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By zikalify
UK politicians face legal challenge over self-destructing messages
by Paul Hill
The law firm Foxglove and the non-profit The Citizens have teamed up to challenge the government over disappearing messages on platforms like WhatsApp and Signal that are in widespread use by politicians, according to a report in The Guardian. The two groups say self-destructing messages are a threat to transparency and the archival of messages that are required in UK law.
Commenting on the legal challenge, Cori Crider, a director at Foxglove, said:
In 1958, legislation was passed in the UK that required documents to be archived. According to The Guardian, the law also applies to digital formats such as emails. The introduction of easy-to-use self-destructing messages means that politician can more easily sidestep this legislation and campaigners say this mustn’t be allowed to happen.
Clarity over whether digital communications were covered by the 1958 legislation came ten years ago when the Information Commissioner’s Office has to tell Michael Gove MP and his office to stop using private email accounts to conduct government work due to concerns that messages sent through these channels wouldn’t be archived as required by the law.
Speaking to the BBC, the Cabinet Office has said that processes are in place to record official communications and that there are periodic reviews to ensure that collection methods are sufficient.
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By zikalify
Vodafone: Lockdown led to 40% jump in network usage
by Paul Hill
New research published by Vodafone UK reveals that there was a 40% increase in the amount of streaming and downloading on its network since the first UK lockdown that began on March 23, 2020. In normal times, it said the peak time for binge-watching boxsets was at 6:30 pm but during lockdown a quarter of adults admitted to watching their favourite shows at 11 am instead.
According to the broadband provider, Line of Duty, Friends, and Only Fools and Horses were among the top boxsets over the last 12 months. Other popular shows were Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones, and Downton Abbey. The results were based on a group of 2,000 adults that were questioned as part of the study.
Commenting on these findings, Vodafone UK Consumer Director Max Taylor said:
Earlier this month, Vodafone UK announced the availability of Pro Broadband packages which start at £35 per month for 35Mbps. It described these packages as "unbreakable" because they come with Wi-Fi extenders to boost coverage and a SIM card so that you can stay online even if the broadband goes down. With more people learning and working from home, as well as streaming more content, Vodafone’s “unbreakable” internet seems like a timely product launch.
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By Copernic
qBittorrent 4.3.4.1
by Razvan Serea
The qBittorrent project aims to provide a Free Software alternative to µtorrent. qBittorrent is an advanced and multi-platform BitTorrent client with a nice user interface as well as a Web UI for remote control and an integrated search engine. qBittorrent aims to meet the needs of most users while using as little CPU and memory as possible. qBittorrent is a truly Open Source project, and as such, anyone can and should contribute to it.
qBittorrent features:
Polished µTorrent-like User Interface Well-integrated and extensible Search Engine Simultaneous search in most famous BitTorrent search sites Per-category-specific search requests (e.g. Books, Music, Movies) All Bittorrent extensions DHT, Peer Exchange, Full encryption, Magnet/BitComet URIs, ... Remote control through a Web user interface Nearly identical to the regular UI, all in Ajax Advanced control over trackers, peers and torrents Torrents queueing and prioritizing Torrent content selection and prioritizing UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding support Available in ~25 languages (Unicode support) Torrent creation tool Advanced RSS support with download filters (inc. regex) Bandwidth scheduler IP Filtering (eMule and PeerGuardian compatible) IPv6 compliant Available on most platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, OS/2, FreeBSD qBittorrent 4.3.4 changelog:
FEATURE: Add ability to prioritize selected items by shown file order (Chocobo1) FEATURE: Allow tab to escape the text box in "Edit trackers" dialog (Christoph Rackwitz) FEATURE: Support sub-sorting in Transferlist (jagannatharjun) FEATURE: Expose ToS setting from libtorrent (Chocobo1) FEATURE: Improve tracker entries handling (glassez) BUGFIX: Drop extension from generated content folder name (glassez) BUGFIX: Change qBittorrent Updater window title (xavier2k6) BUGFIX: Validate HTTPS Tracker Certificate by default (an0n666) BUGFIX: Don't let "program update" dialog steal focus (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Disable expand on double click in TorrentContentTreeView (jagannatharjun) BUGFIX: Add hyperlink to Transifex on translator list (Si Yong Kim) BUGFIX: Enlarge "speed limit" icon slightly (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Don't prevent system sleep due to errored torrents (dyumin) BUGFIX: Use stable sorting in transfer list (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Allow "missing files" torrents to save more resume data (glassez) BUGFIX: Restart "missing files" torrents after changing location (glassez) BUGFIX: Show proper string when torrent availability is not available (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Apply "Hide zero/infinity values" to "Time Active", "Down/Up Limit" and ETA columns (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Fix potential out-of-bounds access (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Make SpeedPlotView averager time aware (jagannatharjun) BUGFIX: Add a 3-Hour graph (jagannatharjun) BUGFIX: Add an option to disable icons in menus (always disabled on MacOS) (Michał Kopeć) BUGFIX: Improve detection of filename extension of audio/video files (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Various drawing improvements of progress bar (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Properly stop torrent creation if aborted (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Replace external program parameters in one step (Chocobo1) BUGFIX: Improve "save resume data" handling (glassez) BUGFIX: Fix bad IPv6 address format for outgoingInterfaces (treysis) WEBUI: Properly decode strings (brvphoenix) WEBUI: Accept "share limits" when adding torrent using WebAPI (glassez) WEBUI: Add seeding time to the active time column (thalieht) WEBUI: Fix incorrect seeding time string in General tab (thalieht) WEBUI: Allow >100 days in WebUI function "friendlyDuration" (thalieht) WEBUI: Avoid decoding strings repeatedly (brvphoenix) RSS: Add category button on AutomatedRSSDownloader on GUI (Si Yong Kim) WINDOWS: NSIS: Update Czech translation (slrslr) WINDOWS: NSIS: Update Portuguese BR translation (Alex) WINDOWS: NSIS: Add Estonian translation (PriitUring) WINDOWS: Allow change-case-only file renaming (glassez) LINUX: Systemd: wait for mounting of local filesystems (Juraj Oršulić) OTHER: Raise minimum libtorrent version to 1.2.12 (glassez) OTHER: Raise minimum Qt version to 5.12 (glassez) qBittorrent 4.3.4.1 hotfix:
BUGFIX: Correctly draw progress bar (glassez) WEBUI: Fix javascript code which broke the UI (Chocobo1) Download: qBittorrent 4.3.4.1 (32-bit) | 23.1 MB (Open Source)
Download: qBittorrent 4.3.4.1 (64-bit) | 25.5 MB
View: qBittorrent Home page
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By zikalify
Ofcom: A third of users found hate speech on video sites in the last 90 days
by Paul Hill
The UK’s digital regulator, Ofcom, has published new findings that suggest a third of people who accessed video-sharing websites such as YouTube came across hateful content in the last three months suggesting content policing may not be working. The new findings were released to coincide with new rules, published by Ofcom, which video-sharing platforms (VSPs) must comply with.
Ofcom’s study found that a third of users had found hateful content online; the regulator said the content was normally directed towards certain racial groups, religious groups, transgender people and according to sexual orientation.
Beyond that content, a quarter of those asked said they had been exposed to bullying, abusive behaviour and other threats. A fifth of respondents said that they had witnessed or experienced racist content online and those from a minority ethnic background were more likely to have encountered this content.
As younger people tend to be more adept with technology, its unsurprising to hear from Ofcom that 13- to 17-year-olds were more likely to have been exposed to harmful content online in the last three months. Seven in ten of VSP users who responded said they came across harmful content but this rose to eight in ten among 13- to 17-year-olds.
The regulator also found that 60% of VSP users that responded were unaware of the safety and protection features on the websites they use and only 25% have ever flagged or reported content they thought was harmful. To help raise awareness, Ofcom has told VSPs that they need to introduce clear upload rules, make it easy to flag or report content, and it said that adult sites should introduce age-verification systems.
If sites fail to comply with Ofcom’s decisions, it will investigate and take action. Some of the measures it could enforce include fines, requiring a provider to take specific actions, and in serious cases, it could restrict access to the service.
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By Copernic
LIII BitTorrent Client 0.1.1.5
by Razvan Serea
LIII BitTorrent Client is a open-source BitTorrent client capable of downloading torrents with minimal impact on the system's resources. The software distinguishes itself from the competition with a minimalistic, no-nonsense interface and easily accessible options. Along with the standard features, LIII BitTorrent Client offers convenient downloads managing, flexible settings, etc. It is also possible to open torrents from URLs or magnet links. You can use it to download any and all Torrent files you find around the web at speeds as fast as any other BitTorrent client, if not faster.
Changes in v0.1.1.5:
Display how much DHT nodes LIII is connected to, "[DHT: xxx nodes]" in the program title bar Colored status column Download: LIII BitTorrent Client 0.1.1.5 | 10.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Portable 32-bit | Portable 64-bit ~12.0 MB
View: LIII BitTorrent Client Home Page | Project Page @GitHub
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