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Tesla-Chef Elon Musk hat Justin Trudeau wegen dessen Vorgehens gegen Lkw-Fahrer mit Hitler verglichen. (Elon Musk, Microblogging)
Tesla-Chef Elon Musk hat Justin Trudeau wegen dessen Vorgehens gegen Lkw-Fahrer mit Hitler verglichen. (Elon Musk, Microblogging) Teslas Assistenzsystem Autopilot bremst manchmal ohne Grund. Diese Gefährdung von Verkehrsteilnehmern ruft Behörden auf den Plan. (Tesla, Elektroauto)
Teslas Assistenzsystem Autopilot bremst manchmal ohne Grund. Diese Gefährdung von Verkehrsteilnehmern ruft Behörden auf den Plan. (Tesla, Elektroauto) Chemical and petrographic analysis bolsters earlier stratigraphic findings.
Enlarge / The Largo di Torre Argentina in Rome contains the Curia of Pompey. This place is falling apart. New study concludes it was built in 3 phases. (credit: Adam Carr / Wikipedia)
The Curia of Pompey is famous for being the site where Julius Caesar was stabbed to death on the ides of March in 44 BCE. It is of great interest to tourists, historians, and archaeologists alike. After analyzing mortar samples collected from the curia, researchers from Italy and Spain have confirmed an earlier hypothesis that the structure was constructed in three distinct phases, according to a recent paper published in the journal Archaeometry.
In ancient Rome, a curia was a structure where members of the senate would meet. The great Roman general Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) built this particular curia as a memorial to his own military achievements. A large theater section contained a temple, a stage, and seating on one end; a large porticus (housing the general's art and books) surrounded a garden in the middle; and the Curia of Pompey was at the opposite end.
During Julius Caesar's reign, the Roman senators temporarily met in the Curia of Pompey after their usual Curia on the Comitium burned down in 52 BCE. (Followers of an assassinated tribune named Publius Clodius Pulcher set it on fire while cremating his body.) Caesar's planned replacement (Curia Julia) was under construction as a replacement meeting site when the ruler met his own brutal demise at the base of the Curia of Pompey. The senators who killed him thought assassination was the only way to preserve the republic, but the murder ultimately lead to he republic's collapse.
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Sweep away bundles of email with a single click. It even works with Gmail.
Enlarge / Is that Google Inbox? Nope, that's Shortwave. (credit: Shortwave)
Google Inbox has been dead for nearly three years, but the people have not forgotten. Google promised to bring many of the innovations of Inbox to its surviving email client, Gmail, but never really did. If you still miss Inbox and how easy it made managing email, maybe the time has come to venture outside of Google's client offerings.
Meet "Shortwave," a new email startup from a few former Googlers that exactly replicates the Google Inbox interface. Every major innovation from Inbox is back: emails get collected up into "bundles" called things like "updates," "promotions," and "social," and messages can also be categorized by age. Critically, the "Sweep" button is back, which lets you mark multiple emails in a bundle as "done" with a single click.
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TunnelVision group exploit the critical flaw to infect targets with ransomware.
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Hackers aligned with the government of Iran are exploiting the critical Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware users with ransomware, researchers said on Thursday.
Security firm SentinelOne has dubbed the group TunnelVision. The name is meant to emphasize TunnelVision’s heavy reliance on tunneling tools and the unique way it deploys them. In the past, TunnelVision has exploited so-called 1-day vulnerabilities—meaning vulnerabilities that have been recently patched—to hack organizations that have yet to install the fix. Vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiOS (CVE-2018-13379) and Microsoft Exchange (ProxyShell) are two of the group’s better-known targets.
Recently, SentinelOne reported, TunnelVision has started exploiting a critical vulnerability in Log4j, an open source logging utility that’s integrated into thousands of apps. CVE-2021-44228 (or Log4Shell, as the vulnerability is tracked or nicknamed) allows attackers to easily gain remote control over computers running apps in the Java programming language. The bug bit the Internet’s biggest players and was widely targeted in the wild after it became known.
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“If the wave ends, that does not mean it can’t begin again.”
Enlarge / Vials of undiluted Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI )
Vaccine makers are pushing back when omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccines could be ready for use. The shots were initially expected in March.
Delays in the vaccines' development come as cases of omicron have been dropping rapidly, and several animal studies have suggested the variant-specific formulations will not offer an advantage over the current vaccines.
BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin on Wednesday said that his company's omicron-specific vaccine had been delayed by several weeks due to unexpectedly slow data gathering, according to Reuters. BioNTech and its COVID-19 vaccine partner, Pfizer, had announced last month that they had begun a clinical trial with the omicron-specific shot.
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The Joe Rogan controversy hasn’t slowed Spotify’s ambitions.
Spotify's logo and branding. (credit: Spotify)
Streaming-audio platform Spotify has announced its acquisition of two podcasting companies, each of which sheds some light on Spotify's long-term plan to dominate the podcasting business.
The online audio giant is acquiring both Podsights and Chartable. The companies make two of the leading tools related to marketing, advertising, metrics, and analytics for audio content.
Podsights is an advertising measurement tool that allows advertisers to see how many people were exposed to their ads, as well as how effective the ads were at driving purchases. Chartable is somewhat similar, but it's aimed at podcast creators, not advertisers. It helps podcasters track audience growth and see what factors are driving that growth.
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This week Google released an early access version of Chrome OS Flex, which is basically software that lets you turn nearly any PC into a Chromebook. Officially Google maintains a list of supported computers, but unofficially you can install Chrome OS Flex on just about any computer… including, it turns out, old Chromebooks. That could […]
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This week Google released an early access version of Chrome OS Flex, which is basically software that lets you turn nearly any PC into a Chromebook. Officially Google maintains a list of supported computers, but unofficially you can install Chrome OS Flex on just about any computer… including, it turns out, old Chromebooks.
That could come in handy if you have an older model that’s no longer covered by Google’s Auto Update policy, which means that it’s no longer receiving new builds of Chrome OS with new features or security updates. Chrome OS Flex could provide a way to run an up-to-date build of Chrome OS on old gear… but it’s not without its own risks.
Google officially advises against using Chrome OS Flex on Chromebooks that have passed their Auto Update Expiration dates, noting that Google doesn’t officially support this use case and that users may run into issues with the installation process, may have firmware or other hardware compatibility problems, and may not receive updates.
That said, a number of users have already reported success installing Chrome OS Flex on older Chromebooks, which, quite honestly is probably better than running a 2-year-old version of Chrome OS without the latest security patches, even if those devices never receive another update.
Google’s Chrome OS Flex is meant to breathe new life into Mac and Windows PCs… but some users have found it also works on old Chromebooks that have stopped receiving updates. Google doesn’t officially support those models though.
Buried in this week’s Windows 11 Dev Channel release for Insiders is a note that Windows 11 Pro now requires an internet connection during initial setup and even if you’re setting a PC up for personal use, you’ll need a Microsoft Account.
Pine64 has shipped thousands of hacker-friendly phones, laptops, and tablets, but the company offers limited support, instead relying on the community. Regional retail stores are coming soon to offer better support, more options (and higher prices). The stores will go live in April or May, and more details are coming next month, but Pine64 EU has revealed that it will sell the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro smartphones with a choice of operating systems including Manjaro, postmarketOS, and Mobian.
Hello everyone! When the store launches in April/ May, you’ll be able to choose from @ManjaroLinux @postmarketOS & @MobianLinux latest #PinePhone / Pro releases at checkout.
Projects will be compensated per unit sold.
More info about the store’s launch in mid-March. pic.twitter.com/I9hm1CnjE2
— PINE64 EU (@pine64eu) February 16, 2022
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Popular sports streaming site Rojadirecta will remain outlawed in Spain for now. The Supreme Court has denied a hearing of the site’s appeal against a previous order which required the site to block Spanish visitors. Meanwhile, criminal prosecution against several Rojadirecta defendants is also about to start.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Founded more than 16 years ago, Rojadirecta is one of the oldest and most popular linking sites for sports streaming events.
The site, which is operated by the Spanish company Puerto 80 Projects, has built a loyal user base over the years. At the same time, it has fought quite a few legal battles too.
The Spanish site famously challenged a domain seizure by the U.S. Government, with success. On its home turf, there have been some victories in court as well but, in recent years, the tide has turned.
In 2016, the Commercial Court of A Coruña ruled that Rojadirecta must stop linking to unauthorized streams of football events. This order followed a complaint by Mediapro and DTS, which hold the local rights to many sporting events.
Following the order, Rojadirecta eventually closed its doors to Spanish visitors. However, the site’s operator, Igor Seoane, was not giving up.
Rojadirecta appealed the decision at the Provincial Court of A Coruña in 2018. That wasn’t a success as the original order was confirmed. In response, the site’s operator decided to petition the Supreme Court, hoping it would take on the case.
A few days ago the Supreme Court rejected the petition and declined to hear the case, El Confidencial reports. The Court’s exact reasoning is unclear but it effectively means that the site will remain inaccessible in Spain for the foreseeable future.
Rojadirecta previously argued that the site should be seen as a neutral intermediary that indexes third-party content. However, the A Coruña court classified it as a content provider instead.
Mediapro had more success at the Supreme Court. The rightsholder objected to the lower court’s judgment, which doesn’t hold Rojadirecta’s operator personally liable. This petition was accepted by the Supreme Court and hearings are scheduled to start later this month.
For the sports streaming site, the rejection is yet another setback and it only has a few legal options left. It can still take the matter to the Constitutional Court of Spain or to the European Court of Human Rights.
In addition to the civil case, Rojadirecta is also at the center of a criminal lawsuit in Spain. In this case, the prosecution seeks a four-year prison sentence for the operator and up to two years for five accomplices.
Spanish football league LaLiga and Mediapro are also a party to the criminal proceeding. They demand even tougher sentences and also want six million euros in damages.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
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