Doch kein neues Apple-Produkt: Apple arbeitet nach einem aktuellen Bericht nicht an einem smarten Lautsprecher á la Amazon Echo. Stattdessen soll die Apple-TV-Box stärker als bisher zum zentralen Steuerelement daheim werden. (Apple TV, Apple) Lensbaby: Fisheye-Objektiv Circular 180+ für die Gopro
Die Actionkameras von Gopro decken zwar ein großes Sichtfeld ab, Objektivhersteller Lensbaby reicht das aber nicht. Die Vorsatzlinse Circular 180+ macht daraus ein Fisheye mit 185 Grad großem Blickwinkel. Finanziert wird das Vorhaben über Kickstarter. (Gopro, Digitalkamera)
Die Actionkameras von Gopro decken zwar ein großes Sichtfeld ab, Objektivhersteller Lensbaby reicht das aber nicht. Die Vorsatzlinse Circular 180+ macht daraus ein Fisheye mit 185 Grad großem Blickwinkel. Finanziert wird das Vorhaben über Kickstarter. (Gopro, Digitalkamera) New Hollywood Injunction Blocks CouchTuner, Putlocker & More
The major Hollywood studios of the MPA have obtained their first new High Court injunction in more than a year targeting so-called ‘pirate’ sites. The latest order targets several leading streaming sites including CouchTuner, MerDB, Putlocker variants, Watchfree and Xmovies8.
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Back in 2010, the major movie studios of the Motion Picture Association were pursuing a dream. Rather than deal with each individual file-sharer the companies decided that website blocking could be a solution to mass online piracy.
Their first target was Usenet-indexing site Newzbin, a somewhat soft target considering the site had already been declared as operating illegally in the UK.
Almost five years ago the High Court ruled in the studios’ favor, ordering ISP BT to block the site. This action set a precedent in the UK and in the years that followed a similar process was used to block hundreds of ‘pirate’ sites, with the recording, publishing and sports industries all getting involved.
Currently, sites are blocked on a regular basis as copyright holders are allowed to add new domains to existing court orders if the domains are considered to be closely associated with a previously blocked site. This covers new Pirate Bay and KickassTorrents proxy sites, for example.
However, during the past few days several sites became unavailable via UK ISPs that were not closely associated with sites already blocked, CouchTuner for instance. This was a fairly clear indication that a new High Court order had been obtained.
That confirmation has now arrived, with notification from ISP Virgin Media that it has blocked several streaming sites in compliance with an injunction obtained by the Motion Picture Association on May 5. The sites are Couchtuner.ag, Merdb, Putlocker.is, Putlocker.plus, Rainiertamayo.com (Rainierland), Vidics.ch, Watchfree.to and Xmovies8.tv.
From a traffic perspective, Putlocker is without doubt the largest target. According to Alexa the streaming portal is the 219th most popular site on the Internet, 166th in the United States and an impressive 35th in the UK.
Next up is Watchfree.to, a site that rocketed from relative obscurity this time last year to become the 1,369th most popular site on the Internet. In third place comes CouchTuner, a fan favorite that’s currently ranked 1,609th worldwide. The remainder are relative minnows, with Vidics barely able to break the 28,000 barrier.
As always the current injunction was obtained under Section 97a of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act but one has to go back more than a year to find a similar fresh order obtained by the MPA. That came in April 2015 when several PopcornTime, isoHunt, EZTV and sundry streaming sites were targeted.
But while the MPA’s applications are spread out, it’s likely their reach will continue to grow. Any sites that have a similar name and/or functionality to those in an existing order will be added to the injunction without having to obtain a new one. In an effort to thwart workarounds, that includes proxies, mirrors and even copycats too.
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Werbeversprechen: Grüne fordern Bußgelder für langsame Internetanbieter
Internetanbieter sollen mindestens 90 Prozent der vertraglich festgelegten Datenrate erreichen oder Strafe zahlen: Das fordern die Grünen. Sie sind gegen schwammige Versprechen von “bis zu 100 Prozent” – Nutzer müssten schließlich auch voll zahlen. (Provider, Rechtsstreitigkeiten)
Internetanbieter sollen mindestens 90 Prozent der vertraglich festgelegten Datenrate erreichen oder Strafe zahlen: Das fordern die Grünen. Sie sind gegen schwammige Versprechen von "bis zu 100 Prozent" - Nutzer müssten schließlich auch voll zahlen. (Provider, Rechtsstreitigkeiten) Stratix 10 MX: Alteras Chips nutzen HBM2 und Intels Interposer-Technik
Nicht nur Grafikkarten setzen auf High Bandwidth Memory: Alteras neue FPGAs namens Stratix 10 MX haben 16 GByte davon verbaut, der Takt ist höher als bei Nvidias Rechenbeschleuniger Tesla P100. (Java-Rechtsstreit: Oracle verliert gegen Google
Google hat im langjährigen Java-Rechtsstreit gegen Oracle gewonnen. Die Geschworenen erkannten keinen Urheberrechtsverstoß von Google. Oracle will in Berufung gehen. (Oracle vs. Google, Urheberrecht)
Google hat im langjährigen Java-Rechtsstreit gegen Oracle gewonnen. Die Geschworenen erkannten keinen Urheberrechtsverstoß von Google. Oracle will in Berufung gehen. (Oracle vs. Google, Urheberrecht) Photoshop Content Aware Crop: Schiefe Fotos geraderücken
Ein Foto hat wohl jeder schon mal schief aufgenommen und später in der Bildverarbeitung geradegerückt. Die weißen Ecken, die dabei entstehen, füllt Adobe Photoshop mit der Funktion Content Aware Crop künftig intelligent aus. (Photoshop, Grafiksoftware)
Ein Foto hat wohl jeder schon mal schief aufgenommen und später in der Bildverarbeitung geradegerückt. Die weißen Ecken, die dabei entstehen, füllt Adobe Photoshop mit der Funktion Content Aware Crop künftig intelligent aus. (Photoshop, Grafiksoftware) HP Omen: 4K-Gaming-Notebooks und ein wassergekühlter Desktop-Rechner
Aggressives Rot trifft schnelle Hardware: HP erweitert die Omen-Serie um zwei Spieler-Notebooks und ein stationäres Gamer-System. In letzterem steckt High-End-Hardware wie Grafikkarten mit Nvidias Pascal-Technik, bei ersteren hält sich HP zurück. (Spielenotebook, USB 3.0)
Aggressives Rot trifft schnelle Hardware: HP erweitert die Omen-Serie um zwei Spieler-Notebooks und ein stationäres Gamer-System. In letzterem steckt High-End-Hardware wie Grafikkarten mit Nvidias Pascal-Technik, bei ersteren hält sich HP zurück. (Spielenotebook, USB 3.0) 12 more banks now being investigated over Bangladeshi SWIFT heist
Symantec becomes the second firm to link the hack to the Sony Pictures attack.
(credit: Garrett Ewald)
The investigation into the attempted $1 billion electronic heist at the Bangladesh central bank has expanded to as many as 12 more banks that all use the SWIFT payment network.
Security firm FireEye, investigating the hack, has been contacted by numerous other banks, including some in New Zealand and the Philippines. While most of the attempted transfers in the original heist were cancelled, some $81 million was sent to the Philippines and subsequently laundered through casinos. The SWIFT organization in a statement said that some of these reports may be false positives, and that banks should rigorously review their computing environments to look for hackers.
Symantec, meanwhile, has corroborated earlier claims from BAE Systems that the hackers that stole from the Bangladesh central bank are linked to the hackers that have attacked targets in the US and South Korea since 2009, and that hacked Sony Pictures in 2014. The FBI claimed that those hackers were North Korean. Symantec's rationale is the same as that of BAE; malware found at the bank, Sony, and other victims, all appears to share common code for securely deleting files to cover its tracks.
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No, this isn’t the start of the antibiotic apocalypse, just bad reporting
New drug resistant infection is cause for measured concern, but let’s get the facts straight.
(credit: NIAID)
Over the next day or so, you may see headlines and reports about a “nightmare” “superbug” that has been detected for the first time in the US.
So far, the Washington Post reports:
“The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S.”
And the article starts with: “For the first time, researchers have found a person in the United States carrying bacteria resistant to antibiotics of last resort.”
CNN had a similarly alarming, but distinct headline:
“'Nightmare' drug-resistant bacteria CRE found in U.S. woman”
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