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Vplus: Festnetzbetreiber wollen VDSL2 Annex Q statt Vectoring

Breko-Mitglieder wollen sich gegen exklusives Vectoring der Telekom im Nahbereich um die Hauptverteiler notfalls mit einer Verfassungsbeschwerde wehren. Technisch sei VDSL2 Annex Q, oder Vplus, die Alternative zu Vectoring. (Vectoring, DSL)

Smartphone might not need proximity sensors to… sense proximity

When you hold a smartphone to your ear, you don’t usually have to worry about touching the screen with you cheek and accidentally ending a call. That’s because most smartphones have proximity sensors that can turn off the display and disable touch input when the phone is near your face. But Elliptic Labs has developed software that […]

Smartphone might not need proximity sensors to… sense proximity is a post from: Liliputing

Verizon Wireless selling data cap exemptions to content providers

Video, music, app downloads, and ads can be exempted from caps for a fee.

(credit: Verizon Wireless)

Verizon Wireless, like AT&T before it, is now charging online content providers a fee to get their services exempted from customers' data caps.

With Verizon's "FreeBee Data 360," content providers are billed for each gigabyte they serve to consumers, while the consumers can access the providers' services without using up their data allotments.

"Content providers can sponsor specific consumer actions on a per-click basis, free of data charges for subscribers—including mobile video clips, audio streaming, and app downloads," Verizon said today. Data used for advertisements can also be sponsored by the company delivering the ad.

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All Major Oscar Contenders Leaked on Pirate Sites

Last week the 2016 Oscar nominees were announced, an event that inspired many people to check out the contenders. This increased interest is noticeable in legal channels and on various pirate sites, where all of the 37 Oscar contenders we checked are readily available.

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

oscartorrents The Oscars is the most watched award show of the year, closely followed by hundreds of millions of movie fans around the world.

A few days ago the 2016 nominees were announced and as usual this triggered a spike in interest from box office visitors as well as online pirates.

The latter group has been spoiled with a steady supply of pirated titles over the past several weeks. Ironically, many of these titles leaked from DVD screener copies which were sent out to reviewers, including Academy members who vote for the Oscars.

Inspired by the work of Andy Baio early 2015, we decided to take a look at this year’s contenders, excluding short and foreign films, to see how many films are already available on pirate sites.

To our surprise, all of the 37 nominated movies are widely available through unauthorized sites. Most are released in Blu-Ray or DVD quality, including several DVD screeners.

The list of leaked movies includes Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which is the only movie that’s not available in a decent quality. The only copies of the blockbuster are so-called “Cams,” recorded in the theater.

Due to the low quality the number of Star Wars downloads pales in comparison to other nominees such as The Big Short and The Martian, which have both been downloaded millions of times.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens ‘Cam’

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Of all movies that leaked 17 were sourced from DVD screeners. This number of leaked nominee screeners is a record high for this decade.

In recent years the number of leaked screener copies was significantly deceased due to increased security measures. However, this trends was broken this year thanks to Hive-CM8, who released 14 screeners last month.

It’s unclear whether these screeners were intended for the Oscars or another award show.

Below this article we’ve included an overview of all the nominees, whether the films were leaked as a DVD screener, as well as the highest quality leak format in which they are currently available.

All 2016 Oscars Nominees (ex. foreign and shorts)

Movie	Screener leaked?	Best quality
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45 Years	No	BluRay
Amy	No	BluRay
Anomalisa	Yes	DVDscr
Boy and the World	No	WEBRip
Bridge of Spies	Yes	BluRay
Brooklyn	Yes	DVDScr
Carol	Yes	DVDScr
Cartel Land	No	BluRay
Cinderella	No	BluRay
Creed	Yes	DVDScr
Ex Machina	No	BluRay
Fifty Shades of Grey	No	BluRay
Inside Out	No	BluRay
Joy	Yes	DVDScr
Mad Max: Fury Road	No	BluRay
Racing Extinction	No	HDTV
Room	Yes	DVDscr
Shaun the Sheep Movie	No	BluRay
Sicario	Yes	BluRay
Spectre	Yes	BluRay
Spotlight	Yes	DVDScr
Star Wars: The Force Awakens	No	HDCam
Steve Jobs	Yes	DVDscr
Straight Outta Compton	Yes	BluRay
The Big Short	Yes	DVDScr
The Danish Girl	Yes	DVDscr
The Hateful Eight	Yes	DVDScr
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared	No	BluRay
The Hunting Ground	No	DVDRip
The Look of Silence	No	BluRay
The Martian	No	BluRay
The Revenant	Yes	DVDScr
Trumbo	Yes	DVDScr
What Happened, Miss Simone?	No	DVDRip
When Marnie Was There	No	BluRay
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom	No	WEB-DL
Youth	No	BluRay

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EGMR: Gericht erklärt Massenüberwachung für illegal

Ist die Überwachungspraxis der Geheimdienste auf einmal illegal? Nach einem aktuellen Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofes für Menschenrechte sieht es jedenfalls nicht gut aus für die staatlichen Überwacher. (Geheimdienste, Datenschutz)

Facebook: “Armes Internet für arme Menschen”

Facebook will Indiens Bevölkerung online bringen, aber der Widerstand wächst. Die Frage: Ist das Projekt Free Basics gut gemeint oder eine Gefahr für ein freies Netz? (Mark Zuckerberg, Spam)

Education Edition: Microsoft kauft MinecraftEdu

Minecraft gehört Microsoft bereits, jetzt kündigt der Softwarekonzern auch die Übernahme der für Schulen gedachten Erweiterung MinecraftEdu an. Im Sommer 2016 soll es eine Neuauflage namens Education Edition geben. (Minecraft, Microsoft)

Panasonic launches Lumix CM10 Android-powered camera

About a year after launching the Lumix CM1 smartphone with a high-quality camera lens, Panasonic is introducing a new model that looks virtually identical. But the new Panasonic Lumix CM10 has one key difference: it’s not a phone. It’s just an Android-powered point-and-shoot camera with a 28mm Leica DC lens, a 20 megapixel, 1 inch […]

Panasonic launches Lumix CM10 Android-powered camera is a post from: Liliputing

Numbers don’t lie—it’s time to build your own router

With more speed available and hardware that can’t adapt, DIY builds offer peak performance.

I've noticed a trend lately. Rather than replacing a router when it literally stops working, I've needed to act earlier—swapping in new gear because an old router could no longer keep up with increasing Internet speeds available in the area. (Note, I am duly thankful for this problem.) As the latest example, a whole bunch of Netgear ProSafe 318G routers failed me for the last time as small businesses have upgraded from 1.5-9mbps traditional T1 connections to 50mbps coax (cable).

Yes, coax—not fiber. Even coax has proved too much for the old ProSafe series. These devices didn't just fail to keep up, they fell flat on their faces. Frequently, the old routers dropped speed test results from 9mbps with the old connection to 3mbps or less with the 50mbps connection. Obviously, that doesn't fly.

These days, the answer increasingly seems to be wireless routers. These tend to be long on slick-looking plastic and brightly colored Web interfaces but short on technical features and reliability. What's a mercenary sysadmin to do? Well, at its core, anything with two physical network interfaces can be a router. And today, there are lots and lots of relatively fast, inexpensive, and (super important!) fully solid-state generic boxes out there.

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Security: XSS-Lücke in Yahoo-Mail gefixt

Eine XSS-Lücke in Yahoo-Mail ermöglichte es Angreifern, fremde Accounts zu übernehmen. Sie hätten alle E-Mails der Nutzer weiterleiten und ausgehende E-Mails mit Viren infizieren können, schreibt ein Sicherheitsforscher. Yahoo hat bereits reagiert. (Security, Yahoo)