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MSI unveils PRO 22XT 10M all-in-one PC with IPS display

Matthew Wilson 46 mins ago PC While many of us primarily know MSI for its gaming hardware, the company has also been gaining ground in the productivity and creator markets with bespoke PCs and laptops. The latest is an all-in-one PC called the MSI PRO 22XT 10M, packing an Intel Core i5 powered system behind… Read more

Thunderbird, Firefox and Tor Browser available in secured versions

On Tuesday, Mozilla updated its Thunderbird email client as well as the regular and ESR (Extended Support Release) versions of its Firefox web browser. Thunderbird and Firefox ESR are now in version 78. 6, the regular Firefox version 84 . The security gaps that were closed hardly varied: All three programs were uniformly against one… Read more

Development environment: Eclipse 2020-12 with numerous extensions

The open source desktop IDE Eclipse is in version 2020 – 12 published. It is available in expandable IDE packages for different purposes and programming languages. A Java installation is not a mandatory requirement, at least not when using the Eclipse installer or when installing one of the popular IDE packages for Java, for Enterprise… Read more

TKG amendment: “Too little light and too much shadow”

As expected, the Cabinet initiated the amendment to the Telecommunications Act (TKG) on Wednesday morning. According to the Federal Ministries for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWI) and for Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) in Berlin, the plan, which is heavily controversial in individual points, is intended to create “a tailor-made and future-oriented legal framework for… Read more

FreeRTOS LTS: Amazon's operating system for the Internet of Things

AWS has announced a LTS (Long Term Support) version of its open source real-time operating system FreeRTOS for microcontrollers. FreeRTOS is mainly used in small edge devices with low power consumption. The LTS versions should remain functionally stable for two years and only receive security patches and critical error corrections. Only recommended updates to the… Read more

Cyber attacks via SolarWinds software – an overview of new developments

A few days ago, attacks on various US authorities became public. The government-sponsored group, which is also said to be responsible for the successful break-in at the IT security company Fireye, used infected updates for the Orion network management software from SolarWinds as an attack tool. She smuggled this, provided with a valid digital SolarWinds… Read more

Huawei releases HarmonyOS 2.0 beta for select phones, still lets you roll back to EMUI 11

Huawei released the first version of its in-house operating system, HarmonyOS, which supports smartphones (the first version made its debut on a smart TV). The software is currently in beta and both users and developers are invited to try it out. The phones that are supported currently are: Huawei P40, P40 Pro, Mate 30 (and… Read more

Apple Silicon, native support for Microsoft Office and Firefox arrives: huge performance boost

The Apple Silicon revolution was launched with the first products on the market, but now it is the software developers who have to respond and it seems that they are doing it en masse. Microsoft has just announced the arrival for everyone of the native Office suite for ARM architecture on Mac systems , and… Read more

Signal now with end-to-end encryption for group video calls

At Signal, end-to-end encrypted voice and video calls were previously possible, but this did not apply to group calls, i.e. calls with several people at the same time. That is now changing: The extension is now available, free of charge and is based on the RingRTC library. Initially, up to five participants can complete Make… Read more

Query language: Nexus 1.0 creates GraphQL interfaces declaratively

The open source project Nexus has reached version 1.0. The declarative approach to creating GraphQL APIs should be stable for productive use with the new release, and there are some significant changes associated with the version jump. Nexus is now available under a new package name, and fields may by default have the value null… Read more

Raspberry Pi RoboScan Automatically Digitizes Vintage Images

Home News (Image credit: Benjamin Bezine) The versatility of the Raspberry Pi never ceases to amaze us–today’s project reaches into the field of photography. Maker Benjamin Bezine’s project, RoboScan uses a Raspberry Pi to automatically scan old rolls of analog film to develop them into individual digital photos. According to Bezine, this Pi creation was… Read more

Corona warning app comes to iPhone 6

The federal government’s official Corona warning app will also be able to run on the older iPhone models 5s, 6 and 6 Plus in the future. The Robert Koch Institute pointed this out on Tuesday in Berlin. Apple now also provides the necessary technical interface, the so-called Exposure Notification Framework for the operating system version… Read more

TechStage | Good e-book reader for vacation, vacation and lockdown

Beginning Display Audiobooks Ecosystem Load e-books Impermeability Protective cover Security Price Conclusion Comments (13) by Matthias // 15. 12. 2020 14: 23 Clock E-book readers are not only a perfect way to read books digitally on vacation, but also for the holiday season and in lockdown. A which e-reader is on the right one? They… Read more

Update for .NET tools: JetBrains updates ReSharper and Rider

JetBrains releases version 2020. 3 of its .NET tools ReSharper and Rider. The focus is on the connection to .NET 5 and the support of the new features of C # 9. With this, JetBrains completes the update series of its IDEs. In the past few weeks, the tool manufacturer had already updated IntelliJ IDEA,… Read more

JavaScript: Ember 3.23 can create and call helper instances in components

The team behind the open source JavaScript framework has announced the release of Ember 3. 23. At the same time, updated versions of the data persistence library Ember Data, which is compatible with the framework, and the new Ember CLI (Command-Line Interface) for packaging Ember.js applications were released. New little helpers on board The JavaScript… Read more