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Samsung opens Galaxy S21 pre-orders in China

Samsung has opened the pre-order/registration process in China for the Galaxy S21 series. On its official website, the company revealed people can pay upfront CNY100 (about $15) which will be deducted later from the final price. “Open your eyes for the future” – Machine-translated and adapted slogan translation from Chinese The Samsung China website does… Read more

Security flaws in card terminals and health insurance apps

For decades the federal government slept through the digitization of medicine, now it cannot go fast enough. From the coming year, everything from electronic patient files and e-prescriptions to tele-consultation will gradually run through apps on the smartphone. With hundreds of medical and health apps in the Apple and Google stores, there has so far… Read more

Apple M1, Microsoft Edge released in native version for Apple Silicon

Microsoft’s browser was also released for the new Apple processors, although still in “Canary” version of Nino Grasso published on 17 December 2020 , at 19: 21 in the Apple channel Apple Microsoft macOS There are probably not many users who use Edge on Mac, however Microsoft is showing diligence in supporting Apple Silicon …. Read more

GitHub removes third-party cookies from its page to protect its developers

by Jordi Bercial Ago 45 minutes ago … Lately GitHub is introducing several new features on its website, such as a dark mode in the main portal of the page, or a method to automatically check the code for vulnerabilities. However, in a GitHub blog post we have seen interesting news, and that is that… Read more

A robot vacuum cleaner for less than 60 euros? Yes, and it's also compatible with Alexa and the Google Assistant

In collaboration with TomTop Among today’s offers on TomTop we cannot fail to point out the one that allows you to buy a robot vacuum cleaner at an unmissable price. by Editorial team published 17 December 2020 , at 15: 21 in the House channel The robot vacuum cleaner can cost even more than 500… Read more

Fixed a root gap in Trend Micro InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance

A security update closes several dangerous security holes in protection software from Trend Micro. (Image: Tatiana Popova / Shutterstock.com) Trend Micros web gateway InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance (IWSVA) is intended to stop threats from the Internet at the source in company networks before they reach employees’ computers. However, due to seven security gaps, attackers… Read more

The incredible story of Sandro Traettino, the Italian winner of Huawei's Apps UP 2020 with Spingram

With Spingram Sandro Traettino won the contest Apps UP 2020 organized annually by Huawei to incentivize app developers to develop and succeed with own creations. A fundamental award for the continuation of Sandro’s career. We chatted with him and we tell you his incredible story by Nino Grasso published 17 December 2020 , at 12:… Read more

The RPC framework gRPC Kotlin reaches version 1.0

In order to be able to better use the advantages of the Java alternative Kotlin such as expressiveness, security and support for writing asynchronous code with coroutines for its internal gRPC infrastructure especially for Android and cloud development, Google implemented the implementation gRPC Kotlin built – and released as open source in April 2020. Now… Read more

SolarWinds: FireEye, Microsoft & GoDaddy Build “Killswitch” for Sunburst Malware

Microsoft has taken over a domain that had previously been used by the masterminds behind the “SolarWinds” incidents to communicate with infected systems, it became known on Tuesday. Now there is more information: The said domain avsvmcloud com was converted into a kill switch by Microsoft and FireEye in cooperation with the responsible registrar GoDaddy,… Read more

Samsung Galaxy A72 camera setup detailed

Freshly leaked renders of the Samsung Galaxy A72 5G revealed the smartphone will feature a quad camera on the back. While the setup wasn’t initially detailed, a report by Dutch blog GalaxyClub claims the Galaxy A72 will sport a 64MP camera on the rear joined by a 12MP ultrawide, 5MP macro and 5MP depth sensor… Read more

JetBrains publishes code quality monitoring tool with Qodana

JetBrains introduces Qodana, a new product for monitoring code quality. The aim is to support developers in finding bugs, security holes, duplications and deficiencies in the code base, to identify them and to suggest corrections. Qodana brings the JetBrains IDEs directly into the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline. It is currently available to interested parties as… Read more

Android, updates up to four years after launch: the promise of Qualcomm and Google

Project Treble news will simplify the process update of various Android devices to the latest software versions. by Nino Grasso published 17 December 2020 , at 10: 21 in the Telephony channel Qualcomm Snapdragon Announced in 2017, Project Treble kicked off a modular redesign of Android’s low-level code that reduced the time it takes for… Read more

Web browser extensions for Chrome and Edge snorkel data

If you use Chrome or Edge extensions to download videos from, for example, Facebook, Instagram and Vimeo in your web browser, you should uninstall the add-ons for security reasons and check your computer with a virus scanner. As Avast security researchers write in a post, they are on at least 28 third-party extensions for Chrome… Read more

HPE Systems Insight Manager: Unpatched critical vulnerability puts servers at risk

Admins should protect their HPE servers against malicious code attacks with a workaround. (Image: VideoFlow / Shutterstock.com) A security vulnerability in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Systems Insight Manager (SIM) administration tool for Linux and Windows puts servers at risk. If an attack succeeds, attackers can execute malicious code. Security patches are not yet available. HPE… Read more

Game Dev Adds Ray Tracing Support to Actual Super Nintendo

Home News (Image credit: Ben Carter) Don’t have a next-generation console or fancy new RTX 3000 or RX 6000 graphics card, but do you have an old Super Nintendo lying around? Thanks to game developer Ben Carter, now you too can experience ray tracing. Assuming you also have a DE10 FPGA board and a whole… Read more