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Smartphone maker OnePlus is preparing to launch a new flagship smartphone, but the company still has a few older phones it’d like you to buy. So OnePlus is slashing prices by $50.
Now you can pick up a OnePlus X for $199 or a Oneplus 2 for $299.
The upcoming OnePlus 3 is expected to be unveiled during a press event on June 14th… which will be held in virtual reality.
Smartphone maker OnePlus is preparing to launch a new flagship smartphone, but the company still has a few older phones it’d like you to buy. So OnePlus is slashing prices by $50.
Now you can pick up a OnePlus X for $199 or a Oneplus 2 for $299.
The upcoming OnePlus 3 is expected to be unveiled during a press event on June 14th… which will be held in virtual reality.
Attack on NS1 sends 50 million to 60 million lookup packets per second.
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Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider, for over a week. While the company has essentially shunted off much of the attack traffic, NS1 experienced some interruptions in service early last week. And the attackers have also gone after partners of NS1, interrupting service to the company's website and other services not tied to the DNS and traffic-management platform. While it's clear that the attack is targeting NS1 in particular and not one of the company's customers, there's no indication of who is behind the attacks or why they are being carried out.
NS1 CEO Kris Beevers told Ars that the attacks were yet another escalation of a trend that has been plaguing DNS and content delivery network providers since February of this year. "This varies from the painful-but-boring DDoS attacks we've seen," he said in a phone interview. "We'd seen reflection attacks [also known as DNS amplification attacks] increasing in volumes, as had a few content delivery networks we've talked to, some of whom are our customers."
In February and March, Beevers said, "we saw an alarming rise in the scale and frequency of these attacks—the norm was to get them in the sub-10 gigabit-per-second range, but we started to see five to six per week in the 20 gigabit range. We also started to see in our network—and other friends in the CDN space saw as well—a lot of probing activity," attacks testing for weak spots in NS1's infrastructure in different regions.
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Verbraucher sollen beim europaweiten Einkauf übers Internet nicht mehr unterschiedlich behandelt werden. Zudem will die EU-Kommission einen günstigeren Paketversand durchsetzen. (Onlineshop, Studie)
Verbraucher sollen beim europaweiten Einkauf übers Internet nicht mehr unterschiedlich behandelt werden. Zudem will die EU-Kommission einen günstigeren Paketversand durchsetzen. (Onlineshop, Studie) Der chinesische Hersteller Xiaomi hat seine erste Drohne vorgestellt, deren Funktionsumfang dem der DJI Phantom 3 ähnelt – doch sie soll erheblich günstiger sein. (Drohne, Technologie)
Der chinesische Hersteller Xiaomi hat seine erste Drohne vorgestellt, deren Funktionsumfang dem der DJI Phantom 3 ähnelt - doch sie soll erheblich günstiger sein. (Drohne, Technologie) Biete Schokolade, suche Passwort: Statt mühsam mit Viren und Trojaner lassen sich viele Menschen einfach mit Schokolade zur Herausgabe ihrer Kennwörter bewegen – noch dazu freiwillig. (Passwort, Applikationen)
Biete Schokolade, suche Passwort: Statt mühsam mit Viren und Trojaner lassen sich viele Menschen einfach mit Schokolade zur Herausgabe ihrer Kennwörter bewegen - noch dazu freiwillig. (Passwort, Applikationen) Lenovo hat es sich doch anders überlegt: Das Moto G4 sowie die Plus-Ausführung können Kunden auch mit mehr Speicher bestellen. Die Speicheraufstockung der Smartphones ist dabei vergleichsweise günstig. (Moto G, Smartphone)
Lenovo hat es sich doch anders überlegt: Das Moto G4 sowie die Plus-Ausführung können Kunden auch mit mehr Speicher bestellen. Die Speicheraufstockung der Smartphones ist dabei vergleichsweise günstig. (Moto G, Smartphone) 20% quota from European regulators to ensure some content is European in origin.
(credit: Jennifer Baker)
As expected, the European Commission has nixed plans to impose blanket rules on Web-based platforms as part of its Digital Single Market plans—but Netflix, Amazon, and other on-demand video providers will face movie and TV quotas and a tax to help fund EU productions.
Vice president Andrus Ansip said that rather than onerous regulation, problems will be addressed “individually as they arise by sector.”
Although the commission wants to totally eliminate geoblocking for the purchase of online goods and services, for the time being, copyrighted audiovisual content will be exempt from the rules.
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Mobile’s increasing dominance is reason behind more ad goo for Google Maps.
Google plans big changes in the way it delivers ads to users of core services such as Maps and Gmail.
The company said it would bring a feature dubbed "promoted pins" to its popular Maps app, allowing businesses to pay for additional presence when a user makes a relevant search.
Google's senior ads VP, Sridhar Ramaswamy, was careful to make the strategy sound benign. He said in a blog post:
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Microsoft has been making smartphone operating systems for just about as long as anyone, and the company started selling its own hardware under the Lumia brand after acquiring Nokia in 2014.
But Android and iOS continue to dominate the smartphone market and Gartner estimates that Windows had a market share of just about 1 percent last year.
So it’s not surprising that Microsoft is making changes. The company has announced it’s eliminating about 1,850 jobs in its smartphone hardware business, taking a $950 million restructuring charge, and shifting focus.
Microsoft has been making smartphone operating systems for just about as long as anyone, and the company started selling its own hardware under the Lumia brand after acquiring Nokia in 2014.
But Android and iOS continue to dominate the smartphone market and Gartner estimates that Windows had a market share of just about 1 percent last year.
So it’s not surprising that Microsoft is making changes. The company has announced it’s eliminating about 1,850 jobs in its smartphone hardware business, taking a $950 million restructuring charge, and shifting focus.
Microsoft betreibt weiterhin seinen schrittweisen Ausstieg aus dem Smartphone-Geschäft. Jetzt werden 1.850 Beschäftigte entlassen. Der Spartenchef predigt dabei weiter, dies sei ein Abbau, aber kein Rückzug. (
