Mit nur noch 1,16 kg wird Lenovos X-Serie der Thinkpads noch einmal etwas leichter. Unterstützt wird zudem Lenovos neues Dockingsystem. Dafür ist Ethernet allerdings nur noch per Dongle möglich, das man nicht vergessen sollte. (Thinkpad, Notebook)
Quelle: Golem
Fingerabdruck statt PIN-Eingabe: Gemalto testet eine Kreditkarte, die kontaktloses Zahlen mit einem biometrischen Sensor verknüpft. Das System soll mit herkömmlichen Bezahlungsgeräten kompatibel sein. Ein Problem besteht aber: Fingerabdrücke können recht leicht gefälscht werden. (Kreditkarte, Scanner)
Quelle: Golem
Die Kritik am Löschgesetz nimmt zu, die Bundesregierung hält dagegen und verweist auf Auswertungen, die Mitte des Jahres vorliegen sollen. Auch ein Tweet von Justizminister Heiko Maas ist möglicherweise dem Gesetz zum Opfer gefallen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Hersteller von Hard- und Software sind von den Sicherheitslücken Meltdown und Spectre gleichermaßen betroffen. Eine Linkübersicht zu Stellungnahmen, weiterführenden Informationen und Update-Hinweisen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Nachdem eine indische Zeitung öffentlich gemacht hat, dass online Zugänge zur riesigen Biometriedatenbank Aadhar verkauft werden, gibt es nun Ermittlungen. Die richten sich aber gegen den Journalisten selbst.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Das Hasso-Plattner-Institut bietet ab Februar einen kostenlosen Linux-Kurs auf seiner Online-Lernplattform OpenHPI an. Der deutschsprachige Kurs richtet sich insbesondere an Windows-Anwender, die auf Linux umsteigen wollen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Nachdem Twitter Tweets der Satirezeitschrift "Titanic" aus der Sicht des DJV zensiert hatte, fordert der Verband nun, das Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz abzuschaffen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
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Consumer Reports is advising people to avoid romaine lettuce after an E. coli outbreak that sickened at least 17 people in the US and 41 people in Canada since November. One person in the US and one in Canada have died.
Canadian health authorities said “exposure to romaine lettuce has been identified as the source of the outbreak.” While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has “not identified a source of the infections,” it said, “preliminary results show that the type of E. coli making people sick in both countries is closely related genetically, meaning the ill people are more likely to share a common source of infection.”
James Rogers, director of Food Safety and Research at Consumer Reports, a consumer advocacy group, said in a post, “Even though we can’t say with 100% certainty that romaine lettuce is the cause of the E. coli outbreak in the US, a greater degree of caution is appropriate given that lettuce is almost always consumed raw.”
E. coli infections are commonly linked to raw vegetables. The bacteria live in the intestines of livestock like cattle and poultry and can contaminate fruits and vegetables through soil, water, animals, or manure, as well as during the handling, storing, and transporting process, or during meal prep. Symptoms include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea (often bloody), and vomiting, and the worst infections can cause kidney failure and death.
Last year, there was an E. coli outbreak linked to I.M. Healthy brand SoyNut Butter, and in 2016, Gold Medal brand flour was blamed for sickening 63 people. In 2015, an outbreak was traced back to the burrito chain Chipotle.
Quelle: <a href="Warnings Are Being Made Against Eating Romaine Lettuce After A Big E. Coli Outbreak“>BuzzFeed
Rearz brand diapers for adults.
A company that makes diapers for the adult baby/diaper lover fetish community (known as ABDL) gave up on its attempt to trademark the term “ABDL” on Thursday after message boards for the community exploded in anger last week.
Rearz, a Canadian-based supplier of adult diapers with cutesy patterns and other adult baby accessories, like pacifiers, told BuzzFeed News, “we had no malicious or strange intentions in trying to register it, but obviously it struck a nerve with people. This is a community we love and serve, and we don't want to make people feel less valuable.”
Adult babies/diaper lovers are, as their name suggests, adults who enjoy role-playing as babies or simply wearing diapers. For some people, this is sexual; for others, it’s not. There’s a wide spectrum of ABDLs — some people want to role-play as babies; some are only interested in the diapers and not the rest of the age-play. Some want to wear the diapers, some want to just see others wearing them. There are teen ABDLs and older ones, and the community includes people of all gender identities and sexual orientations.
Rearz filed to trademark “ABDL” in October 2017, but it was only this week that someone in the community noticed. At this discovery, the /r/ABDL subreddit filled with angry threads about Rearz’s trademark filings. “This is scummy. Period,” wrote one user. In another thread, angry ABDL redditors planned to ruin Rearz’s standing on Facebook by rating it one star on its business page. On a forum for adult babies called ADISC.org, one adult baby said, “Rearz is now off my shopping list.” People even made memes about the scandal.
The owner of Rearz, a woman named Laurie who asked to use her first name only to protect her family’s privacy, says this is all a misunderstanding. After learning of the community outrage, Rearz wrote a now-deleted blog post on its website explaining that it filed for the trademark to help the company’s online sales:
“Over the last several years we have faced many challenges using the term ABDL in major online marketplaces. We have ads and accounts permanently blocked on Facebook, eBay, Kijiji, Google ads with payment processors and more simply from using the term.”
Laurie said that, starting about two years ago, eBay, which had previously accounted for about 20% of her company’s business, started taking down items because it classified them as “adult content.” Sometimes Rearz’s listings for items like adult diapers and adult-size baby clothes would be allowed to stay up, but certain keywords would get the stuff delisted. eBay does allow adult items to be sold, but its policy isn’t specific about ABDL items.
In the past, Rearz’s credit card processor for its website, as well as PayPal, blacklisted Rearz. Credit card processors have varying policies about whether they will take on clients that sell adult items or pornography. Facebook has also removed Rearz’s ads. Currently, Rearz sells directly from its website, and people can visit its brick-and-mortar location outside Toronto.
Laurie believes that if she trademarked the term “ABDL,” it would help keep her ads and eBay listings online. “In order to be able to push back to some of these larger corporations that are blacklisting it, we can say, ‘hey, this isn’t just a term; this is a trademark term we have,’” Laurie told BuzzFeed News. “Because it becomes your brand name, and they don’t blacklist brand names. If we don’t have it as a brand name, then we have nothing to stand on.”
Rearz also claims that it had no plans to enforce the trademark in a way that would hurt the community. Its blog post says, “we promise to always be good stewards of the mark and to use it to build and improve the community.”
Joshua Jarvis, a trademark lawyer at the firm Foley Hoag, points out that “[Rearz’s] purported willingness ‘to allow others to have free use of the ABDL trademark’ doesn’t seem consistent with trademark ownership, which as you may know requires that a trademark owner diligently police and enforce its trademark rights so as to avoid consumer confusion.”
Rearz also pointed out they’re not the first to trademark the term — another seller, TheABDLShop.com had already trademarked the term “The ABDL Shop” for the use of selling apparel. But that trademark has some legal quirks. In their filing, TheABDLShop.com’s lawyer says that “ABDL” has no significance or meaning, even though it is a somewhat well-known term in a community of people. It’s possible that Rearz’s trademark application would have been rejected since the term is well known for a community of people interested in the world of diapers.
Several hours after BuzzFeed News spoke with Laurie about the ABDL community wrath, she told us that she had read through the message boards and decided to drop the trademark. “These are customers we care deeply about, and we don’t want to make them feel like we’re trying to take something away from them that they value.”
Quelle: <a href="A Trademark War Almost Tore Apart The Adult Baby Community“>BuzzFeed
Alex Kantrowitz
On Friday, amid increasingly vocal calls for the company to ban President Donald Trump from its service, Twitter defended its policies against censoring world leaders on its platform.
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate,” the company wrote in a blog post. “It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.”
The post didn't call out Trump or the increasingly vocal protests by name.
Twitter also did not say definitively that it would never ban Trump, or any other world leader. “We review Tweets by leaders within the political context that defines them, and enforce our rules accordingly,” its post said. The post, headlined “World Leaders on Twitter,” also did not define what a world leader is.
In recent months, people have been protesting outside Twitter's headquarters and demanding that the company ban Trump. On Wednesday, protesters projected angry messages on Twitter's headquarters after Trump taunted North Korea leader Kim Jong Un about the size, power, and operational status of his “Nuclear Button.”
This wasn't Trump's first provocative tweet aimed at North Korea. In September, Trump seemed to threaten the annihilation of the country, tweeting: “Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!” North Korea said the tweet was a declaration of war.
Here's the full blog post:
There’s been a lot of discussion about political figures and world leaders on Twitter, and we want to share our stance.
Twitter is here to serve and help advance the global, public conversation. Elected world leaders play a critical role in that conversation because of their outsized impact on our society.
Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate. It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.
We review Tweets by leaders within the political context that defines them, and enforce our rules accordingly. No one person's account drives Twitter’s growth, or influences these decisions. We work hard to remain unbiased with the public interest in mind.
We are working to make Twitter the best place to see and freely discuss everything that matters. We believe that’s the best way to help our society make progress.
Quelle: <a href="Twitter Just Explained Why It Doesn't Block World Leaders Like Trump“>BuzzFeed
