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Germany ID: Verimi and Fraunhofer want to develop a joint login service

A new alliance is preparing to stir up the market for login services with a master key for many web services. Verimi has teamed up with the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC). Both want to combine their concepts submitted for the “Secure Digital Identities” competition of the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi) into a “Germany ID” (DeID). The aim is to develop a uniform standard for secure digital identities in Germany and Europe and to stand up to the data-hungry ID services from Facebook and Google, for example.

The partners want to advance the project as part of the BMWi’s innovation competition Showcase Secure Digital Identities (SDI). Verimi is supported by companies such as the Allianz Insurance Group, Axel Springer, Bundesdruckerei, Daimler, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom and Lufthansa and has previously led the “People-ID” consortium at SDI. The AISEC, which 2019 started the open source service Re: claimID, was previously represented there with “SDIinNRW”.

More than “single sign-on” Under the umbrella of DeID, around 35 partners from research, Economy and public administration at BMWi for the planned three-year implementation phase. In addition to the cities of Bochum and Bonn and the companies Governikus, Procilon and the Sparkasse finance portal, according to Verimi, this also includes 1 & 1 Mail & Media GmbH, which belongs to United Internet and operates the webmail services GMX and Web.de. The parent company is also involved in the local Verimi alternative NetID, for example with the TV stations ProSiebenSat.1 and RTL. Axel Springer announced in April that it would be represented in both German login alliances in the future.

In addition to a “single sign-on” service, So that users do not have to constantly create new accounts with associated passwords, DeID is intended to bring together numerous locally, distributed and centrally aligned identity solutions for everyday-relevant applications in many sectors across different levels of trust. Initially, pilot projects are planned in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse, for example with administrative services, the e-prescription as well as with banks and insurance companies (account opening).

According to AISEC expert Marian Margraf, the main challenge at DeID is this to establish an ecosystem for electronic identification (eID). This must meet “high security requirements” and still be easy to use by all citizens and also with a smartphone. To do this, it is necessary to take into account the security functions of various current mobile devices and to integrate data protection in a transparent and easily traceable manner.

Uniform standards for the overarching acceptance of digital identities are required by all application partners from business and industry the public sector, says Verimi Managing Director Roland Adrian for the project. A broad acceptance for an online ID card is also “the urgently needed catalyst for digitization in Germany”. According to observers, German login services have so far not been able to make up much ground in competition with their competitors from Silicon Valley. The SDI jury is expected to decide on the award of state funding by mid-December.

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Home office, Corona and US election: record data throughput at DE-CIX

The Frankfurt Internet hub DE-CIX recorded a record data throughput on Tuesday evening. Shortly after eight o’clock in the evening the value rose to 10 Tbit / s for the first time. In addition, the group reported further top values at the locations New York, Madrid, Marseille, Istanbul and Dubai.

This is not the first record that the operator of the Internet node was able to announce this year. In March, at the beginning of the corona pandemic, the data throughput in Frankfurt rose to 9 Tbit / s for the first time. According to DE-CIX, the pandemic and the associated home office for many workers in particular lead to high demand on the Internet.

Compared to the previous year, the value rose by around 40 Percent: In November 2019 this was still around 7.1 Tbit / s. According to DE-CIX, such high increases are unusual, the data throughput usually grows at around 10 percent annually.

US -Voice, video streams and gaming In addition to the high number of people in the home office, the US election currently also contributes to the high data throughput. In addition, the demand for entertainment on the Internet continued to grow, with video streams and computer games being primarily responsible here. For example, the value of 10 Tbit / s corresponds to the simultaneous playback of over 2.2 million HD videos.

Dr. Thomas King, CTO of DE-CIX emphasized that the Internet can deliver such high data rates and is stable. Now it is a matter of further increasing the quality of the data transmission.

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Spotify will work on the Apple Watch without the need for an iPhone connected to it

by Jordi Bercial 3 hours ago …

The application of Spotify for the Apple Watch is beginning to receive the option to receive music or podcasts without having to connect to an iPhone , as long as we have a version of the Apple Watch that has Internet connectivity, either by WiFi or by mobile data, so that for now we will not be able to listen to music without connection through the download function.

As we can see in 9to5Mac, there are several users around the world who have begun to see this possibility in their watches , although as it seems to be a staggered launch, This possibility is not yet available in all watches, so if we cannot see it in our unit, we will simply have to wait a while longer.

Be that as it may, Spotify has confirmed to Engadget that this launch is part of the company’s approach to developing experiences that allow users to listen to Spotify wherever and whenever, regardless of the device from which they do it , so it is possible that eventually the option to listen to music offline appears in the application.

To be able to opt for this option, we will only have to update the application to the latest version and wait for it to activate if it does not immediately.

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Jordi Bercial

Avid enthusiast of technology and electronics. I messed around with computer components almost since I learned to ride. I started working at Geeknetic after winning a contest on their forum for writing hardware articles. Drift, mechanics and photography lover. Don’t be shy and leave a comment on my articles if you have any questions.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti – new information about the card specification

There is new information on the internet about the NVIDIA GeForce RTX graphics card 3080 Ti, which has been around for several weeks. The new card is to be a direct response to the most powerful, competitive AMD Radeon RX chips 6000, but we still do not know when GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be available for sale. According to the new information, the mentioned card from NVIDIA will have the same core as the GeForce RTX 3090. So I’m talking about the Ampere GA 102 with 10496 CUDA cores. The difference, however, will be in the amount of memory and bus, and thus in the amount of bandwidth. Unfortunately, along with the information about GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, there was also a report about GeForce RTX 3070 Ti whose version with GA core 102 has been quietly canceled by the manufacturer.

According to the latest reports, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be equipped with GA core 102 with 10496 CUDA cores and 20 GB of memory GDDR6X on 320 – bit bus.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, according to the latest reports, will be equipped with 20 GB of GDDR6X VRAM on the bus 320 – bitwise. These will be memory timing identical to the GeForce RTX 3080, and therefore effective 19 000 MHz, which will translate into 760 GB / s. TGP will also remain at the same level as RTX 3080. So it will be 320 W. Looking at the specification, we can get the impression that the differences between RTX 3080 Ti a RTX 3090 will be very small, however the upcoming RTX 3080 The Ti should be noticeably cheaper as long as the availability of the new Ampere chips improves, of course.

RTX 3080 Ti FE:

PG 133 – SKU 15,

GA 102 – 250 – KD-A1,

20 GB GD6X,

the same FP 32 count as 3090, 10496 FP 32,

the same MEM speed and TGP as 3080,

no NVLINK.

– kopite7kimi4virgil (@kopit e7kimi) November 4, 2020

There is also new information about the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. It seems that for now the manufacturer has completely abandoned the GPU project, which was supposed to be based on the GA core 102 with 7424 CUDA cores and 10 GB of GDDR6X VRAM. Therefore, we expect only the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti as a cheaper alternative and the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, for those who need very high performance in 4K but with a lower price compared to RTX 3090.

Source: VideoCardz, Twitter kopite7kimi

BlitzWolf BW-VP6 projector test – Native Full HD at a low price

Most of PurePC’s readers are computer enthusiasts. However, even the most die-hard PC fans will realize that the monitor screen is not suitable for everything. Watching a football match, an e-sports tournament or a party playing with several people on the pads are just a few of the situations where it is worth having a larger screen. The question is whether such occasional events are worth buying and keeping a TV at home? Especially if someone doesn’t watch TV at all? In addition, many people live in small studios, rent a flat or simply travel a lot. The golden mean may turn out to be a projector, which is small in itself, but offers a picture with a diagonal larger than many TV sets. Today we will check a cheap offer straight from China in the form of the BlitzWolf BW-VP6 model, which tempts with native Full HD resolution for a few hundred zlotys!

Author: Przemysław Banasiak

The name BlitzWolf is surely known to fans of shopping in the Middle Kingdom. This brand belongs to the Chinese sales platform Banggood, although it is also available on Aliexpress, Amazon or through intermediaries on the native Allegro. The Chinese offer a lot of consumer electronics. From chargers, through cables, powerbanks, headphones, bluetooth speakers, soundbars, lamps, smart home elements, selfists, projectors and many other devices. Today we will focus on the last of the mentioned groups, i.e. projectors. More precisely, on the relatively fresh BlitzWolf BW-VP6 model, which offers, among other things, native resolution 1356 x 1080 pixels, two built-in speakers, keystone adjustment or the ability to play materials straight from a pendrive. All this at a really attractive price for Polish conditions of about 745 PLN.

BlitzWolf BW-VP6 is one of the cheapest available on the market Full HD projectors additionally equipped with built-in speakers.

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BlitzWolf BW-BS Test 14 – Cheap and good stabilizer image

BlitzWolf BW-VP6 is a device with dimensions 300 x 130 x 225 (width x height x depth) millimeters and weighs about 2.8 kilograms. We are talking about a projector using LCD technology and a LED lamp, the life of which is declared on 40 000 hours. As I mentioned earlier, we’re talking about native Full HD resolution, and we can choose the projection size from 53 to 200 inches (projector-plane distance from 1.2 to 5 meters) in aspect ratio 16: 9. As for the other parameters, the contrast is 2000: 1, and the manufacturer promises a brightness level of 500 ANSI or 6000 Lumens. The built-in speakers are 5W each.

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The projector comes packed like other devices of this brand, so we are talking about a white and green, simple cardboard with a plastic handle for easy carrying. Apart from the name of the manufacturer and model, we will find nothing else here – no photos of the product, no specifications Neither in Chinese, nor in English, and even less in Polish. Inside, the projector is secured with foam moldings and a foil bag, and apart from that, you will find instructions (in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish), two string bags and a black one. They hide all the necessary cabling: power cord, HDMI, V GA (D-Sub) and RCA – Jack 3.5 mm. The icing on the cake is of course a small, light but solid remote control. It requires two AAA batteries, which are not included in the set.

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The projector comes with a full set of necessary cables and a small, handy remote control.

BlitzWolf BW-VP6 makes a good first impression The design of the housing, the fitting of the elements and the materials used are exemplary. Nothing smells “Chinese”. If the housing was printed with the name of a more reputable, recognizable brand in Europe / Poland, probably no one would know. The projector is almost entirely white, with black and gray accents. The plastic surface is slightly rough, and on the bottom there are four rubber, twisted legs (you can replace them on your own for other – the thread is universal). The control buttons are located on the top of the device and refer to the navigation arrows, the Menu key, OK and Back. The switch is located on the back of the device, just below the I / O panel. The aforementioned matt black remote control offers some more functions. There are also the buttons listed here (including Power), and apart from them, the Mute, Settings, Source selection, Volume up / Quieter, Home buttons are mentioned.

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The set of connectors offered by the Chinese projector are two HDMI 1.4, one VGA (D-SUB), two USB 2.0, headphone jack and AV All of them are located on the panel on the back of the unit, including the place for the power cord. Next to it is a sponge filter hole through which air is sucked in to cool the inside of the projector. The exhaust hole is on the left side, closer to the front. based on an aluminum, richly ribbed heatsink (about 80 x 80 millimeters) through which four 6-millimeter copper heat pipes pass. The whole is complemented by two unspecified fans – one standard, 90 – millimeter thick 25 millimeters and the second slightly more massive because 93 – millimeter thick 30 millimeters.

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Although the producer declares that files in the .mkv format are supported, in our case attempts to play such films have been unsuccessful.

Image with BlitzWolf BW-VP6 can be displayed in two ways: either by connecting the projector to an external device such as a PC, laptop, smartphone or home theater, or directly from a pendrive. In the second case, the producer says that video materials in AVI, MKV, MP4 format are supported , MOV, MPG, TS, TP, M2TS, DAT, FLV, SWF, ASF, VOB, RM, RMVB, 3GP; audio in MP3, ASF, WMA, AAC, OGG format and JPG, BMP and PNG images. music and photos wasn’t really a problem, yes the projector has not played any of my .mkv files. Regardless of their weight, resolution or codecs used. Each time it returned information about an unsupported format. However, files with the AVI, MP4, FLV or RMVB extension could be played without any problems, just like materials from a computer – even if broadcasted in resolution 1920 x 1200 instead of native 1920 x 1080 pixels.

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And what is the quality of the BlitzWolf BW-VP6 I did not expect much from the equipment at this price and straight from China – just a projector to watch with juice of a match or home tournament in Tekkena, but the image allows for much more, it is sharp, bright, and the colors are good, although not perfect (the biggest distortions are seen in green). It is nice to watch films thrown against a plain white wall both at night and during the day, although in the latter case it is better to cover the windows if there is sunny and we lose a lot of details in bright scenes. Built-in speakers are also good for them – audiophiles or owners of good audio equipment will immediately hear that “it could be better”. However, if someone has only a laptop or typical, plastic “farts” for a PC for <100 zlotys, the projector will be better here.

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Same shot – on the top from the projector, on the bottom screenshot from the computer. The difference in colors is clear, but the camera also plays its own. Nevertheless, you can see that the BlitzWolf BW-VP6 has a problem with green and yellow on the factory settings.

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The keystone function may be beneficial in small Thanks to it, the projector does not have to stand in front of the wall / screen.

Of course, it is possible and very easy to adjust the sharpness of the image. We do it manually by turning the lens on What’s more, BlitzWolf BW-VP6 has a built-in, retractable stand that allows you to tilt the device, and in addition, the options include keystone adjustment and the ability to change the image size (from 75% to 100%, in increments of 1%). But let’s focus on the keystone function – what does it do? Simply put, it allows the projector not to stand in front of the wall or screen onto which the image is to be projected. The device can simply be attached to the ceiling or placed somewhere to the side at an angle. Still, the image will not be “crooked” (trapezoidal), but will keep the proportions of a rectangle.

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EIZO test board in the middle of the night at the top, PurePC home page at the bottom about an hour 16: 00 on a cloudy afternoon with the windows open in the room.

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Okay, does BlitzWolf BW-VP6 have any disadvantages? Of course – at this price it could not be perfect. The biggest drawback is, in my opinion, the working culture of the device. While watching the movie, you can still hear the clear noise of the fans. The average volume is about , 7 dB (A) We performed the measurement on our own using a Benetech GM decibelometer 1356 with an accuracy of +/- 1.5 dB (class 2), in a soundproofed room, without reflection of sound waves hey. This value already audibly stands out beyond the background at home or the watched movie (on the low-medium volume of the built-in speakers). The culprit is probably just cheap Chinese fans because the heat sink is really well made. I suspect replacing them with something brand name will solve the problem. Another disadvantage is the fact that while BlitzWolf BW-VP6 allows you to browse the Internet without any problems, smaller fonts (especially black on a white background) can hardly be called readable from a distance of about 2.5 meters. In my case, the text size is only from 16 upwards provided a comfortable reading of articles and comments available on PurePC.

The average volume of the BlitzWolf BW-VP6 cooling system during operation is approximately 43, 7 dB (A). That’s a lot and the air noise is clearly audible.

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At the end, there is one more issue that should be mentioned: If someone does not know the English language, and is also “less technical”, at the beginning he may have a problem with connecting and operating BlitzWolf BW-VP6. the included manual is devoid of Polish, and while you can choose one in the device menu, it lacks Polish characters, in general the quality of the translation is worse than Google Translate, and yet some words are still in English. beginning to end of English. Younger speakers will have no problem with it, and if you plan buying a projector for parents or grandparents is simply to “train” them. The actual installation and use of the BlitzWolf BW-VP6 is simple. Connect the power cord, connect the selected video cord and turn on the projector. Then we use a small remote that has only a few buttons and all of them use the universal markings known from TV remote controls.

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To sum up, BlitzWolf BW-VP6 is a solidly made projector that offers Full HD resolution at a low price. The quality and brightness of the image is good, the quality and volume of the sound from the built-in speakers is satisfactory, and in the box we will find everything we need to connect devices for a computer, laptop or home theater. Both the older standard VGA (D-SUB), RCA and newer HDMI. The projector is pleasant to use without dedicated screens, simply by displaying a game or movie on a white wall. for this broke not a darkened room. The biggest disadvantage of BlitzWolf BW-VP6 is the work culture – the fans in the cooling system are quite loud and can be heard while playing or watching, although they do not drown out the sounds from the game / movie. The quality (or lack thereof) of translating the menu from English into Polish also leaves a lot to be desired. Even Google Translate would do better with it.

BlitzWolf BW-VP6 is a solidly made projector that offers Full HD resolution at a low price. The image quality and brightness is really good, as is the sound quality and volume from the built-in speakers.

“src =” http://www.purepc.pl/image/mini_recenzja/2020 / 10 / 29 _ project_projector_blitzwolf_bw_vp6_natyw_full_hd_w_niskiej_cenie_5.jpg “> How much is BlitzWolf BW-VP6? On the Chinese sales platform Banggood, to which the BlitzWolf brand belongs, this is approximately 749 PLN with courier shipping from the Czech Republic included, so the equipment will be with us within 2 to 5 working days.For PurePC readers we have special code BGPUREPCVP6 (number of uses limited), which reduces the price by approximately 665 PLN For this price you will not get anything better in Poland on the primary market. The cheapest branded equipment with similar parameters, c zyli Philips NPX 640 NeoPix Ultra, is an expense from 1299 zlotys upwards. If you already find a projector cheaper, at best with native resolution 720 p, instead of 1080 pi without built-in speakers. Thus, there is nothing else for us to do but award BlitzWolf BW-VP6 with “Profitability!” and “We recommend!”.

BlitzWolf BW-VP6

Price: 745 PLN

Complete wiring kit included
Full HD Native Resolution

Built-in speakers (2x 5 W)

Exemplary Workmanship
Good Image Quality
Keystone function
Low price

Work culture could be better
Low level of menu translation
Cannot play .mkv files from pendrive

The equipment for testing was provided by the company:

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Turkey imposes fines on Facebook, Twitter and Co.

After the entry into force of a new law for stricter regulation of social media in Turkey, measures have been initiated against providers such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube and TikTok, according to official information. A fine of 10 million Turkish lira (about one million euros) was imposed on the platforms, said the deputy minister for transport and infrastructure, Ömer Fatih Sayan, on Twitter on Wednesday With. The reason for the punishment is that no local representatives for Turkey have been appointed within the given period. The providers could not initially be reached for confirmation.

The Turkish parliament passed a law in July that makes social media more strictly controlled . Providers with more than a million Turkish users per day must open branches in Turkey with a Turkish citizen as their representative. Representation by a legal person is also possible. If no representative is registered, penalties are imposed. In addition to the imposition of fines, pages can be rendered virtually unusable. The law also obliges platforms to respond to requests to delete or block certain content within 48 hours.

Turkish media are for the most part under direct or indirect control of the government, and control over content on the Internet has been strengthened again and again. Ankara regularly takes action against users for content on the Internet that is critical of the government.

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heise offer: Mac & i extra: 13 workshops on SEO, social media, WordPress tuning and more

One day before sales start in stores, there are Mac & i extra workshops winter 2020 / 2021 in the Heise Shop – either on paper or as PDF.

In 12 workshops, professionals show how it’s done: Learn from Best-selling author Cay Rademacher on how to write a good crime novel. Let the SEO expert Niels Dahnke reveal to you what you have to do to make a website move up in the Google search hits. Read Alexandra-Katharina Kütemeyer’s tips on how to gain followers on Facebook, Instagram & Co and set up successful campaigns.

Monika Gause, lecturer for image processing and computer graphics, using the example of logos and business cards, explains what is important when designing with Affinity Designer. The photographer Markus Linden describes how you can manage and improve your image collection with Luminar 4 and the architect Daniel Busch uses a cute wooden baby cradle to demonstrate that you can even use a free program like Autodesk’s Fusion 360 can model professional 3D workpieces. The font expert Antje Dohmann gives tips for the skilful use of typography, the website professional Daniel Berger makes WordPress users advanced and Richard Kurz helps with tinkering with microcontrollers.

Dr. Raimar Heber, Art Director at the German Press Agency, gives an insight into what makes good infographics. Michael Malzahn, who specializes in professional information management, shows how to set up a paperless office with the Mac program Devonthink.

A first look at Mac & i extra workshops (12 pictures) Three makers from the film industry – Udo Flohr, director, Patrick Jacobshagen, executive producer, and Sven Pape, cutter in Hollywood – describe how to make your own Feature film produced. Last but not least, you will learn from Xojo Evangelist Ulrich Boguhn how to write a cross-platform app.

Most of the programs used in the articles are free or very cheap to get and run under macOS as under Windows.

Mac & i extra workshops comes to well-stocked newsagents on November 5th. Mac & i subscribers have already received it.

You can now read the booklet in your browser, as a PDF or prepared for reading on iPhone and iPad, Android devices and Kindle Fire in the Purchase Mac & i apps. Plus subscribers have access to the paper and digital edition, which is enriched with bonus material, interactive reading mode and search function.

The very successful last edition is out of print on paper, but is still available as a PDF. In Mac & i workshops 2019 bestselling author Andreas Eschbach reveals how to write a novel. A rheology professional shows what makes a good presentation. It is also about vlogging on Youtube, blogging with WordPress, teamwork on the internet, project management, DTP and layout, slide shows with iMovie, creating your own grooves with Ableton Live, 3D modeling with Blender, programming games in Unity and editing images Affinity Photo.

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Cancellation of IPO puts Alibaba and its Ant Group in a skid

After the planned record IPO of the Ant Group was canceled at short notice, the Chinese financial giant and its parent company Alibaba are under pressure. After a decline of around eight percent on the New York stock market, the share of the largest online trading company Alibaba continued on Wednesday in Hong Kong with a minus of more than seven percent. The company owns a third of the Ant Group, whose IPO in Shanghai and Hong Kong surprisingly failed the day before.

Within just a decade, Ant Group has become the largest fintech company in the world with the mobile payment service Alipay, which is popular in China. It also offers loans, insurance, and asset management online today. Alipay shares the mobile payment market in China with the competition from Wechat-Pay from the Chinese Internet company Tencent. In China today, people usually only pay with their mobile phones in shops by scanning a code.

Ant Group apologized to the investors who were actually with them this Thursday expected the biggest IPO of all time. The Shanghai Stock Exchange justified the cancellation of the Ant Group IPO the day before with the fact that the “regulatory environment” had changed. This could mean that Ant Group could not meet the IPO and disclosure requirements.

The debut should actually 34, 5 billion US dollars, about 29, 2 billion euros, and the largest initial public offering of Saudi Aramco to date of 29 dwarfing billions of dollars in December. The Ant Group would have been valued at more than 300 billion dollars – more than the US bank JP-Morgan Chase & Co or four times more than the investment house Goldman Sachs .

crackdown on Ant Group The supervisory authorities, however, abruptly and surprisingly cracked down on the Ant Group, which was after Experts estimate that a general overhaul could be imminent. Sean Darby from the US investment bank Jefferies saw a targeted step: “It has happened before when companies seem to have become too big for the government for the taste of the authorities,” Darby told the finance agency Bloomberg .

The government tightened the screws over the weekend with deliberations of the Finance Committee led by Deputy Prime Minister Liu He. New plans for restrictions on online lending were presented on Monday, which are likely to severely affect the Ant Group’s business. According to this, such companies must in future 30 finance themselves percent of the loans that are granted together with banks. At the Ant Group, however, it is only two percent, as the Chinese business magazine Caixin reported. With a share of 39, 4 percent in the first half of the year, the lending business was already larger than the payment service Alipay, which 35, 9 percent of the revenue.

The action of the authorities is aimed at the credit platform, through the Ant Group loans from banks and other financial institutions to millions of consumers brings. Banking and insurance regulators want to dissuade lenders from using the fintech giant’s hub, reported Bloomberg . Some of them have already been asked to adhere to the drafts announced Monday for the future restrictions, the agency quoted informed people who wanted to remain anonymous.

Jack Ma in the regulators’ field of vision On Monday, Alibaba founder Jack Ma and other company executives were also summoned by China’s central bank and the banking and securities regulator. Because of the extraordinary procedure, it was speculated that the billionaire Ma might have drawn the wrath of the regulatory authorities.

A speech by China’s second richest man two weeks ago should not have been well received, it said . The Alibaba founder, who is otherwise always loyal to the Communist Party, had sharply criticized local and global regulatory authorities. “Good innovation is not afraid of regulation, but it is afraid of outdated regulations,” Ma was quoted as saying. The future should not be regulated “with yesterday’s methods”. (olb)

Emergency patches: Critical gaps in Adobe Acrobat and Reader closed

The macOS and Windows versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader are vulnerable. After successful attacks, attackers could execute their own code with the rights of the victim. Three of the twelve gaps were classified twelve with the threat level ” critical “. Security updates are available for download.

How attacks could take place in detail , Adobe does not elaborate in a warning message. In the case of a critical classification, however, one can assume that attacks are possible directly via the Internet and without authentication. If you use the PDF applications, you should bring them up to date quickly.

The macOS and Windows editions Acrobat DC and Reader DC are covered. . 013. 20064 , Acrobat 2020 and Acrobat Reader 2020. 001. 30010 and Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat Reader 2017 2017. 011. 30180 . According to Adobe, all previous versions are vulnerable.

Dangerous effects In addition to executing malicious code, Attackers still leak information and acquire higher user rights.

Adobe normally only publishes security updates once a month. These are emergency patches.

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Internet Governance Forum: Access, data protection and user rights in corona times

In keeping with the current corona pandemic, the 15. Internet Governance Forum (IGF) of the United Nations given the title “Internet as a means of human resilience and solidarity”. The first preliminary debates in phase I have been running since Monday. The official program of the 9th to 17. November’s Phase II event has the motto “Internet Governance in Times of Uncertainty”. Relocated to the network from the southern Polish city of Katowice – hence virtual IGF (vIGF) – the organizers expect about 4000 to 5000 Participants in more than 250 individual events.

Covid – 19 has shaped this year’s IGF program of the mega-conference, not just because of the little surprising decision to move the event completely online. More than two dozen roundtables specifically address the importance of network communication under the conditions of the pandemic. Does inequality intensify in times of stay-home due to a lack of or inadequate infrastructure? What are the disadvantages for students from households without access or hardware? What is the situation in the host country Poland?

Urgent: data protection in times of the pandemic In addition to the enormous spotlight that the pandemic has thrown on the problem that almost 50 percent of the world’s population without network access is, as Vinton Cerf, the “father of the Internet”, said on Tuesday, numerous events also look at the question of whether data protection can take a back seat in times of the health crisis.

The European Fundamental Rights Agency (EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, FRA) takes a close look at the topic of health data and AI on the occasion of the pandemic and the corona apps that have grown out of it. If you want, you can also attend the Chinese event on the same topic. With the connection of health data and AI, the FRA bridges the gap to the second major topic of many workshops: How should companies and governments regulate Artificial Intelligence (AI)?

The importance of standard setting in the fully automated world is also important Host, UN Secretary General António Guterres recognized. In his “Roadmap for Digital Cooperation”, which was completed in the summer, the topic of AI is high up. Apart from political initiatives for more access to the networks, to the corresponding know-how and the appointment of a “Tech Envoy” of the United Nations 2021, the appointment stands of an international committee of experts on the subject of AI as a concrete measure in the timetable.

Role of the UN and the IGF With his digital roadmap and the future Tech Envoy, Guterres has underpinned his intention to turn the United Nations into a platform for international digital politics. How difficult this is is shown by the highly controversial topic of cybersecurity, on which Guterres cautiously writes of further exploration of the member states in the direction of “common formulations”.

Especially in the area of cybersecurity, the “multi-stakeholder- Chaos “made good suggestions and at the same time provided an example of how a multi-stakeholder IGF can have an impact. The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC), which is active at the IGF, has developed a number of standards in broad consultations, including those for the protection of the network’s core infrastructures. The latter was taken up by the European Parliament last year and included in the EU’s cybersecurity directive.

In addition, core area protection is now covered by 75 States of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on cybersecurity of the UN support, said the Dutch government representative Nathalie Jaarsma, Ambassador At-Large for security policy and cyber, at one of the first IGF previous events.

A bit of grassroots in the UN? Wolfgang Kleinwächter, international lawyer, hopes for even more interlinking between the forum, which has previously been decried as a chat room , Member of the GCSC and German internet governance expert, on the upcoming reform of the IGF. In his timetable, Guterres gave the green light to expand the IGF to become IGF +. This development is also the topic of the upcoming IGF, which will be on 25. November treats another two-hour session for the completely open discussion with the potentially several thousand participants.

Kleinwächter sees a few good ideas for the IGF + coming from Germany. The more active participation of parliamentarians, which was started at the IGF 250 in Berlin, makes a lot of sense, he says, because more and more laws are being passed nationally, affecting the development and use of the Internet as a whole. The meeting will be repeated this year. In addition, in a paper that Berlin and the United Arab Emirates have just handed over to Guterres, there are further proposals on how national IGFs can work together with the large IGF and the IGF with the UN bodies and other standard-setting bodies, says Kleinwächter. Realpolitik With all the confidence of the IGF optimists, the great gap between the UN, IGF and Not to forget diplomacy on the one hand and realpolitik on the other. This is highlighted by a panel at the vIGF 2020 on the encryption of the Internet Society. The organization, together with the Global Encryption Coalition, warns of ongoing legislative initiatives worldwide that want to force access to encrypted communications for law enforcement. The contradiction between duplicating keys and unsafe front doors will be explained again to politicians and other IGF participants in the course of the week of the event.

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Best tablet for kids 2020: Hardy devices for young people to enjoy

(Pocket-lint) – Once your kids get their hands on a tablet, in some ways there’s no coming back. The allure of apps, videos, games and distractions of all sorts is significant and can be a hugely useful way to buy yourself some peace and quiet, especially if you’re working from home.

Of course, there’s much more to it than that – you can also use tablets as amazing educational tools, and as ways to connect to your kids over shared activities.

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The good news is that you also don’t necessarily need to hand your kid a top-of-the-line iPad Pro to get them going. There are myriad tablets on the market that are way more affordable, and in many cases they’re built expressly with kids in mind. We’ve looked at all of the best options for you, and listed them below.

Or check out our guide to kids’ laptops

Our pick of the best child’s tablet to buy today

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Amazon Fire 7 Kids Edition

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Amazon’s Fire tablets are so good for children that there’s more than one on this list, but the Fire 7 takes the top spot because we think that the smallest of Amazon’s size range is the perfect one for little ones.

The Kids Edition of the tablet basically straps it into a chunky plastic case that protects it from bangs and drops, and Amazon’s so confident in its durability that it’ll replace broken tablets within a two-year warranty, free of charge. Beyond that, you get the choice of a huge range of videos, movies and games specifically approved for kids. Plus, there are really straightforward parental controls to activate.

It’s a brilliant package, so much so that you’re likely to have seen one around the world by now, clutched by a buggy-riding sprog, or in the hands of a happy kid in a living room somewhere.

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LeapFrog LeapPad 3

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You might be looking for something less tablet-y, and more educational, though — something to teach your kids, rather than become a purely escapist activity for them. LeapFrog specialises in these sorts of devices, aimed at younger kids, and the LeapPad 3 is one of its best tablets.

It’s a sturdy little device loaded with educational games and with access to hundreds more. Because it doesn’t have full web access, instead accessing a gated version, you don’t have to worry about your kids stumbling across inappropriate material, which is a real godsend. This is a great introduction to tech that won’t corrupt anyone!

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Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e

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On the other end of the scale, and for slightly older kids, if you’re after a family tablet the Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e could be a fantastic option. It’s not built for kids, but can do a great job as a multimedia centre.

Whether you want to browse the internet together, or just need a tablet to watch movies and TV together or while travelling, Samsung’s tablet is a great video player, and is lightweight and portable enough to easily fit into bags on busy trips. It’s not necessarily one to hand to a kid and leave with them unsupervised, but as a portable media centre it’s hard to beat for the price.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e review: Great for streaming and gaming

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Amazon Fire 8 HD

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If the Fire 7 tablet that we’ve picked as our top option seems a little small for your taste – or your child’s! – the next size up is a great option. You get all the same kid-friendly options, including the case and warranty, with a little more screen real-estate.

That extra inch of size also sees the display upgraded to HD quality, which in 2020 is almost a prerequisite for future-proofing. There’s almost nothing to pick between this model and the Fire 7 and the price difference isn’t much at all, so it might come to down to your favoured size.

Amazon Fire HD 8 Plus review: Wireless charging adds to the appeal

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Apple iPad mini (2019)

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We know, we know – we said we wouldn’t want to put your fancy iPads at risk. Still, though, we think the latest version of Apple’s iPad mini warrants inclusion nonetheless. Firstly, it doesn’t have to be hyper-expensive if you’re happy to have slightly less storage than you could.

But, more to the point, it’s a top-class tablet in a small body, with great power under the hood. If you put a chunky case on it to protect it from damage, you’ll have a tablet that’s great for your kids’ needs, and also useful for your own use when they’re not on it.

Apple iPad mini review (2019): Small but mighty

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Copyright reform: Altmaier mobilizes against the use of snippets of content

The Federal Ministry of Justice plans to pay an exception for minor uses of snippets of video, audio and text material on online platforms for non-commercial purposes, which is a thorn in the side of the Federal Ministry of Economics (BMWi). According to the company run by Peter Altmaier (CDU), this possibility of public reproduction of smaller parts of copyrighted works meets “considerable concerns under European law and must therefore be deleted”.

According to Paragraph 6 of the new law “on the responsibility of service providers for the sharing of online content”, planned as part of the copyright reform, up to 20 Seconds of an audio or video file, up to 1000 characters of text or pictures up to 250 Kilobytes may be used in social media without authorization from the rights holder. Such an intervention is not provided for by the new EU copyright directive, writes the BMWi in a submission to the justice department that is available online.

More effort, less benefit? According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the intended statutory “minor barrier” may also violate the user rights listed in the old copyright directive. One acknowledges the concern “not to disproportionately restrict the freedom of communication of Internet users”. The “fundamental legal tension between free online communication in the digital economy and property protection” should be resolved proportionately in the case of minor issues. However, this would have to be addressed differently than by a “formal limitation determination”.

The direct remuneration claim linked to the triviality clause is also not well received by the BMWi. “The aim of appropriately remunerating artists and creative people for their work,” is how the department welcomes. However, the chosen approach should “offer no added value in this regard”. A direct remuneration of the authors would namely not increase “the total amount to be paid for creative services”. Instead, “the effort of contract negotiations will increase”, since platforms would now have to speak to two partners.

BMWi on the line of the rights holder As part of the ongoing ministerial coordination, the BMWi is also calling for the term pastiche, which was adopted for the first time from EU regulations, to be limited: The reasons for the law state that in particular “practices such as remix, meme, GIF, mashup, Fan fiction, cover or sampling could be thought of “and all of them would be permissible. This list is assessed as “too extensive, since the rights of artists and creative people are strongly affected by a statutory limitation regulation”.

The statement is surprising, since the de minimis limit is one of the core elements around the To make the use of upload filters by platform operators unnecessary. The CDU itself had promised in a position paper last year for precisely this reason that it would rely on such an exception from the exclusive right of exploitation and that everyday use in the network would be remunerated at a flat rate. On the other hand, the criticism from the BMWi is fully in line with the rights holders from the music and film industry.

Minister of State for Culture supports Altmaier Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters largely supports the concerns of her party colleague Altmaier. The CDU politician also sees the de minimis barrier as “inadmissible” because it disregards the requirements of European law. She also pleads for the relevant paragraph to be deleted “without replacement” and for the term pastiche to be defined more narrowly: for the majority of the practices mentioned, there is “a license market that should not be undermined by a remunerated barrier”.

The planned exemptions from platform regulation, such as those for small service providers and the restricted licensing requirement, do not correspond to the outcome of the negotiations at European level, according to the government’s cultural commissioner.

Do not limit publisher participation With the no less controversial ancillary copyright law for press publishers on the Internet, which is to be expanded with the draft, Grütters welcomes the fact that the Ministry of Justice has set the limit initially I deleted eight license-free words and wanted to implement the exceptions under European law “literally”. The Christian Democrat regrets, however, that this property right and the publisher’s participation “will no longer be implemented ahead of schedule”.

Meanwhile, the BMWi continues to oppose the plan that authors will use at least a third of the revenues through a collecting society of the press publisher should be involved. This endangers the private autonomy of the parties. It should also be refrained from legally limiting the amount of the publisher’s participation to a maximum of one third.

Research clause desired The Federal Ministry of Research welcomes the draft in principle. The de minimis clause “takes into account user behavior in connection with platforms and the exercise of freedom of expression,” it writes. Legal permission for caricature, parody and pastiche is particularly important in order to strike a balance between the right to freedom of expression and the freedom of art and intellectual property. The proposed “pre-flagging procedure”, which now includes a preliminary check and, according to critics, would lead to the use of upload filters, is in principle okay.

The house of Anja Karliczek (CDU) however, a “research clause” is still missing to anchor rights of information for scientific organizations to online platforms. It is good that text and data mining are free of charge and that computer programs should be included. Overall, it is important to keep an eye on the legitimate interests of everyone, including “users, the network community, researchers and teachers” and to create “a well-functioning and fair copyright market”.

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Briefly informed: Chrome, Coronavirus, Castor-Transport, Paypal

Sandbox and malicious code attacks against Google’s Chrome web browser Attackers are currently attacking Chrome on Android and on the desktop -Version. Anyone who uses the web browser should update it as soon as possible. The developers have closed a total of ten security holes in the current issue. In a post, Google warns that attackers are currently exploiting the vulnerability classified as “high”. If attacks work, malicious code can reach computers. It is currently not known whether Linux, macOS and Windows are equally affected.

The synthetic coronavirus Years ago 70 Albert Sabin and his research team succeeded in isolating variants of the polio virus that are still humans could infect, but not cause paralysis. Sabin’s weakened strains of the virus became the famous orally administered polio vaccine that billions of children took in the form of sugar cubes. Now scientists from the start-up Codagenix believe that synthetic biology could show a way to prevent a weak form of COVID – 19 – produce pathogen, reports Technology Review. According to the bold plan, it could then be distributed around the world in the form of inexpensive nasal drops. If everything goes according to plan, the first volunteers in Great Britain should receive the synthetically produced virus as part of initial safety tests this month.

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Castor transport rolls through Germany again The first Castor transport with German nuclear waste from abroad in nine years has arrived in Germany. A special ship from Great Britain, which had been expected for several days, moored in the port of Nordenham on the Weser on Monday morning, the police said. From there, the six Castor casks are taken by train to an interim storage facility in Biblis in Hesse. Neither the GNS transport company nor the massively represented police gave information about the route. Opponents of nuclear power have called for rallies along the possible routes towards Biblis.

Online shopping boom inspires PayPal The online payment service PayPal continues to benefit from the trend towards shopping on the Internet during the Corona crisis. In the third quarter, net income rose year-on-year by 121 percent to one billion US dollars, the company said on Monday announced after the US market closed. PayPal also raised its annual forecasts and now represents 121 sales growth between 20 and 20 percent in prospect.

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Nationwide searches against hatred on the net

During a Europe-wide day of action against hatred and agitation on the Internet, the German police searched more than 80 apartments and other buildings in eleven federal states. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Wiesbaden announced on Tuesday that it was about securing smartphones and laptops. Knapp 100 suspects should be questioned about alleged hate comments they have published.

At the sixth edition Six other European countries took part on the day of action this year. According to the BKA, the investigators struck in these federal states: Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht explained: “The consistent action of the police and judiciary serves to protect all people who are threatened and defamed on the Internet. Enemies of people and democracy stir up a dangerous climate of violence. Words can become deeds.”

Anyone who rushes and threatens must expect charges and convictions. The hatred hits Jews, Muslims, refugees, politically active people – and among all of these, especially women, up to and including disgusting threats of rape. “I would like to encourage those affected by hate postings to consistently file criminal charges so that these acts can be prosecuted,” said the SPD politician.

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Windows 10, a new easy way to get the Windows 7 Start Menu back

The Windows tiles 10, introduced in a slightly more basic version on Windows 8, have got mixed opinions among users. Many still today regret the classic style of the Windows 7 Start Menu , denser in elements and perhaps faster to use with a mouse and keyboard. Microsoft does not give the possibility to choose between modern and classic approach, but by installing an application it is possible to return to the traditional aspect of Windows, even on Windows 10.

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The Windows 7 Start Menu on Windows 10: how to

All you need to have the Windows 7 Start Menu on Windows 10 is Open Shell , a “tweak” that allows you to remove the modern Start Menu and completely change its aesthetics. The software, distributed as open-source, is nothing more than a reinterpretation of Classic Shell, an application that allowed to replace the full-screen Start Menu of Windows 8 with a more compact version. The Windows Start Menu 10 is not full screen and is definitely more usable, however live tiles and “modern” aesthetics remain.

Open Shell also eliminates those, while maintaining a more modern graphic approach than to that of Windows 7. The result is a minimalist but concrete Start Menu, with denser elements than the large keys that characterize the Windows menu 10. Open Shell works on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, and allows you to implement changes also on Internet Explorer and Explore resources. The installation of the Windows Start Menu 10 on Windows 7 is very simple, requiring just a few steps.

The software installation program is available on Github, at this address. During the installation we can then choose the tweaks to implement: if you only want the Traditional Start Menu you can deselect the items related to Classic Explorer and Classic IE, concluding the installation by moving forward in the process and accepting permission requests. The program allows you to configure three versions of the Start Menu: Classic Shell , the most compact; Classic Shell with two columns , with also various shortcuts for settings and main folders; and finally Windows 7 Style , which recreates the position of the various elements as it happened with Windows 7.

There are also more advanced settings that allow the user to customize various features of the menu, such as the ability to access the original version of the Windows Start Menu 10 with the press of a button, and more.