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OnePlus Pad coming in February (the first tablet from OnePlus)

Phone maker OnePlus also makes a handful of other devices including earbuds, smartwatches, and other mobile accessories. Now the company is also preparing to launch its first tablet. OnePlus is holding a hardware launch event on February 7th. And whil…

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Thüringen: CATL nimmt Batteriezellfabrik offiziell in Betrieb

Batteriezellen müssen künftig nicht mehr in großem Stil importiert werden. Mit dem CATL-Werk in Thüringen nimmt die heimische Produktion Fahrt auf. (Akku, Elektroauto)

By learning to hunt otters, wolves decimate a deer population

On an Alaskan island, wolves adapted to hunt an unexpected aquatic prey.

Image of a sea otter floating with its pup.

People love otters, wolves, and deer. Respectively, they’re crafty, intelligent, and majestic. Put them all together on an island, though, and things get unpleasant pretty quickly. These are the findings of a new paper analyzing how a wolf population came to Pleasant Island in Alaska, learned to hunt otters, and, using this unexpected food source, thrived to the point of wiping out the native Sitka black-tailed deer population.

“To the best of our knowledge, the deer population is decimated. We haven't found evidence of deer recolonizing the islands,” Gretchen Roffler, wildlife research biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and an author of the paper, told Ars.

Deer diary

The deer have been on Pleasant Island for a long time. The sea otters had also been in the waters off the coast of Alaska until the fur trade killed most of them off by the late 1800s or early 1900s, Roffler said. However, the otters were declared an endangered species, and a population was reintroduced to the area in the 1960s. In the 1980s, they moved into the waters near Pleasant Island and continued to propagate.

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Samsung: Große Speicherversion des Galaxy S23 zum Preis der kleinen

Im Rahmen einer Vorbestellaktion will Samsung die großen Speichervarianten der kommenden Modelle des Galaxy S23 zum Preis der kleinen Speicherversionen anbieten. (Galaxy S23, Smartphone)

Restrukturierung: SAP wird 3.000 Stellen abbauen

SAP wird konzernweit 2,5 Prozent der Belegschaft abbauen. Der Betriebsrat hält dies für falsch, weil die Betroffenen für den Weg in die Cloud gebraucht würden. (SAP, Unternehmenssoftware)

Domain Registry Takes Sci-Hub’s .SE Domain Name Offline

Sci-Hub, a shadow library that offers a free gateway to paywalled academic research, has lost control over one of its main domain names. Sci-Hub.se was deactivated by The Internet Foundation in Sweden, which manages the country’s .se domains. The action came without warning and took Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan by surprise.

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Sci-Hub By offering free access to millions of ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”.

The site is used by researchers from all over the world to access papers they otherwise have a hard time accessing. For some, the site is essential to their work.

Major academic publishers such as Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society are not happy with the rogue research library. These companies have made billions of dollars selling access to research and see Sci-Hub as a direct threat to their business model.

The publishers have previously tried to shut down Sci-Hub through U.S. courts. While this resulted in favorable default judgments, Sci-Hub hasn’t gone away. The site’s audience continues to grow with millions of academics flocking to Sci-Hub.se every month.

Sci-Hub.se Deactivated

Yesterday, however, the site’s Swedish domain name suddenly became unresponsive. The reasons for that were unclear, even Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan was taken by surprise.

After initially thinking of a DDoS attack, Elbakyan learned that the Swedish domain name had been deactivated by the domain name registry. As a result, the site is now unreachable.

“Yesterday I noticed problems when trying to open Sci-Hub website: at first, I was thinking that is some DDoS attack, but after checking again today, found out that http://sci-hub.se domain that was resistant for many years has been deactivated,” she wrote.

Copyright Complaint?

Sci-Hub.se’s domain status was changed to “ServerHold.” Set by the domain registry, this status effectively makes the domain unusable. Similar action was previously taken against other domains, including Fmovies.se.

To find out more, we reached out to The Swedish Internet Foundation, which manages Sweden’s .se domains, but at the time of publication, we haven’t heard back. While no official explanation is available, it’s likely that the action was triggered by a copyright complaint.

Sweden’s domain registry was previously involved in a legal battle over thepiratebay.se ten years ago. At the time, CEO Danny Aerts called the effectiveness of these deactivations into question.

“Removing a domain name can be compared to taking down the signs hanging outside the shoe store. Although this would make it more difficult for customers to find the store, it would still be there,” Aerts said.

In the present case, Elbakyan doesn’t expect that the domain can be reinstated. Instead, she simply points followers to the alternative sci-hub.ru domain name, which remains accessible.

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