The photograph need reinvented – Swedish Dagbladet

It’s time someone invents the photograph again, writes Håkan Lindgren. Photo: BECKER + BREDEL GbR / Action Press

Someone should inventing photography again. The photograph has been a very valuable invention, but it is being lost. For we have no cameras anymore. Digital technology gives us a different kind of device, not yet fully developed. It is currently being hatched, and it will differ radically from everything we think of as cameras.

What we’re getting instead? If you put together a variety of small news items, that kind of notes flowing past as a daily siding of teknokuriosa, one can begin to discern it.

We can start with something simple: the camera that can distinguish facial expressions and waits to take a picture until someone smiles. The next step is a bit more advanced. If you take a group picture of his buddies do not smile all the time. Someone might accidentally close your eyes. 2013 HTC presented a mobile phone with one touch burning of 20 pictures and can merge everyone’s “best” facial expression for a group photo. Very convenient – and you’ve just taken a picture of something that has not happened.

The HTC’s camera phone also offers retuschfunktionerna Skin Smoothing and Eye Enhancer plus a feature that allows broad jawbones bit narrower. How much is left of your friends when you take such a picture?

programmers HTC wants to be understood only help us to take pictures where everyone shows its best side, but at now it’s about time to think about what they mean by “best”.

It is easy to continue thinking in the same track: why not an app that washes away the smog? Take a picture of Beijing and the sky is blue. You can get greener trees, better looking tan and so on. Such images are not supported memory. Their information content is comparable to a child’s drawing from the same holiday excursion: the sun is yellow, sea blue and all have happy faces. I look at a family photo from my grandfather’s youth, it is only the unedited makes the picture precious to me: the uncontrolled vitamins, incidental background detail. I suspect that the image is manipulated ceases to speak to me.

In August announced Researchers at MIT that they had developed an algorithm that can remove unwanted obstacles from photographs. If you shoot the view through a window disturbed picture often reflections in the glass. Takes a couple of images from slightly different angles to their software to add images together, subtract reflexes and give you a clear view as if the window was not there. Same thing if you shoot through a mesh fences, or if there is a lamppost in the way. Imagine a camera that has this feature built in. It can get objects in front of the lens to disappear without a trace, it has become something other than a camera.

In addition, all the technology is to change the image after the exposure is made. 2014 gave Adobe a preview of an algorithm that makes it possible in retrospect can choose the time of day of an image: from day to evening to night. The sky darkens, lighting lights, color gamut shift.

A research at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have developed a technique that allows one to enter a photo, pick out an object , turn and twist in three dimensions and to return it to a new location. The prerequisite is that you have a 3D model of the object you want to manipulate, but those are plentiful. Large library of ready, photo-realistic computer models of everything from cutlery and furniture for animals and humans are about to emerge. Visit Turbosquid.com to see how it might look.

In June this year, a research group at the University of Washington that they can take a collection of photos of some, enough to capture the person’s facial expression, and produce a convincing 3D model of the person’s face. The model can then be threaded like a rubber mask on top of a video recording of someone else’s head. They demonstrated their technique in a video clip where the wooden Hillary Clinton’s facial features on top of George Bush’s head and get her to say his lines. Anyone can be a computer animation and made to say anything.

It reminded me, for something I did for a couple of years ago, when Tiger Woods was hits the headlines. Had he collided with the car and fought with his girlfriend? A Taiwanese news site illustrated speculation with a computer animation where Tiger quarreled with Elin Nordegren. The quality of the animation was no better than a clumsy computer games, but it was like getting a preview of the news programs from an unscrupulous future.

By now we know that it is only a matter of time before computer graphics go from embarrassing to photorealistic. Think of the invisible digital special effects that are routinely mixed in the feature film. If speculative or completely false news reports can be just as convincing as the digital effects to the movies, we have no news coverage anymore. Then we are back at the 1500s level: a video no more probative value than a woodcut in which someone has given the Pope ass’s ears. We gears up to 6K can not change that.

to each pixel in digital photo or video can be manipulated totally unlimited means that such images have more in common with drawings and paintings than with the photo. Artists who paint a view has never been disturbed by a fence has been in the way, they’ve moved on trees and houses as needed. The people around the table in Krøyers “Hip hip hurray” smiled probably not at the same time.

Funnily enough, takes this development in digital imaging while having the ability to illustrate the hand disappeared. Look at the ads in the magazines from the 30s, 40s and 50s, or on the future of book covers and movie posters: so much of that was handmade, often impressively skilful. Today is the sort of commercial illustrations are almost always photo-based – when you can no longer draw their ads increases the need to manipulate photographs.

The overall effect of all these innovations means that what we call photograph ceases to exist. Photos have always been retouched, but we are heading into a state where it no longer makes sense to make a difference in digital photography and computer graphics. In this situation, any digital image is considered as if it was just as artificial. Perhaps, in the near future do not understand why we insisted to distinguish between computer games and digital photography, animation and news images. In that situation, it’s time someone invents the photograph again.

Volkswagen changing marketing – “Das Auto” downplayed – Auto Motor & Sport

We need a more humble communication with car buyers after the exhaust scandal. That realization has reached Volkswagen’s management and thus can not be as cross-confident and cocky anymore – making the “Das Auto” disappears from advertising.

This is just one of many jokes that Volkswagen put up with online. There are other examples that are much worse …

Of Pär Brandt , Yesterday, 19:01

To be confident is seen positively by most people. But somewhere there is a fine line where the confident attitude falling over to be cocky and arrogant instead.

Perhaps Volkswagen has crossed the border after the autumn exhaust scandal. The motto “Das Auto” – that always end the Volkswagen commercials – now has a different meaning after the revelation that millions of diesel cars run with illegal software in their motor control. There are also countless jokes on the web where different people kidding with Volkswagen’s confident attitude as the only car manufacturer with the ability to define what a car is.

Marketing needed and Volkswagen have not cut on it in the fall, rather the opposite, since it had several important launches. The offensive will continue, but “Das Auto” is not likely to be of particularly long. According to information that emerged from last week’s management meeting in Dresden, where 2,000 leaders from around the VW group gathered, it is a more humble profile that will characterize future message to consumers. Volkswagen usually have a similar collection before the holidays every year, but this year’s conference had naturally a completely different meaning.

The motto “Das Auto” was launched in 2007 and was part of CEO Martin Winterkorn Korn’s ambition is to make Volkswagen the biggest, best and most profitable in the automotive industry by 2018. But in Dresden declared brand manager Herbert Diess that “Das Auto” indicates arrogance. Completely wrong given that it failed to meet US emission regulations and instead chose to cheat, even if it is still unclear how widespread the knowledge of this cheating was.

Herbert Diess acquired BMW this summer and may look at both Volkswagen and it has happened in the fall with “fresh eyes”. Nowadays he is part of a management which largely consists of new people after the autumn comprehensive reorganization. 2016 will be the year when this leadership must show what it can do and deliver results. Although autumn exhaust scandal given moderate impact on sales, confidence to be rebuilt. Time to roll up your sleeves and throw the tie, as it did in Dresden

   
   

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Service & Print Group Haber Beck invest in Ricoh ProTM VC60000 – Dagens Industri

          
             Published 2015-12-21 09:32
       

           

Stockholm December 21, 2015
Service & amp; Print Group Haber Beck, a leading print provider with headquarters in Ostwestfalen Lippe, Germany has made a strategic investment to develop its digital printing infrastructure. The investment is a milestone in their planned change tactics toward a distinctive production of printed and digital media. To develop the existing digital environment that previously only consisted of arkpressar company invests now in a Ricoh Pro VC60000 for continuous forms. And to realize significant productivity and automation benefits, they have also invested in Ricoh’s Software Process Director workflow management .

– We set clear quality standards for the new production technology. And for over three years, we intensively scanned the market. Now we can confirm that we have found what we have been looking for, to provide our customers with tomorrow’s technology today. On all types of materials. It means that our customers can stay ahead of their competitors. The investment is a true milestone for us and Ricoh’s new technology fits perfectly into our portfolio of services. With Pro VC60000 we can print on a wide range of media and printing quality similar to offset, only with a wider range of possibilities. Our customer offering and our services will be both broader, more flexible, says Mr Hartmut Paulsen, largest shareholder of Service & amp; Print Group Haber Beck.

Service & amp; Print Group Haber Beck uses his Pro VC60000 system to suppress completely or partially personalized targeted brochures, inbladningar, direct mail and catalogs to customers in the automotive, textiles, jewelery, footwear and retail. “Our quality is soaring,” says Paulsen. – We decided to work with Ricoh as their holistic and sophisticated technology concept has convinced all the way. First and foremost provides the Ricoh Pro VC60000 the best ink print quality on the widest range of media. Then there is the seamless integration of production and software components in our existing production flow, together with existing tools and our new marketing platform has given us the opportunity to work with large volumes, an impressive performance from the very beginning with automation. All in all, this is the perfect solution for printing and print-on-demand, he said.

With Pro VC60000 Ricoh has set a new industry standard for inkjet of continuous forms. Developed to meet the constantly increasing demand printing technology for smaller editions, e-mail and Boktryckarkonst. The platform offers printing on a wide range of media with unmatched print quality and productivity that resembles a production of sheets.

– We are very pleased with the service & amp; Print Group Haber Beck, one of the leading print providers chose Ricoh for our technology and performance. Many print providers face the challenge of changing their production workflow to provide small runs and short delivery times without having to compromise on the choice of media type or print quality than offset production. Pro VC60000 meets these requirements. To handle the digital change quickly and safely also needed a technology partner who can integrate technology into existing workflows and take care of everything from planning, financing and implementation of business development support and support around the clock. This is what Ricoh supplies, says Tommy Segel Berg, Director, Nordic Operations PPBG, Ricoh Sweden.

| Ricoh at drupa 2016 |
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The Majority of the company’s revenue comes from products, Solutions and Services That improvement the interaction between people and information. Ricoh overpriced produces award-winning digital cameras and specialized industrial products. It is known for the quality of its technology, the exceptional standard of its customer service and sustainability Initiatives.

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Funding from the Swedish Research Council for effective software testing – Mynewsdesk (press release)

Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, has received more than 4 million by the Swedish Research Council to develop new ways of testing software for quality improvement. It is a breakthrough for the field of software engineering that is now also receive funds for basic research.

Software is a key part of our modern society and we need both theoretical understanding and practical tools that can ensure that it has sufficient quality. However, it has proved difficult to find theories and practical tools for this.

The researcher Robert Feldt at BTH now receives funding from the Research Council to develop methods for efficient software testing with the help of information theory.

– Information theory is a kind of applied mathematics of information and the basis for our modern communication society. We will see how we can use information theory to make software testing, which today are often vague and subjective, more efficient, says Professor Robert Feldt.

The money from the Research Council will allow researchers at BTH over four years to conduct a project where the goal is both to develop methods for efficient software testing and examining how the information theoretical analysis methods that are developed generalized to other areas than testing.

– The project thus has significant potential to create a transformative effect on software engineering and give it a more precise and scientific basis, says Robert Feldt.

BTH applied research in software technology has many years been at the top in Sweden but it is strategically important that it is also now attracting funds for basic research.

– I have worked with testing and quality along with Swedish companies for many years and know they were real the problems are and the need for general solutions. There is no contradiction between practice and basic research without the support of each other. The initiative from the Research Council will enable us to take on a state position problem, says Robert Feldt.

For more information contact Robert Feldt via email: Robert. feldt@bth.se or by telephone 0455-38 58 07. See also www.bth.se

Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, is one of Sweden’s most profiled colleges where applied IT and innovation for sustainable growth are in focus. BTH started in 1989 and today has more than 6000 students and 500 employees.

BTH is among the top six in the world in software technology and sustainable development.

Something that characterizes BTH is the close cooperation with business and society, which permeates education and research at the regional, national and international level.

BTH received in 1999 the right to issue a doctorate in engineering and we are currently postgraduate studies in the areas of IT with applications and planning and management. Research represents a tredjedal of our business.

Our main campus is located in Karlskrona, where operations are housed in new premises with the sea as its closest neighbor. BTH also has a campus in Karlshamn.

Please visit www.bth.se

Funding from the Swedish Research Council for effective software testing – Mynewsdesk (press release)

Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, has received more than 4 million by the Swedish Research Council to develop new ways of testing software for quality improvement. It is a breakthrough for the field of software engineering that is now also receive funds for basic research.

Software is a key part of our modern society and we need both theoretical understanding and practical tools that can ensure that it has sufficient quality. However, it has proved difficult to find theories and practical tools for this.

The researcher Robert Feldt at BTH now receives funding from the Research Council to develop methods for efficient software testing with the help of information theory.

– Information theory is a kind of applied mathematics of information and the basis for our modern communication society. We will see how we can use information theory to make software testing, which today are often vague and subjective, more efficient, says Professor Robert Feldt.

The money from the Research Council will allow researchers at BTH over four years to conduct a project where the goal is both to develop methods for efficient software testing and examining how the information theoretical analysis methods that are developed generalized to other areas than testing.

– The project thus has significant potential to create a transformative effect on software engineering and give it a more precise and scientific basis, says Robert Feldt.

BTH applied research in software technology has many years been at the top in Sweden but it is strategically important that it is also now attracting funds for basic research.

– I have worked with testing and quality along with Swedish companies for many years and know they were real the problems are and the need for general solutions. There is no contradiction between practice and basic research without the support of each other. The initiative from the Research Council will enable us to take on a state position problem, says Robert Feldt.

For more information contact Robert Feldt via email: Robert. feldt@bth.se or by telephone 0455-38 58 07. See also www.bth.se

Blekinge Institute of Technology, BTH, is one of Sweden’s most profiled colleges where applied IT and innovation for sustainable growth are in focus. BTH started in 1989 and today has more than 6000 students and 500 employees.

BTH is among the top six in the world in software technology and sustainable development.

Something that characterizes BTH is the close cooperation with business and society, which permeates education and research at the regional, national and international level.

BTH received in 1999 the right to issue a doctorate in engineering and we are currently postgraduate studies in the areas of IT with applications and planning and management. Research represents a tredjedal of our business.

Our main campus is located in Karlskrona, where operations are housed in new premises with the sea as its closest neighbor. BTH also has a campus in Karlshamn.

Please visit www.bth.se

Microsoft opens its JavaScript engine – New Technology

       

With the browser Edge in Windows 10, Microsoft is trying to do away with their bad reputation when it comes to browsers by unscrewing the performance and monitor standards for the Web. From next month will further the browser’s JavaScript engine Chakra will be released under an open license. This means that anyone who wants to can download the source code to Chakra and develop it further.

JavaScript is a popular language for writing applications to be run directly in the browser. In recent years, language has also become more common to write programs that run on servers or embedded connected systems. It is in the latter two applications like Microsoft now hopes to compete with Google’s JavaScript engine V8 that has long since been licensed as open source.

Microsoft announced the news that the company plans to share Chakra in a blog post this weekend. By opening its engine, Microsoft can more easily collaborate with more to develop it and adapt it so that it works more places. According to the blog post, the company plans to create a community around the development, together with Intel, AMD and Node Source. The latter company develops software and tools for developers who use JavaScript.

Microsoft has developed Chakra since 2008 and except in the browser Edge used For instance, for running JavaScript in the company’s cloud service, Azure, Windows 10, on the Xbox and its phones. Developer John Edelstam, which arranges JavaScript Conference Nordic.js, think it is great that Microsoft is opening its engine, but he does not believe that it will have major consequences in the short term.

- There is nothing I have personally been waiting for, but it’s exciting for JavaScript as the language that will more engines, he said.

Han hope that greater competition will accelerate the development and the new features of the language will come into practical use faster.

- In this way, it is interesting to have more options that are backed by large software company with the resources, says John Edelstam.

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Malmö Company adopted the Y Combinator – Dagens Industri

They rehearsed for a week on a business presentation that would take ten minutes. It was time well spent. Now the founders of the startup-company Get acceptance from Malmo admitted to the fabled Y Combinator in Silicon Valley.

Get The acceptance has as one of only three other Swedish companies have so far received the world’s hottest business accelerator that co-financier, where companies like Airbnb, and Dropbox seen the light.

The figures on how many companies each year for a place at Y Combinator between 7 000 and 15 000. In Malmö contractors of the company Get Accepted in early November had come there to make their pitch remained around 400 competitors.

“We were four people who went to California in ten minutes to introduce our business for their selection panels. We rehearsed pitch in a week, “says Mathias Thulin who are the main investors in the Get Accepted.

Read more: Studio Total-founders admitted to Y Combinator

The company has been around for about a year and is born out of a circuit around Malmö company Apsis and Lundalogik, both are companies that manage customer relationships.

Mathias Thulin and his partner Jonas Blanck, the company Prospect Eye on the merit list, a company they 2013 sold to Apsis. Then it was about a company that analyzes the visits to the website to track the target.

Now the main investors to Samir Smajic who is the man behind the Goat acceptance and the company’s CEO. The company has developed a platform where sellers can send digital quotes that are connected to the system software.

If the system detects no activity from the receiver set it automatically started sales activities, such as banner advertising, text messages and emails.

Additionally, there are function of digital signing of contracts. All based on the realization that six out of ten traditional quotations never lead to a deal.

“We have been in the US before and met investors, but we were told that either we would come back when we have 10 million in sales, or so we would look into Y Combinator, and we did, “says Mathias Thulin.

Y Combinator has an extreme impact, and is now investing SEK 1 million compared with 7 percent in the company. Get Accepted move in on January 5 and then wait three months of intensive work under the supervision of företagsacceleratorns mentors. On March 23, it’s time for a new pitch, and then facing America’s leading investment firms.

Read more: Silicon Valley super accelerator from the inside

” We say the company coming out of Y Combinator has a value between 100 and 200 million. Our product is developed. What is at issue now is marketing to find customers in the United States, in parallel with that we collect customers in Sweden, “said Samir Smajic.

Now begins the journey to become a unicorn – a start-up company which will be worth more than $ 1 billion.

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Facts

Swedish founded the company in Y Combinator

Heysan – 2007

Verbs Ling – 2011

Wheelys – 2015

Get Accept – 2016

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Y Combinator company is now valued at over $ 2 billion

Airbnb

Dropbox

Zenefits

Stripe

Instacart

VR may require three times more than 1080p gaming – FZ

If everything goes as it should be virtual reality suktande PC gamers buy on a VR-existence in the beginning of next year. Oculus Rift and HTC Vive aim for the selling release in the first quarter, but using them will require their machine.

Nvidia’s software Geforce Experience has been updated with a new virtual reality tab, which tells you that it requires a Geforce GTX 970 graphics card of desktop model to run VR. They do not say which VR headset requirements apply, but because they are virtually identical to the spring system for Oculus Rift (Nvidia “forget” to mention the AMD Radeon 290), we can assume that it is the measure.

Oculus Rift (CV1) and HTC Vive has similar specifications – 2160×1200 pixel resolution in two screens and 90 Hz refresh rate – which can be interpreted as an indication of the minimum requirements for Vive.

Sweclockers have figured out what VR -brillorna sets of demands on the hardware, and concludes that the two headsetsen require about three times more computing power than a game running in 1080p at 60 Hz. So here they count:

The resolution, refresh rate, and custom rendering techniques means that a graphics card must be able to process about 400 million pixels (with shaders) per second. Roughly, it means that a typical VR games will require about three times more computing power than an equivalent traditional game title at 1080p and 60Hz.

The time would explain Nvidia and Oculus cool system for VR graphics cards today starting around 3000 SEK. Nvidia’s system requirements for unspecified virtual reality looks like this:

• GeForce GTX 970 (desktop) / AMD Radeon 290 (for Oculus Rift)
• Intel Core I5-4590
• 8 GB RAM
• Windows 7 (SP1) or later

Ad nauseum want to cheat advertisers – by clicking on absolutely everything – Breakit (press release)

Now, three Americans has gone a step further than the usual ad blocker. They have created an extension to the Firefox browser which, in the background, click on every ad that appears in your browser.

The idea behind the software is to make it harder for companies to track your online behavior. By ad nauseum, “click” on a list for the user it appears that the person is interested in just about everything. Thus deluged the fair conduct in the roar of the clicks and it becomes more difficult for companies to track your behavior.

Ad Nauseums website described the service as a tool to enhance the user’s dissatisfaction with advertising networks that do not take into account user privacy. The service acts as a supplement to the regular adblockers that filter out all advertising.

We have previously written about the so-called “Adblockerbomben” that is about to change ad formats on the world web fundamentally. Although ad nauseum could move around properly in the advertisement pot.

Over a longer period, it has been common for media and sites will charge you per click on ads. Now the whole system is undermined completely on ad nauseum is becoming more prevalent. In the short term, of course clicking of increase for the media but from a longer-term perspective means that one must make the payment model is all about ad nauseum, and similar software is gaining popularity.

It has also become increasingly common for media uses what is known as the programmatic ads. The ads are automatically generated depends, among other things, which sites visitors have been on before.

advertising agencies that have based their business on such ads are likely to be among the hardest hit. In time, they are forced to change their business model completely.

A person arrested for banking attacks – Expressen

A 16-year-old Småland boy suspected to be behind a number hacker attacks against Swedbank and Nordea. He was arrested yesterday. At the same time made the search of his home.

– I believe that it is a question of system-threatening crime, said prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, the International Prosecutor’s Office in Stockholm.

According to the prosecutor 20,000 hijacked computers used in the attack. It has also been attempted blackmail against Swedbank.

The 16-year-old lawyer, Gunnar Larsson, do not want to give any comments on the allegations against his client.

– The question of a very young person and therefore I would not speak, says Gunnar Larsson who did not want to indicate whether 16-year-old denies or admits the crimes he is suspected of having committed.

The 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday at his home. At the same time made the search which includes computers were seized.

– I believe that the evidence location is very good, said prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist Evening Post.

was declared fugitives

Because of the suspect’s young age was declared 16-year-old later released. He will be called for new hearings shortly.

– He has given an explanation for his actions. But I do not want to go into what he said in the interrogations, says Mats Ljungqvist.

The 16-year-old suspected to be behind the number of DDoS attacks, denial of service attacks, conducted in October against major banks, Swedbank and Nordea.

In connection with the attack on Swedbank police reported the bank incident – and now, a person has been arrested.

In search of the boy’s home in Kronoberg County attended National cybercrime center cooperation with the national investigation unit at the National Operational Department, and local resources in the South region.

charged in his absence

The 16-year-old boy had been before the arrest was arrested in his absence for a time .

– The arrested person is suspected of serious data breaches and attempted extortion. I believe that the case of system-threatening crime, said prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist.

In connection with the attacks on Swedbank and Nordea Express in contact with a person , who pretended to be the responsible hacker.

The alleged hacker: Not

The hacker, who would not disclose his real name, said to be a 24-year old man living in Skåne and that “work to hack things. “

” I did it simply because I felt like it. I have power to take down the website I want. Can take a lot more stuff, “he wrote then through Skype .

The person claimed, and Swedbank confirmed that a total of 10 000 dollars in the digital currency Bitcoin was required that the attacks would be stopped.

– There is someone who has taken on it and has demanded money. If it is the same person I do not know, ‘said Claes Warrén in Swedbank’s press office in connection with the attacks and police .

Six years in prison

The hacker said further that sites like AOL, Hitta and Eniro could be attacked. If Swedbank’s police report, he wrote that he did not directly cared:

“Nah … just o have a cold beer and take each day as it comes.”

Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist believes that In the case of a particularly serious crime, which both caused great harm to the relevant banks, but also damaged the public’s confidence in our payment systems.

The penalties for serious data breaches is six years in prison for attempted extortion two years in prison . But because the suspect is almost criminal responsibility will sanction another.

– This type of crime is exercised almost always by young people, not usually over 30 years, said the prosecutor.

A person arrested for banking attacks – Expressen

A 16-year-old Småland boy suspected to be behind a number hacker attacks against Swedbank and Nordea. He was arrested yesterday. At the same time made the search of his home.

– I believe that it is a question of system-threatening crime, said prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, the International Prosecutor’s Office in Stockholm.

According to the prosecutor 20,000 hijacked computers used in the attack. It has also been attempted blackmail against Swedbank.

The 16-year-old lawyer, Gunnar Larsson, do not want to give any comments on the allegations against his client.

– The question of a very young person and therefore I would not speak, says Gunnar Larsson who did not want to indicate whether 16-year-old denies or admits the crimes he is suspected of having committed.

The 16-year-old boy was arrested yesterday at his home. At the same time made the search which includes computers were seized.

– I believe that the evidence location is very good, said prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist Evening Post.

was declared fugitives

Because of the suspect’s young age was declared 16-year-old later released. He will be called for new hearings shortly.

– He has given an explanation for his actions. But I do not want to go into what he said in the interrogations, says Mats Ljungqvist.

The 16-year-old suspected to be behind the number of DDoS attacks, denial of service attacks, conducted in October against major banks, Swedbank and Nordea.

In connection with the attack on Swedbank police reported the bank incident – and now, a person has been arrested.

In search of the boy’s home in Kronoberg County attended National cybercrime center cooperation with the national investigation unit at the National Operational Department, and local resources in the South region.

charged in his absence

The 16-year-old boy had been before the arrest was arrested in his absence for a time .

– The arrested person is suspected of serious data breaches and attempted extortion. I believe that the case of system-threatening crime, said prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist.

In connection with the attacks on Swedbank and Nordea Express in contact with a person , who pretended to be the responsible hacker.

The alleged hacker: Not

The hacker, who would not disclose his real name, said to be a 24-year old man living in Skåne and that “work to hack things. “

” I did it simply because I felt like it. I have power to take down the website I want. Can take a lot more stuff, “he wrote then through Skype .

The person claimed, and Swedbank confirmed that a total of 10 000 dollars in the digital currency Bitcoin was required that the attacks would be stopped.

– There is someone who has taken on it and has demanded money. If it is the same person I do not know, ‘said Claes Warrén in Swedbank’s press office in connection with the attacks and police .

Six years in prison

The hacker said further that sites like AOL, Hitta and Eniro could be attacked. If Swedbank’s police report, he wrote that he did not directly cared:

“Nah … just o have a cold beer and take each day as it comes.”

Prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist believes that In the case of a particularly serious crime, which both caused great harm to the relevant banks, but also damaged the public’s confidence in our payment systems.

The penalties for serious data breaches is six years in prison for attempted extortion two years in prison . But because the suspect is almost criminal responsibility will sanction another.

– This type of crime is exercised almost always by young people, not usually over 30 years, said the prosecutor.

Ad nauseum want to cheat advertisers – by clicking on absolutely everything – Breakit (press release)

Now, three Americans has gone a step further than the usual ad blocker. They have created an extension to the Firefox browser which, in the background, click on every ad that appears in your browser.

The idea behind the software is to make it harder for companies to track your online behavior. By ad nauseum, “click” on a list for the user it appears that the person is interested in just about everything. Thus deluged the fair conduct in the roar of the clicks and it becomes more difficult for companies to track your behavior.

Ad Nauseums website described the service as a tool to enhance the user’s dissatisfaction with advertising networks that do not take into account user privacy. The service acts as a supplement to the regular adblockers that filter out all advertising.

We have previously written about the so-called “Adblockerbomben” that is about to change ad formats on the world web fundamentally. Although ad nauseum could move around properly in the advertisement pot.

Over a longer period, it has been common for media and sites will charge you per click on ads. Now the whole system is undermined completely on ad nauseum is becoming more prevalent. In the short term, of course clicking of increase for the media but from a longer-term perspective means that one must make the payment model is all about ad nauseum, and similar software is gaining popularity.

It has also become increasingly common for media uses what is known as the programmatic ads. The ads are automatically generated depends, among other things, which sites visitors have been on before.

advertising agencies that have based their business on such ads are likely to be among the hardest hit. In time, they are forced to change their business model completely.

Network security company Clavister’s revenue increased – Swedish Dagbladet

Cash and cash equivalents at period end amounted to EUR 33.2 million (22.3).

According to the interim report.

“Clavister has never before in its history faced a such a response from new and existing customers and partners – which, among other things, confirmed the above and of the already signed contracts. The Company’s growth strategy is hereby very timely and will help the company in the ongoing business discussions, “the company said in reference to the distribution agreement with Canon IT Solutions Japan and the Artesyn has launched a new security platform based on Clavister software.

Share network connection via command line? – PC for All

As a continuation of this thread, which links here, wish I could do under the heading.

is thus torque at point 3 that I want to accomplish with a command line.

Have Googled a bit, but think that the solutions are, or seem, unnecessary (?) cumbersome.

Can not do such dividends, as paragraph 3, and then somewhere checking what the distribution looks like behind the scenes?

I want as part of another course of events via a batch file to share the connection but also remove the dividend.

Extensions:

Hmm .. hmm need seems to be gone now .. for some reason .. (?)

But the question can of course remain.

Edited by Mikael63, Today, at 11:47.

Researchers fix software for future supercomputers – forskning.se

The researchers have received over 36 million to finance the project. Even today’s supercomputers made up of tens to hundreds of computing cores that make up a computer system with massive parallelism. In order to effectively utilize this capacity, access to efficient and scalable parallel algorithms and software, which has long been an area within the computation-oriented and computer science research at Umeå University.

HPC2N (High Performance Computing Center North) at Umeå University offers, as part of VR’s metacentre SNIC, national access to first-class supercomputer system for large-scale computing and mass storage of data.

A trillion operations per second
Future supercomputers will be even more extreme parallel, scalable and heterogeneous; the goal is to deliver supercomputer with a computing capacity of a trillion operations per second (1 trillion = 1 000 000 000 000 000 000; 10 raised to 18) by 2020.

This dramatic developments in turn places new and challenging demands for efficient numerical algorithms and software libraries. The purpose of NLAFET is to tackle these challenges and ultimately deliver new scalable numerical library for large-scale fundamental problems in numerical linear algebra, including the solution of dense and sparse systems of equations and eigenvalue problems.

The components of a program library can be seen as Lego bricks used to build software for different application areas. Today these applications in virtually all of the faculty and research, with the longest tradition in technology and science.

Analysis of large amounts of data
> In addition to simulations of physical models of reality, processing and analysis of large amounts of data an important area with many new applications.

NLAFET stands for “Parallel Numerical Linear Algebra for Future Extreme Scale Systems” . It is a high-profile research projects (RIA) for extremely scalable computer systems, funded by the European Commission in the section Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) as part of Horizon in 2020.

Horizon 2020 is the EU ‘ Framework Programme for funding research and innovation, with funding of almost € 71 billion over seven years (2014-2020).

In order to achieve the project objectives requires a broad focus on developing new algorithms, exploring advanced scheduling strategies and execution systems, automatic optimization of software (so-called offline and online auto-tuning), and not least to avoid bottlenecks related to communication and synchronization of the millions of computational tasks that together form the whole.

Preconditions for creativity
NLAFET project coordinated by Umeå University, with international partners from the University of Manchester (UniMan), United Kingdom, Institut National de Recherche one Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), United Kingdom.

Recently held the project kick-off conference at Umeå University with participants from all four parties. The conference was organized jointly by the Department of Computer Science and HPC2N. At the conference, the arrangement of the research project and its various components.

A key challenge for NLAFET and for all projects within the Horizon 2020 is to create the best possible conditions for creative research to effectively collaborate and together achieve the high ambitions of the project.

CONTACT
Bo Kågström, professor, chief coordinator and scientific director of NLAFET Department of Computer Science and HPC2N, Umeå University. Phone: 073-620 54 19. E-mail: bokg@cs.umu.se

VPN server – M3

We are now running a VPN connection via the Internet from a Windows 7 computer with the help of the built-in VPN functionality. At the other end there is a router with PPTP feature. The new router we have acquired has not been such a feature. Windows can also act as “VPN Server” and how do you do in that case?