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Data exchange: Facebook comments on changes to terms and conditions on WhatsApp

In the past few days, the planned changes to WhatsApp’s terms and conditions have made waves. Facebook intends to interlink its social media platform and the messenger service more closely and intends to link all data with one another in the future. However, all EU citizens should not be forced to do so. According to… Read more

Data exchange: Facebook comments on the planned change in terms and conditions on WhatsApp

In the past few days, the planned changes to WhatsApp’s terms and conditions have made waves. Facebook intends to interlink its social media platform and the messenger service more closely and intends to link all data with one another in the future. However, all EU citizens should not be forced to do so. According to… Read more

Databases: MariaDB receives connector for reactive Java development

The publishers of the relational open source database MariaDB have published a connection for Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC). The new connector is supposed to support reactive programming and should therefore be of particular interest to Java developers. New specification for a reactive interface R2DBC is apparently intended to replace its predecessor JDBC (Java Database… Read more

High Performance Computing: Intel's HPC Reference Stack as Docker Container

Intel positions the High Performance Reference Stack (HPCRS) as a simple option to use a range of preinstalled software with a focus on high performance computing and AI. The included compilers, program libraries and frameworks are optimized for the use of Intel hardware. The software stack appears in the initial release with version number 2.0…. Read more

Security updates: Malicious code attacks on the FortiDeceptor early warning system possible

Attackers could attack Fortinet protection software due to several security holes and, in the worst case, execute their own commands. Secure versions are available for download. FortiDeceptor is affected, among others. With the protection solution, you can set traps for attackers in networks and, in the best case, detect threats early. The most dangerous is… Read more

Samsung Exynos – the next generation of mobile chip for smartphones will allow you to record video in unprecedented quality

We are rapidly approaching the market debut of the Samsung Exynos chip 2100, which will power one of the variants of the flagship Samsung smartphone Galaxy S 21. We will get to know all the details next week, but information about the successor is already starting to appear on the web. The next generation of… Read more

Patchday: Android secured against remote code execution, among other things

For the first patch day in the new year, Google has numerous security holes in Android versions 8.0, 8.1, 9, 10 and 11 eliminated. Four of them are considered critical and could have been misused by attackers, among other things, to carry out denial-of-service attacks or to remotely execute code on vulnerable devices (remote code… Read more

How to set up two-factor authentication on your online accounts

Just about any account you own on the internet is prone to being hacked. After numerous widespread breaches through the past few years, tech companies have been working together to develop a standard that would make passwords a thing of the past, replacing them with more secure methods like biometric or PIN-based logins that do… Read more

Cyber attacks: German authorities also used SolarWinds software – only which?

In Germany too, authorities could be affected by the hack on the network software of the Orion series from SolarWinds. Accordingly, use or used 15 ministries and federal agencies at least partially or “occasionally” products of the US company, as from an answer from Federal government at the request of the Bundestag member Manuel Höferlin… Read more

ARM in the Mac: Apple's plan is a decade old

According to an ex-company engineer, Apple has been planning to equip Macs with ARM technology for at least a decade. ARM 16 did not come “out of nowhere”, said Shac Ron on Tuesday on Twitter. The kernel specialist also said that Apple had for the A7 in the year 2013 – the first 64 bit… Read more

heise + | Style websites with the TailwindCSS front-end framework

Styling websites with the TailwindCSS front-end framework Get started with TailwindCSS Install TailwindCSS Color assignments Free path for layouts Adaptable TailwindCSS is a So-called utility front-end framework: with the help of classes and without leaving the HTML code, you can quickly and easily spruce up websites and components. The classes designate the individual CSS formatting… Read more

Graphics card GeForce RTX 3080 for notebooks: souped-up desktop RTX-3070

After entries on Nvidia’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3070 for notebooks, a result for the mobile one can now be found in Geekbench’s online database Find GeForce RTX 3080. The benchmark has 48 read out shader multiprocessors from the graphics chip, i.e. 6144 Shader cores. Added to this are 16 GByte graphics memory. The Geekbench run… Read more

Rust 1.49.0 raises Linux 64-bit ARM to the highest support level

In the new Rust version 1. 49. 0 holds the compile target aarch 64 – unknown-linux-gnu (64 – Bit-ARM under Linux) for the first time entry into the “Tier 1” support level. The highest support level was previously reserved for x 86 systems. There are also changes to the ARM platforms of macOS and Windows… Read more

Qt limits use of long-term support versions to commercial customers

The Qt Company is immediately restricting the visibility of the Qt-5. 15 branch to the public. The long-term support release (LTS) Qt 5. 15 will for the first time only be available to paying customers, according to an email to Qts Development Mailing list. The company wants to keep the branch visible to the public,… Read more

Early Samsung Galaxy S21 reservations in Thailand offering the flagship for under $1

Samsung Thailand tipped off early reservations for the Galaxy S21 series and there’s a neat way to secure one of the upcoming S-series flagships. The first 100 entrants can legally purchase an S21 for just THB 21 ($0.70) so long as they register for a limited time raffle on Samsung Thailand’s website and trade in… Read more