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California man faces prison time after hitting police helicopter with a drone

A California man is facing jail time for hitting a police helicopter with his drone. Andrew Hernandez pleaded guilty yesterday to unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft, a charge that carries up to one year in federal prison and a potential fine of up to $250,000. According to a plea agreement, Hernandez launched a small… Read more

Computer breakdown: Thousands of data deleted from British police files

Due to a breakdown, a lot of data has been deleted from the central computer system of the British police. It was more than 150. 000 arrest records with DNA data and fingerprints, reported the Newspaper The Times on Friday. The Ministry of the Interior admitted the breakdown at the Police National Computer (PNC), the… Read more

Bumble disables politics filter after Capitol rioters spotted in app

Dating app Bumble has temporarily disabled a feature which allowed users to filter potential matches based on their political leanings, the service has announced. The feature allows users to identify and filter matches with options such as “Apolitical,” “Moderate,” “Liberal,” and “Conservative.” In a statement given to Mashable, Bumble said it had temporarily removed the… Read more

A Parler archive is being converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack

A developer going by the name of Patr10tic has created an interactive map using GPS metadata and videos from the app Parler to offer a glimpse of what was happening inside and around the Capitol building during the violent protest on January 6th (via Motherboard). The project is an expansion on similar maps like the… Read more

The Galaxy S21 doesn’t support Samsung Pay’s most convenient feature

Samsung has confirmed that the Galaxy S21, S21 Plus, and S21 Ultra no longer support the convenient Magnetic Secure Transmission (MST) feature of Samsung Pay. And based on what the company told Android Police, the same will be true for all phones that Samsung releases from here on out. If you’re not familiar, MST is… Read more

Technology and Corona: the biggest failures of 2020

Technology has had to save us for almost a year. A pandemic is sweeping the world, there have been dire forest fires, troubled political times and the airy miasm of social media wafts through our lives. 2020 has shown more clearly than ever how technical innovations can help us, but also hurt us at the… Read more

TechStage | Fiido M1 Pro in the test: The foldable E-Fatbike for winter, forest and weather

Start Processing Driving Battery Price Conclusion Comments by Matthias // 13. 01. 2021 16: 37 Clock The Fiido M1 Pro is a full-suspension folding e-bike from China with fat bike tires and strong 450 – Watt motor for only 897 Euro. In the test, we cruise perfectly through winter, forest and weather. In May 2020… Read more

DarkMarket: Police are looking for administrators

After the closure of the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the Darknet, according to the authorities, investigations into further suspects are ongoing. “There were other administrators and so-called managers who have not yet been identified,” said the Koblenz attorney general Jürgen Brauer of the dpa. Because of the aliases they used, their number is still… Read more

Inventory data: Opposition warns of new attack on digital civil rights

Representatives of all opposition factions have sharply criticized the draft law with which the grand coalition is adapting the provisions on stock data information to the requirements of the Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) and the initiative to “combat right-wing extremism”, which was stopped by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) Hate crime “wants to cure. The… Read more

MEPs want a one-hour deletion period for terrorist content

Operators of online platforms in the EU must in future delete “terrorist content” within an hour by order of any authorities from a member state without judicial approval. The lead committee for civil liberties, justice and home affairs of the EU Parliament voted on Monday for the draft of a corresponding regulation. 54 MPs were… Read more

What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy S21 event

Samsung’s next Unpacked event will kick off on January 14th at 10AM ET, and thanks to copious leaks, we have a pretty good idea of what to expect from the big day. Samsung is widely expected to announce its next lineup of flagship phones, which will likely be called the S21, S21 Plus, and the… Read more

Proposal to monitor the 15 km rule by cell phone meets with resistance

To monitor the 15 – kilometer rule in Corona hotspots, the President of the Municipal Assembly Uwe Brandl can also imagine using cell phone data – a suggestion, which promptly aroused broad resistance on a political level. In the Bavarian state government, the move was reportedly met with only shaking of the head and skepticism…. Read more

Incorrectly ticked: Justice is rowing back on state Trojan statistics

In December, the Federal Office of Justice (BfJ) published statistics for the first time on how often federal and state investigators made use of their 2017 authorization to make internet calls and monitor messenger communications when a variety of criminal offenses are suspected and conduct clandestine online searches. Accordingly, investigators use state trojans 2019 380… Read more

The federal government wants to modernize 130,000 computer workstations in eight years

The 2015 launched billion dollar “IT Consolidation Bund” initiative is now set to slowly take off this year after many setbacks take up. The federal government has decided on a “sequence plan”, according to which from April 69 projects for an upgrade of the IT -Infrastructures in 69 ministries and authorities in four waves up… 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