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Russia blocks dozens of Kremlin critics’ websites

Russia blocks dozens of Kremlin critics' websites

Russia has blocked dozens of Kremlin critics’ websites, most of them about the imprisoned opposition activist Alexei Navalny. According to the decision of the General Prosecutor’s Office in Moscow, a total of 49 pages were blocked in Russia, said the independent organization Roskomswoboda. The organization is committed to free access to the Internet. All pages …

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Spotify will tell you when your latest podcasts and songs are out

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One of the things that the Internet has given us is the immediacy to know all the news on any subject. Social networks and media help in this work, as do their dedicated applications for mobile phones. But Spotify also wants to do their part to make music culture and audio entertainment spread faster. And …

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“Foundation” on Apple TV +: Two episodes as expensive as a movie

"Foundation" on Apple TV +: Two episodes as expensive as a movie

One of the most eagerly anticipated series on Apple’s TV + streaming service is “Foundation” based on the eponymous cycle by science fiction legend Isaac Asimov. Its filming had so far failed due to the epic breadth of the story, which extends over 1000 years – until Apple came along. David S. Goyer, who wrote …

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Easy, quick, convenient? The problems with the e-car charging network

Easy, quick, convenient?  The problems with the e-car charging network

Fast and cheap, comprehensive, convenient and transparent: This is how the charging network for electric cars should look like. But so far there have been too few fast charging stations and many consumers are still at risk of getting lost in an impenetrable tariff jungle. Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) told the German Press …

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Apple starts selling its own AirPods competitor

Apple starts selling its own AirPods competitor

Apple has started selling new – and quite special – earplugs from its subsidiary Beats in Germany. The Studio Buds are the first devices from the brand that can be classified as real AirPods competitors. The in-ear hardware comes for the first time for a totally wireless model from Beats with integrated active noise cancellation …

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Software AG increases profits significantly, subscription business picks up

Software AG increases profits significantly, subscription business picks up

Darmstadt-based Software AG increased its profit significantly in the second quarter. The switch to subscriptions showed “the first positive effects”, according to a statement from the group on Wednesday. The EBIT increased by 65 percent to 50.1 million euros. Group sales rose year-on-year by 10 percent, adjusted for currency effects, to 218.2 million euros, and …

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Apple systems: macOS 11.5 and iPadOS 14.7 are available

Apple systems: macOS 11.5 and iPadOS 14.7 are available

Apple released updates for macOS and iPadOS on Thursday night. This time, the updates come unusually several days after the release of the new operating system versions for iPhone, Apple Watch or Apple TV – Apple usually offers all of its updates in one fell swoop. iPad update provides bug fixes IOS 14.7 as well …

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Apple MagSafe: Charging adapter and accessories in the big test

Apple MagSafe: Charging adapter and accessories in the big test

Table of Contents Apple MagSafe: Charging adapter and accessories in the big test Versatile MagSafe The best power supply One-on-one meetings charging adapter One-on-one meetings with power banks Magnetic accessories and extensions Cases and conclusion Loading times of the iPhone 12 and conclusion Read article in Mac & i 3/2021 Almost four years ago, Apple …

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Apple works on a new screen with the iPhone 11 processor

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Apple is one of the companies in the technology segment most committed to the environment. In recent years it has flaunted this in its presentations, even in the presentations of its products stating that these are built with recycled materials. And now it seems that this is not going to be the only thing that …

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Vulnerabilities in various versions of Photoshop and Adobe Premiere

Vulnerabilidades en varias versiones de Photoshop y Adobe Premiere

“The price to pay for freedom is eternal vigilance”. And we must be vigilant with the Internet every day, since failures, problems – such as the global fall of the Internet medium that we suffered this afternoon – and vulnerabilities constantly arise. Precisely the latter is what Adobe has reported and has echoed the INCIBE …

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Edge now lets you manage your passwords on mobile devices

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The developers behind Internet browsers try to make your experience as complete as possible. This also means ensuring your safety, an arduous task that is solved with constant and effective updates. And this is what he has achieved Edge for your mobile version by applying your password manager. You can finally manage your Edge accounts …

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Apple has new AirPods Pro firmware tested

Apple has new AirPods Pro firmware tested

It’s quite unusual for Apple to beta test hardware-related software. However, the innovations in the AirPods Pro in connection with iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS 12 seem to be so extensive that the group considers this to be necessary. This is all the more astonishing as there is not even an official way to …

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Wear OS 3: Update will not come until 2022

Wear OS 3: Update will not come until 2022

The amalgamation of Samsung’s Tizen and Google’s own smartwatch operating system is simply called Wear OS 3. It is expected that upcoming Samsung smartwatches will start directly with Wear OS 3, but some watches from other manufacturers can also get the new version via update – after a long wait. Google has now announced this …

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Agile software development: developers and controllers belong around the table

Agile software development: developers and controllers belong around the table

Classic controlling and agile development methods come from different worlds, but basically pursue the same goal: plan software development projects in detail and manage them flexibly. In practice, however, the interaction often proves to be difficult due to the different approaches. Too often, effort and costs get out of hand, even though the coding takes …

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Steam Deck: Linux gaming made easy

Steam Deck: Linux gaming made easy

Valve Software has been promoting Linux as a gaming platform for many years without a fuss. With the Steam Deck, a lot more people will suddenly be playing Linux from December – and if in doubt they won’t even notice anything. Because gaming under Linux is no longer a big deal – if you don’t …

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IPPAwards: The best iPhone photos in 2021

IPPAwards: The best iPhone photos in 2021

For the fourteenth time, the iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAwards) photo competition has selected the best iPhone photos of the year in a total of seventeen categories. Thousands of photographers from all over the world took part, as the organizer announced on Thursday. Post-processing only allowed via app Once again, only recordings made with an iPhone …

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XLoader: Windows malware can now also hit macOS

XLoader: Windows malware can now also hit macOS

Security researchers warn that the Windows Trojan known as XLoader is now also being offered for macOS in underground forums. XLoader was created from the five-year-old Windows Trojan Formbook. In addition to the Windows executable, there is now an executable version for macOS and a tool called XBinder that packs both executables in a Java …

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PlasticARM: 32-bit microcontroller on flexible foil

PlasticARM: 32-bit microcontroller on flexible foil

Flexible electronic circuits have been around for a long time, but more complex semiconductor components usually consist of classic silicon and sit as thinly ground dies on a flexible “circuit board”. The British company PragmatIC, in which ARM has a stake, now reports in Nature about their PlasticARM: This 32-bit microcontroller consists of 56,340 thin …

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Amazon: Numerous Echo devices should support Smart Home Standard Matter

Amazon: Numerous Echo devices should support Smart Home Standard Matter

Amazon smart Alexa speakers are to be updated to make them compatible with the Matter smart home standard. Amazom announced this at its Alexa Live 2021 developer conference. The update is only withheld from the first generation Echo and Echo Dot and the discontinued Amazon Tap. Matter is a common standard for smart home devices …

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AI makes it possible: clone voices for a few dollars a month

AI makes it possible: clone voices for a few dollars a month

Can you use the voice of a dead man to put words into his mouth that he never said? This dispute was sparked by a documentary by filmmaker Morgan Neville. In “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” he lets a deceased celebrity chef speak, although the viewers cannot see which of the alleged quotes were …

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Smart home centers: Home Assistant Blue and Amazon Echo in comparison

Smart home centers: Home Assistant Blue and Amazon Echo in comparison

Table of Contents Smart home centers: Home Assistant Blue and Amazon Echo in comparison What you need to get started with Amazon Alexa Set up Amazon Alexa and Home Assistant Blue Manually operate smart accessories Operate Amazon Alexa by voice and remotely Conclusion If you like the concept of a smart home after starting with …

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Why we need a start ban for air taxis in cities

Why we need a start ban for air taxis in cities

The next mobility hype comes at an inopportune time. In the industrialized countries we are currently in the process of reducing traffic noise with electric cars, and new forms of urban noise pollution are already being planned: From America to Europe to Asia, governments are vying to get air taxi and drone services into the …

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Business intelligence: mastering masses of data with machine learning

Business intelligence: mastering masses of data with machine learning

According to the manufacturer, the Vertica 11 analytics platform brings some improvements and enhancements compared to version 10, which was presented in spring 2020. Vertica is aimed at companies that use processes such as machine learning and self-service to access their data silos distributed across various clouds and regions. Want to facilitate container workflows. According …

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iOS 14.7: Unlocking Apple Watch with iPhone fingerprint no longer works

iOS 14.7: Unlocking Apple Watch with iPhone fingerprint no longer works

The installation of iOS 14.7 can paralyze the automatic unlocking of the Apple Watch by the iPhone. Only iPhone models with the Touch ID fingerprint scanner are affected, as Apple announced. These include, for example, iPhone SE 2020, iPhone 8 and older model series. Newer top-of-the-range models rely instead on Face ID, which means that …

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Update iPhone to iOS 14.7: What’s new, MagSafe support

Actualizar iPhone a iOS 14.7: Qué novedades trae, soporte para MagSafe

We are in the middle of summer exactly, and the iOS 15 arrival date was announced sometime next fall, then we are a couple of months away from the official arrival of the new version of Apple’s operating system for its iPhone phones. In fact, the iOS 15 betas continue to come out, so that …

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Apple apparently wants insight into communication from app store critics

Apple apparently wants insight into communication from app store critics

The Coalition for App Fairness is fighting against the release of documents required by Apple. The iPhone company wants to take a look at the structure and communication of the association, it says in a petition by the coalition to a US court. Dissatisfied app providers, including large companies such as Epic Games, the dating …

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Nvidia GeForce: Linux graphics driver improves Wayland support

Nvidia GeForce: Linux graphics driver improves Wayland support

Comprehensive hardware acceleration for the Wayland graphics architecture is a highlight of new Linux graphics drivers from Nvidia. But that is by no means the only thing that the first driver of the 470 version line comes up with. With the 470.42.01 graphics driver, notebooks with AMD processors and GeForce graphics chips can now also …

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Google is polishing up Android TV and Play Store for Wear OS

Google is polishing up Android TV and Play Store for Wear OS

Google has announced new features for its Android TV operating system. The new features include a new watchlist to which users can now add films and series. To do this, you have to long press on a content in the Discover tab, and then select “Add to watchlist” in the following menu. The watchlist itself …

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Intel processors “Alder Lake-S”: In China already on sale in advance

Intel processors "Alder Lake-S": In China already on sale in advance

Chinese shops and manufacturers are already said to be selling pre-series processors from Intel’s upcoming Alder Lake-S (Core i-12000) desktop CPU generation, including so-called qualification samples, which come close to the final models in terms of specifications. For fear of being found by Intel, the sales apparently only take place in secret. About that writes …

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Programming language: Happy Birthday, Kotlin!

Programming language: Happy Birthday, Kotlin!

The Kotlin programming language is celebrating its tenth birthday. On July 19, 2011, JetBrains presented them for the first time at the JVM Language Summit. The tool manufacturer announced it as a new statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). The language is now available in version 1.5.20 and is no longer …

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How to get Spotify Premium free for 3 months with your TikTok account

Cómo conseguir gratis Spotify Premium durante 3 meses con tu cuenta de TikTok

Although Spotify has a free version that everyone can use, by subscribing to a Premium version you have advantages such as the elimination of advertising, which allows you to listen to all the music you want without playback limits or advertising cuts. And that’s what this news is about: To have Spotify for the rest …

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Hadoop: Apache Impala 4.0 with extended multithreading

Hadoop: Apache Impala 4.0 with extended multithreading

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has presented a new major release of the Impala query engine, which is tailored to Hadoop, with numerous bug fixes, but also improvements and new functions. Apache Impala uses the same metadata and the same SQL syntax as Apache Hive and, with the new version 4.0, now provides users with …

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The foldable Google Pixel could arrive this year

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Foldable phones are the present in the world of telephony, but we have yet to see many developments in this field. The different manufacturers strive to launch their proposals as soon as possible and the good thing is that there are more and more willing to get theirs. But users want to see them now …

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iOS 14.7 available for download: iPhone feature updates and bug fixes

iOS 14.7 available for download: iPhone feature updates and bug fixes

Apple is expected to deliver the last major update for iOS 14: Version 14.7 can now be downloaded to iPhones and iPads, optionally via the integrated update function (in the settings under General / Software update) directly on the device. Alternatively, it is still possible to download and install the update on a Windows PC …

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Gaming PCs at Aldi: Desktop PC with GeForce RTX 3060 Ti for 1300 euros

Gaming PCs at Aldi: Desktop PC with GeForce RTX 3060 Ti for 1300 euros

The German discounter chains Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord are adding some desktop PCs and notebooks to their range on July 29, 2021, including two devices for gaming. The Erazer Beast X25 houses the fastest hardware you can get in a notebook: AMD’s eight-core processor Ryzen 9 5900HX with clock frequencies of up to 4.6 …

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How cryptosystems are prepared for attacks by quantum computers

How cryptosystems are prepared for attacks by quantum computers

The algorithms for quantum computers developed by Lov Grover and Peter Shor threaten common encryption and signature methods. Shors’ algorithm in particular questions the entire communication security in IT because it breaks common asymmetrical cryptosystems. What you need for this is a powerful, reliable quantum computer with sufficient qubits. Experts estimate that if the error …

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Control your smart home with switches and buttons

Control your smart home with switches and buttons

Table of Contents Control your smart home with switches and buttons Connection to the base station Retrofit smart light switches Push buttons and smart buttons Conclusion If you turn your home into a smart home, you can enjoy convenient functions: the light switches on automatically at the specified time, the heating is turned down when …

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Instructions: Install Windows 11 on the Raspberry Pi

Instructions: Install Windows 11 on the Raspberry Pi

Table of Contents Users like to complain about the increasing hardware requirements of modern operating systems, but the ARM64 version of Windows 11 proves that it can get by with few resources: It can even be installed on a Raspberry Pi 400 or Raspberry Pi 4B. As a minimum amount of RAM, we recommend the …

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.NET 6: Preview 6 focuses on web development

.NET 6: Preview 6 focuses on web development

Microsoft has published the sixth preview of .NET 6 and is primarily targeting web development with the preview. Meanwhile, Preview 6 of Visual Studio 2022, which was released at the same time, offers a live preview for WPF applications. The list of improvements in the web framework ASP.NET Core 6 Preview 6 includes compression for …

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Back training for prevention and relief: apps, online courses and videos in the test

Back training for prevention and relief: apps, online courses and videos in the test

Table of Contents Back training for prevention and relief: apps, online courses and videos in the test Training feedback One-on-one meetings Conclusion Comparison table Read article in c’t 16/2021 The 15 months with many corona-related restrictions have left their mark: Not everyone can create the ergonomic conditions in the home office that (should) prevail in …

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After warnings: Binance crypto wallet ceases business with share tokens

After warnings: Binance crypto wallet ceases business with share tokens

The world’s largest crypto wallet, Binance, is withdrawing its so-called stock tokens. New tokens will no longer be sold with immediate effect and the offer will no longer be supported from October 14, the operators said. Previously, financial supervisory authorities in several countries had targeted Binance because the exchange had not met its prescribed obligations …

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New MacBook Pro with ARM processor allegedly with RAM limitation

New MacBook Pro with ARM processor allegedly with RAM limitation

What RAM equipment do the long-awaited, newly designed MacBook Pro machines with Apple Silicon (ARM-based processor) get? So far there is little information on this, but a leaker now wants to know more for the first time. Current status: 920 euros for 64 GB Wie Luke Miani reported on his YouTube channel, the machines could …

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Facebook Messenger launches Soundmojis, emojis with sound

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In digital language you have two options to send an emotion: either you send a video or gif or you use an emoji. The answer is clear to many and it is a clear ruling in favor of the emoji. But maybe on some occasion you have thought if at some point we understood emojis …

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OpenSearch 1.0: Amazon’s Elasticsearch fork is ready

OpenSearch 1.0: Amazon's Elasticsearch fork is ready

Version 1.0 puts OpenSearch in the spotlight: Amazon started the project in April 2021 to respond to the license changes from Elasticsearch and Kibana (ELK). The search engine was only ready for production after a beta and a release candidate – the developers wanted to submit a version suitable for corporate use as quickly as …

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New jailbreak for older Apple TV devices

New jailbreak for older Apple TV devices

Visually, Apple TVs of the second and third generation hardly differ from the Apple TV HD and the two 4K versions supplied with the latest tvOS versions – but the hardware is no longer officially supported by Apple or external content providers. The manufacturer only becomes active in the event of (very) serious security vulnerabilities. …

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IT ethics: critical thinking in computer science – Weizenbaum is alive!

IT ethics: critical thinking in computer science - Weizenbaum is alive!

In connection with the advancing digitization, there is much talk of civil rights, such as the right to informational self-determination or the protection of privacy. But maybe new obligations will arise from technical developments? Medical development, for example, could benefit if everyone were obliged to make health data available. Sebastian Müller (University of Cologne) asked …

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Apple more valuable than ever

Apple more valuable than ever

Apple shareholders have reason to celebrate: The company has never been worth as much as it is today. On Friday, the shares went out of trading at a price of $ 144.57 each, an increase of 1.3 percent over the previous day. Apple’s market capitalization on the New York technology exchange NASDAQ exceeded the mark …

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Apple allows cannabis delivery services in the App Store

Apple allows cannabis delivery services in the App Store

Apps from cannabis delivery services are now allowed on the iPhone. Apple has adapted the app store rules accordingly: Apple has recently explicitly excluded “legal cannabis pharmacies” in addition to pharmacies from the still prohibited trade in narcotics or “controlled substances”. The small change in the corresponding passage, which can be found in passage 1.4 …

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Irish data protection authority to watch over TikTok in the EU

Irish data protection authority to watch over TikTok in the EU

The Irish data protection authority, which is already heavily used and insufficiently equipped with numerous proceedings against internet giants such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, is getting more work. TikTok is now officially part of her area of ​​responsibility after the Chinese operator of the social network announced that it had set up the Group’s …

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Big Data: Apache Spark receives first stable Kotlin API

Big Data: Apache Spark receives first stable Kotlin API

JetBrains has presented a new interface for the open source big data engine Apache Spark: The release is considered to be the first stable Kotlin API, which the technology company describes as “feature-complete”, and according to the release announcement it should be compatible with the essential Apache Spark -Interfaces work together. Typed selection and sorting …

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Tried: RISC-V single board computer RVBoards Nezha with Debian Linux

Tried: RISC-V single board computer RVBoards Nezha with Debian Linux

The “Nezha” board from the Chinese company RVBoards is probably the first (reasonably) affordable RISC-V single-board computer for Linux. Because the RISC-V calculation core in the system-on-chip Allwinner D1 is compatible with the RV64GC specification. In addition, a 2D graphics processor is built in so that the Nezha can control an HDMI display like a …

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Nuclear waste repository search: “Thuringia cannot be dealt with this way”

Nuclear waste repository search: "Thuringia cannot be dealt with this way"

After the Federal Society for Repository Search (BGE) announced four areas for method development, those in power in Thuringia are dissatisfied. “We respect the principle of the white map, but demand a transparent procedure based on clearly defined criteria and with the participation of the public,” said Thuringia’s State Secretary for the Environment, Olaf Möller. …

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Emergency patch: Microsoft closes PrintNightmare gap in Windows

Emergency patch: Microsoft closes PrintNightmare gap in Windows

Due to an as “criticalMicrosoft has also published security patches that are classified as a security hole that affects all Windows versions. Since attackers are already actively exploiting the hole, admins should react quickly and install the patches. Patch now! Microsoft has linked the updates in an updated warning message. There you will also find …

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First solar X-class flare since 2017 caused GPS and radio interference

First solar X-class flare since 2017 caused GPS and radio interference

If you wondered about an hour-long failure of the GPS in your sat nav or smartphone on Saturday afternoon: Responsible for this is a comparatively strong solar flare on the northwestern edge of the sun, in the newly created region 2838. The outbreak, a so-called flare with strength X. 1.5 started at 4:18 p.m., peaked …

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iPhone WLAN turned off: SSIDs with format strings remain a problem

iPhone WLAN turned off: SSIDs with format strings remain a problem

An iOS weak point in the handling of SSIDs seems to be greater than previously assumed: With further manipulated WLAN names, the Wi-Fi interface on iPhone and iPad can apparently also be paralyzed for a longer period of time as soon as the devices have connected to the network as security researcher Carl Shou explains. …

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Virtualization: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4 in a short test

Virtualization: Proxmox Virtual Environment 6.4 in a short test

Table of Contents Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has renewed all three parts of its hypervisor and container platform. Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 6.4, Mail Gateway 6.4 and Backup Server 1.1 are now based on Debian GNU / Linux 10.9 Buster. Proxmox VE (download) uses a kernel 5.4 LTS or optionally 5.11 and provides VMs from …

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Germany to Brussels: Nuclear power must not be promoted as an investment

Germany to Brussels: Nuclear power must not be promoted as an investment

Europe should not classify nuclear power as a sustainable investment that is therefore eligible for funding under the Green Deal. This is what seven environment, energy and industry ministers from the five EU states Germany, Spain, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg demand in a fire letter to the EU Commission. Nuclear energy should therefore not be …

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How a Berlin start-up wanted to conduct cyber war more ethically and failed

How a Berlin start-up wanted to conduct cyber war more ethically and failed

The trade in exploits, i.e. ways and means of exploiting known and unknown security holes, is large and extremely lucrative. Many government agencies are now stocking up on private companies with such tools, also in order to use them offensively against third parties. The industry sometimes has little hesitation in selling to authoritarian regimes. The …

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At the heart of semiconductors: Why the global supply crisis remains dangerous

At the heart of semiconductors: Why the global supply crisis remains dangerous

For more than half a year, the lack of chips has been throwing the vulnerable automotive industry out of sync – and contrary to earlier expectations, the supply crisis in other industries is unlikely to subside anytime soon. Providers switched to IT or entertainment electronics after the carmakers quasi canceled large quantities of semiconductors due …

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UEFA website leaked user profile email addresses

UEFA website leaked user profile email addresses

Anyone who buys a ticket or orders an official guest package on the UEFA website must register. Regardless of the login method chosen, UEFA saves at least the email address in a profile. This login is valid for several UEFA websites such as UEFA TV or UEFA Gaming. While researching another article, we happened upon …

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Google: Covid vaccination certificates can be saved directly in Android

Google: Covid vaccination certificates can be saved directly in Android

A new version of the Passes interface makes it possible to save and display Covid vaccination certificates and test results directly in Android. Google has announced the expanded functionality of the API, which was previously primarily used for voucher cards, in a blog entry. Users of smartphones with Android version 5 or newer can use …

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Autonomous buses are not proving their worth in Vienna

Autonomous buses are not proving their worth in Vienna

The state of the art in self-driving shuttles is not sufficient for everyday use. This is the conclusion drawn by Wiener Linien, the largest public transport operator in Austria’s capital, after three years of testing: “The project has shown that the road to autonomous driving in local passenger transport is still a long one.” On …

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Swiss data is outsourced to China and the USA

Swiss data is outsourced to China and the USA

Several US providers and Alibaba have received a major order: They will secure Swiss government data in the future. In addition to the US providers Amazon, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, the Chinese cloud provider won a tender with a total volume of 110 million Swiss francs. Swiss or European cloud providers not taken into account, …

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Radio waves from Earth: why extraterrestrials might overhear

Radio waves from Earth: why extraterrestrials might overhear

Are the aliens listening to Earth? The latest research assumes that around 1,700 stars are in the right position to have discovered life on Earth 5,000 years ago. Radio transmissions from space In 1960, a radio astronomer named Frank D. Drake was the first to attempt to detect interstellar radio transmissions. He focused on two …

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Several security gaps endanger IBM’s database system Db2

Several security gaps endanger IBM's database system Db2

The DB2 database system from IBM is vulnerable. Attackers could attack systems and, among other things, access data without authorization or overwrite files. Versions secured against this provide a remedy. Admins should study the warning messages linked below this message and find and install the security updates that are relevant to them. Among other things, …

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EU chip production: Interview with Dr. Horstmann from Globalfoundries

EU chip production: Interview with Dr.  Horstmann from Globalfoundries

Near Dresden in “Silicon Saxony” there are semiconductor manufacturing plants from Infineon, Bosch, X-Fab and Globalfoundries. Globalfoundries, the third largest chip contract manufacturer in the world, processes over 40,000 wafers per month in its Fab 1 and creates microstructures down to 22 nanometers. Fab 1 was created in the 1990s as a factory for AMD …

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Ebay sells majority stake in Korea business

Ebay sells majority stake in Korea business

The online trading platform Ebay is continuing its streamlining course: The group is separating from the majority of its Korean business and wants to sell its stake in the local provider Emart, as the Americans announced on Thursday. According to the agreement, 80.01 percent will go to Emart, for which the South Koreans put 3.44 …

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Assistance for everyone: How to use the macOS 11 accessibility features

Assistance for everyone: How to use the macOS 11 accessibility features

Table of Contents Assistance for everyone: How to use the macOS 11 accessibility features 1 Quick access to accessibility 2 Read out text at the touch of a button Load 3 alternative voices 4 Zoom the screen content Mouse arrow and on-screen keyboard Videos, contrast and one-finger control Read article in Mac & i 3/2021 …

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Fifty pound note with a portrait of Alan Turing in circulation

Fifty pound note with a portrait of Alan Turing in circulation

The UK central bank has put its new £ 50 note into circulation. The mathematician Alan Turing is depicted on the back of the notes. The new banknote is made of a polymer-based plastic, which makes the notes more durable than paper money. The 5, 10 and 20 pound notes are made from this material. …

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Online workshop: Data Science with Python and Spark

Online workshop: Data Science with Python and Spark

Apache Spark scales complex data analyzes and machine learning applications that overwhelm a single computer using a computing cluster. The software has established itself as the standard tool for analyzing large amounts of data. The Spark Engine can be addressed from Python programs via the PySpark API. In the two-day online course Big data analysis …

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The computer virus that robs but the rich: Nefilim ransomware

El virus informático que roba pero a los ricos: Ransomware Nefilim

On the subject of cyberattacks and hacking, it is clear that no one is safe, and anyone can have their computer, mobile phone, etc. hacked, without having anything to do with whether they are rich or poor, laborer or count. But there are criminals who prefer to attack in a big way, and go for …

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