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Si vous avez un Google Pixel, vous devez vite installer cette mise à jour de sécurité
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 June - 07:08
Google a publié un rapport de cybersécurité dans lequel il dévoile une nouvelle faille dans ses smartphones. L'entreprise invite les utilisateurs des Google Pixel à mettre à jour leur interface.
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Ce que YouTube imagine encore pour mener la vie dure aux adblockers
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 14 June - 05:14
Google est suspecté de mettre en place une nouvelle solution technique pour contrer les bloqueurs de publicités. Il s'agirait en somme de fusionner les vidéos d'annonce directement dans le flux vidéo, pour qu'on ne puisse plus les distinguer.
Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention
news.movim.eu / TorrentFreak · Thursday, 13 June - 17:19 · 5 minutes
In France, where laws were introduced with site-blocking and similar anti-piracy measures already baked in, entertainment giant Canal+ seems intent on taking full advantage.
Like similar broadcasters with lucrative sports rights to exploit, Canal+ has a subset of viewers who prefer to consume from pirate sources which charge much less, or even nothing at all.
To maximize its existing site-blocking efforts through local ISPs, the French broadcaster has now taken the logical, albeit controversial, next step on the site-blocking ladder.
In 2023, Canal+ went to court in France to tackle pirate sports streaming sites including Footybite.co, Streamcheck.link, SportBay.sx, TVFutbol.info, and Catchystream.com. The broadcaster said that since subscribers of local ISPs were accessing the pirate sites using their services, the ISPs should prevent them from doing so.
When the decision went in favor of Canal+, ISPs including Orange, SFR, OutreMer Télécom, Free, and Bouygues Télécom, were required to implement technical measures. Since the ISPs have their own DNS resolvers for use by their own customers, these were configured to provide non-authentic responses to deny access to the sites in question.
In response, increasingly savvy internet users that hadn’t already done so, simply changed their settings to use different DNS providers – Cloudflare, Google, and Cisco – whose resolvers hadn’t been tampered with; at least not yet.
Use of third-party DNS providers to circumvent blocking isn’t uncommon so last year Canal+ took legal action against three popular public DNS providers – Cloudflare ( 1.1.1.1 ), Google ( 8.8.8.8 ), and Cisco ( 208.69.38.205 ), demanding measures similar to those implemented by French ISPs.
Tampering with public DNS is a step too far for many internet advocates but for major rightsholders, if the law can be shaped to allow it, that’s what will happen. In this case, Article L333-10 of the French Sports Code (active Jan 2022) seems capable of accommodating almost anything.
When there are “serious and repeated violations” by an “online public communication service” whose main objective is the unauthorized broadcasting of sports competitions, rightsholders can demand “all proportionate measures likely to prevent or put an end to this infringement, against any person likely to contribute to remedying it.”
Two decisions were handed down by the Paris judicial court last month; one concerning Premier League matches and the other the Champions League. The orders instruct Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to implement measures similar to those in place at local ISPs. To protect the rights of Canal+, the companies must prevent French internet users from using their services to access around 117 pirate domains.
According to French publication l’Informé , which broke the news, Google attorney Sébastien Proust crunched figures published by government anti-piracy agency Arcom and concluded that the effect on piracy rates, if any, is likely to be minimal.
Starting with a pool of all users who use alternative DNS for any reason, users of pirate sites – especially sites broadcasting the matches in question – were isolated from the rest. Users of both VPNs and third-party DNS were further excluded from the group since DNS blocking is ineffective against VPNs.
Proust found that the number of users likely to be affected by DNS blocking at Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco, amounts to 0.084% of the total population of French Internet users. Citing a recent survey, which found that only 2% of those who face blocks simply give up and don’t find other means of circumvention, he reached an interesting conclusion.
“2% of 0.084% is 0.00168% of Internet users! In absolute terms, that would represent a small group of around 800 people across France!”
In common with other courts presented with the same arguments, the Paris court said the number of people using alternative DNS to access the sites, and the simplicity of switching DNS, are irrelevant.
Canal+ owns the rights to the broadcasts and if it wishes to request a blocking injunction, it has the legal right to do so.
The DNS providers’ assertion that their services are not covered by the legislation was also waved aside by the court.
Google says it intends to comply with the order. As part of the original matter in 2023, it was already required to deindex the domains from search results under the same law.
At least in theory, this means that those who circumvented the original blocks using these alternative DNS services, will be back to square one and confronted by blocks all over again.
Given that circumventing this set of blocks will be as straightforward as circumventing the originals, that raises the question of what measures Canal+ will demand next, and from whom.
| Tribunal Judiciare de Paris | Canal+ | Cloudflare/Google/Cisco | |
| Premier League | UEFA Champions league |
|---|---|
| footybite.cc | footybite.tv |
| footybite.io | hesgoal.today |
| hesgoal.name | redditsoccerstreams.org |
| pirlotv.app | rsoccerstreams.net |
| reddit-soccerstreams.com | soccerstreams.football |
| redditsoccerstreams.tv | soccerstreamshd.com |
| streameast.gg | totalsporteks.net |
| volokit.to | sportsurge.app |
| totalsportek.ac | redditsoccerstreams.xyz |
| soccerstreamlinks.com | hesgoals.top |
| socceron.name | hdmatch.club |
| lacasadeltikitaka.net | bitestreams.net |
| streamseast.ai | livesoccer.sx |
| bestsolaris.com | footybite.one |
| radamel.icu | techclips.net |
| sports.f1livestream.top | sports.f1livestream.top |
| backfirstwo.site | reddit.soccerstreamshd.com |
| reddit.volokit.to | extratime.live |
| hitsports.pro | streameast.top |
| tvhd.tutvlive.site | soccerstreams.app |
| dotsport.live | freeviplive.com |
| dotsport1.com | fapxy.info |
| elkoora.live | 1l1l.to |
| fel3ardaa.com | futbolonlinetv.club |
| golkoralive.com | hesgoal.world |
| silapathikaram.com | hesgoaltv.me |
| cainsoffering.net | sporthd.me |
| golkoralive.live | cdnz.one |
| kkooralives.com | ivesoccer.sx |
| koora-live.io | livetv705.me |
| kooralivs.com | livetv706.me |
| kora4live.net | pirlotvhd.online |
| live-kooora.com | rojadirectatv.uno |
| livekooora.online | soccerstreams100.io |
| live-kooora-tv.com | tarjetarojaenvivo.me |
| live-kooora-tv.net | tarjetarojatvhd.com |
| livekoora.io | stream.pajitotv.info |
| live-koora.online | hesgoaled.com |
| livetv707.me | 1.ivesoccer.sx |
| livetv708.me | embx214129.apl275.me |
| monlive.info | emb.apl275.me |
| rojadirectaenvivotv.me | embx214161.apl275.me |
| rojadirectaes.org | stream.rodrixtv.info |
| awtsport.com | fk9.pw |
| live7.pro | m.soccerstreams100.io |
| sportsonline.so | ovo-line.com |
| 4koora.elkoora.live | sportschamp.fun |
| f.fel3ardaa.com | givemereddit.eu |
| v3.sportsonline.sx | streamseast.ai |
| kora.live-koora.live | tazz.tv |
| alkora.golkoralive.live | embx214374.apl275.me |
| kooralive.koora-live.io | hd.espnv2.online |
| m.koora-live.io | embx210801.apl275.me |
| syria-live.us | |
| 4kooralive.live-kooora.com | |
| 5kooralive.live-kooora.com | |
| tvkoora.livekooora.online | |
| mypanlss.store | |
| koora.live-kooora-tv.net | |
| v2.sportsonline.so | |
| kora.livekoora.io | |
| koras.live-koora.online | |
| embx214129.apl274.me | |
| embx210130.apl276.me | |
| capodeportes.run | |
| sports-stream.info | |
| topstreams.me | |
| sports.chelsealivestream.com | |
| sportsleading.online | |
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Le Google Pixel 7a reste un très bon smartphone, surtout lorsque le prix baisse de 150 € environ
news.movim.eu / Numerama · Thursday, 13 June - 09:13
[Deal du jour] Si vous voulez changer de smartphone sans nécessairement vous ruiner, le Pixel 7a est un très bon choix. Le smartphone de Google est toujours un modèle performant, et son prix baisse un peu plus aujourd'hui.
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Google’s abuse of Fitbit continues with web app shutdown
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 12 June - 19:02 · 1 minute
Enlarge (credit: Fitbit)
Google's continued abuse of the Fitbit brand is continuing with the shutdown of the web dashboard. Fitbit.com used to be both a storefront and a way for users to get a big-screen UI to sift through reams of fitness data. The store closed up shop in April, and now the web dashboard is dying in July.
In a post on the "Fitbit Community" forums, the company said: "Next month, we’re consolidating the Fitbit.com dashboard into the Fitbit app. The web browser will no longer offer access to the Fitbit.com dashboard after July 8, 2024." That's it. There's no replacement or new fitness thing Google is more interested in; web functionality is just being removed. Google, we'll remind you, used to be a web company. Now it's a phone app or nothing. Google did the same thing to its Google Fit product in 2019 , killing off the more powerful website in favor of an app focus.
Dumping the web app leaves a few holes in Fitbit's ecosystem. The Fitbit app doesn't support big screens like tablet devices, so this is removing the only large-format interface for data. Fitbit's competitors all have big-screen interfaces. Garmin has a very similar website, and the Apple Watch has an iPad health app . This isn't an improvement. To make matters worse, the app does not have the features of the web dashboard, with many of the livid comments in the forums on Reddit calling out the app's deficiencies in graphing, achievement statistics, calorie counting, and logs.
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Google’s Pixel 8 series gets USB-C to DisplayPort; desktop mode rumors heat up
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 11 June - 18:05 · 1 minute
Enlarge / The Pixel 8. (credit: Google)
Google's June Android update is out, and it's bringing a few notable changes for Pixel phones. The most interesting is that the Pixel 8a, Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro are all getting DisplayPort Alt Mode capabilities via their USB-C ports. This means you can go from USB-C to DisplayPort and plug right into a TV or monitor. This has been rumored forever and landed in some of the Android Betas earlier, but now it's finally shipping out to production.
The Pixel 8's initial display support is just a mirrored mode. You can either get an awkward vertical phone in the middle of your wide-screen display or turn the phone sideways and get a more reasonable layout. You could see it being useful for videos or presentations. It would be nice if it could do more.
Alongside this year-plus of display port rumors has been a steady drum beat (again) for an Android desktop mode. Google has been playing around with this idea since Android 7.0 in 2016. In 2019 , we were told it was just a development testing project, and it never shipped to any real devices. Work around Android's desktop mode has been heating up, though, so maybe a second swing at this idea will result in an actual product.
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OpenAI drops login requirements for ChatGPT’s free version
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 1 April - 22:31 · 1 minute
Enlarge (credit: Benj Edwards)
On Monday, OpenAI announced that visitors to the ChatGPT website in some regions can now use the AI assistant without signing in. Previously, the company required that users create an account to use it, even with the free version of ChatGPT that is currently powered by the GPT-3.5 AI language model. But as we have noted in the past , GPT-3.5 is widely known to provide more inaccurate information compared to GPT-4 Turbo , available in paid versions of ChatGPT.
Since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has transformed over time from a tech demo to a comprehensive AI assistant, and it's always had a free version available. The cost is free because " you're the product ," as the old saying goes. Using ChatGPT helps OpenAI gather data that will help the company train future AI models, although free users and ChatGPT Plus subscription members can both opt out of allowing the data they input into ChatGPT to be used for AI training. (OpenAI says it never trains on inputs from ChatGPT Team and Enterprise members at all).
Opening ChatGPT to everyone could provide a frictionless on-ramp for people who might use it as a substitute for Google Search or potentially gain new customers by providing an easy way for people to use ChatGPT quickly, then offering an upsell to paid versions of the service.
Google to destroy billions of private browsing records to settle lawsuit
news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 1 April - 20:54
Suit claimed tech giant tracked activity of people who thought they were privately using its Chrome browser’s incognito mode
Google agreed to destroy billions of records to settle a lawsuit claiming it secretly tracked the internet use of people who thought they were browsing privately in its Chrome browser’s incognito mode.
Users alleged that Google’s analytics, cookies and apps let the Alphabet unit improperly track people who set Google’s Chrome browser to “incognito” mode and other browsers to “private” browsing mode.
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Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that’s “impossible”
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 1 April - 19:11
Enlarge (credit: Anadolu / Contributor | Anadolu )
To settle a class-action dispute over Chrome's "Incognito" mode , Google has agreed to delete billions of data records reflecting users' private browsing activities.
In a statement provided to Ars, users' lawyer, David Boies, described the settlement as "a historic step in requiring honesty and accountability from dominant technology companies." Based on Google's insights, users' lawyers valued the settlement between $4.75 billion and $7.8 billion, the Monday court filing said.
Under the settlement, Google agreed to delete class-action members' private browsing data collected in the past, as well as to "maintain a change to Incognito mode that enables Incognito users to block third-party cookies by default." This, plaintiffs' lawyers noted, "ensures additional privacy for Incognito users going forward, while limiting the amount of data Google collects from them" over the next five years. Plaintiffs' lawyers said that this means that "Google will collect less data from users’ private browsing sessions" and "Google will make less money from the data."
