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Samsung’s 15.6 inch Galaxy Book Pro is a laptop with an AMOLED display, an Intel Tiger Lake processor, and a surprisingly lightweight design for a notebook with screen this size. At just 2.31 pounds, it’s probably one of the lightest lapto…
Samsung’s 15.6 inch Galaxy Book Pro is a laptop with an AMOLED display, an Intel Tiger Lake processor, and a surprisingly lightweight design for a notebook with screen this size. At just 2.31 pounds, it’s probably one of the lightest laptops in its class. That lightweight design comes at a cost – Samsung normally charges […]
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New testing refutes assertions that a smaller heatsink means a hotter console.
Enlarge / Old PS5 heatsink on the left, new "11-series" PS5 heatsink on the right. (credit: Austin Evans)
Last month, Sony began shipping a lightly revised version of its PlayStation 5 console with a smaller, lighter heatsink and a handful of other tweaks. An earlier teardown and analysis of the revised PS5 made headlines because it suggested that the new PS5 ran warmer than the old one, based on the temperature of the air being exhausted from the console. This does make some intuitive sense if you assume that a smaller heatsink will automatically be worse at dissipating heat. But more detailed and precise testing from the YouTubers at Hardware Busters International backs up our skepticism of that claim, showing that the PS5's exhaust air is warmer because the new cooling system is doing a better job of removing heat from the console, as cooling systems are meant to do.
The Hardware Busters testing measured the temperature of the APU, memory, voltage regulator modules (VRMs), and exhaust air while Devil May Cry 5 was running on both PS5 models. The exhaust air is indeed a few degrees warmer in the new PS5 than the old one, but on average, the new PS5's APU ran about 11°C cooler, dropping from about 51°C to 40°C.
The memory and VRM temperatures in the new PS5 rise a bit—the memory temperature goes up by around 7°C and the VRM temperature goes up by around 1.3°C—but neither increase should have a huge impact on the console's reliability or longevity. The much larger drop in APU temperature is worth the tradeoff.
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Hosting company Quadranet has asked a Florida federal court to dismiss the “VPN piracy” lawsuit that was filed by several independent film companies. The hosting company argues that it can’t be held liable for the pirating activities of LiquidVPN subscribers, simply because the VPN provider happens to lease servers at Quadranet.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
A group of independent film companies has taken the piracy liability issue to a new level this year.
After targeting site owners and individual pirates, the makers of films such as “Hunter Killer”, “I Feel Pretty” and “Shock and Awe” started going after VPN providers. And they didn’t stop there either.
Over the past few months, several hosting companies have been sued as well. The movie companies argue that hosting services can be held liable because they offer their services to VPN providers which, in turn, have pirates among their customers.
According to the movie companies, the hosting services should have terminated their agreements with these VPN companies after repeated copyright infringement warnings. However, the hosting companies see themselves as neutral service providers, not the Internet police.
A few days ago, Californian hosting company Quadranet replied to the allegations in court. According to the company, the filmmakers’ complaint is a shotgun pleading, and it should be dismissed for that reason alone.
However, Quadranet also believes that the copyright infringement claims fail. The company leased servers to LiquidVPN and did indeed receive copyright infringement notices, which it forwarded to the VPN service. That should be sufficient.
The filmmakers suggested that the hosting company should have ‘null-routed’ the offending IP-addresses or terminated its service to LiquidVPN, but that goes too far for Quadranet.
“LiquidVPN is not a direct infringer. The only alleged direct infringers are some small portion of LiquidVPN’s customer base, who apparently utilized LiquidVPN to access BitTorrent software.
“Quadranet had no right to interfere in the relationship between LiquidVPN and its customers, effectively pulling the plug on all of LiquidVPN customers,” the hosting company notes.
The hosting company stresses that it’s at least two steps removed from any ‘involvement’ in the alleged copyright infringements. Quadranet believes it was dragged into the case for tactical leverage only, not because there’s a valid copyright infringement claim.
While some LiquidVPN customers may have shared pirated content, that doesn’t mean that a hosting company, whivh doesn’t even know who these customers are, should be held liable.
“Under the law, the act of simply leasing computer servers is not ‘substantial’ enough to be considered a ‘material contribution’ to the infringement, much like credit card companies are not liable when they merely process credit card payments to provide access to infringing websites,” the company argues.
The accusation that the hosting provider directly benefited from the infringing activities is refuted as well. Not only does LiquidVPN have many legitimate customers, but the associated revenue was also just a fraction of Quadranet’s income.
“Plaintiffs cannot seriously suggest otherwise, especially given that revenue from leasing servers to LiquidVPN, for example, accounted for less than 0.00001% of Quadranet’s revenue during the relevant lease period.”
Based on these and a variety of other arguments, the hosting provider asked the Florida federal court to dismiss the complaint.
Shortly after the legal paperwork was posted, the court scheduled a mediation hearing, which will take place in April next year. This indicates that the came may eventually be settled in some form or another.
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A copy of Quadranet’s motion to dismiss can be found here (pdf). The documents use QI and QE to refer to different Quadranet entities, we changed these to “Quadranet” in the citations above for the sake of readability
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Der Umsatz von Ericsson in China ist infolge des Handelskrieges mit den USA stark eingebrochen. (Ericsson, Huawei)
Just over a year after Epic Games sued Apple over its App Store policies that forced developers to use Apple’s in-app payment system, among other things, US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has issued a ruling in the case While the ju…
Just over a year after Epic Games sued Apple over its App Store policies that forced developers to use Apple’s in-app payment system, among other things, US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has issued a ruling in the case While the judge did not find Apple to be a monopoly overall, she did find […]
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Permanent injunction caps Epic Games’ year-long legal offensive against Apple.
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On Friday, the Northern California judge handling the massive Epic Games v. Apple court case turned in a ruling that, in many ways, works out in Apple's favor—but with one massive, App Store-changing exception.
The ruling includes a single-page permanent injunction demanding that Apple open up payment options for any software sellers on the App Store. In other words, Epic Games' effort to add an Epic-specific payment system inside the free-to-play game Fortnite, and thus duck out of paying Apple's 30-percent fee on in-app transactions, can now happen.
Specifically, the injunction is aimed at Apple, not Epic, and tells the device and software manufacturer to no longer prevent developers from either including their own direct buy links within their apps or communicating with customers about those purchasing options via any method customers opt into (i.e. an email newsletter). Apple has 90 days from today, September 10, 2021, until this injunction becomes live and actionable.
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A second person is in intensive care, a health official with the state says.
Enlarge / A box and container of ivermectin. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
A person in New Mexico is suspected of dying from an overdose of ivermectin, a state official announced Thursday. A second person in the state is also in critical condition following use of the drug, which is an antiparasitic medication mainly used in veterinary medicine to deworm animals, such as cattle and horses.
If the death is confirmed to have been caused by ivermectin, it is believed to be New Mexico's first known fatal ivermectin overdose. The dewormer has recently seen a sharp rise in use—and poisonings from it—due to false claims that it can treat and prevent COVID-19.
There is no significant clinical data indicating that ivermectin can treat or prevent COVID-19. The Food and Drug Administration—along with many other medical experts and the drug's maker, Merck—continue to strongly oppose ivermectin's use against COVID-19 and warn of serious side effects and life-threatening overdoses.
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Zwei größere FTTH-Projekte starten in Brandenburg. Deutsche Glasfaser baut in Spree-Neiße, DNS:Net in Märkisch-Oderland und Havelland. (Glasfaser, Internet)
SpaceX: “Another week, another objection from Amazon against a competitor.”
Enlarge / Amazon UK warehouse at Leeds Distribution Park on May 27, 2021, in Leeds, England. (credit: Getty Images | Nathan Stirk )
On Thursday, SpaceX called Amazon's latest protest against Starlink plans an irrelevant "diatribe" that should be ignored by the Federal Communications Commission.
"Another week, another objection from Amazon against a competitor, yet still no sign of progress on Amazon's own long-rumored satellite system," SpaceX told the FCC in a filing. "In its latest diatribe, Amazon spends over six of eight pages on matters wholly irrelevant to the current proceeding or even matters currently before the commission."
As we've reported, Amazon last month urged the FCC to reject SpaceX's proposal for a next-generation version of Starlink that could include up to 30,000 broadband satellites. Amazon claims that SpaceX violated a rule against incomplete and inconsistent applications by submitting plans for "two mutually exclusive configurations" with "very different orbital parameters."
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Einsatz mit Schlagstöcken, Pfeffersprays, Einkesselungen und Einschüchterungen – das “Münchner Gefühl”
Der Umsatz von Ericsson in China ist infolge des Handelskrieges mit den USA stark eingebrochen. (
Zwei größere FTTH-Projekte starten in Brandenburg. Deutsche Glasfaser baut in Spree-Neiße, DNS:Net in Märkisch-Oderland und Havelland. (
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