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Elon Musks Zeit als besonderer Regierungsangestellter geht zu Ende. Vor seinem Ausstieg kritisiert er noch Trumps Steuergeschenk an Reiche. (Doge, Politik)
Elon Musks Zeit als besonderer Regierungsangestellter geht zu Ende. Vor seinem Ausstieg kritisiert er noch Trumps Steuergeschenk an Reiche. (Doge, Politik)
Wer alles perfekt macht, kann auf andere unnahbar oder sogar unheimlich wirken. Kleine Fehler mögen peinlich sein, bringen aber Sympathiepunkte. Von Tim Reinboth (Denkpause, Wirtschaft)
Wer alles perfekt macht, kann auf andere unnahbar oder sogar unheimlich wirken. Kleine Fehler mögen peinlich sein, bringen aber Sympathiepunkte. Von Tim Reinboth (Denkpause, Wirtschaft) The results of the latest consumer surveys, carried out by Mediavision in the Nordic countries, are a mixed bag of bad news, and slightly less bad news. On one hand, consumption of pirate IPTV services in Sweden has dropped two points, from 16% of all households in 2024 to 14% in 2025. On the other, 30% of over 15-year-olds consume content illegally every month, a figure that rises to over 50% among men under 35.
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
Describing Sweden as a country with a serious pirate IPTV problem is technically accurate, but lacking in all-important context.
As a member of the European Union, Sweden is among 27 member states experiencing broadly similar difficulties. The main drivers usually boil down to lots of content being accessible from one supplier, at a price people can afford or are willing to pay.
There are variables across the bloc, from consumer demand for specific types of often expensive regional content, to rightsholders’ ability to take action, and/or convince local governments to commit scarce resources towards solving the problem.
In broad terms, the problem today is worse than it was pre-2020. No combination of industry measures, legal amendments, or government investment, has delivered anything close to a solution, anywhere in the EU. Even when positive news does arrive, it’s often met with cautious suspicion.
Stockholm-based consulting firm Mediavision conducts regular surveys to assess consumption trends in the Nordic countries. Its report for Sweden covering several months in 2024 could hardly have been worse.
In the period bridging spring and the fall of last year, pirate IPTV subscription rates increased by a record 25%, with an estimated 700,000 households (one subscription = one household) regularly consuming from illicit sources. On face value, however, the numbers in Mediavision’s latest report seem to indicate progress.
“The use of illegal IPTV is still high and it is now estimated that 640,000 Swedish households pay for illegal IPTV services,” says anti-piracy group Rights Alliance (Rattighetsalliansen).
When a 60,000-household reduction warrants such a frosty reception (Rights Alliance says it’s too early to celebrate), the rest of the figures may not be encouraging either.
The new Mediavision survey estimates that 2.3 million Swedes aged 15 to 74-years-old, consume movies, TV shows, or live sports, from illegal sources, at least every month. Sweden is a relatively small country where 2.3 million people represent 30% of the population.
Studies regularly show that infringement rates are higher among younger people; Sweden continues the long-standing trend here.
Among citizens aged 15 to 34, over half say they regularly use content from illegal sources. As expected, piracy rates are highest among younger men and when every other person is already a subscriber or regular viewer, word tends to spread especially fast.
The Rights Alliance graphic below shows that another large number is also causing concern.
In 2019, the European Union Intellectual Property Office estimated that pirate IPTV services were generating close to a billion euros in annual revenue, in the EU alone (pdf). At the time, the Netherlands and Sweden had the highest percentage of IPTV users in the bloc, with 8.9% and 8.5% respectively.
To put Sweden’s pirate IPTV growth into perspective, today’s 640,000 households can be placed alongside 616,700 individuals in the six-year-old EU report. In 2018, revenue generated by pirate providers from Swedish sales was an estimated 490,000 euros.
The 1.4 billion figure above is in Swedish Krona; at today’s exchange rate that’s €137.6 million (US$154.8 million)
“1.4 billion SEK directly from Swedish households into the criminal economy is unacceptable. Organized crime is fueled, and the damages to rights holders are much bigger than this,” Rights Alliance says.
An investigation launched in Sweden a year ago is still ongoing. Alongside an assessment of financial damage to the film and TV industries, advice on whether action against IPTV subscribers is required (including a ‘ban’ on IPTV itself) is expected in the final report. Rights Alliance believes that more can be done immediately.
“There is a need for increased resources and enhanced expertise among police and prosecutors,” says Rights Alliance lawyer and former police IP crime investigator, Alma Shawwaf.
“Several actors can also do more to make it harder for criminals, not least payment providers and search engines such as Google.”
From: TF, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.
JBL leistet sich beim Tour One M3 keine groben Patzer und bietet den besten ANC-Kopfhörer. Die Funkeinheit Smart Tx macht ihn zu etwas Besonderem. Ein Praxistest von Ingo Pakalski (Kopfhörer, Raumklang)
Wer Netzwerke und Systeme wirksam schützen will, muss Angriffsstrategien nachvollziehen können. Ein fünftägiger Online-Workshop vermittelt die Inhalte des CEH-v13-Programms – praxisnah und umfassend. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)
Wer Netzwerke und Systeme wirksam schützen will, muss Angriffsstrategien nachvollziehen können. Ein fünftägiger Online-Workshop vermittelt die Inhalte des CEH-v13-Programms - praxisnah und umfassend. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke) Tianwen-2 will first return samples from an asteroid, then explore a mysterious comet-like object.
A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched Wednesday from a military-run spaceport in the country's mountainous interior.
Liftoff aboard a Long March 3B rocket at 1:31 pm EDT (17:31 UTC) from the Xichang launch base kicked off the second mission in a series of Chinese probes to explore the Solar System. This mission, designated Tianwen-2, follows the Tianwen-1 mission, which became the first Chinese spacecraft to land on Mars in 2021.
Chinese officials confirmed the 2.1-metric ton Tianwen-2 spacecraft unfurled its fan-shaped solar arrays shortly after launch, marking an auspicious start to a decade-long tour of the Solar System.
Backdoor giving full administrative control can survive reboots and firmware updates.
Thousands of home and small office routers manufactured by Asus are being infected with a stealthy backdoor that can survive reboots and firmware updates in an attack by a nation-state or another well-resourced threat actor, researchers said.
The unknown attackers gain access to the devices by exploiting now-patched vulnerabilities, some of which have never been tracked through the internationally recognized CVE system. After gaining unauthorized administrative control of the devices, the threat actor installs a public encryption key for access to the device through SSH. From then on, anyone with the private key can automatically log in to the device with administrative system rights.
“The attacker’s access survives both reboots and firmware updates, giving them durable control over affected devices,” researchers from security firm GreyNoise reported Wednesday. “The attacker maintains long-term access without dropping malware or leaving obvious traces by chaining authentication bypasses, exploiting a known vulnerability, and abusing legitimate configuration features.”
The man was in Argentina when he fell ill, but such cases occur in the US, too.
An otherwise-healthy 52-year-old office worker showed up to a hospital emergency department in Buenos Aires with an unshakable fever he developed the week before. Besides the high temperature, he seemed fine. So, after testing negative for COVID-19, doctors sent him home with supportive care. But the fever didn't go away.
In the week that followed, things got worse. He developed nausea, stomach pain, and diarrhea. He also started having trouble breathing. He then went back to the hospital.
This time, doctors found he needed supplemental oxygen. And an X-ray of his chest was worrisome—there were diffuse ground-glass opacities in his lungs. Doctors wondered if he had an unusual case of pneumonia. The man kept getting worse; in fact, he seemed to deteriorate before their eyes. Initially, he received supplemental oxygen through a simple face mask; subsequently, doctors switched to a mask that delivers continuous oxygen. However, his blood oxygen saturation continued to fall.
The Amazon/Stellantis STLA SmartCockpit was meant to arrive in 2024.
Automaker Stellantis and retail and web services behemoth Amazon have decided to put an end to a collaboration on new in-car software. The partnership dates back to 2022, part of a wide-ranging agreement that also saw Stellantis pick Amazon Web Services as its cloud platform for new vehicles and Amazon sign on as the first customer for Ram's fully electric ProMaster EV van.
A key aspect of the Amazon-Stellantis partnership was to be a software platform for new Stellantis vehicles called STLA SmartCockpit. Meant to debut last year, SmartCockpit was supposed to "seamlessly integrate with customers’ digital lives to create personalized, intuitive in-vehicle experiences," using Alexa and other AI agents to provide better in-car entertainment but also navigation, vehicle maintenance, and in-car payments as well.
But 2024 came and went without the launch of SmartCockpit, and now the joint work has wound down, according to Reuters, although not for any particular reason the news organization could discern. Rather, the companies said in a statement that they "will allow each team to focus on solutions that provide value to our shared customers and better align with our evolving strategies."
Elon Musks Zeit als besonderer Regierungsangestellter geht zu Ende. Vor seinem Ausstieg kritisiert er noch Trumps Steuergeschenk an Reiche. (
JBL leistet sich beim Tour One M3 keine groben Patzer und bietet den besten ANC-Kopfhörer. Die Funkeinheit Smart Tx macht ihn zu etwas Besonderem. Ein Praxistest von Ingo Pakalski (
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