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Scammers Use Harvard Education Platform to Promote Pirated Movies

Spammers are using Harvard’s educational sharing tool H2O to promote pirated movies. Thousands of links to scammy sites have appeared on the site in recent weeks. Copyright holders are not happy with this unintended use and are targeting the pages with various takedown notices.

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harvardlaw H2O is a tool that allows professors and students to share learning material in a more affordable way.

This is very welcome in a time where textbook and other educational costs continue to rise year after year.

Developed by the Berkman Center and the Harvard Law School Library, the H2O platform is mainly geared towards law professors but anyone with an .edu email address is allowed to join.

“H2O allows users – faculty or students – to develop, remix, and share online textbooks and casebooks under a Creative Commons license,” Harvard Law School explains.

H2O is a welcome system that’s actively used by many renowned scholars. However, in recent weeks the platform was also discovered by scammers. As a result, it quickly filled up with many links to pirated content.

Instead of course instructions and other educational material, the H2O playlists of these scammers advertise pirated movies. Below is an example of one of these dubious entries, but there are thousands more.

The scammers in question are operating from various user accounts and operate much like traditional spam bots, offering pages with movie links and related keywords such as putlocker, megashare, viooz, torrent and YIFY.

A “pirate” H2O playlist

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While most students won’t mind free access to the latest blockbusters, the links provided are not leading to regular pirate sites and services.

Instead they point to scammy portals, many of which require a credit card to signup, which undoubtedly leads to disappointment. These kinds of scams are nothing new, but seeing them listed on a Harvard website is a new development.

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With links from the official Harvard domain name, the pages are an SEO goldmine and do very well in Google’s search results. This is something copyright holders have noticed too..

Over the past few weeks movie studios including Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Columbia and Magnolia Pictures have sent dozens of DMCA notices trying to get the pages removed from the search engine.

Interestingly, Google has thus far chosen to take no action, which means that the pages remain indexed in search results. Whether the movie studios have sent DMCA notices to Harvard directly is unknown, but since the H2O playlists are still online this seems unlikely.

Although the movie link pages don’t meet the standards of a typical Harvard course, they do serve as a crash course on how to recognize piracy scams and avoid them in the future. That’s worth something too.

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SolidEnergy’s batteries could make smartphones thinner (or longer lasting) in 2017

Most existing smartphones use Lithium Ion batteries… which are based on battery technology that hasn’t really changed much in recent years. So while phone makers try to improve battery life by choosing energy efficient components, the best way to make a phone last longer is to use a bigger battery.

But starting in 2017, there may be another way. That’s when SolidEnergy plans to begin shipping a new type of battery that offers twice the energy-density of a typical Lithium Ion battery.

Continue reading SolidEnergy’s batteries could make smartphones thinner (or longer lasting) in 2017 at Liliputing.

But starting in 2017, there may be another way. That’s when SolidEnergy plans to begin shipping a new type of battery that offers twice the energy-density of a typical Lithium Ion battery.

Continue reading SolidEnergy’s batteries could make smartphones thinner (or longer lasting) in 2017 at Liliputing.

What is all that stuff? A closer look at an Olympic-quality bow

A competition-grade bow has it all, from high-tech materials to simple mechanics.

A lot of us have only seen archery on episodes of Game of Thrones, or maybe we have hazy memories of a simple fiberglass bow at summer camp. If that's your picture of the technology, than a modern bow probably looks like it was dropped off by aliens.

To find out how this equipment actually functions, we took a subway ride to Gotham Archery, where Anjalie Field walked us through all the moving (and, hopefully, stationary) parts of a bow that's fit for competitive archery. Field got hooked on the sport while young, and she loved it so much that when she ended up at a college without an archery team, she founded one.

Field explained that there are two classes of bows. The string on a compound bow is threaded through a series of pulleys. These pulleys rotate off-center as the string is drawn back, changing the forces involved. Typically, this means that the initial draw requires considerable force, but once it's fully drawn, less effort is involved in holding it there.

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Early impressions: Titanfall 2 is more Titanfall than ever

New modes, new mechs, and a new grappling hook remind us why we loved the original.

Those water effects...

Back at E3, a mere ten minutes with an early version of Titanfall 2 were enough. We were convinced that the grappling hook was a welcome addition that already felt like an integral part of Titanfall's rocket-pack-parkour-meets-mechs shooting action. Now, we've had a chance to put a few more hours into a "pre-alpha" version of the game during early access to this weekend's "technical test" on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One (which is available to the public starting today, running again August 26 through 28).

With the benefit of more time, we can confirm that the grappling hook changes the Titanfall formula for the better. Double jumps and zippy wall running are still nice, but they're not always a feasible way to gain the height you need to clamber on to an enemy mech or gain an advantageous shooting position. The grappling hook is often just a simpler way to scale a multi-story vertical wall or gain a little speed boost while trying desperately to dash to a far off objective (or even to rocket forward toward an unsuspecting enemy to score a quick jump-kick kill).

The hook is so useful that we found ourselves cursing its limitations—after a couple of uses in short succession, you have to wait a few seconds for the hook to recharge. This is a necessary limitation to stop players from simply grappling around the map with nonstop abandon, but... actually, that nonstop abandon sounds like a lot of fun!

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Deals of the Day (8-19-2016)

UE makes some of the best bang-for-your-buck Bluetooth speakers… but they’re not always the cheapest options. Today Best Buy is offering deep discounts on two models as part of the retailer’s 50th anniversary, 50-hour sale.

This weekend you can pick up a UE Roll Bluetooth speaker for $50 or a refurbished Megaboom for $150. Or if you just want something cheap but functional, Best Buy’s house-brand Insignia speaker is just $10.

And if you’re looking for some music to listen to on your shiny new (or refurbished) speaker, Google is offering a few good albums for $0.99 each.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (8-19-2016) at Liliputing.

And if you’re looking for some music to listen to on your shiny new (or refurbished) speaker, Google is offering a few good albums for $0.99 each.

Continue reading Deals of the Day (8-19-2016) at Liliputing.

Little Nightmares angespielt: Flucht vor dem Koch des Grauens

Eine düstere Welt, Gruselelemente und ein kleines Mädchen in einem gelben Regenmantel: Das Abenteuer Little Nightmares spielt mit kindlichen Urängsten – und dem schlimmsten Koch aller Zeiten. (Gamescom 2016, Adventure)

Eine düstere Welt, Gruselelemente und ein kleines Mädchen in einem gelben Regenmantel: Das Abenteuer Little Nightmares spielt mit kindlichen Urängsten - und dem schlimmsten Koch aller Zeiten. (Gamescom 2016, Adventure)

Superbook laptop dock for smartphones raises over $2.6 million, runs out of stretch goals

The Superbook is a device that looks like a laptop, but which is really more of a portable screen, keyboard, and battery for your smartphone. Plug a phone into the Superbook and you can run your Android apps on a bigger display with a desktop-style use…

Andromium launched a Kickstarter campaign in July, hoping to raise $50,000 to take the Superbook from concept to a real product that could be shipped to customers.

Continue reading Superbook laptop dock for smartphones raises over $2.6 million, runs out of stretch goals at Liliputing.

Comcast’s $70 gigabit offer is only good in cities with Google Fiber

Comcast’s only price is $140 when it doesn’t have to compete against Google.

When Comcast launched its gigabit cable service in Atlanta and Nashville earlier this year, the company offered a $70 monthly price for customers who sign three-year contracts, half off the no-contract "every-day" price.

But when Comcast announced gigabit Internet for parts of Chicago this week, the no-contract price of $139.95 was the only one mentioned. The difference, as DSLRreports wrote today, is that there's no Google Fiber providing competition in Chicago yet. While Google Fiber has tentative plans to expand to Chicago, its $70 gigabit Internet service is already available in parts of Atlanta and Nashville.

Comcast's Chicago announcement said the company "will test promotional pricing during the trial period," but didn't name any specific offers that are better than the $140 no-contract price. When contacted by Ars, a Comcast spokesperson said there is "nothing to announce at this time." The Chicago service may also come with a 1TB monthly data cap, as Comcast has previously only provided unlimited data to gigabit customers who sign a three-year contract. Otherwise, unlimited data costs $50 a month extra.

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Pixpocket: So hätte die NSA VPNs ausspionieren können

Der Shadow-Brokers-Datensatz liefert möglicherweise Informationen darüber, wie die NSA in der Lage war, VPN-Verbindungen abzuhören. Die Schwachstelle hat Ähnlichkeiten mit Heartbleed. (VPN, Cisco)

Vorratsdaten: Innenminister der Union fordern sechsmonatige Speicherfrist

Kaum eine Woche vergeht, in der nicht die Ausweitung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung gefordert wird. Dieses Mal haben die Innenminister von CDU und CSU ihren Wunschzettel vorgelegt. (Störerhaftung, Instant Messenger)