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WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents

Newsweek is one of many outlets to report that Wikileaks' latest dump is a trove of Sony's company emails and other documents that consists of even more individual pieces than the 200,000-plus leaked in April. Included, says the Newsweek story, are "276,394 Sony Corp. communications, including email, travel calendars, contact lists, expense reports and private files." One interesting tidbit revealed by the documents thus revealed, spotted by Apple Insider, is that "Apple requested [from Sony] 4K content for potential digital distribution and on-demand services testing nearly two years ago, suggesting the company has been exploring ultra high-definition streaming for some time."

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  1. Re:mmm 4k content by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That would be never.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I have been working on getting around that for 25 years. It is not possible (doesnt stop me from keep trying though). Their theory holds up very well. The only way around it is to add more 'channels'. That does not exist. The best compression algs these days are ones which remove information and then feed it into other compression algs which can do good on that massaged data. PNG is a good example where the upper part is a massaging of the data then fed into deflate.