Month: November 2023

Meet “Amaterasu”: Astronomers detect highest energy cosmic ray since 1991

The Telescope Array in Utah’s West Desert picked up a rare particle with 244 EeV energy.

Artist’s illustration of extensive air showers induced by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. Credit: Toshihiro Fujii/L-INSIGHT/Kyoto University

Astronomers involved with the Telescope Array experiment in Utah's West Desert have detected an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) with a whpping energy level of 244 EeV, according to a new paper published in the journal Science. It's the most energetic cosmic ray detected since 1991, when astronomers detected the so-called "Oh-My-God' particle, with energies of an even more impressive 320 EeV. Astronomers have dubbed this latest event the "Amaterasu" particle, after the Shinto sun goddess said to have created Japan. One might even call it the "Oh-My-Goddess" particle.

Cosmic rays are highly energetic subatomic particles traveling through space near the speed of light. Technically, a cosmic ray is just an atomic nucleus made up of a proton or a cluster of protons and neutrons. Most originate from the Sun, but others come from objects outside our solar system. When these rays strike the Earth’s atmosphere, they break apart into showers of other particles (both positively and negatively charged).

They were first discovered in 1912 by Austrian physicist Victor Hess via a series of ascents in a hydrogen balloon to take measurements of radiation in the atmosphere with an electroscope. He found that the rate of ionization was a good three times the rate at sea level, thereby disproving a competing theory that this radiation came from the rocks of  Earth. If you've ever seen a cloud chamber in a science museum, cosmic ray tracks look like wispy little white lines, similar to tiny jet contrails.

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Anzeige: Großer Sale bei Hansgrohe und Grohe – Duschköpfe uvm.

Wer einen Hansgrohe-Duschkopf sucht, sollte jetzt zuschlagen. Im Rahmen der Black Friday Woche von Amazon ist auch Grohe bis zu 61 Prozent günstiger. (Black Friday, Technik/Hardware)

Wer einen Hansgrohe-Duschkopf sucht, sollte jetzt zuschlagen. Im Rahmen der Black Friday Woche von Amazon ist auch Grohe bis zu 61 Prozent günstiger. (Black Friday, Technik/Hardware)

RedMagic 9 series gaming phones feature Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, up to 24GB RAM and 1TB storage, and up to a 6500 mAh battery

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor is expected to bring big performance gains to next-gen flagship phones. But the RedMagic 9 Pro and RedMagic 9 Pro+ gaming phones kick things up another few notches by pairing that processor with a 22,000 R…

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor is expected to bring big performance gains to next-gen flagship phones. But the RedMagic 9 Pro and RedMagic 9 Pro+ gaming phones kick things up another few notches by pairing that processor with a 22,000 RPM cooling fan, up to 24GB of LPDDR5x RAM and up to 1TB of […]

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Humane AI Pin: Kann ein KI-Wearable schon ein Smartphone ersetzen?

Humanes AI Pin ist ein Standalone-Gerät – Nutzer benötigen kein Smartphone. Ob die Zukunft der Mobiltelefone jetzt besiegelt ist, bleibt aber fraglich. Eine Analyse von Tobias Költzsch (Wearable, Smartphone)

Humanes AI Pin ist ein Standalone-Gerät - Nutzer benötigen kein Smartphone. Ob die Zukunft der Mobiltelefone jetzt besiegelt ist, bleibt aber fraglich. Eine Analyse von Tobias Költzsch (Wearable, Smartphone)

National Roaming: Telefónica erwartet wertvolle Umsatzströme durch 5G für 1&1

Telefónica nimmt noch einige Monate die Einnahmen aus einem erweiterten Vertrag für National Roaming mit 1&1 mit. Roaming stehe im 2G/4G/5G-Netz von Telefónica zur Verfügung. (1&1, Telekom)

Telefónica nimmt noch einige Monate die Einnahmen aus einem erweiterten Vertrag für National Roaming mit 1&1 mit. Roaming stehe im 2G/4G/5G-Netz von Telefónica zur Verfügung. (1&1, Telekom)

Google Asked to Deindex iptv-org, The World’s Largest Free IPTV Repo

The goal of the iptv-org repo on GitHub is to offer an index of IPTV streams already freely available on the web. While the volume ebbs and flows, that generally means a library of 8,000 TV channels or more, available to users in seconds, and totally free. The project has weathered several storms over the years and thanks to Spanish football league, LaLiga, another one is brewing right now.

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

iptv-orgWhile premium IPTV services have built a reputation for beating legal platforms on both selection and price, they also cost at least some money to access.

Sites offering ‘IPTV for free’ can go either way, but thanks to so-called ‘FAST’ services such as Pluto TV and Peacock TV, taking risks is no longer necessary. That’s if older mainstream content scratches the itch and users don’t mind lots of advertising.

Something For Everybody

If showman P. T. Barnum had offered IPTV, the content indexed by iptv-org would’ve been the perfect fit. An eclectic mix of thousands of free TV channels from all over the planet, complete with EPG and the ability to fine tune exactly the type of content received via customizable playlists, iptv-org really does have something for everybody.

As a result, iptv-org’s repo is regularly found trending on GitHub and this week is no exception.

iptv-org-trending

The fact that iptv-org aims to index streams that are already publicly available is an interesting angle, since at least in theory it makes the project a less straightforward target for rightsholders. A legal notice on the repo explains how rightsholders can have links taken down but of course, removing links does nothing to remove the actual streams.

iptv-org-legal

Not that any of those pointers make any difference to some, however.

LaLiga Battles Pirate IPTV and iptv-org

Top-tier Spanish football league LaLiga (Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional) finds itself in perpetual conflict with pirate IPTV providers and controversy is rarely far behind.

In 2018, LaLiga updated its Android app, turning fans’ phones into spying devices capable of identifying unauthorized broadcasts in bars and restaurants. That resulted in a large fine for privacy breaches but didn’t deter a more recent proposal to remotely delete pirate apps from users’ phones.

LaLiga also sends conventional DMCA takedown notices to numerous sites and services. The truncated example below dated November 20, 2023, was sent to Google and demands the removal of over 1,100 URLs from search results.

The first 18 URLs concern the iptv-org repo on GitHub, based on the specific allegation that “the reported website sells channel services or subscriptions to servers that provide decryption keys for payment channels in an unauthorized manner.”

LaLiga Takedown Notice (Full version courtesy of Lumen Database)LaLiga-DMCA-Google

While iptv-org does accept donations via OpenCollective, it doesn’t sell access to channel services or subscriptions. Since the entire point of the project is to index streams already open to the public, the claim that iptv-org sells subscriptions to servers that provide decryption keys is hard to fathom.

Google Yet to Make a Decision

Whether any of LaLiga’s content appeared on a channel indexed by iptv-org is impossible to determine from the information to hand. The notice references no specific content allegedly infringed or any specific URLs/channels where infringement allegedly took place. Instead it tries to deindex the project itself from Google search by targeting everything from its main page to pages dedicated to licensing and frequently asked questions.

At the time of writing, Google lists 92.1% of the 1,151 URLs in the notice as ‘pending’ which suggests the search engine may be taking a closer look.

Whether GitHub has received any direct complaints from LaLiga about iptv-org is currently unknown. However, since GitHub itself has been heavily targeted by erroneous LaLiga takedown notices, additional scrutiny probably wouldn’t go amiss.

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