Month: March 2025

Mit Auracast können sich unbegrenzt viele Geräte mit einem Bluetooth-Stream verbinden. Das manuelle Koppeln entfällt. (Android 16, Smartphone)

Aktuell sind Samsung-Produkte bei Media Markt besonders günstig. Darunter sind ein beliebtes Tablet sowie ein günstiges Galaxy Smartphone. (Galaxy Tab, Media Markt)

John Gruber ist Apple normalerweise recht wohlgesonnen - angesichts der Verschiebung der neuen KI-Siri geht er das Unternehmen allerdings hart an. (Siri, Apple)

Betroffen sind Steuerungs- und Monitoring-Tools wie Fan Control, MSI Afterburner und Open Hardware Monitor. Die Entwickler stehen vor einem Problem. (Tools, Virus)

Der Mobilfunkkonzern Verizon hält die Auslagerung von Workloads auf Server mit Nvidia-Chips für zu teuer. Huawei geht hier einen anderen Weg. (Verizon, Nvidia)

Warum IT-Projekte so oft länger dauern als geplant - und zwar sogar dann, wenn man schon weiß, dass sie länger dauern werden als geplant. Von Tim Reinboth (Denkpause, Golem Plus)

At the start of the year, TorrentGalaxy was one of the most-visited torrent sites, welcoming millions of users a day.

The site was originally launched by former members of ExtraTorrent, a popular torrent site that shut down in 2018. The founders aimed to provide a home for ExtraTorrent ‘refugees’ but, over time, it transformed into much more than that.

Last summer, there was a drastic change as TorrentGalaxy as the founders sold the site to a new and undisclosed party. The handover was clearly noticeable to outsiders, as the typically stable site suddenly experienced repeated stretches of downtime.

It was presumed that these problems were related to the change of guards, but without a word from the site’s new owners, both staff and users were left guessing.

When new downtime issues presented themselves last month, few people were surprised. This had happened previously on numerous occasions, with the site typically coming back online after a few days. This time around, however, the site stayed dark.

Site Offline for Two Weeks

At the time of writing, TorrentGalaxy has been unreachable for more than two weeks. The site had started using Cloudflare on its main torrentgalaxy.to domain, which informs users that the ‘host’ server is unreachable.

Bad Gateway

TorrentGalaxy has a dedicated status page to inform users what parts of their infrastructure are still operational. This currently indicates that all backup domains are offline too, including those on the Tor network.

The status page is automated and provides no additional explanation. The current issues seem more than just a technical outage, however.

ProxyGalaxy Status Page

Broken Upload Bots

In addition to the site itself, plus main and backup domains, TorrentGalaxy’s upload bots are offline too. These bots, including TGxGoodies, provided a steady stream of thousands of movie and TV torrents to other torrent sites, including 1337x.

Two weeks ago, a 1337x moderator decided to suspend TGxGoodies as many of its uploads were not being seeded. This was likely triggered by hosting-related issues that appear to have plagued the site.

“I have suspended the uploading of this bot till you guys figure out what’s going on over there. You have 500 unseeded torrents here. Not going to let you upload anymore till you start seeding what you have already uploaded. This bot needs a fixing,” the mod wrote.

Over at The Pirate Bay, the TGxGoodies and GalaxyRG bots stopped uploading weeks ago, for unknown reasons. This means that TorrentGalaxy’s problems are not isolated to just one website, its absence is being felt across the entire torrent site ecosystem.

Staff Fear the Worst

After two weeks of unexplained downtime, many users have concluded that the site is not coming back anytime soon. This sentiment is also trickling through to members of TorrentGalaxy’s staff, who are also being kept in the dark.

Mafketel, one of the TGx super admins, informs TorrentFreak that site staff are gradually losing hope for a good outcome.

“To be honest, the belief that it eventually will all be okay is very low among all staffers,” he says. However, as long as the proxy status page is online, with a checkmark beside one of the domains, staff continue to hope for a ‘miracle’.

As far as we can see, none of the current issues are domain-related. The main TorrentGalaxy.to domain is registered and operational, with working nameservers. The server it points to clearly isn’t functioning, however.

Financial Concerns

Rightsholders will be happy to see the site stay offline. ACE and others have previously tried to uncover the identities of its operators, hoping to take them down. There are currently no signs that anti-piracy forces are behind the downtime, at least not directly.

It is possible that ‘someone’ got to the servers and did unrepairable damage, but that’s all speculation.

Many online commenters link the current problems to TorrentGalaxy’s plea for money. A few weeks ago, the site reported financial difficulties, asking users to send donations to cover the bills.

The logical conclusion is that the money eventually ran out. However, while that sounds plausible, it would be highly unusual. After all, the operators of the site could easily put up a text file with a formal farewell.

Alternatively, they could point the domain to an external page where they explain the situation, and perhaps ask for even more money. Just giving up without any explanation, months after taking over the site, makes little sense.

At the end of the day, TorrentGalaxy’s status remains a mystery until someone steps forward to explain the situation.

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

Welcome to Edition 7.35 of the Rocket Report! SpaceX's steamroller is still rolling, but for the first time in many years, it doesn't seem like it's rolling downhill. After a three-year run of perfect performance—with no launch failures or any other serious malfunctions—SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has suffered a handful of issues in recent months. Meanwhile, SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket is having problems, too. Kiko Dontchev, SpaceX's vice president of launch, addressed some (but not all) of these concerns in a post on X this week. Despite the issues with the Falcon 9, SpaceX has maintained a remarkable launch cadence. As of Thursday, SpaceX has launched 28 Falcon 9 flights since January 1, ahead of last year's pace.

As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Alpha rocket preps for weekend launch. While Firefly Aerospace is making headlines for landing on the Moon, its Alpha rocket is set to launch again as soon as Saturday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The two-stage, kerosene-fueled rocket will launch a self-funded technology demonstration satellite for Lockheed Martin. It's the first of up to 25 launches Lockheed Martin has booked with Firefly over the next five years. This launch will be the sixth flight of an Alpha rocket, which has become a leader in the US commercial launch industry for dedicated missions with one-ton-class satellites.

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