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Gmane: Wichtiges Mailing-Listen-Archiv offline

Gmane, ein wichtiges Archiv für Entwicklungs-Mailing-Listen, ist zurzeit nicht erreichbar. Der Betreuer hatte zuvor angekündigt, das Projekt eventuell komplett einzustellen, es aber möglicherweise auch anderen zu übergeben. (Open Source, Server)

Movie Studios ‘Take Down’ Popular KAT Mirror

One of the most popular KAT mirrors has had its domain name taken down following pressure from the major Hollywood studios. The Armenian .AM registry was quick to disable the KAT.am domain, but that doesn’t mean that the mirror site operator is throwing in the towel just yet.

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kickasstorrents_500x500 More than a week has passed since KickassTorrents (KAT) was shut down by the U.S. Government, following the arrest of the site’s alleged owner.

Soon after the official site went offline various mirrors and copies were launched to take its place. While none of these sites have anything to do with the original site, they do attract hundreds of thousands of users.

One of the more popular mirrors is KAT.am. The site was featured in several news reports with some suggesting that it’s an official reincarnation of the original KickassTorrents site.

While that is certainly not true, the instant success of this ‘copyKAT’ was enough to get Hollywood worried. Especially because its operator also started to add new torrents to the site.

It therefore came as no surprise that the Motion Picture Association, representing Hollywood’s major studios, sent KAT.am’s owner a stark warning.

“This Notice requires you to immediately (within 24 hours) take effective measures to end and prevent further copyright infringement. All opportunities provided by the Website to download, stream or otherwise obtain access to the Entertainment Content should be disabled permanently,” MPA’s email reads.

Part of MPA’s mail

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TorrentFreak spoke to operator of the mirror, who informed us that he has no intention of backing down. However, he noted that the MPA(A) pressure did lead to a suspension of the domain name.

“The MPAA coordinated with the Armenian registry and got the domain deleted,” KAT.am’s operator said. “We are making continuous attempts to bring it back, utilizing all the legal channels available.”

At the time of writing KAT.am remains offline. However, the mirror has already launched two new domains, kickass.cd and kickass.mx, from where it continues to operate.

KAT?

Operating a KAT mirror is not without risk, given the fact that the original site is the target of a criminal investigation by the U.S. Government. That doesn’t seem to bother the operator in question though.

“We are not worried, because if it’s not us, someone else will keep the game running. If not the alleged owner, it can be us. If we are not there, still there will surely be someone else. This never ends,” he tells us.

For some KAT users the “mirror” situation is rather confusing. They believe that the mirrors are somehow connected to the original site and some may attempt to login, which isn’t possible as these sites don’t have a copy of the user database.

Login attempts are risky, as some rogue mirrors may harvest personal information for nefarious purposes. Previously, the original KAT community team warned against such mirrors, urging former users to avoid these sites.

The operator of the former KAT.am mirror says that his site is completely safe. He’s also considering adding a notice to clarify that it is not related to the original KAT, to clarify the situation.

That said, just like those who operate the mirrors, former KAT users should consider themselves warned too.

Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.

Microsoft cuts 3,000 jobs in smartphone division, sales

Redundancies mostly hit remnants of Microsoft’s disastrous Nokia deal.

(credit: Julien GONG Min)

Microsoft plans to lay off nearly 3,000 more jobs over the next year across its smartphone hardware business and global sales division.

The latest cuts heap misery on Microsoft staff, after the software giant confirmed in May that 1,850 jobs would be lost at its mobile wing—even as its Windows and devices veep Terry Myerson insisted: "we're scaling back, but we're not out!"

Microsoft bought Nokia's devices and services business in 2013 for €5.4 billion ($7.1 billion), bringing with it what would quickly unravel into one of the worst tech acquisitions of all time.

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Burn, baby, burn: SpaceX test fires a rocket previously flown in May

The booster performed well, raising chances of a first reuse flight this year.

Landed Falcon 9 first stage test firing

On Thursday, SpaceX took another step toward reusing rockets when it fired the nine engines on the first stage of a Falcon 9 booster it launched in May. The company released video of the full-duration engine firing, which mimicked the length of a first-stage burn toward orbit, conducted at its test site in MacGregor, Texas.

This particular booster, which launched a Japanese communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit on May 6, will not be re-flown. According to Spaceflight Now, the company designated it as a reference vehicle because it weathered extreme temperatures during its reentry into Earth's atmosphere. The rocket will undergo additional tests as engineers determine the readiness of flown boosters for additional flights into space.

This test plan is part of SpaceX's plans to re-fly the first booster it landed at sea, the rocket it used in April to launch a cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station. That first stage had an easier ride back to the surface because it boosted a payload into low-Earth orbit, rather than the much higher geostationary altitudes common for communications and spy satellites.

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Olympia: Kann der Hashtag #Rio2016 verboten werden?

Der Deutsche Olympische Sportbund (DOSB) behält sich Medienberichten zufolge rechtliche Schritte wegen der Nutzung des Twitter-Hashtags “Rio2016” vor. Was ist davon rechtlich – aus Sicht des deutschen Rechts – zu halten? (Soziales Netz, Microblogging)

Der Deutsche Olympische Sportbund (DOSB) behält sich Medienberichten zufolge rechtliche Schritte wegen der Nutzung des Twitter-Hashtags "Rio2016" vor. Was ist davon rechtlich - aus Sicht des deutschen Rechts - zu halten? (Soziales Netz, Microblogging)

Jason Bourne review: Yes, it’s “worse than Snowden”

Stellar lead actors, killer action sequences can’t save tone-deaf take on tech.

The Snowden-tanglement of Hollywood has begun in earnest, and that's not just a coy reference to Oliver Stone's upcoming, eponymous film. The worlds of hacking, digital transparency, and bombastic espionage are all coming together whenever possible these days. And in terms of how computer savvy is employed on-screen, we've seen the good (Mr. Robot) and the bad (Spectre).

Get ready for the ugly. Jason Bourne, the fifth film in the series, hits theaters this weekend with a few very good things going for it, including a few gargantuan action sequences and some stellar lead performances from Matt Damon, Tommy Lee Jones, and Vincent Cassel. But someone at Universal clearly wanted its globe-trotting, CIA-loaded thriller to hit a bunch of cultural-relevance bullet points, and the results are some of the most embarrassing technological shoe-horning you'll see in a film this year.

Go ahead, set your laptop on fire

Matt Damon and Julia Stiles return to reprise their original Bourne series roles.

Matt Damon's Bourne hasn't become a hacker since his last turn as the secret super-agent in 2007. In fact, he has checked out from anything resembling duty, instead turning to a life of... boxing to the death. (Really.) We find Bourne on the Grecian-Albanian border, busing from one bloody, bare-knuckled brawl to the next, and the only thing that interrupts his new, wholly unexplained career detour is a visit from an old CIA comrade, Nicky Parsons (played once more by Julia Stiles).

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Containerverwaltung: Docker für Mac und Windows ist einsatzbereit

Nach einer vergleichsweise kurzen Betaphase steht die Containerverwaltung Docker offiziell in einer stabilen Version für Mac OS X und Windows bereit. Betatests sollen weiterhin einfach möglich sein. (Docker, Softwareentwicklung)

Drosselung: Telekom schafft wegen intensiver Nutzung Spotify-Option ab

Weil sich die Nutzung des Dateninklusivvolumen vervierfacht hat, schafft die Telekom die Spotify-Option ab. Bestandskunden sind – zumindest im Moment – nicht betroffen. Doch wie lange noch? (Netzneutralität, Cloud Computing)

Weil sich die Nutzung des Dateninklusivvolumen vervierfacht hat, schafft die Telekom die Spotify-Option ab. Bestandskunden sind - zumindest im Moment - nicht betroffen. Doch wie lange noch? (Netzneutralität, Cloud Computing)

Quantenkrytographie: Chinas erster Schritt zur Quantenkommunikation per Satellit

Ein Satellitenexperiment soll erstmals Quantenkryptographie zwischen Orbit und Bodenstationen demonstrieren. China könnte damit zum Pionier eines weltweiten quantenverschlüsselten Internet werden. (Verschlüsselung, Raumfahrt)

Sony: Absatz der Playstation 4 weiter stark

Die Playstation 4 bleibt offenbar ein Bestseller: Über 3,5 Millionen Geräte konnte Sony im letzten Geschäftsquartal verkaufen. Unter der Schwäche im Smartphone-Markt leidet der japanische Konzern aber weiterhin, und auch die Kamera-Sensoren waren zuletzt ein Problem. (Sony, Smartphone)