February 2022 – Page 21 – news.buyenne.com

Malware: Mit Wipern und DDoS gegen ukrainische IT-Systeme

Etliche Webseiten in der Ukraine sind nicht erreichbar. Zudem sind Hunderte Rechner von einer vernichtenden Schadsoftware befallen. (Malware, Virus)

Kooperation: Telekom will 4 Milliarden Euro zusammen mit Google verdienen

Telekom-Chef Tim Höttges betont eine Zusammenarbeit auf Augenhöhe mit Google. Es geht um Cloud und Messaging. (Telekom, Google)

1.7 million Hondas are being investigated for phantom braking

NHTSA has received 278 complaints about inappropriate automatic emergency braking.

Honda's forward collision warning system has always been sensitive. Now the NHTSA is investigating some Hondas for false-positive automatic emergency brake activations.

Last week, we reported that Tesla is the subject of a new investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration due to its cars' propensity to inappropriately activate their emergency braking function. This week, it's Honda's turn in the spotlight.

The NHTSA opened a preliminary investigation into the problem on February 21, after receiving 278 complaints about cars that suddenly decelerated despite nothing in their path.

The problem affects approximately 1.7 million cars in total, split between model year 2017-2019 CR-V crossovers and 2018-2019 Accord sedans. (It's worth noting that when we reviewed the 2018 Honda Accord, we specifically called out the sensitivity of its forward collision warning system, although we did not experience any automatic emergency brake activations.)

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Iconic Game Cracking Group CODEX Shuts Down

Scene cracking group CODEX is officially shutting down. The iconic tag has taken the cracking world by storm over the past eight years. The group was able to crack even the toughest copy protections, which instilled fear in many game publishers and respect among many of its peers.

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

codex From the day the first computer and video games were published, people have been able to pirate them.

In the early days that involved copying cassettes and floppy disks and today most unauthorized copying takes place over the Internet.

Over the past decades, a subset of gaming fans have united in Scene groups to ensure a steady stream of cracked games, i.e those that have had their protections removed. Dozens of these groups have come and gone but few managed to rule their niche like CODEX.

CODEX Enters The Scene

CODEX was founded in 2014, which makes it a relatively young group. Over the years, however, it took the cracking scene by storm. The group was first to release many prominent game titles and cracked the repeatedly strongest protections, including Denuvo, in record time.

Most game publishers feared CODEX but some smaller developers also saw it as somewhat of a twisted honor when the group cracked their game. Warhorse Studios, the developer behind Kingdom Come: Deliverance, famously framed a massive replica of a CODEX NFO which is proudly on display at its office.

Since its inception, more than 7,000 CODEX-branded titles were released, which eventually found their way into the hands of millions of game pirates. However, this prolific stream of releases stopped yesterday.

CODEX Retires

In the release notes of “The Sims 4 My Wedding Stories,” CODEX officially announced its retirement. This decision is not the result of arrests or internal struggles. Instead, the group writes that it achieved its goal, while also being critical of the current state of the cracking scene.

CODEX writes that it initially started to compete with RELOADED, the dominant PC games cracking group at the time. However, this competition was only short-lived.

“It was a fun and sometimes dirty ride with lots of give and take on both sides. But sadly, it did not last very long and RLD started to crumble and slowly fell apart, making the scene less interesting,” CODEX writes.

‘Copycats’

While the RELOADED tag remained in use CODEX notes that that was done without permission of the real group. And this ‘new’ version didn’t offer much competition either.

“From the first day they started releasing in the PC section, they have worked hard to shamelessly destroy the reputation of a once iconic group tag when they really should have closed down years ago after all the spectacular fuckups they are responsible for,” CODEX writes.

According to the group it has become more and more common for new groups to resurrect and take over tags of old cracking groups. This helps them to quickly get attention, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that their quality is up to par.

This imposter-type behavior is reminiscent of the piracy landscape where brands such as YTS, EZTV, and ExtraTorrent were hijacked by people who have nothing to do with the original groups or sites.

Mission Accomplished

CODEX writes that it no longer sees any serious competition to the quality and variety of releases it produces. They don’t limit themselves to Steam and Denuvo, but also cover Origin, Epic, Uplay, Bethesda.net, Battle.net and many other platforms.

This apparent lack of competition means that they are now the dominant player in the game cracking Scene, exactly as they envisioned eight years ago. As such, it is now time to retire.

“So now, years after reaching our initial goal, we feel that it is time to move on. We thank everyone who accompanied and supported us on our journey,” the group writes.

“Have a good time… Bye from CODEX!”

From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.

Ukraine-Konflikt: Bundesregierung rüstet sich gegen Cyberangriffe

Die Behörden bereiten sich auf mögliche Cyberangriffe vor. Das BSI warnte in den vergangenen Tagen vor möglichen Kollateralschäden. (Bundesregierung, Virus)

Intel NUC 12 Extreme review: Alder Lake makes for a pricey, portable powerhouse

“Dragon Canyon” NUC can’t keep up with a bigger desktop, but it gets close.

Intel’s NUC Extreme mini PC kits have always been hard to recommend. It’s true that they’re considerably smaller than even the smallest mini ITX PC cases; it’s impossible to fit this much performance into less space if you’re using general-purpose PC components. But they’re also expensive, they haven't been as fast as standard desktop PCs, and their upgradability has been limited. Those three things essentially defeat the purpose of building a beefy desktop gaming PC or workstation.

Codenamed “Dragon Canyon,” the newest version of the NUC Extreme Kit helps to fix the latter two problems by switching to actual socketed desktop processors rather than soldered-in laptop versions. It’s still an expensive box—you’ll pay about $1,150 for a Core i7 version with no RAM, SSD, GPU, or operating system and $1,450 for the Core i9 version we tested—but its performance now comes much closer to that of a typical desktop.

The NUC Extreme still isn’t for everyone, but if money is no object and you want the smallest desktop you can get, the 12th-gen NUC Extreme is less of a compromise than the previous versions were.

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