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Exoplanet: Forscher entdecken riesigen Babyplaneten

Hell und riesig groß, aber noch im Säuglingsalter: Forscher haben einen Exoplaneten entdeckt, der gerade einmal zehn Millionen Jahre alt ist. Er ist allein im All und deshalb gut zu studieren. (Exoplanet, Wissenschaft)

Security: Das FBI kann nur alte iPhones hacken

Welche iPhones kann das FBI mit seiner neuen Technologie hacken? Offenbar weniger als bislang gedacht, wie Direktor James Comey jetzt in einem Vortrag sagte. (Apple vs. FBI, Apple)

Blizzard shuts down popular fan-run “pirate” server for classic WoW

Nostralrius servers claimed 800K users are playing 2006-era World of Warcraft.

A scene from a crowded, early public stress test of the Nostalrius servers. (credit: YouTube)

One of the most popular "pirate" servers for World of Warcraft, running a classic version of the game no longer offered by Blizzard, will be shutting down under the threat of legal action from Blizzard.

The Nostalrius servers had been in operation for about a year, running version 1.12 of the original World of Warcraft as it existed in 2006, just before the release of "the Burning Crusade" expansion. The administrators say that 800,000 registered accounts and 150,000 active players were working through quest progressions reproduced to precisely match the game of a decade ago.

But the team behind Nostalrius says its French hosting provider has been issued a formal letter asking it to shut down the servers or face a potential copyright infringement lawsuit. As such, the servers will be shut down on April 10.

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Stream Android games to Twitch from your PC with BlueStacks

Want to stream your Android gaming session over the internet so friends and strangers can watch you play and listen to your commentary? Google offers a way to stream from your phone or tablet to YouTube, and if you have an NVIDIA Shield Tablet, you can stream to Twitch. There are other methods, but they tend […]

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The next big thing in space may be really, REALLY small satellites

Space for all? Put your very own GoPro into orbit for about $3,000.

A proposed FemtoSat is shown in space, with a penny for scale. (credit: Arizona State)

The miniaturization of space continues, unabated. First came CubeSats, measuring about 11cm long and weighing no more than 1.33kg. These small research payloads have helped spur the development of a small satellite launch industry, and using the International Space Station to deploy them has become one of the national lab's hottest commercial activities.

However, the evolution of satellites downward from thousands of kilograms, down to a single kilogram, does not seem to be stopping. On Thursday. Arizona State University announced it is developing FemtoSats, a 3cm cube with a mass of just 35g. These "SunCubes" grew out of a research project begun in 2014 by Jekan Thangavelautham, a professor in the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration.

The FemtoSats will deploy in an almost matryoshka doll-like manner—from a CubeSat fitted with a Jack-in-the-box-like spring. According to the developers, this mechanism will allow the FemtoSat standard to be bootstrapped to the CubeSat standard, allowing FemtoSats to be carried as additional payloads on CubeSat missions. A single deployer could release 27 FemtoSats.

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White House reportedly won’t support anti-encryption legislation

Reuters: Obama administration “deeply divided” on anti-encryption legislation.

President Barack Obama. (credit: White House)

The White House has reportedly decided not to give public support to legislation that would force tech companies to help law enforcement agencies break into encrypted products.

Reuters reported the news today, attributing it to "sources familiar with the discussion." The draft legislation from Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Richard Burr (R-N.C.) could be introduced this week and "would empower judges to require technology companies such as Apple to help law enforcement crack encrypted data," Reuters wrote.

The Obama administration said in October that it wouldn't seek legislation requiring tech companies to install backdoors in their products. But last month, President Obama said he thinks the government should have some access to encrypted data to investigate terrorist plots and crimes such as child pornography and tax fraud. "You cannot take an absolutist view on this," Obama said at the South By Southwest conference. "If your view is strong encryption no matter what and we can and should create black boxes, that does not strike the balance that we've lived with for 200 or 300 years. And it's fetishizing our phones above every other value. That can't be the right answer."

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Festnetz: Netzagentur will Exklusiv-Vectoring bei EU durchsetzen

Die Zusage für das exklusive Vectoring der Deutschen Telekom soll von der EU genehmigt werden. Der Investitionswettbewerb bei der wichtigen Übergangstechnologie werde an ganz zentralen Stellen dem Ex-Monopolisten übergeben, kritisiert die Konkurrenz. (Vectoring, DSL)

WebTorrent Desktop Streams Torrents Beautifully

WebTorrent is best described as a BitTorrent client for the web. It allows people to share files directly from their browser, without having to configure or install any additional software. Now WebTorrent Desktop has arrived, offering a lightweight yet feature-rich streaming and castable experience on Windows, Linux and Mac.

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

Every day millions of Internet users fire up a desktop-based BitTorrent client to download and share everything from movies, TV shows and music, to the latest Linux distros.

Sharing of multimedia content is mostly achieved by use of a desktop client such as uTorrent, Vuze, qBitTorrent or Transmission, but thanks to Stanford University graduate Feross Aboukhadijeh, there is another way.

WebTorrent is a BitTorrent client for the web. Instead of using standalone applications like those listed above it allows people to share files directly from their browser, without having to install any additional software.

“WebTorrent is the first torrent client built for the web. It’s written completely in JavaScript – the language of the web – and uses WebRTC for true peer-to-peer transport. No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required,” Feross previously told TF.

Such has been WebTorrent’s impact, even Netflix contacted Feross to discuss his technology, which could greatly benefit the streaming video service by reducing its bandwidth consumption. But while WebTorrent “for the web” continues its development, Feross has just unveiled his latest creation.

At first glance WebTorrent Desktop (WDT) seems like a step back, in that it appears to move WebTorrent away from webpages and places it back in the desktop environment like a regular torrent client. However, what WDT does is provide a super smooth video streaming experience with a few really neat tricks up its sleeve.

Firstly, WTD looks nothing like any other torrent client. Its clean and straightforward interface is easily navigated and offers little in the way of configuration options or indeed clutter, which in this case is a good thing. The aim is to get the in-built player streaming video as quickly as possible and it achieves that with style.

Torrents are added by using a .torrent file or by copy/pasting a magnet link and in a matter of seconds on a reasonably well-seeded torrent, videos can be played almost immediately. The in-built player is a basic affair but has all the necessary controls to navigate within a video. This is where WebTorrent Desktop excels.

Even without the whole video file being downloaded it’s possible to skip around on the timeline, with WDT fetching the appropriate pieces of the file on demand for almost instant playback. This makes skipping to the last few minutes of a movie or sporting event a breeze, for example.

Also of interest to those who enjoy watching from the comfort of their armchair is the inclusion of AirPlay, Chromecast and DLNA support. WebTorrent Desktop found my network-connected TV as soon as it was switched on and playback was instantaneous.

But while streaming in various torrent clients has been possible for some time, WebTorrent Desktop has another neat feature up its sleeve. In addition to gathering peers via trackers, DHT and PEX, it also supports the WebTorrent protocol for connecting to WebRTC peers.

This enables the client to tap into a pool of additional peers such as those running WebTorrent in their browsers on Instant.io. As the diagram below shows, WebTorrent Desktop acts as a bridge to bring these two sets of peers together.

Available for Windows, Mac and Linux, WebTorrent Desktop is both free and open source, with its source available on Github. It also has zero advertising and none of the bloatware associated with other clients available today.

The WebTorrent Desktop Beta can be downloaded here.

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

Reddit finally has official Android, iOS apps

Since the rise and fall of Digg, Reddit has pretty much dominated the social news/link-sharing & discussion space. But while reddit’s barebones website is optimized to load quickly and be easy to read on desktop and more recently on mobile devices, the company has largely left the development of mobile apps to third parties… until […]

Reddit finally has official Android, iOS apps is a post from: Liliputing

Wikimedia: Schweden verbietet Online-Fotosammlung öffentlicher Kunst

Der höchste schwedische Gerichtshof hat Wikimedia untersagt, Fotos von öffentlichen Kunstwerken in einer Onlinesammlung bereitzustellen. Folgerichtig sieht Wikimedia die Panoramafreiheit bedroht. (Urheberrecht, Internet)