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For inexpensive batteries: Japanese corporations rely on new materials

For inexpensive batteries: Japanese corporations rely on new materials

Electric cars for the price of gasoline vehicles, inexpensive intermediate storage for solar and wind power – Japanese manufacturers promise to drastically reduce the costs of batteries with new materials. In the automotive sector, for example, Renault partner Nissan has just presented an ambitious plan to reduce the largest cost factor in the car, the …

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Autonomous shuttle: around 40 passengers a day tested “Elbi” in Magdeburg

Autonomous shuttle: around 40 passengers a day tested "Elbi" in Magdeburg

The test of autonomous driving with the intelligent electric shuttle “Elbi” in Magdeburg was a complete success. “Every day, an average of around 40 passengers used the offer,” reported Olga Biletska from the research project “AS-Urban ÖPNV” at the University of Magdeburg, which scientifically accompanied the test. There were often more on the weekends. Above …

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Web framework: Rails 7.0 was released as a full-stack framework

Web framework: Rails 7.0 was released as a full-stack framework

Rails was released in version 7.0. According to the Rails team, this has gone into years of work to implement a full-stack approach to web development. The successor to Rails 6.1, which appeared last year, is based on a total of over 4000 commits and the work of over 6000 contributors. “No-Node” web development As …

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Monitoring: Prometheus 2.32 introduces the agent mode

Monitoring: Prometheus 2.32 introduces the agent mode

Version 2.32 of the Prometheus project managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has been released. In addition to some bug fixes and improvements, fundamental innovations have also been incorporated into the update of the monitoring system – including an operating mode designed for edge use cases, in which Prometheus does not occupy any …

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Second global Internet crash in seven days: PSN, Twitch, Amazon, LOL, Facebook failures …

Segunda caída global de Internet en 7 días: No van PSN, Twitch, Amazon, LOL, Valorant

On December 7, a week ago, the DownDetector website reported more than 30,000 incidents that began with a global drop in AWS servers, Amazon Web Services, which provide cloud services to hundreds of well-known platforms and networks. Global drop in Internet services Therefore, if this platform that provides hosting services falls, those that hire its …

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Smart home via cloud: five apps for control and automation in comparison

Smart home via cloud: five apps for control and automation in comparison

The smart home addiction usually starts with just one product: the app-controlled light is joined by streaming speakers in different rooms, smart thermostats, security, and climate sensors. The more components are added, the more manufacturers are on board, whose products each want to be controlled via their own apps. But who wants a separate app …

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Arctic: On the trail of the next glacier break with underwater microphones

Arctic: On the trail of the next glacier break with underwater microphones

The Hornsund is the southernmost fjord in Svalbard. Surrounded by rugged mountain peaks, table mountains and impressive glacier fronts, it is one of the most varied and beautiful in the Svalbard Archipelago. The branched bay extends 25 kilometers inland. As everywhere in the Arctic, the effects of global warming can also be seen very clearly …

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IBM secures database system Db2 and other software

IBM secures database system Db2 and other software

IBM has released critical security updates for App Connect Enterprise, Cloud Object Storage Systems, Db2, PowerVM Hypervisor, Spectrum Control and WebSphere. If attacks are successful, attackers could paralyze systems (DoS) or even execute malicious code. Admins should study the warning messages linked below this message. There you will find information on software versions that are …

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Database: MariaDB is increasing the release speed on the Community Server

Database: MariaDB is increasing the release speed on the Community Server

The 10.6.x series of the MariaDB Community Server, presented for the first time in spring, is supposed to be the last version to follow an annual release cycle. As the database provider announced, the server edition from version 10.7 follows a quarterly rhythm, which should provide users with new features more quickly in the future. …

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Microsoft hits Chinese cyber gang “Nickel”

Microsoft hits Chinese cyber gang "Nickel"

Microsoft’s Digital Crime Unit recently took over numerous websites from the Chinese cyber gang “Nickel” following a court order. According to the company, other security companies also call the criminal group “KE3CHANG”, “APT15”, “Vixen Panda”, “Royal APT” and “Playful Dragon”. The Redmond-based company has redirected the network traffic of the websites to its own secure …

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Roles and Responsibilities of an App Developer

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Being an app developer can be a gratifying job. But this job also brings tremendous responsibilities. Knowing about the roles and responsibilities of an app developer is essential not only for the developers but also for the entrepreneurs who are looking forward to hiring one for their company. Mentioning the roles and responsibilities of a …

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Simply drag and drop ML models with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Simply drag and drop ML models with Amazon SageMaker Canvas

Amazon is expanding its machine learning offering for business users with the new no-code, drag-and-drop service SageMaker Canvas. AWS also celebrated the success of SageMaker at re: Invent: Tens of thousands of customers would already use the machine learning workbench, which is primarily aimed at data scientists and ML developers. Canvas is designed to allow …

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Constantly logged out: App preheating in iOS 15 causes problems

Constantly logged out: App preheating in iOS 15 causes problems

A new feature in iOS 15 is obviously causing problems for apps with a login function. A growing number of users are reporting that they are constantly logging out various apps, so they have to log in again each time the app is started. The first app providers have now published updates that are intended …

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Climate change on the doorstep: Effects on the Wadden Sea

Climate change on the doorstep: Effects on the Wadden Sea

Climate change has reached the Wadden Sea. Rising sea levels, warming, extreme weather – all of these have consequences for the world’s largest continuous sand-silt system. The Wadden Sea extends over more than 11,500 square kilometers from Denmark to the Netherlands. Around 10,000 species live here – from single-celled organisms to algae, mussels and worms …

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Red Hat study: digital transformation and security have priority

Red Hat study: digital transformation and security have priority

The software provider Red Hat has carried out the annual “Global Tech Outlook” survey for the eighth time. This year, Red Hat surveyed over 1,000 IT executives, most of whom work in companies with revenues above $ 100 million. They asked about their plans for 2022 – all around the topics of digital transformation, cloud …

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Russia launches TikTok alternative Yappy

Russia launches TikTok alternative Yappy

Russia has launched a new alternative app to the Chinese short video platform TikTok. The Yappy app comes from a subsidiary of the state company Gazprom and is available in the Russian app stores for Android and iOS devices. Yappy has functions similar to TikTok and allows short video clips of up to 60 seconds …

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Information That Should Never be Stored in the Smartphone

Earlier, leaving home meant carrying your purse, which mostly had your money, a kind of photographic id, your insurance information, your bank cards, photographs of your children, and perhaps an extra check. Nowadays, you have to question yourself whether you genuinely want a handbag. After all, there’s a whole number of items you should remove …

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Phishing attack on Ikea mail server

Phishing attack on Ikea mail server

Ikea is currently dealing with an ongoing attack on its email system, with attackers targeting employees’ mailboxes with stolen reply-chain emails, like the US medium Bleeping Computer reported. The response chain emails sent are company emails that are sent from compromised email accounts, but have links or attachments containing malware. Due to the trustworthy appearance, …

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Test of the electric car Honda e: Cool instead of functional

Test of the electric car Honda e: Cool instead of functional

“That’s cool!” Most people exclaim when they see the interior of the Honda e. A bar of five screens extends over a lowboard made of imitation wood. Including a flat base with stylish (retractable cup holder) or practical (Schuko socket with at least 1500 watts of power) accessories in chic Japanese simplicity. Instead of exterior …

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Comment: Why the EU’s surveillance plans on smartphones are dangerous

Comment: Why the EU's surveillance plans on smartphones are dangerous

The EU is apparently on the verge of obliging companies to scan end-user devices for material that suggests child sexual abuse – and automatically report findings to the authorities. A corresponding regulation could come into force as early as the beginning of 2022. Civil rights activists are alarmed because the review is taking place across …

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SAP woos developers with no-code / low-code tools

SAP woos developers with no-code / low-code tools

Everyone should be able to develop for SAP: The software company gives developers new tools and services to “accelerate the digital transformation”. To this end, SAP is expanding the range of no-code / low-code tools on its own Business Technology Platform (BTP), basically the SAP variant of a PaaS suite (Platform as a Service). AppGyver …

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Battery progress: to 90 percent in five minutes

Battery progress: to 90 percent in five minutes

Today, lithium-ion batteries in an electric car need around half an hour to charge themselves to at least 80 percent at fast charging stations. This shouldn’t happen too often, as the high levels of heat generated during fast charging affect the performance and service life of the power storage system. Now researchers led by Clare …

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Drug trafficking investigation: Amazon executives arrested in India

Drug trafficking investigation: Amazon executives arrested in India

Several senior Amazon employees have been arrested in India. The arrests were made in connection with investigations into drug smuggling, which is said to have been carried out via the website of the online retailer, reports Deutsche Welle. It is therefore not known how many people were arrested. They are said to have made differing …

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Industrial IT: Mobile communications for the IoT – NB-IOT, LTE-M and 5G

Industrial IT: Mobile communications for the IoT - NB-IOT, LTE-M and 5G

table of contents Industrial IT: Mobile communications for the IoT – NB-IOT, LTE-M and 5G Radio for IoT applications NB-IoT und LTE-M 5G and all-in-one products Conclusion and provider table Read article in iX 12/2021 The right time for the next maintenance of machines, the effective monitoring of industrial plants also from a distance, the …

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Gorillas continues to sue against works council election

Gorillas continues to sue against works council election

The Gorillas delivery service is still trying to prevent the works council election scheduled for next week. The company has filed a complaint against the decision of the Berlin Labor Court, which refused to issue an injunction against the election. Now the next higher instance must examine the case in an urgent procedure. An oral …

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Steal data today in order to decrypt it tomorrow with the quantum computer?

Steal data today in order to decrypt it tomorrow with the quantum computer?

Companies, governments and private individuals have to deal with hacker attacks more and more frequently – for example with the now ubiquitous ransomware attacks. In the US government, however, people are already thinking ahead when it comes to securing their systems: They are preparing for a new, longer-term threat. It is about data thieves who …

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Machine learning: Aleph Alpha works on transformative AI with Oracle and Nvidia

Machine learning: Aleph Alpha works on transformative AI with Oracle and Nvidia

As part of the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) on November 16, 2021, the German AI company Aleph Alpha presented its new multimodal model of artificial intelligence (AI) in a panel with Oracle and Nvidia, which differs from the pure language model GPT-3 computer vision connects with NLP and also transfers the flexibility of GPT-3 for …

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Merkel: The EU is likely to promote nuclear power as a “green” investment

Merkel: The EU is likely to promote nuclear power as a "green" investment

The outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel sees little chance of averting the classification of nuclear energy as a “green” technology in the EU. Germany have not given up their resistance to this approach, emphasized the CDU politician in an interview with the Reuters news agency. However, the EU Commission has initiated a procedure in which nuclear …

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Serverless: Cloudflare simplifies the connection of databases

Serverless: Cloudflare simplifies the connection of databases

The infrastructure and DNS service provider Cloudflare has announced expanded database functions for its serverless platform Cloudflare Workers, which is tailored to developers. The company is now making its durable objects generally available and announcing new database connectors for TCP connections as well as partnerships with MongoDB and Prisma. More storage options for application development …

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Blacksmith: Rowhammer RAM vulnerability is worse than expected

Blacksmith: Rowhammer RAM vulnerability is worse than expected

A research team has developed a new twist on how the Rowhammer attacks, which have been known in principle for years, can be carried out on most current DDR4 memory modules. The problem is worse than previously thought, which is why the attack called “Blacksmith” with the identification number CVE-2021-42114 receives a “critical” rating in …

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Spyware: Why Cyber ​​Surveillance Is Booming Worldwide

Spyware: Why Cyber ​​Surveillance Is Booming Worldwide

The global arms trade and the surveillance industry are increasingly forming a dangerous mix that not only endangers the security of Western states, but also has enormous potential for abuse. That comes from a new study. Industry worth billions operates in the shadows the Investigation by the American think tank Atlantic Council provides one of …

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SonicWalls new firewalls: Trimmed for throughput

SonicWalls new firewalls: Trimmed for throughput

SonicWall adds the three firewalls NSa 5700, NSsp 10700 and NSsp 11700 to its cybersecurity portfolio MSSPs (Managed Security Service Providers). The design goal of the new NSsp 10700 and 11700 was primarily performance: SonicWall specifies the firewall throughput at 42 GBit / s (NSsp 10700) and 47 GBit / s (NSsp 11700), respectively, and …

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They auction an original Apple 1 in operation for 350,000 euros

Subastan un Apple 1 original en funcionamiento por 350.000 euros

The date: April 1, 1976 -A whopping 42 years ago-; the site: the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California; the device presented: the Apple-1, a personal computer designed and created by hand by Steve WozniakUltimately one of the fathers of the personal-use PC revolution, but at the time an unknown engineer who had created …

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Machine Learning: Google’s Vertex Pipelines are now generally available

Machine Learning: Google's Vertex Pipelines are now generally available

Google announced the general availability of the Vertex Pipelines. The company wants to support developers in working with pipelines for machine learning (ML). Pipelines, among other things, are used to scale ML workflows. Individual work steps can be found as a series of individual components, and the steps in the pipeline can be mapped as …

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l + f: vulnerabilities in malware

l + f: vulnerabilities in malware

(Image: heise) In IT security, it is part of day-to-day business to search for security gaps in more or less widespread software and then to report them. Either for a bounty or just out of idealism to make the world a safer place. However, some security researchers also rush to malware to look for vulnerabilities. …

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BotenaGo: Malware targets millions of routers and IoT devices

BotenaGo: Malware targets millions of routers and IoT devices

The cybersecurity laboratory AlienLabs of the US provider AT&T has tracked down malware that uses more than 30 exploits to compromise Internet of Things devices and routers. According to the laboratory’s analysis report, this is probably an inadvertently escaped early beta version of the malware, which also shows evidence of a relationship with the Mirai …

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Delivery services: DoorDash takes over Wolt

Delivery services: DoorDash takes over Wolt

The US delivery service DoorDash is expanding into Europe with the takeover of Finnish competitor Wolt. For Wolt, which delivers food to the door of the apartment in major cities in 23 European countries, the Americans pay with a share package worth around 7 billion euros. DoorDash is entering a market with intense competition, for …

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Good Governance: OSPO Alliance Announces Handbook for Open Source Projects

Good Governance: OSPO Alliance Announces Handbook for Open Source Projects

The OSPO Alliance, consisting of four non-profit open source organizations, has published the first version of the Open Source Handbook of Good Governance. OW2, the Eclipse Foundation, the OpenForum Europe and the Foundation for Public Code have jointly developed the manual as part of their good governance initiative. It offers know-how for introducing a professional …

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Startup Helsing: Spotify co-founder invests 100 million in military AI

Startup Helsing: Spotify co-founder invests 100 million in military AI

Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek has put 100 million euros into the Munich start-up Helsing in a second round of financing. The company plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to support the military in battlefield assessment operations. That comes from a tweet from Ek on Tuesday. The money comes from the European investment company Prima Materia, …

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Taproot is coming: first major Bitcoin update since 2017

Taproot is coming: first major Bitcoin update since 2017

Bitcoin hasn’t received a major protocol upgrade since 2017. That should change in mid-November when the update called Taproot is activated. The preparatory work has been going on for a long time. Bitcoin core developer Gregory Maxwell published it back in January 2018 a first draft of Taproot on the Bitcoin mailing list. Even then, …

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Processor market shares: AMD on the way to a new record

Processor market shares: AMD on the way to a new record

AMD has taken Intel of 2.1 percentage points of market share for x86 processors within one quarter, so that AMD had a total share of 24.6 percent in the third quarter of 2021. This is the estimate made by the market research team at Mercury Research, which evaluates all x86 CPUs, including the combination processors …

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Automattic takes over the WordPress security scanner WPScan

Automattic takes over the WordPress security scanner WPScan

The company of WordPress initiator Matt Mullenweg, which is behind the development of WordPress and WooCommerce, has taken over the security service WPScan. WPScan is a security scanner with an extensive database and a helpful tool to keep WordPress installation secure. Matt Mullenweg is one of the initiators of what is now the most popular …

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Cooperation with Microsoft bears fruit: SQL Server for Cloud Linux Ubuntu Pro

Cooperation with Microsoft bears fruit: SQL Server for Cloud Linux Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu Pro supports a new version of Microsoft’s database system SQL Server. Canonical, developer of the Linux distribution, and Microsoft have announced this. Customers of the cloud-based Ubuntu Pro on Azure can now use customized versions of the database management systems SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2019. The new SQL version is the result …

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Apple obliges more suppliers to be climate neutral

Apple obliges more suppliers to be climate neutral

Apple wants to accelerate the decarbonization of its supply chain. The group plans to become completely climate-neutral by 2030 – so far it has only managed to do this in its own offices and shops, but not entirely in production, which is mainly carried out by contract manufacturers in Asia. More suppliers want to use …

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Certifications That Can Help You Break Into The Testing Industry

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The whole premise of the software testing industry is to gauge a product for its quality before it reaches the end-user. The process consists of eliminating all issues and errors so that customers can get a flawless experience. With companies driving more emphasis on user experience, the demand for a dedicated team of experts is …

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Schleswig-Holstein’s digital minister Albrecht on the switch to open source

Schleswig-Holstein's digital minister Albrecht on the switch to open source

For several years now, the federal government and some states have been promoting the development of open source software in order to reduce the administration’s reliance on US corporations such as Microsoft. So far, however, only one federal state has decided to completely get rid of proprietary software: “A complete replacement is the long-term goal,” …

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For lack of customers: private space flight with SpaceX canceled

For lack of customers: private space flight with SpaceX canceled

Space Adventures, a tour operator for space flights, announced in February 2020 that it would send four paying customers on a five-day excursion into space. The mission, scheduled for late this year, was to be in orbit twice that of the ISS. “Price, timing, experience did not match” The flight was to take place in …

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Machine Learning in Production: Heise’s XXL webinar

Machine Learning in Production: Heise's XXL webinar

The development of machine learning models is an exciting and challenging task. But after the model development comes the next complex step: the whole thing should go into production. The Heise webinar on December 7th conveys the topic in a practical manner and with many examples in four hours. Participants learn about the various challenges …

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What are the Main Web Design Trends of 2021?

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The web design industry is evolving rapidly, and if you don’t follow the trends, you’ll get left behind. Try telling today’s generation about flash menus and border ornaments and they’ll stare at you as if you’re some sort of cave person. If you’re thinking of designing a website in 2021, you need to conform to what’s …

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Malicious code discovered in widely used JavaScript library UAParser.js

Malicious code discovered in widely used JavaScript library UAParser.js

Malicious code was found in three versions of a very popular NPM package called UAParser.js on Friday. UAParser.js is used in apps and websites, among other things, to identify the system and browser used. A computer running this software could give attackers access to confidential information or allow them to take control of the system. …

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Federal government: Open RAN technology can spur 5G expansion

Federal government: Open RAN technology can spur 5G expansion

Open RAN technology has the potential to “make a positive contribution to the expansion and security of public cellular networks”. The Federal Government takes this view in a response that has now been published to a request from the FDP parliamentary group. This includes 5G and in particular so-called campus networks. In such an Open …

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PicoMite: New basic interpreter for the Raspberry Pico

PicoMite: New basic interpreter for the Raspberry Pico

For the Raspberry Pico there is after BBC Basic now another basic dialect: MMBasic. It is a complete BASIC interpreter with broad hardware support, graphic commands and an integrated PIO assembler. MMBasic runs directly on the Raspberry Pico, including the editor. It also offers floating point numbers, 64-bit integers, strings, long variable names, arrays, subroutines …

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Null References: How to Avoid the Trillion-Dollar Mistake in JavaScript and TypeScript

Surprises included: inheritance and member functions of class templates

Null references are probably the most common cause of runtime errors in many programming languages. New JavaScript language features and compiler parameters in TypeScript help to avoid the “trillion dollar mistake”. In JavaScript, these errors are likely to occur much more frequently due to the lack of static typing. Two operators introduced with ECMAScript 2020 …

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Electric cars: Stellantis is planning 15,000 charging stations in Europe

Electric cars: Stellantis is planning 15,000 charging stations in Europe

Europe is to have 15,000 new charging stations by 2025, according to the automotive company Stellantis and the Italian specialist for such infrastructure, TheF Charging. In their partnership agreement, they agreed to create a public charging network that should be accessible to all electric vehicles – for Stellantis customers with special conditions. So far, Stellantis …

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Payment systems: Maestro cards in Europe before the end

Payment systems: Maestro cards in Europe before the end

The US company Mastercard will discontinue its Maestro debit card service in Europe. From July 1, 2023, banks and savings banks will no longer be able to issue Maestro cards, Mastercard announced on Tuesday. Cards that are still valid will continue to be supported until the expiry date. If Visa should also discontinue its comparable …

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Why won’t Instagram let me put music in the Stories?

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In the daily use of social networks, Stories or Instagram stories are one of the elements with the most presence. And it is that uploading and sharing a Story is as simple as it is fast. And you can also add not only animated stickers, locations, or links but music. But suddenly the music widget …

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Windows: The “PrintNightmare” continues – with new printing problems in October

Windows: The "PrintNightmare" continues - with new printing problems in October

Since June 2021 Microsoft has been struggling to use updates to close various vulnerabilities in the Windows printer spooler service that are grouped under the name “PrintNightmare”. Since these vulnerabilities are used by cyber criminals for attacks and, on top of that, new attack options are continuously added by means of further vulnerabilities, it is …

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Electric car Renault Megane E-Tech Electric: four stages of charging

Electric car Renault Megane E-Tech Electric: four stages of charging

Renault has opened the configurator of the Megane E-Tech Electric. The curious can now put the car together. However, interested parties have not yet received any prices. A pre-order is still possible against payment of 100 euros; the actual sales start will begin in March 2022. Two battery sizes The Renault Megane E-Tech Electric is …

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Data leak at Modern Solution: House search instead of bug bounty

Data leak at Modern Solution: House search instead of bug bounty

After an independent programmer published a data leak at a service provider for online trading, he received a visit from the police. On September 15, his apartment in North Rhine-Westphalia was searched and all his work materials were confiscated. The affected company Modern Solution, which according to current knowledge must at least be accused of …

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Software AG: share slump despite raised forecast

Software AG: share slump despite raised forecast

The shares of the Darmstadt-based software provider Software AG suffered a slump of more than 13 percent on Tuesday morning due to slowing growth in the main business area. This was preceded by a mandatory announcement from the MDax company on Monday evening, in which the group showed a slight improvement in business overall in …

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Web development: TypeScript in Vue projects

Web development: TypeScript in Vue projects

Those who develop Vue projects usually use JavaScript and not TypeScript. A quick search on GitHub reveals that there are approximately 170,000 projects with JavaScript and 8,500 projects with TypeScript that have Vue in their name or description. It is not surprising. For example, tools such as the Vue CLI are defined as a quasi-standard, …

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Internet of Things: Getting started with the Arduino Cloud

Internet of Things: Getting started with the Arduino Cloud

table of contents Internet of Things: Getting started with the Arduino Cloud What hardware is supported Commissioning with Arduino Cloud Analysis of the generated project structure Setting up the dashboard Conclusion IoT cloud services, such as those offered by Microsoft Azure or Amazon, are complex and therefore not ideal platforms for developers who work in …

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From followers to co-creators: Leadership according to the leader-leader approach

From followers to co-creators: Leadership according to the leader-leader approach

Participation is a big word – especially in companies that are committed to agile work. However, organizations often fail in implementation, because employees are usually used to thinking and acting as followers. As part of the first Agile Leader Day of Developer and dpunkt.verlag, Henning Lethmate presented the “Leader-Leader” approach. O captain! Leader-Leader and the …

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Mysterious Radio Flashes: Over 1600 Fast Radio Bursts found from one source

Mysterious Radio Flashes: Over 1600 Fast Radio Bursts found from one source

Two years ago, the Chinese giant telescope FAST received more than 1,650 mysterious radio flashes from a single source, more than all of the Fast Radio bursts previously received combined. This by far the largest collection of FRB could help solve the riddle of the origin of the still unexplained signals, the discoverers believe. There …

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KubeCon 2021: New Kubernetes Certificate and the future of Kubernetes

KubeCon 2021: New Kubernetes Certificate and the future of Kubernetes

The CNCF, the foundation under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, which is responsible for the administration of the Kubernetes source code, has the KubeCon North America opened and welcomed visitors again after two years. In autumn 2019, users and developers of Kubernetes and cloud native technologies from their environment met for the last time …

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Johnson Controls: Gaps offered remote access to video surveillance

Johnson Controls: Gaps offered remote access to video surveillance

Under certain conditions, two software components of the video surveillance solution “exacqVision” could be attacked remotely and without prior authentication. Possible consequences of a successful attack would have been the theft of access data or temporarily paralyzed surveillance systems. Important updates remove the gateways: two security holes, one of which has been classified as critical. …

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JavaScript: Framework Nuxt.js 3 supports TypeScript and integrates Vite.js

JavaScript: Framework Nuxt.js 3 supports TypeScript and integrates Vite.js

Nuxt.js 3.0 is in the public beta version. In conversation with heise Developer Vue.js developer Antony Konstantinidis focuses on major innovations and explains what changes for developers with the release. Konstantinidis has been working as a freelance full-stack developer, consultant and trainer for over twelve years. Mainly he deals with frontend development and is very …

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Online workshop: Scalable data science with Python and Spark

Online workshop: Scalable data science with Python and Spark

With Spark, data analysis and machine learning applications can be flexibly scaled using computing clusters. The tool, based at the Apache Software Foundation, is a standard tool for the analysis and evaluation of large amounts of data. The PySpark API forms the interface between the Spark Engine and your self-written Python programs. In the two-day …

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Obituary: The open source world mourns Jörg Schilling

Obituary: The open source world mourns Jörg Schilling

Jörg Schilling is dead. The researcher and programmer, who became well known in the Linux and UNIX environment in particular, is likely to have been remembered by users primarily because of his tools for burning CDs under Linux: He is responsible for the “cdrtools” for which Programs like “mkisofs” and “cdrecord” count. When CD burners …

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Top 5 Best Online Payment Systems

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These days, there is no need to send cash into an envelope or visit a bank. Payments can be made in a few clicks online. Moreover, they have a large number of benefits. The primary one is that online payment systems transfer money instantly. There are a lot of online payment systems that foresee the …

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Robots and VR – children shape the future at Code Week Hamburg

Robots and VR - children shape the future at Code Week Hamburg

With small robots and self-made virtual reality glasses, children and young people can playfully get to know future technologies at Code Week Hamburg. At the kick-off event in the central library of the Hamburg library on Saturday, interested parties could take part in both open offers and workshops with prior registration. Topic: “Mobility of the …

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Charging electric bus could have triggered a major fire in Stuttgart bus depot

Charging electric bus could have triggered a major fire in Stuttgart bus depot

The major fire in a Stuttgart bus depot at the end of September could have been triggered by a charging electric bus. The Baden-Württemberg State Criminal Police Office (LKA) determined this on the basis of the fire alarm system and the associated temperature sensors. The investigators are currently assuming a technical defect, the LKA announced. …

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