Google Wants To Secure Open Source Software Together With The US Government
US Government (Open Source Security)Karolina Grabowska From Pexels. In a rather unusual step, the IT group Google is calling on the US government to take a more active role in securing open-source software. Kent Walker, President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google and Alphabet, writes on the company's blog. This was apparently preceded by a kind of security conference with the US government in the White House in response to the serious Log4J gap that was discovered at the end of last year.
Read full storyTesla hacked by a third-party software
A security gap in third-party software makes it possible to control a number of functions in the affected Tesla vehicles. Tesla (Can be hacked by a third party software)Screen Post From Pexels.
Read full storyThe US film industry has removed Widevine Dump from Github
The Widevine Dump tool could be used to download films and series from Netflix, Prime Video, or Disney +. Former United States Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin (Chairman And CEO of MPAA)Wikiwand.
Read full storyEuropean Parliament illegally transfers data to the USA
Google Analytics and Stripe installed an EU website for corona tests. The data protection officer has now set a deadline. Data Leaks (Google and Stripe)Mae Mu From Unsplash. The data protection organization Noyb ( (None of your business) published on January 11, 2022, that the EU data protection officer had admitted one of their complaints. Accordingly, the European Parliament illegally installed Google Analytics and Stripe in a website for corona tests. The site forwarded data to the United States even though Parliament was unable to demonstrate the required levels of protection, according to Data Protection Commissioner Wojciech Wiewiórowski.
Read full storyAWS Wants To Completely Rebuild Its Own Network Administration
The cloud provider AWS is looking for developers for an ambitious project. It is not clear whether this is related to a serious failure. Amazon (Network Project)Hello I'm Nik From Unsplash.
Read full storyA Racing car without a driver in an autonomous race in Las Vegas
Team Polimove from Milan won the Indy Autonomous Challenge race. The researchers from the Technical University of Munich took second place and reached speeds of up to 270 km/h.
Read full storyFiber is available to 43 percent of US homes and 60 percent of Canadian households
The cable network in the USA is therefore apparently relying on overbuilding with fiber optics. In the USA, 60.5 million households are "supplied" with fiber optics, an increase of twelve percent in 2021. This was the result of a study by RVA LLC Market Research & Consulting published by the industry organization Fiber Broadband Association (FBA). However, the information only relates to Homes passed, which is not clearly defined. In general, this is understood to mean buildings with fiber optics running along the property line, but which are not yet connected.
Read full storyMeasurements confirm symmetry of matter and antimatter
New research results from CERN confirm the standard model of physics. The existence of the universe thus remains a mystery. Matter and antimatter (CERN Research Institute)Marat Gilyadzinov From Unsplash.
Read full storySwiss Army prohibits the use of WhatsApp
Army members should use the Threema messenger from Switzerland in the future. But enforcement will be difficult. Swiss Army (WhatsApp is not allowed)eberhard 🖐 grossgasteiger From Unsplash.
Read full storyPopcorn Time goes out of service
The two main forks of Popcorn Time have been set. Netflix once saw Popcorn Time as a great danger. The operators of Popcorn Time have discontinued the service. The Bloomberg news agency reported, citing a letter from the team to the press. A graphic is published on the homepage of Popcorn-time.tw that shows that interest in the platform fell massively from 2015 to 2022. It says: "rest in peace"
Read full storyTesla Update Moves Wiper Settings To The Submenu
With the V11 update, Tesla is changing the user interface of its cars. This annoys some because important functions are now more difficult to achieve. Shortly before New Year, Tesla released the V11 update. In addition to a light show that the vehicle lights can play when the vehicle is stationary, the user interface has also been changed. For example, the setting for the windscreen wipers has been moved to a submenu. After all, they can be set relatively quickly by clicking on the left lever. Then the wiper options appear on the screen, a reader informed us.
Read full storyAmazon Reduces Its Commission For Smaller Developers To Make More Money
Amazon lowers the commission for apps in its own app store if developers do not exceed a certain sales limit. Amazon has implemented its change announced in June 2021 regarding commissions in the App Store. Smaller developers can use it to keep a larger share of their income. With this step, Amazon wants to make the store more attractive to them.
Read full storyUN's Weapon Convention For Outlawing of Autonomous Combat Robots Failed
A planned UN weapons convention for the international outlawing of autonomous combat robots has failed due to resistance from some countries. Military Drones (UN weapons convention for the international outlawing of autonomous combat robots)Bertrand Bouchez From Unsplash.
Read full storyApple Extends Home Office And Gives Away $1,000 To Employees
The return to the office soon won't work: Apple is extending the home office and giving each employee $1,000 for better equipment. The COVID-19 pandemic, including the Omikron variant at Apple, ensures that employees do not have to return to the office in February 2022 as planned. Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in a memo to the workforce after consistent media reports that the return would be postponed to an as-yet-unspecified date.
Read full storyBoeing Employees Report Serious Deficiencies
The US Senate has published a report on the situation at Boeing. According to several whistleblowers, the quality and safety deficiencies have not been remedied. Boeing (Serious Deficiencies)John McArthur From Unsplash.
Read full storyThe Prices of Display Screens Are Expected To Go High
Displays of all kinds could soon become scarce and expensive. However, this is not due to a lack of high-end components. What is missing is digital dozen goods. Inflation (Shortage)Frederick Warren From Unsplash.
Read full storyElon Musk Wants To Accept Dogecoin For Certain Items
Dogecoin won't let go of Elon Musk: In the future, Tesla will also accept payments in the dog currency for merchandise items. Elon Musk has announced that Tesla will test accept payment in Dogecoin. The CEO of Tesla Motors Announced on Twitter. Musk says in the post that Tesla will make "some" merchandise available for the Dogecoin test and then see how the project develops.
Read full storyThe Sentry-II Software Predicts Asteroid Impacts With More Accuracy
For 20 years a specific software of NASA calculated the risk of the impact of asteroids. Now there is a new edition with Sentry-II. The American space agency NASA has been searching the near-Earth solar system with the software Sentry since 2002 for potentially dangerous asteroids that could eventually hit the earth. According to the authority, around 3,000 new near-earth asteroids, NEA for short, are discovered every year. We now know around 28,000 of these NEAs.
Read full storyApple Is Sued For The Super Wide-Angle Camera
The latest generations of iPhones and iPads have a super wide-angle correction. Its inventor, Immervision, is suing Apple for patent infringement. iPhone Wide-Angle Camera (Apple)Daniel Romero From Unsplash.
Read full storyNo More Gold Lapel Pins For Commercial Astronauts
So far, space travelers have received a gold pin after their journey into space. The program for this ends this year. Anyone who has previously traveled into space as a commercial astronaut could apply to the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a gold pin as an honor. But the FAA "announced on Friday that it was ending a program that would give small gold pins called Commercial Space Astronaut Wings to individuals who have flown in private spacecraft," reports the New York Times.
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