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IBM: Loss of profit causes share price to fall

IBM suffered a surprisingly significant loss of business at the end of the year. In the final quarter, sales fell year-on-year by a good six percent to 20, 4 billion US dollars, about 16, 8 billion euros, as IBM announced on Thursday after the US market closed. Net income fell 42 percent to $ 1.3… Read more

TV +: Apple's streaming service far behind

Is Apple’s investment in its own streaming offering worthwhile? If you look at the bare numbers, you can clearly say: no. The iPhone company is said to have taken at least one billion US dollars so far for Apple TV + in order to have series and films produced or to buy them exclusively. Probably… Read more

heise + | Upcycling: Building Micro-NAS with Banana Pi M1, FreeBSD and ZFS

Upcycling: Building Micro-NAS with Banana Pi M1, FreeBSD and ZFS Write FreeBSD to SD card and prepare speed exhaust localize external hard drive Start FreeBSD Conclusion When we switched to FreeBSD out of curiosity tested various ARM-based single board computers (Single Board Computer / SBC), two older Banana Pi M1s stood out from the crowd:… Read more

WTF: Scheuer has the Internet connection relocated

You know: on some days your internet connection crumbles, at some point it is completely dead. You call your provider, shimmy through questions from a machine porter and put yourself on hold. There is another way: you can be called by the responsible minister in person. However, you might have to wait years. The internet… Read more

Coding da Vinci: Award ceremony of the cultural hackathon on January 29th

The award ceremony including the presentation of all projects will take place online next week – tickets can already be ordered. The Lower Saxony edition of the Coding Da Vinci hackathon started in October and connects the world of culture and technology. Through the visual processing of open data, the digital cultural heritage is to… Read more

Possible violation of specification: UHD Blu-rays should have regional codes

One of the great advances brought about by the introduction of the Ultra HD Blu-ray was, in addition to the higher resolution and the expanded contrast range, that these discs no longer have a so-called regional code. As a reminder: For video DVD and Blu-ray Disc, it was specified at the time that discs could… Read more

Brain stimulation for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Customized electrical stimuli sent to the brain without surgery can alleviate obsessive-compulsive disorder for up to three months. This is what US researchers from Boston University write in the journal Nature Medicine. People with obsessive-compulsive disorder suffer from recurring, anxiety-inducing thoughts and compulsions. For example, they have to count, clean, or check items over and… Read more

Apple: Analysts hope for highest sales ever

Apple is apparently about to publish excellent quarterly figures. At least that’s what most analysts on Wall Street assume. The consensus forecasts indicate that the iPhone company has managed to break the 2020 mark in the last three months of the year to skip billions of US dollars in sales – more precisely, it should… Read more

#TGIQF – the news quiz for calendar week 3

Netflix reports record numbers, SpaceX buys oil construction platforms and VW invests in the future of electric cars. Test your knowledge of news in the news quiz! Good news for Netflix, heavy fines for Valve and other game companies – and a new model of the Raspberry Pi that costs just 4 euros. If you… Read more

Fujifilm X-S10 in the test: mirrorless mid-range camera with high equipment

A mirrorless APS-C camera like the new Fujifilm XS 10 offers many photographers everything they need. It is more compact than a full-frame camera and better equipped than the entry-level class. Image stabilizer, a modern sensor, a powerful autofocus, a well-formed housing and a flexible display characterize the XS 10. For example, she has the… Read more

Bitcoin miner Dovecat is targeting network storage devices from Qnap and Synology

The Dovecat malware is currently nesting on NAS devices from Qnap and Synology and mining cryptocurrency at the expense of the victims’ computing power. Qnap has now published information about security. Synology has not yet issued a statement on this. NAS owners have been reporting such attacks in the official forums of Qnap and Synology… Read more

Billions in supply improved: Globalwafers attracts German suppliers

The Taiwanese chip supplier Globalwafers is increasing its takeover offer for the German silicon wafer manufacturer Siltronic, as expected by many investors. Instead of the previous 125 euros, Globalwafers now offers 140 euros per outstanding common share, as the company announced on Friday. That results in a purchase price of around 4.2 billion instead of… Read more

Microservices: Kong Gateway 2.3 gives the gorilla a sandpit

The company Kong has released version 2.3 of the microservices gateway of the same name. The current release changes the default settings for running Lua scripts in favor of security. It also brings some additions to the plug-ins for logging and authentication, among other things. With a view to global use, Route and service names… Read more

heise + | IoT hacking: improve firmware and network security

Software in embedded devices offers many points of attack. A systematic approach to securing and automated scanning of security gaps helps. IoT hacking: Improve firmware and network security Secure update mechanisms Do not underestimate web applications Reduce the attack surface Silence services Article in iX 2 / 2021 read How can IoT software be implemented… Read more

VW ID.3 Pure: basic model for 21,925 euros

It didn’t quite work out, but the cause is likely to be primarily from politics: The basic model of the VW ID.3 should, as the group announced at the launch, be less than 30. 000 Cost euros. Now are 31.495 Euros, of which, however, a manufacturer’s share of 3570 euros and 6000 euros from the… Read more