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Raspberry Pi Pico Review: ‘Pi Silicon’ Debuts on $4 Microcontroller

Our Verdict A first for Raspberry Pi, the Pico microcontroller provides an affordable and simple way to control lights, motors, sensors and other electronic components. For Low cost Small size Ease of use Built-in ADC Against C workflow is tricky No built-in wireless No 5V output Raspberry Pi has a history of disrupting the status… Read more

Chrome 88 is here: Without Flash and FTP support

With Chrome 88 Google has finally banned Flash from its browser. This means that even corporate customers are no longer able to access or offer Flash content – Google has been advising them to switch since 2017. Adobe itself has ended support for Flash. In addition, FTP support is to end. According to Google, usage… Read more

Debian in your pocket: PinePhone Community Edition presented with Mobian

The manufacturer PineMicrosystems presents another Community Edition of the PinePhone. The “PinePhone Community Edition: Mobian” can since 16. January can be pre-ordered in the Pine Shop and is available in two different hardware versions, one of which is also suitable for desktop use. In a blog post Pine 64 gives an overview of the hardware… Read more

Java Virtual Machine: GraalVM 21 starts the truffle search for Java

Oracle has released version 21. 0 of GraallVM. The release of the virtual machine mainly brings news for native images and the Truffle Language Implementation Framework. For the latter there is now an experimental implementation for Java, and the native images can now be serialized. The GraalVM relies on the Hotspot JVM ( Java Virtual… Read more

Google closes a critical gap in Chrome and finally throws Flash out

In Google’s Chrome web browser 88. 0. 4324. 96 the developers have closed 36 security holes. Most of the vulnerabilities are classified as ” high “. A gap (CVE – 2021 – 21117) is considered to be “critical”. It affects the Cryptohome component. The warning message hardly contains any further details about this and the… Read more

heise offer: Entry into continuous integration with Jenkins

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery – the automated construction, testing and rollout of software – is an important component of agile software development in order to ensure and improve software quality. In the two-day online course Introduction to Continuous Integration with Jenkins, you will learn in a realistic training environment how to install, configure, operate… Read more

heise + | Linux drivers: Why it is sometimes so tedious

drivers under Linux: Why it is sometimes so tedious Is it the device manufacturer? Is it up to the kernel developers? Is it because of the distributors? Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read The author earned ridicule and scorn from many colleagues when they heard about the current construction proposal “Allround PC” for adequate… Read more

Linux is Finally on Apple M1…Kind Of.

Home News (Image credit: Future) Half of the reason to buy a Mac is to get native support for macOS, but that doesn’t mean Mac owners don’t also suffer from the grass-is-greener syndrome. While Apple’s operating system is known for being casual friendly and is also the OS system people who grew up on its… Read more

ownCloud Infinite Scale: Go instead of PHP, microservices instead of LAMP

In a quiet little room, ownCloud has been working on the new version of its software for over a year and is now showing its new Infinite Scale project for the first time – but the developers are not slow, they have big plans. Up to and including ownCloud X, the software is a classic… Read more

AWS is planning a new open source design system for the graphical user interface

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has converted the graphical user interface (UI) of the porting assistant for .NET into open source. The tool itself was already open source, but not its UI: From now on, your source code is also available under the Apache 2.0 license. .NET developers can now view, change and edit the source… Read more

Basic work with Qt 6: KaOS 2021.01 published

With the switch to version 6 of the application framework Qt, which is used for the cross-platform development of user interfaces, the KaOS developers are preparing their distribution for a change from the plasma desktop to the Qt 6 basis. A number of applications in KaOS are already based on Qt 6. For the first… Read more

l + f: Children playing hacked Linux Mint

Diagdsahfghgf3 “hgjGgh = jh + / ma-meöèhghimmē … oops! Mooomēnt! Stop! There are patches. (Image: Biehler Michael / Shutterstockcom) Of Olivia von Westernhagen Four wildly typing, mouse-clicking children’s hands managed to bypass the Linux Mint screen saver lock last month. The “Screensaver lock by-pass”, which was discovered by two small “hackers” by chance and which… Read more

Assign a new password now! OpenWrt forum hacked

Anyone who is active in the OpenWrt forum must manually set a new password. The operator initiated this after a successful attack on the forum. The OpenWrt Wiki should not be affected by the security incident. The Linux distribution is installed, for example, on routers and smartphones as alternative firmware. For example, routers can be… Read more

Unix derivative GhostBSD: Version 21.01.15 is leaner and has new graphics drivers

The developer team around Eric Turgeon has GhostBSD 21. 01.15 Approved. The new version of the preconfigured, FreeBSD-based desktop system is available as a hybrid ISO image for CD-R or USB sticks. The current MATE or Xfce are available as desktop environment. Slimmed down A target of GhostBSD 21. 01. 15 it was to reduce… Read more

.NET Core is vital for CMS developers

Various trends from the IT environment are currently affecting content management systems (CMS). For 2021, the business application provider Progress, which specializes in CMS among other things, has identified six key topics for the CMS market. As the successor to the .NET framework, .NET Core enables cross-platform ASP.NET apps to be built for Windows, Mac… Read more