see even more similarities between future […]
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Die Regelung vom Juni 2017 soll verlängert und verbessert werden. Ein Ende von 'Roam like at home' wäre undenkbar. (
Seit Monaten keine Updates, die Community ist sauer. Nun verabschiedet sich Kalypso Media vom Kickstarter-finanzierten Anstoss 2022. (
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