Testen der Internetgeschwindigkeit - Okt 2019

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Internet Speed Testing - Oct 2019

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Raid On File Sharing Platform!

The international investigations are directed against the alleged operators of a file sharing platform over which copyrighted content was distributed. The platform should be Sharehoster share-online.biz.

Investigators searched apartments and business premises in Germany, France, and the Netherlands in an international raid against file sharing operators. The platform is said to have distributed illegal copies of films and other content. It should be the portal share-online.biz, the website is currently not available.


According to the Cologne public prosecutor's office, extensive evidence was secured in the raid. It's about "incredible amounts of data," said a spokesman. The elaborate action with investigators from France, the Netherlands and Germany took place on 16 October.

The investigation is therefore directed against three men aged 40, 48 and 54 years with residence in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse and Saxony-Anhalt. Besides, servers used by the trio had stood in the Netherlands and France. The 54-year-old was the main suspect and live in the area of ​​Aachen, according to the spokesman for the prosecutor. However, there have not been any arrests so far.

The operators are alleged to have committed through the operation of the file-sharing platform multiple aids for the commercial unauthorized exploitation of copyright works, according to the investigators. The allegedly organized by the suspect's online portal is according to findings of the prosecutor's office, according to the largest operated in Germany so-called Filehoster. "According to the current investigation, the main culprit for the operation of the platform rented at the latest since 2010 steadily growing server capacity - most recently in the double-digit petabyte range - at a Dutch provider," said the prosecutor Cologne.

There Is No Future Without Fiber!

At a fixed-line forum, Huawei explains that 5G has no basis without fiber. Fiber is the best, maybe the only choice.

The outfitter Huawei has made a clear statement for fiber. Steven Wu, Vice President of Huawei's Carrier Business Group, said at the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam on October 16, 2019, "Everyone is talking about 5G, and a well-designed fiber-optic network is a foundation for 5G's home broadband service and low latency Fiber is the best, maybe the only choice. "


In the past, Huawei had not been so clear about fiber. The equipment supplier also provides Vectoring, G.fast or Docsis 3.1 hardware and software.

Wu limited, however, that fiber could also Fiber To Curb (FTTC), so merely Vectoring means, but almost exclusively concrete examples of FTTH (Fiber To The Home) from France, China, and the Philippines.

In France, the government wants 9 million households to subsidize the fiber-optic expansion to 50 percent and more. For the government provided 3.3 billion euros.

In China, the motto of network operator China Mobile is "No Fiber, No Future," said Wu. Here Huawei has supported the network operator in a synergy strategy in network expansion. "China Mobile now has 117 million home broadband customers," Wu said.

In the Philippines, Huawei is outfitter to competing network operator Globe Telecom and Smart Communications in the introduction of 5G technology. Here is "an optical network" the basis for the expansion.

Disclosure: Golem.de has participated in the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam at the invitation of AVM. The travel expenses were taken over by AVM. Our reporting is unaffected and remains, as usual, neutral and critical. The article is, like all others on our portal, written independently and is not subject to any third party.

Internet Connection Or Telephone Number Only Against Face Scan!

If you want to have a new internet connection or a new telephone number in China, you have to have your face scanned from 1 December 2019. A similar regulation was issued by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, as the online magazines, Gizmodo and Quartz first reported and should also apply to already registered connections.

In order to get an Internet connection or a telephone number, people in China will have to present their ID and confirm their identity by means of facial recognition. This is to ensure that users can only register connections under their real names. Also already registered connections are to be checked by the telephone and Internet providers. If false information has been provided, the contracts should be terminated. A transfer of telephone numbers prohibits the scheme. As a result, surveillance and control in China are widening further.

In China, facial recognition is widely used to identify people. However, changing a person's face can cause massive problems. After plastic surgery, a Chinese woman was no longer registered by facial recognition on her work. Also checking in hotels and entering fast trains did not work anymore. Even online shopping became complicated because the payment app could no longer identify her with her face.

She should not be alone by far. A real-time facial recognition system in London in early July showed how problematic face recognition systems can be: in more than 80 percent of cases, the system was wrong. Even the test of a face recognition system on tolled New York bridges and tunnels failed.

In addition, the systems can be outsmarted. The security researcher Jan Krissler aka Starbug has already managed to avoid biometric identification procedures on several occasions. According to Starbug, after the hack of vein detection last year, there are hardly any biometric systems left that have not been bypassed. At the 31C3 in 2014, he had presented attacks on facial and iris recognition systems, the year before he was able to overcome within a few days Apple's fingerprint system Touch ID of the iPhone 5S. However, the Federal Government plans to expand the video surveillance at stations and the use of face recognition and intelligent video surveillance.

OECD Presents Proposal For International Taxation

    IT corporations like Google or Amazon should pay more taxes in their sales markets. However, the OECD does not mention a level for a global minimum tax.

In the dispute over the fairer taxation of large IT companies, there is the first proposal for a "unified approach" at the international level. According to a paper from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), taxation should not only be based on the respective head office. Instead, international companies such as Google, Amazon or Apple should also pay royalties where customers or users of services sit and companies generate revenues. The paper does not give a concrete percentage for a global minimum tax, for example, with which the sales could be taxed.

The 21-page OECD proposal ( PDF ) is a compromise of several competing proposals from the Member States. It is based inter alia on the considerations of the leading economic powers of the G20 summit in June 2019 in Japan. The paper will be presented next week at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in Washington and is now open to public discussion. The new approach is aimed not only at large IT groups but also at consumer-oriented international companies.

The seven major economic powers (G7) agreed on this summer to agree on a global regulatory framework at the OECD level by January 2020. It should clarify which countries digital companies have to pay taxes. "Failure to reach an agreement by 2020 would significantly increase the risk that countries will act unilaterally, with negative consequences for an already fragile global economy," said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, adding, "We must not allow this to happen. "

A settled dispute between Trump and Macron
The French government had advanced in the spring of 2019 with the introduction of a digital tax. Affected by the tax are about 30 companies. They are expected to generate an annual sale of at least 750 million euros worldwide and more than 25 million euros in France. The French government expects to receive 500 million euros in revenue.

Finance Minister Olaf Scholz (SPD), however, advocated a uniform global tax rate and has entered into negotiations at the OECD initiated. Last June, the G20 nations said they would set a global minimum tax by the end of next year.

At the G7 Summit in Biarritz at the end of August 2019, US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on the dispute. Should the OECD rule be lower than the three percent French digital tax, companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple could reclaim a balance.

Text reader in Microsoft Edge browser, more like Humans

Microsoft is updating the "Read Aloud" feature embedded in the default browser of Windows 10, Microsoft Edge. As the name suggests, the Read Aloud feature can command the browser to read the site being opened in a loud voice.

The sound issued by the browser is an electronic voice, like a flat-pitched robot voice, a kind of template sound that is on Google Translate.

Well, now Microsoft is launching several updates to make a digital sound that is flat-tone become more natural, or more similar to the human voice.

The updated Read Aloud feature is being tested on the Chromium browser version or the beta version. You who have become a beta tester can try out this new feature. Not yet known when this natural language style choice will slide into the general version of Microsoft Edge.

There are two types of natural sounds offered by Microsoft. The first vote is Neural Voices. This voice utilizes machine learning technology that utilizes deep neural networks available on the Microsoft Cognitive Services cloud service.

Then the second vote is Standard Voices. In contrast to neural sound, this voice does not utilize machine learning technology, but rather utilizes a standard digital voice assistant database that is in the Microsoft Cognitive Services database. Illustration of Read Aloud feature on Microsoft Edge with various types of natural sounds (Windows Blog) To choose the type of sound, users can click the drop-down menu, as shown in the picture above, then click on the sound they want to hear.

This human-like voice can be chosen and has a template with the name "Microsoft ... (name of a digital assistant) Online - Language". Neural Voices type sounds with "Neural" frills while standard sound types come without that description.

Users can also choose the sound option with a bitrate of "24 kbps" to improve the quality of issued audio.

How to use the "Read Aloud" feature

Apart from these features, users can now use the Read Aloud feature on Microsoft Edge. To use these features just the easy way. Real users only need to right-click inside the Microsoft Edge browser window, on the site where the text is to be read.

However, it should be noted, if you want to read a specific set of texts or paragraphs, the user must block the writing you want to read earlier. If it's not blocked, the site reader will dictate readings starting from the text in the top-left corner of the site.

The browser will also read text non-stop. That is, users must click the "Pause" button to stop the "chatter" browser made by Microsoft.