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Das neue Dateiformat Better Portable Graphics (BPG) von Fabrice Bellard soll JPEGs ablösen. Bei gleicher Dateigröße sind BPG-Dateien qualitativ besser. Für die Anzeige im Webbrowser sind keine aufwendigen Plugins, sondern nur etwas Javascript erforderlich. (HEVC, Grafiksoftware)
Ein Fraunhofer-Team in den USA will die Installation von Solartechnik effizienter machen – selbst die notwendige Zulassung soll per Software angestoßen werden.
Jürgen Schmidt, Chefredakteur von heise Security und Joerg Heidrich, Justitiar des Heise Zeitschriften Verlags, erklären am Dienstag live, wie sich die E-Mail-Kommunikation technisch und juristisch absichern lässt.
From the hacking of Sony to the hacking of Denuvo, read these and other news stories from the week ending 7 December 2014.
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From the hacking of Sony to the hacking of Denuvo, read these and other news stories from the week ending 7 December 2014.
A Chinese release group may have cracked what was once thought to be uncrackable. The group, 3DM, claims to have broken the Denuvo copyright protection system used for PC games like FIFA 15, Lords of the Fallen and Dragon Age: Inquisition.Unlike tradit…
A Chinese release group may have cracked what was once thought to be uncrackable. The group, 3DM, claims to have broken the Denuvo copyright protection system used for PC games like FIFA 15, Lords of the Fallen and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Unlike traditional gaming DRM, Denuvo aims not to protect the game's content from piracy, but to protect the game's existing DRM from tampering. It is essentially a DRM for DRM, which uses a 64-bit encryption machine to prevent tampering of the game's existing DRM anti-copy system.
While no working "crack" exists yet for Denuvo, 3DM says that work on the "uncrackable" system, which has been uncracked for months (a relatively long time for any copy protection system), took "only" 15 days and that further tweaking will be needed before full information on the crack is released.
Denuvo has been controversial since it was used in a series of high profiles releases. Many users complained that the system used additional resources that would otherwise have been devoted to the actual game, thus making gaming performance worse.
There were also reports that the Denuvo implementation for the game 'Lords of the Fallen' was causing unnecessary wear and tear and even damage to SSD drives, due to the constant re-write of certain files. These reports were later proven to the false, with Denuvo being ruled out as the source of the excessive file re-writing.
Das SPD-geführte Bundesjustizministerium verweigert nach einem Vierteljahr Bearbeitungszeit die Herausgabe eines Schreibens des US Department of Justice, in dem es möglicherweise um die Auslieferung von Edward Snowden geht.
Das Bundesjustizministerium weigert sich, dem NSA-Untersuchungsausschuss des Parlaments die konkreten Straftatvorwürfe gegen Edward Snowden in den USA zu nennen. Warum, ist auch geheim. (NSA, Datenschutz)
Im Dezember 2004 kaufte die chinesische Firma Lenovo das Desktop- und Notebook-Business von IBM – also vom US-amerikanischen Erfinder des PCs. Mittlerweile ist Lenovo die Nummer 1 in diesem Markt.
Oracle baut offenbar europaweit Arbeitsplätze im IT-Support ab. Das sollte ohne Ankündigung erfolgen. Nur wegen des Betriebsrats in Deutschland wurde der Plan bekannt. (Larry Ellison, Oracle)