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The cybersecurity ‘pandemic’ that led to the Colonial Pipeline disaster

The cyberattack that forced the Colonial Pipeline offline is just one failure to address existing weaknesses and an escalating “ransomware pandemic,” experts tell The Verge. That leaves the nation’s energy infrastructure especially vulnerable, even though there are basic steps that could have been taken to prevent the crisis that’s unfolding now. “Honestly, I think for… Read more

Best smart fridges 2021: Keep your food cool with added smarts

(Pocket-lint) – When they first came onto the scene, it’s fair to say people were pretty sceptical of smart fridges. The question of why you’d need to be able to look at a screen on your fridge or give it voice commands came up often. The best new Alexa devices: AI-powered TVs, fridges, mirrors and… Read more

Arm Unveils Armv9 Instruction Set Architecture

Home News (Image credit: Qualcomm) Arm this week announced Armv9, its latest instruction set architecture that will power a broad range of processors and system-on-chips that will be launched in the coming years. The new ISA promises to enable designers to build SoCs with multiple special-purpose accelerators for artificial intelligence (AI), machine leading, digital signal processing (DSP),… Read more

DNSpooQ: Vulnerabilities discovered in DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq

Security researchers from JSOF have found seven vulnerabilities in the DNS / DHCP server Dnsmasq. Attackers could attack devices equipped with them and manipulate DNS entries, for example, in order to redirect victims to websites they control. 2008 the computer scientist Dan Kaminsky presented such a DNS attack for the first time. The execution of… Read more

Van Hool in the USA with its first electric touring bus: 676 kWh of batteries and range of up to 500 km

Thanks to the collaboration with Proterra, Van Hool presents an electric version 100% of its ‘coaches’ , intended for the American market: 676 kWh of batteries and autonomy up to 500 km are its license plate data by Roberto Colombo published on 29 December 2020 , at 14: 41 in the Technology channel Van Hool… Read more

heise offer: Compact workshop: Parallel and reactive programming in Java

heise offer The workshop explains the most important Java APIs for parallelism in one day and shows with concrete examples how to use them for higher-performance software. With parallel programming, the performance of software on multicore processors can be increased considerably. Java offers various techniques and APIs for this purpose: threads, fork join tasks, reactive… Read more

Hydrogen: Siemens and DB develop “climate-friendly” regional train

Deutsche Bahn wants to work with Siemens to develop a regional train powered by fuel cells. Together with petrol stations, it is intended to replace diesel multiple units and thus help significantly reduce CO 2 emissions on the railways. The train that Siemens Mobility is to build is based on the Mireo Plus regional multiple… Read more

The triumph of LCD monitors

Many still remember earlier days with bulky tube devices. The LCD technology for monitors has just 24 Years under their belt and also quite hesitantly prevailed. Today, a high-resolution flat screen is so much part of normal office equipment that you would rather notice its lack. Time to take a look at the development of… Read more

Siemens: Joe Kaeser's last annual balance sheet with a solid billion-dollar profit

Siemens’ fourth fiscal quarter ended with an annual profit after taxes of 4.2 billion euros, a quarter lower than in the previous year. At that time, Siemens was still able to post a profit of 5.6 billion euros. Total sales were 57, 1 billion and 2 percent less, roughly at the previous year’s level. For… Read more

heise offer: Online workshop: Parallel and reactive programming in Java

Parallel programming is an obvious and efficient method to increase the performance of software on multicore processors. Java offers various techniques and APIs for this: threads, fork-join tasks, reactive streams and parallel streams. In the one-day iX – Workshop Parallel and reactive programming in Java explains and demonstrates Marwan Abu-Khalil, software architect at Siemens AG,… Read more

Best smart ovens 2020: The tech changing the way we cook

(Pocket-lint) – Like washing machines and dishwashers, ovens have seen huge tech developments over the last few years. In the past, ensuring you got the perfect roast chicken would have been very much down to you. These days, most ovens will do it all for you except put your dish in and take it out…. Read more

Best smart dishwashers 2020: The technology making cleaning dishes easier

(Pocket-lint) – Dishwashers are fabulous appliances. They not only save you from hours of washing up, but it’s claimed they actually save water doing it compared to washing everything by hand. Like washing machines, dishwashers have come on leaps and bounds since they first arrived. Many now have several smart features, some of which save… Read more

Database: TimescaleDB 2.0 records and analyzes large time series

TimescaleDB, a scalable database specializing in time series, is now available after two years – with several beta versions and a first release candidate – the second release candidate (RC). The time series database supports SQL, is based on PostgreSQL as an extension and, in contrast to relational databases, is freely scalable. It offers a… Read more

Hybrid roads: Eclipse MOSAIC simulation environment tests traffic scenarios

With Eclipse MOSAIC, Fraunhofer FOKUS presents a simulation framework based on VSimRTI (Vehicle-2-X Simulation Runtime Infrastructure). The TU Berlin and the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations (DCAITI) had worked on VSimRTI in the past 12 years and it was with around 600 Partners used to test mobility services and traffic scenarios. Basic version is… Read more