Website backup crippled by 1.6MB Friends GIF that was replicated 246,173 times, breaking Linux’s EXT4 filesystem limit — Jennifer Aniston’s ‘happy dance’ animation ate up 377 gigabytes of data due to security policy

A single reaction animation, frequently duplicated in chats by community members, added 377GB to a site’s backup quota.
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Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases

Via LA, the patent pool administrator for H.264/AVC, restructured its streaming license fees earlier this year, replacing a flat $100,000 annual cap with a tiered system.
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Starlink satellite 34343 disappears in ‘fragment creation event’ — observation ‘immediately detected tens of objects in the vicinity of the satellite after the event’

Starlink posted an update on satellite 34343, which it lost communications with on Sunday after a debris‑generation incident.
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Revolut Bank ordered to hand over details of more than 300 Sky TV subscribers connected to piracy operation — TV provider expected to pursue subscribers who paid for illicit ‘IPTV is Easy’ service in unprecedented move

Ireland’s High Court granted Sky a Norwich Pharmacal order compelling Revolut Bank UAB to hand over the names, addresses, and banking details of 304 subscribers
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Starlink Mobile teases ‘5G speeds from space with 100x the data density’ — V2 satellites are being sent into orbit to power the upgrade

Starlink’s official social media channels are boasting about an incredible performance update on the way to mobile customers.
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Botnet smashes DDoS traffic record, equivalent to streaming 2.2 million Netflix 4K movies at once — 31.4 Tb/s attack was large enough to take entire countries offline

Aisuru-Kimwolf botnet smashes DDoS traffic record at 31.4 Tb/s

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Iran government takes down Starlink amidst civil unrest with ‘military-grade jamming signals’, report claims — President Trump vows to speak to Elon Musk to restore internet in crisis-hit country

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran shut down all methods of internet access, including Starlink.

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How to use Plex and a spare computer to build a streaming movie service

Build your own streaming service all from the comfort of your own home. You only need a spare PC and a few hours to serve media across your home.
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Starlink satellite pictured ‘tumbling’ after recent ‘anomaly’ in space — it will be incinerated when it enters the Earth’s atmosphere in a few weeks

Starlink satellite 35956 suffered from a serious anomaly on December 17. It has been pictured largely intact, tumbling in space, but it will be weeks before it burns up in the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify’s 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites

In the name of music preservation, pirate group Anna’s Archive has scraped 300 TB of data from Spotify’s library, representing around 37% of all songs but 99.9% of all listens. It’s essentially everything on Spotify packag…

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