Just another news site
Eine Aktualisierung bringt neue Spracheingabeoptionen für Android-Wear-Smartwatches: Jetzt können Nutzer diktierte Nachrichten über eine Vielzahl von Messengern verschicken. Hat die Smartwatch einen Lautsprecher, lassen sich jetzt auch Anrufe darüber tätigen. (Android Wear, Google) 
Eine Aktualisierung bringt neue Spracheingabeoptionen für Android-Wear-Smartwatches: Jetzt können Nutzer diktierte Nachrichten über eine Vielzahl von Messengern verschicken. Hat die Smartwatch einen Lautsprecher, lassen sich jetzt auch Anrufe darüber tätigen. (Android Wear, Google) 
Nicht am 2D-Bildschirm, sondern in ihrer virtuellen Welt können Entwickler mit der Unreal Engine 4 künftig Umgebungen bauen. Im Video des Herstellers wirkt das aber noch etwas fummelig. (VR, Epic Games) 
Nicht am 2D-Bildschirm, sondern in ihrer virtuellen Welt können Entwickler mit der Unreal Engine 4 künftig Umgebungen bauen. Im Video des Herstellers wirkt das aber noch etwas fummelig. (VR, Epic Games) 
After cutting off file-hosting sites and Usenet providers, PayPal is now taking aim at VPN and SmartDNS services. The payment processor states that services which can be used to bypass measures to prevent copyright infringement, such as geo-blockades, are violating its terms of service.
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
PayPal is widely known for their aggressive stance towards BitTorrent sites, Usenet providers and file-hosting services, but VPN, proxy and SmartDNS providers might now suffer the same fate too.
This week PayPal stopped accepting payments for a company that provides VPN and SmartDNS tools, stating that these may facilitate copyright infringement.
So-called “unblocker” tools can be used to bypass geo-filtering blockades which Netflix and other video platforms have in place.
According to the message PayPal sent to UnoTelly and possibly others, these services are against the company’s policies because they help users to bypass copyright restrictions.
“Under the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that infringe or violate any copyright, trademark, right of publicity or privacy, or any other proprietary right under the laws of any jurisdiction,” PayPal’s email reads.
“This includes transactions for any device or technological measure that descrambles a scrambled work, decrypts an encrypted work or otherwise avoids, bypasses, removes, deactivates or impairs a technological measure without the authority of the copyright owner.”
PayPal informs the affected business(es) that their accounts have been permanently limited and that this decision can’t be appealed. This means that they have to switch to other payment processing providers.
UnoTelly informs TorrentFreak that the decision came as a shock, without any type of prior notice. The company is disappointed and sees the move as a direct attack on open and unrestricted Internet access.
“We are disappointed at PayPal’s unilateral action and the way it acted without prior warning. We provide both DNS resolution and secure VPN services. Our services are network relays that connect people around the world,” UnoTelly’s Nicholas Lin says.
Under PayPal’s policy every VPN and SmartDNS service is at risk of losing its PayPal account. However, it seems likely that the company will mainly take action against companies that market themselves as an “unblocker” service.
UnoTelly, for example, specifically mentions its ability to bypass geo-blocks imposed by streaming sites such as Netflix and Hulu.
PayPal’s actions are not an isolated incident. They come a few weeks after Netflix started to increase its crackdown on VPN services and other unblockers, as requested by copyright holders. It would be no surprise if copyright holders are also behind PayPal’s recent move.
—-
PayPal’s email:
Source: TF, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing, torrent sites and ANONYMOUS VPN services.
Netflix sees HDR as a bigger draw for its subscribers than 4K, according to Netflix’s Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt, and the streaming giant expects 20% of its content to support HDR by 2019.HDR, or otherwise known as High Dynamic Range, aims to incr…
Netflix sees HDR as a bigger draw for its subscribers than 4K, according to Netflix's Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt, and the streaming giant expects 20% of its content to support HDR by 2019.
HDR, or otherwise known as High Dynamic Range, aims to increase the range between the brightest and the darkest areas in a scene. This increased contrast gives makes the picture stand out more and feels more life-like, and according to Hunt, is what users will notice more easily than a simple upgrade to 4K resolution.
“I think HDR is more visibly different than 4K,” says Hunt. “Over the past 15 years, we have had plenty of increments of pixels on the screen, and from what we saw with digital cameras, pixel count eventually stopped being interesting.” A higher number may have looked nice stamped on the side of the camera, but most people couldn’t discern a 25-megapixel shot from a 20-megapixel shot in real life.
Hurting HDR's chance to be "the next big thing" in home entertainment is, and this should be familiar to earlier adopters of HD, yet another format war, plus the fact that people will need to ensure their displays can support HDR.
Right now, there are two competing HDR standards, Dolby Vision and Ultra HD Premium (also known as HDR 10). Netflix is trying to stay format agnostic - while they currently only provide Dolby Vision versions of its HDR streaming shows Marco Polo and Daredevil, the company will offer HDR 10 versions in the near future.
“There are a couple of manufacturers making Dolby Vision TVs that we will certify and be in the market very soon. In a month or two, we’ll do the same with HDR 10 TVs as well,” Hunt says, also hinting that firmware updates to a few TVs already capable of HDR will make them Netflix-HDR compatible in 2016.
As for content, Netflix is aiming to make 5 percent of its library HDR compatible by the end of 2016, and up to 20% by 2019. While it's possible to add HDR to older content (much like 3D remastering or colorization), to get the best out of HDR, Hunt argues that shows and movies have to be shot in HDR, something Netflix is committed to doing.
“The big step for Netflix this year is that we’re shooting our original shows with cameras that are capable of capturing all the range, then mastering for HDR,” he says. “That includes all the metadata for both types of TVs because we worked with the manufacturers to render it properly. We’re ready to start building a library and the TVs are making a big leap this year.”
The browser is now hardened against some classic Windows security flaws.
(credit: Moyan Brenn)
The Windows 10 November update (version 1511, build 10586) included a handful of new security features to provide protection against some security issues that have kept on popping up in Windows for a number of years. Google yesterday added source code support for these features to the Chrome browser, making Windows 10 the best version of Windows to use with Google's browser.
Over the last few years, Windows has had a number of flaws that relate to its font handling. The TrueType and PostScript fonts that Windows supports are complex things, and for historic reasons, much of the code used to handle these fonts runs in Windows' kernel mode. This makes it attractive to attackers: if a bug exists in this font-handling code, it can be used to obtain kernel-level privileges.
Compounding this, the code is also quite exposed: a Word document, for example, can contain its own embedded fonts, and opening the document means that those embedded fonts will be loaded into the kernel. If the fonts are malicious, constructed to exploit bugs in the font-handling code, this can compromise your system simply by opening a document.
Read 11 remaining paragraphs | Comments
Über ein Drittel kompakter als in einem 14FF-Prozess: Samsungs neue SRAM-Zelle nimmt knapp 40 Prozent weniger Fläche ein, da sie im 10FF-Verfahren gefertigt wurde. Die neue Technologie ist aufgrund einiger Probleme aber noch längst nicht serienreif. (
Die Freifunk-Community vermutet eine große Gefahr durch die neue EU-Funkanlagenrichtlinie. Künftig kann man auf Routern kein OpenWRT mehr installieren, so die Befürchtung. Wir sind dem nachgegangen - in Berlin, Bonn und Brüssel. (
Der Homebutton könnte in künftigen iPhone-Generationen zum Minijoystick werden, der neben Richtungen auch Druckstärken erkennt. Je nach aufgelegtem Finger sollen unterschiedliche Aktionen gestartet werden. Diese Funktionen hat sich Apple patentieren lassen. (
Pebble hat für die Smartwatches Pebble Time und Pebble Time Steel ein Firmware-Update auf Version 3.9 veröffentlicht, mit dem die Uhren schneller reagieren. Zifferblätter und Apps können zudem Aktivitätstracker-Daten anzeigen. (
Sony hat drei neue Vollformatobjektive mit E-Mount-Anschluss vorgestellt, die für die spiegellosen Systemkameras des Herstellers gedacht sind. Dabei handelt es sich um eine 85 mm Festbrennweite und zwei lichtstarke Zooms. (
You must be logged in to post a comment.