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Ersatz für MSDN und Technet: Neue Microsoft-Dokumentation ist Open Source

Mit einer komplett neuen Plattform für seine Dokumentation will Microsoft viele Probleme bei Technet und MSDN lösen. Sämtliche Einträge werden Open Source und ermöglichen Beiträge von Externen. (Microsoft, Applikationen)

Review: HP’s EliteBook Folio G1 is the MacBook as it could’ve been

Review: Two Thunderbolt 3 ports and a great keyboard and trackpad help it excel.

Andrew Cunningham

HP's EliteBook Folio G1.

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Apple’s laptop designs used to feel like they were a few years ahead of the curve. When the company introduced things like the aluminum unibody MacBook Pros or both the first- and second-generation MacBook Air designs and even the 15- and 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros, they were impressive because none of the PC makers were doing anything quite like them.

That’s not so much the case in 2016, in part because designs like the MacBook Air and Pro have stood still as the PC OEMs have dramatically improved their own mid-to-high-end offerings. You no longer need to buy a Mac to get good build quality, a nice-looking display, respectable battery life, or a non-terrible trackpad. And thanks in part to Windows 10, PCs are offering biometric authentication options and voice assistants that OS X and the Mac don’t have, even if the Mac is still much better at sharing data and interacting with the iPhone.

Apple’s latest laptop design is the MacBook, which is an impressively thin-and-light laptop that makes some key compromises in its pursuit of said thin-and-lightness. HP’s business-focused EliteBook Folio G1 isn’t the first MacBook-alike from the PC OEMs, but it might be the Windows laptop that best marries the virtues of the MacBook to the extra expandability and flexibility of a traditional Ultrabook. It’s on the expensive side, but it’s also the most impressive high-end laptop this side of Dell’s XPS 13.

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Mitmachprojekt: Unser Leser messen bereits in über 100 Städten

Wir haben unsere Leser dazu aufgerufen, Golem.de für ein Langzeitprojekt regelmäßig ihre Bürotemperatur zu übermitteln. Und unsere Leser machen tatsächlich mit! Ein erster Zwischenbericht. (Mitmachprojekt, Arduino)

Steuern: Bürgermeister von Cupertino kritisiert die Gier von Apple

Apple wolle keinen Cent für die Stadt Cupertino zahlen, wo der Konzern seinen Hauptsitz habe, kritisiert Bürgermeister Barry Chang. Er will eine höhere Steuer für große Unternehmen durchsetzen – doch die Stadt fürchte sich wohl vor Apple. (Apple, Silicon Valley)

Apple wolle keinen Cent für die Stadt Cupertino zahlen, wo der Konzern seinen Hauptsitz habe, kritisiert Bürgermeister Barry Chang. Er will eine höhere Steuer für große Unternehmen durchsetzen - doch die Stadt fürchte sich wohl vor Apple. (Apple, Silicon Valley)

Angeblicher Bitcoin-Erfinder: Craig Wright fehlt der Mut für weitere Beweise

Auf die Ankündigung folgt der Rückzieher: Der australische Unternehmer Craig Wright will nun doch nicht beweisen, dass er der Erfinder der Kryptowährung Bitcoin ist. (Bitcoin, Microsoft)

Xcom 2: Alienjäger im Anmarsch

Das rundenbasierte Strategiespiel Xcom 2 setzt den Krieg gegen Außerirdische fort: In der Erweiterung Alienjäger kämpfen Spieler in einer storybasierten Mission gegen neue Feindtypen mit unvorhersehbaren Verhaltensmustern. (Xcom, Games)

Trotz Routerfreiheit: Spekulationen über Zertifizierung von Kabelmodems

Wenige Monate vor Abschaffung des Routerzwangs gibt es immer noch keine Schnittstellenbeschreibung für die Kabelnetze. Nun befürchten die Routerhersteller offenbar, dass Netzbetreiber nur zertifizierte Geräte zulassen könnten. (Router, DSL)

Smartwatch: Skintrack macht den Arm zum Touchpad

Forscher haben ein System entwickelt, das die Bedienung einer Smartwatch auf den kompletten Arm ausweitet: Mit Skintrack lassen sich so Touch- und Hover-Gesten auch außerhalb eines kleinen Displays ausführen. Marktreif ist die Technik aber noch nicht. (Wissenschaft, Internet)

Hearthstone & Co: Activision Blizzard und die 544 Millionen MAUs

Auf Augenhöhe mit Netflix: Keine Verkaufszahlen, sondern aktive Nutzer und Zuschauerstunden stehen derzeit bei Activision Blizzard im Mittelpunkt. Titel wie Hearthstone, Call of Duty und Candy Crush Saga sorgen für gute Geschäftszahlen. (Activision Blizzard, Call of Duty)

Australian ISPs Refuse to Pay For Pirate Site Blocking

Australian ISPs hit with demands to block several ‘pirate’ sites including The Pirate Bay and Torrentz say they don’t want to bear the costs. One ISP says it could block for around AUS$50 per domain, but another put the bill as high as $AUS800. With dozens of domains involved, costs could get out of control.

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Website blocking applications are active in many countries around the world and they are often complex beasts, with negotiations drawn out over months and in some cases years.

Legislation passed last year in Australia aimed to formalize the process but that doesn’t appear to have detracted from the complexity of getting sites blocked under Section 115A of the Copyright Amendment (Online Infringement) Act 2015.

Two cases are currently testing the legal machine at the Federal Court. Roadshow Films (the movie division of Village Roadshow) and TV giant Foxtel are both seeking to have several pirate sites blocked at the ISP level. The latter wants to render The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, isoHunt and TorrentHound inaccessible while the former is targeting streaming portal Solarmovie.

The Internet service providers involved – TPG (including subsidiary iiNet), Optus, Telstra and M2 – have today confirmed that while they don’t intend to accept the blocking applications made by Roadshow and Foxtel they don’t intend to oppose them either, a move which leaves the matter in the hands of the Court.

But even with opposition out of the way, things aren’t necessarily progressing smoothly. Just as the issue of costs made a mess of Australia’s three-strikes regime and eventually shelved it, the ISPs are now insisting that they shouldn’t be forced to pay for the entertainment industries’ blocking efforts either.

While talks have been underway between the parties since last year, the ISPs feel that as innocent parties they shouldn’t be the ones picking up the bills. Quite how much those costs will rise to is also a matter for debate.

In Court today TPB/iiNet said it could carry out DNS blocking relatively cheaply at just AUS$50 (US37) per domain. M2, on the other hand, said its costs would be AUS$400 (US$295) per domain in the best case scenario and could climb to AUS$800 (US$590) in the worst.

While other ISPs have yet to put in their estimates (they will do so in the coming weeks), the sheer amount of blocking that will eventually take place in Australia must be a point of concern. After several years there are now around a 1,000 domains on the UK’s unofficial blocklist and that number is increasing every month. Deciding who pays at this early stage is definitely an important exercise.

As a result all parties will return to Court for an additional hearing on the blocking application on June 23. In the meantime, however, further discussion on site-blocking will continue in a parallel case brought by the music industry.

Last month members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) and Australasian collecting society APRA AMCOS teamed up to file their first site-blocking application at the Federal Court. Record labels Universal, Warner, Sony, and Albert & Son targeted KickassTorrents.

After describing KickassTorrents as the “worst of the worst”, they too demanded
a close to nationwide ISP blockade of the famous torrent site and its associated proxy sites. A case management hearing in that case will take place on June 6.

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