Month: April 2022

Die beiden Medion-Notebooks Akoya S14406 und Erazer Beast X20 richten sich an ein unterschiedliches Klientel: Büro- oder Gaming-User. (Medion, Aldi-PC)

Zwei Schweizer Biobetriebe zeigen, das artgerechte Tierhaltung bei bewusstem Fleischkonsum möglich ist. Zudem kann Hafermilch ein adäquater Ersatz für Kuhmilch sein.

Die Idee von Scrum ist es, Software flexibler anpassen zu können. Das heißt nicht, dass schneller programmiert wird. Viele verstehen das immer noch nicht. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Marvin Engel (Agile, Internet)

Das abrupte und sehr laute Lüftergeräusch gehört zu den größten Kritikpunkten des Steam Deck. iFixit will dafür Ersatzlüfter verkaufen. (Steam Deck, Steam)

Demonstranten wollen sich nicht mit Dorfzerstörung für den Abbau des Klimakillers abfinden

Möglicherweise wird eine Twitter-Übernahme durch Elon Musk bereits in den nächsten Tagen abgeschlossen. (Elon Musk, Soziales Netz)

Wer ist Wladimir Putin? (Teil 2 und Schluss)

For more than a decade, various copyright industry groups have called on Google and other search engines to help contain the piracy problem.

Google was initially hesitant to take action, but the company has gradually tweaked its algorithms over the years to accommodate the complaints.

The first step was to demote results for domain names for which it receives many DMCA takedown notices. On top of that, it has also removed several piracy-related terms from its autocomplete feature.

Whole-Site Removals

Behind the scenes, rightsholders and Google also worked on other undisclosed measures. While the company hasn’t said much in public, one major change is hard to miss. Starting last year, Google began removing entire domains from its search results.

In the past, Google said that it wasn’t in favor of these “whole-site” removals, but this stance has changed. When rightsholders inform the search engine of an order that requires local ISPs to block specific pirate sites, Google voluntarily does the same.

These search results removals are limited to the region where the blocking order applies, usually a single country.

There have been a few of these instances already, including in France, Denmark, and the UK. Most of the requests cite dated court orders; in some cases close to a decade old. However, new information shows that Google responds quickly to new orders as well.

New Dutch Blockades

Last month, a Dutch court ordered local ISP Delta to block access to dozens of domains linked to popular torrent sites such as YTS, RARBG, and 1337x. This second site blocking order in the Netherlands is a big win for local anti-piracy outfit BREIN, which has spent more than a decade on blocking-related cases.

BREIN’s efforts also resulted in a covenant, signed last year, where the major Internet providers agreed to voluntarily comply with orders issued against rival ISPs. And they are not the only ones.

A few days after the latest blocking order was issued BREIN notified Google, requesting the search engine to remove these domain names for Dutch visitors. And indeed, after a few days, the domains are completely gone.

“In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 6 result(s) from this page,” Google writes at the bottom of the search results for RARBG, for example.

These removals are entirely separate from the DMCA process. It’s a big step for Google to do this voluntarily but, given the detailed jurisprudence that’s in place, there’s a good chance that the search engine would have been ordered to do the same if the matter went to court.

Unused Powers?

While BREIN is certainly on the ball, not all rightsholders are as eager or sharp. For example, in the UK rightsholders have asked Google to remove dozens of domain names. However, some prominent sites still remain in search results.

These ‘missed’ domains include The Pirate Bay, Nitroflare, NSW2U, and various YouTube-rippers such as Flvto.biz and 2Conv.com. These sites are all blocked by UK ISPs but are still available in search results.

Perhaps some rightsholders are not aware of these new powers. We can’t think of any other reason why they wouldn’t ask Google to remove the domains. Especially since they send hundreds of regular takedown notices to Google every day.

Google is Silent

Several copyright holder groups, including the MPA and BREIN, have confirmed Google’s cooperative stance. They believe the removals are an effective tool to help fight online piracy since they boost the effect of site blocking measures.

Google itself remains quiet. TorrentFreak has sent repeated requests for comment on this matter over the past weeks and months. All requests remain unanswered.

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

Amtierernder Gesundheitsminister hatte sich in Corona-Pandemie medial profiliert. Politisch ist er in den ersten Monaten gescheitert

A small fanless desktop computer powered by a 10-watt Intel Jasper Lake quad-core processor is available from AliExpress for about $155 and up.

The starting price will get you a barebones model with an Intel Celeron N5105 processor and no memory, storage, or operating system. But you can also pay about $40 more for a higher-performance Intel Pentium Silver N6005 chip or pay extra for up to 32GB of RAM and 1TB of solid state storage.

If the computer looks familiar, that’s because the chassis seems to be heavily inspired by Zotac’s ZBOX C series of small fanless PCs. Or maybe it’s because we reported last year on a similar mini PC from Newsmay Technology that was only available to bulk purchasers at the time.

But now you can pick up what appears to be a nearly identical system for a pretty affordable price… assuming you’re comfortable ordering a no-name computer from Chinese reseller marketplace AliExpress.

The little PC has two SODIMM slots with support for DDR4-2933 memory, an M.2 2280 slot for a SATA SSD, and a fanless cooling system that seems to consist of a large heat sink and a case with ventilation holes along the top, bottom, and all sides.

Ports include Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.0, DisplayPort, VGA, and four USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, mic and line audio jacks, a microSD card reader, and a DC power input.

The computer has a plastic chassis that measures 123 x 123 x 45mm (4.8″ x 4.8″ x 1.8″) and it can be attached to a display with a VESA mount.

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