Category: Internet & Cloud. This brand new thing: Internet & Cloud. Even though the technology is around for way more than 30 years, it is a never drying source of news and discoveries. The new channel of communication created a entirely new culture and created new businesses, fueling innovation and creativity.
All those things that clearly relate to something ‘new media’, items and thoughts that would not have been possible without the internet, will go here.
The new Edge browser, built on the same open source code as Google Chrome, contains a new Tracking Prevention feature that blocks third-party trackers and, at the Strict setting, many ads. My tests show that one in four items blocked are from Google.
Source: Edge vs. Chrome: Microsoft’s Tracking Prevention hits Google the hardest
Nachdem die SPD in München mit Limux vorerst gescheitert ist, will die CDU Open Source für Verwaltungsaufgaben fördern. Ausserdem soll Open Data von der Forderung “Public Money?, Public Code!” partizipieren. Die CDU nimmt damit eine Position der Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) ein.
via Golem
It sound’s odd and definitely wrong. At 43.000 participants in 2018 at a registration fee of $1.799, that’d be $77.357.000 of revenue, which is hard to believe Oracle and IBM together cannot top. Still, it’s s still a totally fascinating thought about size of cloud and how dominant AWS is in that business.
DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.
Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours
Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.
Nobody could see THAT coming!
When people hit those caps, they realize they have little choice but to start paying, or risk losing access to emails, photos and personal documents.
Source: Bloomberg
Have you ever wondered, how websites know how many people look at a particular product? Ophir Harpaz investigated:
Jan Böhmermann hat schon am 10. Oktober mit folgendem Video auf potentiell unseriöse Vorgehen einer App namens “Coin Master” hingewiesen. Bis dahin ist mir das Spiel nicht aufgefallen, weil mir der gesamte Duktus solcher Werke schon zweifelhaft erscheint und ich deshalb kategorisch die Finger davon lasse. Virtuelle Schlumpfbeeren zu kaufen kann keinen realen Gegenwert bieten.
Die Analyse, die im Rahmen des Neo Magazin Royale stattfindet, setzt sich investigativ mit dem Hersteller und dem zugrundeliegenden Modell auseinander. Darüber hinaus hat die Redaktion mit Glücksspielsuchtforscher Tobias Hayer für eine Analyse des Geschäftsmodells gearbeitet. Der knapp 20 Minuten lange Beitrag aus der Sendung ist hier:
Aufgrund der Recherche durch die Neo Magazin Royale Redaktion prüft die Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften seit heute offenbar eine Indizierung des Spiels “Coin Master“.
Ben Horowitz, of Andreessen Horowitz (software is eating the world), wrote a new book. It is titled “What you do is who you are.“, and will, following the announcement, discuss corporate cultural standards and how they changed over the years, of course with a particular focus on the tech industry. It’s a hot candidate for this winters reading list.
Somehow, a fun read. Still problematic, and somewhat scary, at the scale YouTube relies on recommendations.
Mozilla gathered 28 user-submitted stories, detailing incidents where YouTube’s recommendation served videos featuring racism, conspiracies, and violence.
Source: Mozilla unveils 28 horror stories about YouTube’s recommendation algorithm