Bottleneck in chip production slows down car production The shortage of electronic chips for cars causes manufacturers and Suppliers for growing problems. Now Audi will also send approximately 10 in the coming week. 000 Employees in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm on short-time work. In December, Volkswagen reported bottlenecks in semiconductors and applied for short-time work for its plant in Emden, Daimler for production in Bremen, and the global shortage of microchips is also slowing production at the supplier Hella. The reason for the problems is that many chip companies during the car sales slump at the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic in the spring 2020 had switched their production to entertainment electronics.

Facebook is suing Portuguese developers for stolen user data Facebook has filed a lawsuit in Portugal against two developers based there who are said to have stolen user data from Facebook users. The developers are said to have used self-programmed browser extensions that are offered by the company “Oink and Stuff”. These access data such as name, user ID, gender, relationship status, age group and other information without the consent or knowledge of the user. “Web for Instagram plus DM”, “Blue Messenger”, “Emoji Keyboard” and “Green Messenger” should therefore function like spyware. These browser extensions are available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Edge and at least some of them can still be downloaded.

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Pandemic delayed DisplayPort 2.0 The products with DisplayPort 2.0 originally planned for the end of last year have been delayed. Monitors are being developed, but could not be widely tested as usual due to the coronavirus pandemic. The first DisplayPort 2.0-compliant products should go on sale this year. DisplayPort 2.0 offers more bandwidth and allows higher resolutions of up to 16 K. Alternatively, several high-resolution displays can be controlled one after the other via a cable.

File sharing: US provider has to pay 1 billion dollars The US Internet provider Cox Communications has to pay one billion US dollars to 57 Transfer record companies and music publishers. Customers of the Internet provider have in the years 2013 and 2014 more than 10.000 Pieces of music copied over file sharing networks. Because Cox has not cut off these customers from the Internet despite complaints from the rights holder, the company must now be responsible for the copyright infringements of its customers as a contributor.

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