Month: July 2020

Spotify Duo Premium: Spotify-Abo für zwei Personen startet für 13 Euro

Wer nur zu zweit Spotify nutzen möchte, muss nicht mehr ein teureres Family-Abo bezahlen. Das bietet keiner der großen Konkurrenzdienste. Von Ingo Pakalski (Spotify, Cloud Computing)

Wer nur zu zweit Spotify nutzen möchte, muss nicht mehr ein teureres Family-Abo bezahlen. Das bietet keiner der großen Konkurrenzdienste. Von Ingo Pakalski (Spotify, Cloud Computing)

Tracking COVID-19’s spread through an Italian town

About 40 percent of cases were asymptomatic, and viral load didn’t seem to matter.

Colorful Italian apartment building.

Enlarge / Even after the national lockdown ended, Italy is still locking down residential buildings if clusters of cases develop there. (credit: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE / Getty Images)

Italy was one of the countries hit earliest as the COVID-19 pandemic spread beyond its origin in China, and the country struggled with a sudden surge in cases that threatened to overwhelm its health services. But Italy turned into a success story, as an aggressive lockdown reversed its curve, causing new daily cases to drop from a peak of over 6,000 down to a steady flow of about 300. Compared to a number of other industrialized democracies, this was a major success.

Now, a team of researchers largely based in Italy is looking more carefully at the pandemic's spread there as well as the impact of control measures. The researchers have gotten most of the population of a small town to agree to testing before and after Italy's lockdown, providing a window into the behavior of the virus and how things changed during the lockdown.

In the beginning

The location in question is called Vo', a small town in northern Italy near Padua and Verona. Vo' has a population of a bit over 3,000 residents, and most of them (86 percent) agreed to take part in the study. In late February of this year, just as Italy entered lockdown, all the willing participants gave samples that were tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2. Two weeks later, as Italy prepared to emerge from its lockdown, the participants were sampled again. Any health issues and contacts in the intervening time were surveyed, allowing people to trace contact networks, as well.

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Smartphone: Oneplus bestätigt Details zum neuen Nord

Das Oneplus Nord wird mit einem Snapdragon 765G ausgeliefert, zudem wird Wert auf die Kameraleistung gelegt. Auch zum Preis gibt es offizielle Angaben. (Oneplus, Smartphone)

Das Oneplus Nord wird mit einem Snapdragon 765G ausgeliefert, zudem wird Wert auf die Kameraleistung gelegt. Auch zum Preis gibt es offizielle Angaben. (Oneplus, Smartphone)

Police Arrest Pirate IPTV Operator & ‘Hijack’ Streams With Anti-Piracy Warning

Police officers from a Cyber and Serious Organised Crime Unit in the UK arrested a 24-year-old man yesterday under suspicion of operating a pirate IPTV service. Users of at least one service are now being presented with an anti-piracy warning delivered by Norfolk and Suffolk Police. The force in question informs TF that the warning is genuine and not part of a hack.

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

IPTVSometime during Tuesday, users of a pirate IPTV provider marketed under the Global / Global Entertainment brands were given a surprise.

Instead of accessing the live TV package they’d originally subscribed to, they’re now being treated to a warning that claims to originate from two police forces in the UK.

“This illegal stream has been seized By Norfolk and Sussex Police,” it begins.

“Watching illegal broadcasts is a crime. Your IP address has been recorded. You are instructed to cease and desist immediately from all illegal media streaming.”

As news of the message spread around various IPTV discussion forums, the speculation began. Some put forward the theory that the operator of the service had orchestrated some kind of cut-and-run scam, faking the seizure notice and then fleeing with subscribers’ money. Others stated that it was some kind of hack designed to scare users of the service.

To find out the truth, TorrentFreak contacted Suffolk Police with a copy of the message. They confirmed that the notice is part of a criminal investigation and should be taken seriously.

Message is Genuine, One Man Arrested

“Officers are aware that speculation is circulating online stating that the on screen message is a ‘hack’. However, recipients should be clear that this is a genuine police operation,” the force informs TF.

Police are not yet naming Global as a target and it’s certainly possible that additional providers are also affected by the action. However, they did confirm that officers from the local Cyber and Serious Organised Crime team carried out a warrant at a property in the Hollesley area of East Suffolk yesterday, in connection with premium pay-TV channels that were “being facilitated to tens of thousands of people.”

According to the police, a 24-year-old man was arrested under section 44 of the Serious Crime Act and Section 11 of the Fraud Act under suspicion of obtaining services dishonestly and concealing/converting criminal property, i.e money laundering. He was taken to Martlesham Police Investigation Center for questioning and was released under investigation pending further inquiries.

First Time a Seizure Notice Has Appeared Via an IPTV Service

In respect of the anti-piracy message now being displayed on former customers’ screens, police say this was made possible after gaining access to the IPTV provider and disabling the suspected illegal streams.

While seizure and similar anti-piracy warnings have appeared on dozens of pirate websites over the years, this is the first instance that we’re aware of that has managed to deliver the same type of message via an IPTV provider, direct to people’s television sets. It’s an intriguing development that may yet resonate with the public.

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

Notebooks unter 400 Euro im Test: Duell der drei Discounter-Laptops

Sind preiswerte Notebooks wirklich so schrecklich? Golem.de hat drei Geräte für unter 400 Euro getestet. Dabei: Acer, Medion und Trekstor. Ein Test von Oliver Nickel (Notebook, Computer)

Sind preiswerte Notebooks wirklich so schrecklich? Golem.de hat drei Geräte für unter 400 Euro getestet. Dabei: Acer, Medion und Trekstor. Ein Test von Oliver Nickel (Notebook, Computer)

NoSQL-Datenbank: Redis-Gründer tritt ab

Das Projekt soll künftig von einer Gruppe aus der Community geführt werden. Transparent ist das Verfahren des Redis-Teams aber nicht. (NoSQL, Softwareentwicklung)

Das Projekt soll künftig von einer Gruppe aus der Community geführt werden. Transparent ist das Verfahren des Redis-Teams aber nicht. (NoSQL, Softwareentwicklung)