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Division players could be “punished” for using in-game glitch

Ubisoft struggling with reportedly widespread use of hacking and exploits.

This is what Falcon Lost looks like when being played legitimately, but...

Players who exploited in-game glitches to get around limits on end-game loot drops in The Division may face "punishment" from the publisher, according to a community manager. That's despite the fact this tactic didn't involve actively hacking or modifying the game or its servers.

An anticipated update to The Division last week introduced Falcon Lost, the game's first raid-like multiplayer "incursion" that culminates in a difficult final boss and rare loot for successful players. The incursion was designed to provide this loot just once a week, requiring players to come back again and again over time to gain the full set of randomly doled out gear.

That's not how things worked in practice. Shortly after Falcon Lost launched, word started to leak of a glitch that let players dash through the incursion in roughly 20 minutes, collecting the loot again every single time. The key is the abuse of the Survivor Link and Mobile Cover skills, letting players warp through walls and avoid triggering key moments and enemy spawns in the incursion.

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FlexCase concept gives smartphones a second, flexible ePaper display

There have been a number of attempts in recent years to give smartphones a secondary display. Yotaphone’s smartphones have a color screen on one side and an E Ink screen on the other. And the InkCase line of products attempt to deliver a similar experience by building an ePaper display into a smartphone case.

But the folks at Media Interaction Lab are showing off a concept that goes even further. The FlexCase adds a secondary E Ink screen to a phone… but it’s also a flexible screen, which gives you a number of ways to interact with the primary and secondary displays.

Continue reading FlexCase concept gives smartphones a second, flexible ePaper display at Liliputing.

Theranos CEO “devastated” by company’s failures, claims ignorance

CEO Elizabeth Holmes takes full responsibility for problems and awaits fed decision.

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Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of blood testing company Theranos, said she was “devastated” by failures at the company’s California laboratory, which have left federal regulators threatening to shut down the lab and ban Holmes from the business of blood testing for at least two years.

In an interview that aired Monday on NBC’s TODAY show, Holmes took full responsibility for the problems, which largely involve inaccurate test results and the hiring of unqualified workers. However, she explained the failures by noting that she was unaware of them.

“I’m the founder and CEO of this company,” she said. “Anything that happens in this company is my responsibility at the end of the day.” But when asked why the laboratory didn’t seem to have protocols to ensure that they were following internal and external quality checks for the medical test results or hiring only employees with the necessary licenses and qualifications to handle those medical tests, Holmes responded, “Probably the most devastating part of this is that I thought we did.”

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IT-Security: Wie Hacking Team gehackt wurde

Eine Anleitung zum Hack des Trojaner-Herstellers Hacking Team ist jetzt veröffentlicht worden. Dazu gibt es einen Aufruf zum Nachahmen der Aktion, die schwerwiegende Folgen für das Unternehmen hatte. (Hacking Team, Server)

Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case

Fair use is a defense to copyright infringement in US intellectual property law.

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The Supreme Court on Monday declined (PDF) to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other writers claiming Google's scanning of their books amounts to wanton copyright infringement and not fair use.

The guild urged the high court to review a lower court decision in favor of Google that the writers said amounted to an "unprecedented judicial expansion of the fair-use doctrine." (PDF)

At issue is a June decision (PDF) by the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals that essentially said it's legal to scan books if you don't own the copyright. The Authors' Guild originally sued Google, saying that serving up search results from scanned books infringes on publishers' copyrights even though the search giant shows only restricted snippets of the work. The writers also claimed that Google's book search snippets provide an illegal free substitute for their work and that Google Books infringes their "derivative rights" in revenue they could gain from a "licensed search" market.

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Wifi-Spots: Unitymedia will 1,5 Millionen private Router öffnen

Unitymedia bietet seinen Kunden für die Teilnahme an den Wifi-Spots eine Belohnung an. Dafür stellt das Unternehmen zusätzliche Kapazität zur Verfügung, die gebuchte Datenrate soll nicht beeinträchtigt werden. Die Hotspots sollen 10 MBit/s im Down- und 1 MBit/s im Upload bereitstellen. (Unitymedia, WLAN)

Windows Store apps can now have “insider” rings too

Want to test upcoming Windows 10 features before they’re available to the general public? You can join the Windows Insider program to try preview builds, or sign up for “fast ring” for even faster access.

Now developers of Universal Windows Platform apps can use a similar system to let some people get early access to new features.

Microsoft has added support for “package flights” to the Windows Store. This lets developers make some updates only available to a select group of users.

Continue reading Windows Store apps can now have “insider” rings too at Liliputing.

Now developers of Universal Windows Platform apps can use a similar system to let some people get early access to new features.

Microsoft has added support for “package flights” to the Windows Store. This lets developers make some updates only available to a select group of users.

Continue reading Windows Store apps can now have “insider” rings too at Liliputing.

Obama’s a Coward For Not Hitting Google Over Piracy, Filmmaker Says

The producer of dozens of movies including The Expendables trilogy and London Has Fallen has branded Barack Obama a “coward” for failing to take on Google over piracy. Avi Lerner says that the government is scared of the search giant and anyone not helping to stop piracy “should go to jail.”

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

With the recent Copyright Office consultation on the efficacy of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ringing in the ears of many significant stakeholders, we’re informed that much is at stake in the online marketplace.

What began with opinions from a wide range of interested parties has now morphed into a battle of opposing forces, with annoyed copyright holders leading the charge on one side and Google and its supporters on the other.

Despite engaging in no infringement itself and doing everything the law requires, on a daily basis Google is now being described as the world’s greatest piracy facilitator. It’s getting pretty ugly.

The latest to weigh-in with a controversial opinion is veteran film producer Avi Lerner. Perhaps best known for bringing The Expendables trilogy to the silver screen, Lerner is pulling no punches when it comes to the blame game. In fact, he’s taken it right to the very top.

“The government, the president, is such a coward. He’s scared of Google so we are losing millions,” he told AFP.

As the founder of production companies Nu Image and Millennium Films, Lerner is of course no stranger to piracy. In 2014, a pristine copy of The Expendables 3 was leaked onto the Internet, much to the company’s dismay.

While police in the UK arrested two men in connection with the leak later that year, followed by a third in 2015, thus far no culprits have surfaced in the United States. So, in the absence of a direct bogeyman, Google – and the President – will have to do.

“It’s a major problem and it’s something that I don’t know if anyone can stop, because the government, the president, Congress are all scared of Google,” Lerner said.

The film producer says he feels that Google has no incentive to stop piracy because it generates revenue from it, but this kind of blame game is nothing new and largely misses the point. All piracy takes place outside Google’s ecosystem and would continue even if Google disappeared into thin air. Still, Lerner thinks he has the solution.

“They should tell Google to stop piracy. They should make a law that anyone helping piracy — and not helping to stop piracy — should go to jail or get penalized or whatever,” he said.

It’s not clear whether Lerner was just angry when he made these comments or whether he really doesn’t understand how the whole piracy thing works, but the notion of throwing people in jail for simply not helping to stop piracy is certainly food for thought.

Only time will tell if that kind of punishment should also extend to the President himself but he’ll be long out of office before anything (if anything) is done to tune-up the DMCA. Jailing Google executives is presumably much more distant on the horizon.

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

Amazon starts offering Prime Video as a $8.99 monthly subscription

And that’s without free shipping—full Prime services will be $10.99 per month.

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Amazon wants to appeal to new customers and is doing so by unbundling its Prime services. The company will now offer Prime Video, its TV and movie streaming services, for $8.99 per month. Amazon Prime as a bundle, which includes Prime Video and Music, free two-day shipping, and more, currently costs $99 per year.

The standalone Prime Video subscription is the first Prime service to be separated from the bundle. Amazon has never offered any Prime services outside the $99 annual subscription, so not only does this give potential new customers a way to try out Prime, but it also positions Prime Video as a direct competitor to services like Netflix and Hulu. Currently, Netflix costs $9.99 per month (and early users who still pay $7.99 per month will feel the price hike in May) and Hulu's subscription services starts at $7.99 per month.

According to CNN Money, Amazon will also offer the complete set of Prime services for $10.99 per month, which comes out to $131.88 per year. The annual membership price of $99 is the better deal in both cases (Prime Video monthly charges will amount to $107.88 per year), but a monthly option gives new customers a chance to try out the service first. It also softens the blow for anyone not willing to shell out $99 for the annual membership, or anyone who doesn't want to commit to the full year.

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Akoya E6424: Aldi-Notebook mit Skylake, 1080p-Panel und SSD für 600 Euro

Ab dem 28. April 2016 für 600 Euro: Das Aldi-Notebook Akoya E6424 weist ein 15,6-Zoll-1080p-Display, einen Skylake-Prozessor samt flotter Iris-Grafikeinheit, eine moderne M.2-SSD, eine zusätzliche 1-TByte-Festplatte und ac-WLAN auf. Zwei Mankos gibt es aber. (Aldi-PC, Notebook)