Topic: EU - on June 14, 2016 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
This is how the EU's supreme court is stripping EU citizens of copyright protections
An upcoming EU court decision could strip half a billion EU citizens of their copyright protection, and all because of an accidental translation error. In practice, it means that a link to your stolen family photos (which would never happen because the cloud is so secure, right?) would be free to circulate and there’s nothing an EU citizen could do to have the link taken down. The story has a surreal quality, as international experts can't understand how the EU's highest court is talking itself out of the international copyright system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 14, 2016 at 5:34:00 PM CEST
The world’s oldest computer is still revealing its secrets
Item 15087 wasn't much to look at, particularly compared to other wonders uncovered from the shipwreck at Antikythera, Greece, in 1901. The underwater excavation revealed gorgeous bronze sculptures, ropes of decadent jewelry and a treasure trove of antique coins. Amid all that splendor, who could have guessed that a shoebox-size mangled bronze machine, its inscriptions barely legible, its gears calcified and corroded, would be the discovery that could captivate scientists for more than a century?
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Topic: WEB - on June 14, 2016 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 14, 2016 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Olympic threats designed to trick you
Are you planning to visit Brazil during the Olympic Games? Or watch it online? In this blog post we discuss the threats to visitors aiming to travel to Brazil to watch the games and to those planning to watch it online. In the first part we’ll talk about phishing attacks, including one against the organizers of the Games; in the second we highlight WiFi security and the results of the wardriving we did on the streets of Rio, visiting the same places as tourists and the athletes. In the third and final part we touch upon physical security that involves the usage of USB charging spots at airports, the problem of credit card cloning and ATM skimmers that will directly affect visitors to this summer’s Olympic Games in Rio.
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Topic: IoT - on June 14, 2016 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Raspberry Pi maker Premier Farnell to be sold to Datwyler Technical Components in £792m deal
Shares in Premier Farnell, the company behind the Raspberry Pi, a credit card-sized single-board computer, have surged by 50 per cent after the group revealed it has agreed a takeover deal with a subsidiary of Swiss manufacturer Datwyler. Bidco has offered 165p per share in cash, which values Premier Farnell at around £615m, and represents a premium of around 51 per cent to the company's closing price of 109.3p yesterday. The deal has an enterprise value of around £792m.
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Topic: Appelbaum - on June 14, 2016 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
The Weaponising Of Social Part 1: The Crucifixion of IOError
Thanks to a small group of supposed anonymity-protecting privacy activists thousands of people now know the name of Jacob Appelbaum’s fiancée`. Even those that didn’t want to. We found it out by reading an extremely controversial website launched a week ago, that had a few sparse accounts of some nasty sounding happenings allegedly involving Jacob, with promises of more to come.
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Topic: SECURITY - on June 14, 2016 at 10:54:00 AM CEST
Police informant hacks into online communications of hundreds of individuals
The correspondence between the informant and two detectives indicates engagement in unlawful invasion into private communications of police suspects. Initially, the police found no irregularities, but later reported one of the detectives to the Prosecutor’s Office.
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Topic: logisch - on June 14, 2016 at 10:53:00 AM CEST
What Happens If GPS Fails?
Despite massive reliance on the system’s clocks, there’s still no longterm backup. In only took thirteen millionths of a second to cause a whole lot of problems. Last January, as the U.S. Air Force was taking one satellite in the country’s constellation of GPS satellites offline, an incorrect time was accidentally uploaded to several others, making them out of sync by less time than it takes for the sound of a gunshot to leave the chamber.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on June 14, 2016 at 12:39:00 AM CEST
Salzburger Museum widmet sich der Kulturgeschichte des Klos
Töpfchen, Abort, Latrine, Toilette, Klosett, WC, Lokus oder Häusl - für das „stille Örtchen“ gibt es viele Begriffe. Eine Sonderausstellung der Walser Bachschmiede in Salzburg widmet sich derzeit der Kulturgeschichte des Klos.
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Topic: War and Peace - on June 13, 2016 at 6:17:00 PM CEST
Gun Industry Describes Mass Shootings Like Orlando as a “Big Opportunity”
In recent corporate presentations, leading gun makers celebrated the fact that consumers bought more firearms because of the December terrorist attack in San Bernardino. And, prior to the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando on Saturday night, executives were telling investors to expect another big bump — because of the upcoming elections.
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Topic: EU - on June 13, 2016 at 5:55:00 PM CEST
Anti-Terror-Gesetz in Polen: Abschalten, Überwachen, Zensieren
In Polen gab es in den letzten 70 Jahren keinen nennenswerten Terroranschlag. Dennoch ist Polen jetzt die erste Demokratie, die eine gezielte Abschaltung der Telekommunikation durch die Polizei möglich macht. Diese Maßnahme ist nur ein Punkt einer umfassenden Anti-Terror-Gesetzgebung.
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Topic: WEB - on June 13, 2016 at 5:54:00 PM CEST
US-Regierung mischt sich in Schrems-Prozess zu Facebook und NSA ein
Will vor dem irischen High Court aussagen, die Befragung wäre unter Eid – Schrems: "Einmalige Chance" Die US-Regierung will sich offenbar vor einem europäischen Gericht zur Massenüberwachung durch ihre Geheimdienste äußern. Dabei geht es um jenen Prozess gegen Facebook, den der österreichische Jurist Max Schrems initiiert hatte. Die US-Regierung beantragte, vor dem irischen High Court als sogenannter "amicus curiae" aufzutreten.
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