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WhatsApp does about face, will serve ads in Facebook-owned app

Nominal subscription fee was dropped in January of this year.

WhatsApp will do what it once said would never happen: let businesses use the messaging app to serve ads to users.

In a move that was inevitable once it was acquired by Facebook for $22 billion in 2014, WhatsApp has put its users on notice that it will soon begin sharing their phone numbers, and selected other data, with its parent company.

This information will then be used to offer customers "more relevant" Facebook ads, new "ways for people to communicate with businesses" via the app, and new friend suggestions, the blurb reads.

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Dragonfly 44: Eine Galaxie fast ganz aus dunkler Materie

Sie ist so groß und massereich wie unsere Milchstraße und doch kaum zu sehen: Die Galaxie Dragonfly 44 besteht fast ausschließlich aus dunkler Materie. Die Entdecker rätseln über die Entstehung. (Astronomie, Wissenschaft)

Galaxy Note 7 review: What’s the opposite of “bang for your buck?”

Samsung’s latest offers the best of 2016 technology but with a 2013 price tag.

The Galaxy Note 7. It still has an S Pen.

Samsung is back with the Galaxy Note 7, the sixth version of its flagship Galaxy Note handset. Wait—did Samsung forget how to count? The Note series skipped a number this year, apparently so that the Note 7 would look more like a sibling to the already-released Galaxy S7. The unified branding feels appropriate since—despite five months of development time between them—the Note 7 is more like the Galaxy S line than ever. You're getting the same Snapdragon 820 SoC, the same 4GB of RAM, and the same camera.

So what do you get in the Note 7 after five additional months of waiting? Beyond the usual 5.7-inch, 1440p display and the S-Pen, the Note 7 series brings an upgrade to USB Type-C, adds another biometric ID system in the form of an iris scanner, and comes with a really, really fat price tag. You're going to pay at least $850 for the 64GB version, the only version for sale in the US.

SPECS AT A GLANCE: Galaxy Note 7
SCREEN	5.7" 2560×1440 (515 ppi) AMOLED
OS	Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow with TouchWiz
CPU	US: Quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (two 2.15 GHz Kryo cores and two 1.6 GHz Kyro cores) Int'l: Eight-core Exynos 8890 (four 2.3 GHz Mongoose cores and four 1.6 GHz Cortex-A53 cores)
RAM	4GB
GPU	US: Adreno 530 Int'l: Mali-T880 MP12
STORAGE	64GB with MicroSD slot
NETWORKING	Dual band 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.2 GPS, NFC
Cellular Bands	GSM: 800, 1900 CDMA: 800, 1900 UMTS: 850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100 TD-SCDMA: 1880, 2010 LTE Bands: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 29, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41
PORTS	USB Type C, 3.5mm headphone jack
CAMERA	12MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and OIS, 5MP front camera
SIZE	153.5 x 73.9 x 7.9 mm (6.04 x 2.91 x 0.31 in)
WEIGHT	169 g (5.96 oz)
BATTERY	3500mAh
STARTING PRICE	$860
OTHER PERKS	quick charging, wireless charging, heart rate sensor, notification LED, IP68 water resistance, Iris scanner, Samsung Pay

Design and build quality

Seen a Samsung phone in the last few years? If so, you know what to expect here. The Note 7 has a metal frame with a glass back and highly reflective metallic coloring underneath.

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FBI’s stingray quickly found suspect after local cops’ device couldn’t

New court filings in US v. Ellis show the lengths that Oakland police, FBI went to.

OAKLAND, Calif.—According to new government affidavits filed earlier this week, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) used its stingray without a warrant in 2013 for several hours overnight as a way to locate a man accused of being involved in shooting a local police officer. When that effort was unsuccessful, the OPD called in the FBI, which was somehow able to locate the suspect in under an hour, and he surrendered to OPD officers.

That suspect, Purvis Ellis, is the lead defendant in the case of United States v. Ellis et al. The case involves four men who are charged with the January 21, 2013 attempted murder of local police officer Eric Karsseboom in the parking area in front of a Seminary Avenue apartment complex in East Oakland. The men are also charged with running an alleged local gang, centered around Seminary Avenue (known as "SemCity").

While these new filings fill out the timeline a bit more, they also raise new questions in Ellis, which has provided a rare insight into how this surveillance device, also known as a cell-site simulator, is used in practice to find suspects, and the seeming lengths the government is willing to go to keep it quiet. The tool has come under increasing scrutiny by lawmakers and activists in recent years. Since this case began, the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, and the State of California now require a warrant when a stingray is used in most circumstances.

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Gigabit-Breitband: Google Fiber soll Alphabet zu teuer sein

Offenbar ist dem Google-Mutterkonzern Alphabet das eigene FTTH-Angebot Google Fiber viel zu teuer, weshalb der Anbieter Kosten einsparen soll. Dazu könnten massive Entlassungen zählen und das erklärt den Wechsel hin zu Drahtlos-Technik. (Google Fiber, Google)

Google-Steuer: EU-Kommission plädiert für europäisches Leistungsschutzrecht

Die EU-Kommission stellt sich bei der Reform des Urheberrechts auf die Seite von Verlagen. Ohne eine Art Leistungsschutzrecht sieht sie die Zukunft der Presse gefährdet. (Leistungsschutzrecht, Urheberrecht)

Code-Gründer Thomas Bachem: “Wir wollen weg vom Frontalunterricht”

Viel Praxis statt graue Theorie: Mit “Code” will Seriengründer Thomas Bachem eine Hochschule aufbauen, die Softwareentwickler ausbildet. Im Interview erklärt er, warum Informatik als Fach nicht ausreicht, wie er das Projekt finanziert und was er anders machen will als klassische Universitäten. (Softwareentwicklung, Interview)

Viel Praxis statt graue Theorie: Mit "Code" will Seriengründer Thomas Bachem eine Hochschule aufbauen, die Softwareentwickler ausbildet. Im Interview erklärt er, warum Informatik als Fach nicht ausreicht, wie er das Projekt finanziert und was er anders machen will als klassische Universitäten. (Softwareentwicklung, Interview)

Pegasus: Ausgeklügelte Spyware attackiert gezielt iPhones

In iOS stecken Sicherheitslücken, die aktiv ausgenutzt werden und viel Schaden anrichten können. Angreifer erhalten weitreichenden Zugriff auf ein iPhone. Apple hat einen Patch veröffentlicht, mit dem die Sicherheitslücken geschlossen werden. (iPhone, Apple)

FBI-Controlled Megaupload Domain Now Features Soft Porn

As part of its criminal case against Megaupload, the U.S. Government seized several domain names belonging to Kim Dotcom’s file-hosting service. Nearly five years later the authorities still control the domains but they haven’t done a very good job of securing them. Megaupload.org now links to a soft porn portal.

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

Megaupload was shutdown nearly half a decade ago, but all this time there has been little progress on the legal front.

Last December a New Zealand District Court judge ruled that Kim Dotcom and his colleagues can be extradited to the United States to face criminal charges, a decision that will be appealed shortly.

With the criminal case pending, the U.S. Government also retains control over several of the company’s assets.

This includes cash, cars, but also over a dozen of Megaupload’s former domain names, including Megastuff.co, Megaclicks.org, Megaworld.mobi, Megaupload.com, Megaupload.org, and Megavideo.com.

Initially, the domains served a banner indicating they had been seized as part of a criminal investigation. However, those who visit some of the sites today are in for a surprise.

This week we discovered that Megaupload.org is now hosting a site dedicated to soft porn advertisements. Other seized domains are also filled with ads, including Megastuff.co, Megaclicks.org, and Megaworld.mobi.

Megaupload?

Interestingly, this all happened under the watch of the FBI, which is still listed as the administrative and technical contact for the domain names in question.

So how can this be?

Regular readers may recall that something similar happened to the main Megaupload.com domain last year. At the time we traced this back to an expired domain the FBI used for their nameservers, Cirfu.net.

After Cirfu.net expired, someone else took over the domain name and linked Megaupload.com to scammy ads. The U.S. authorities eventually fixed this by removing the nameservers altogether, but it turns out that they didn’t do this for all seized domains.

A few weeks ago the Cirfu.net domain expired once more and again it was picked up by an outsider. This unknown person or organization parked it at Rook Media, to generate some cash from the FBI-controlled domains.

As can be seen from the domain WHOIS data, Megaupload.org still uses the old Cirfu.net nameservers, which means that an outsider is now able to control several of the seized Megaupload domain names.

The ‘hijacked’ domains don’t get much traffic but it’s still quite embarrassing to have them linked to ads and soft porn. Commenting on our findings, Kim Dotcom notes that the sloppiness is exemplary of the entire criminal case.

“Their handling of the Megaupload domain is a reflection of the entire case: Unprofessional,” Dotcom tells us.

What’s clear is that the U.S. authorities haven’t learned from their past mistakes. It literally only takes a few clicks to update the nameserver info and reinstate the original seizure banner. One would assume that the FBI has the technical capabilities to pull that off.

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

Fenix Chronos: Garmins neue Sport-Smartwatch kostet ab 1.000 Euro

Mit dem Modell Fenix Chronos präsentiert Garmin eine neue Fitness-Smartwatch im edlen Design: Die Uhr ist wahlweise mit Edelstahl- oder Titangehäuse erhältlich und kommt im Design einer “richtigen” Armbanduhr sehr nahe. Technisch gesehen entspricht sie aber weitgehend einem günstigeren Modell. (Garmin, Fitness)

Mit dem Modell Fenix Chronos präsentiert Garmin eine neue Fitness-Smartwatch im edlen Design: Die Uhr ist wahlweise mit Edelstahl- oder Titangehäuse erhältlich und kommt im Design einer "richtigen" Armbanduhr sehr nahe. Technisch gesehen entspricht sie aber weitgehend einem günstigeren Modell. (Garmin, Fitness)