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Apple strebt mit iOS 18 sein größtes iPhone-Betriebssystem-Update seit Jahren an. Die vergangenen boten eher kleine Fortschritte. (iOS, Apple)
TorrentFreak celebrates its eighteenth birthday today. When the site took the first steps of its online journey, self-publishing was still a relatively new phenomenon on the Internet. Looking back, I’m happy that I installed WordPress and gave it a try. It turned out to be a life-changer.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
On November 12, 2005, I started a ‘blog’ to share news snippets and information about emerging file-sharing technology. At the time it would’ve been unthinkable that it would still draw visitors in 2023. But here we are.
Running a site like this on your own is impossible, so luckily Andy joined TF in 2006. Without his tireless input, the site wouldn’t be where it is today. I couldn’t have wished for a better partner to work alongside, period.
With two main writers and no other editorial staff we’re just a tiny operation compared to most other news sites. This means that we can’t cover every news story. Instead, we often try to focus on unique angles and perspectives.
A lot has changed in the (anti)piracy landscape over the years. Massive sites and services shut down and new giants appeared, in a cycle that continues to this day. When TF started, streaming wasn’t even really a thing yet, but today it’s everywhere.
Ideally, I’d like to write a lengthy overview of the highs, lows, and most pivotal stories, but today that’s not an option.
Believe it or not, this article is coming to you from a hospital in the Netherlands, where a nasty health issue ‘brought’ me a few days ago. Luckily things are improving, but this explains why there are no recent articles published under my name.
As things stand right now, it will be hard to write anything substantial anytime soon. It’s ironic for this to happen on the verge of the site’s eighteenth anniversary. But, in hindsight, it’s an absolute miracle that TF managed to publish articles every single day for almost 18 years, through vacations, weddings, births, losses and all.
What the more distant future holds I don’t know. TorrentFreak has been my life and passion over the past eighteen years. It has taken priority over so many other things then last week, life itself passionately reminded me that health is more important than anything else. I need some balance.
Where this balance lies isn’t clear to me at this moment, and it’s best not to pressure myself into doing anything until the end of the year. Whether that means writing two articles, eighteen, or thirty-three, I just don’t know, but TF will still be here.
In closing, I want to thank everyone who helped TF to become what it is today. That includes the readers, ranters, tipsters, sources, and everyone kind enough to steer the site to where it is right now.
Thanks for reading and take care all!
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Tesla ergreift Maßnahmen, um zu verhindern, dass Käufer vom schnellen Weiterverkauf des mit Spannung erwarteten Cybertrucks profitieren. (Tesla, Elektroauto)
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Externe SSDs von Sandisk und Western Digital fallen auffallend häufig aus - der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass die Hersteller durch falsches Design und mangelhafte Verarbeitung selbst schuld sind. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien) Two books delve into what science may tell us about whether we have free will.
The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except according to Sapolsky, there is no “you”—the hunger is what dictates your behavior, along with your stress level, whether or not you were born with fetal alcohol syndrome or grew up in a culture that valorizes individual freedoms versus one that prioritizes communal responsibility or in one that believes in an omniscient, omnipotent, vengeful deity.
Hormones, neurotransmitters, and how they are affected by your current and historical circumstances—these are the only things that determine how you will act and what decisions you will make at those inflection points when you're called upon to make impactful choices. And all of them are things you did not choose and cannot control.
Sapolsky, a neurobiologist at Stanford University, is not averse to the notion of our having free will; it’s just that he can’t find it. And he’s looked everywhere. He has studied—intensely—not only neurobiology but also endocrinology, behavioral science, philosophy, primatology, criminology, psychiatry, sociology, anthropology, evolution, and history. Not a single one of these disciplines precludes free will, but all of them together do. All there is to us is biology and the way that biology is affected by our environment. That’s it. We are not, as Yoda suggested, luminous beings; we are only crude matter.
Nach einem Streik hat die US-Schauspieler-Gewerkschaft einen umfassenden KI-Schutz ausgehandelt. (Filme & Serien, KI)
Nach einem Streik hat die US-Schauspieler-Gewerkschaft einen umfassenden KI-Schutz ausgehandelt. (Filme & Serien, KI) Ob das bei den Fans gut ankommt? Laut Medienberichten will Rockstar das Waffeninventar bei GTA 6 massiv umbauen – und damit das Gameplay. (GTA 6, Grand Theft Auto)
Ob das bei den Fans gut ankommt? Laut Medienberichten will Rockstar das Waffeninventar bei GTA 6 massiv umbauen - und damit das Gameplay. (GTA 6, Grand Theft Auto) Digitale Bezahlmethoden werden immer beliebter. Bieten Geschäfte diese nicht an, geht mancher Kunde zur Konkurrenz. (Bezahlen, Smartphone)
Digitale Bezahlmethoden werden immer beliebter. Bieten Geschäfte diese nicht an, geht mancher Kunde zur Konkurrenz. (Bezahlen, Smartphone) Von wegen nur OLED-Bildschirm und ein bisschen Kleinkram: Ein erster Teardown zeigt, dass das neue Steam Deck von Grund auf neu gebaut wurde. (Steam Deck, OLED)
Von wegen nur OLED-Bildschirm und ein bisschen Kleinkram: Ein erster Teardown zeigt, dass das neue Steam Deck von Grund auf neu gebaut wurde. (Steam Deck, OLED) 
Apple strebt mit iOS 18 sein größtes iPhone-Betriebssystem-Update seit Jahren an. Die vergangenen boten eher kleine Fortschritte. (
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