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Boeing 737 Max about to be re-registered in the EU

Boeing’s crisis jet 737 Max should soon be able to take off again in Europe after being banned from flying for almost two years. He expects the re-approval in the next week, said the head of the European aviation authority EASA, Patrick Ky, on Tuesday in an online event of the German aviation press club…. Read more

Almost 160 million euros in GDPR fines in 2020

The penalties imposed for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation in the EU increased significantly 2020 to a total of 158, 5 million euros. Compared to 20 months since the DGSVO came into force in May 2018 this means a plus of 39 percent. These figures about the 20 EU member states plus GB,… Read more

heise offer: c't online: Get out of the performance trap

Google has announced that it will introduce the “Page Experience” as a ranking factor for its search engine in May. This particularly includes website performance. So if you want to ensure that your pages appear prominently in the search result pages in the future, you should make sure that they load quickly. There are of… Read more

Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 with 3.2 GHz core for upper-class smartphones

Qualcomm is relaunching its fastest smartphone processor from the year 2020: The Snapdragon 870 represents a faster version of the Snapdragon 660 Plus, which in turn is an accelerated new edition of the Snapdragon 865 was. The newcomer is a cheaper alternative to the actual 2021 he top model Snapdragon 888. The internal structure of… Read more

Microsoft joins General Motors' Robotaxi company

Microsoft wants to be the next technology company to get involved in the self-driving car business. The Windows giant is participating in a two billion dollar financing round of the robotaxi company Cruise of the auto company General Motors, as the company announced on Tuesday. Cruise was given a total of 30 Billion dollars. The… Read more

Homeschooling: Call for digital sovereignty through free software

The Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) is concerned that many schools are using “proprietary software solutions that are questionable under data protection law” against the background of the corona crisis and the current level of suffering in homeschooling. Above all, programs that transfer data from those affected to third countries such as the USA are questionable… Read more

Samsung 870 Evo: An update for the successful SSD

The Samsung 860 Evo came early 2018 and it is still one of the most popular SATA SSDs today. Now comes the successor, the 870 Evo. The SSD is again with 250 and 500 GByte as well as 1, 2 and 4 TByte. Samsung has currently only announced versions in the 2.5-inch case – whether… Read more

DuckDuckGo: More searches than ever before

According to its own statement, DuckDuckGo recorded more than 102 million search requests in one day for the first time in January. In the year 2020 the average of daily search queries increased by 62 percent. In January 2021 users made an average of 90 million requests a day DuckDuckGo advertises to be completely anonymous:… Read more

Right network: Parler partly online again, full return announced

The website of the social network Parler, which is particularly popular with right-wing extremists and right-wing extremists, is partially online again and the platform should be back online before the end of the month. At least he was “confident” in this regard, Parler boss John Matze assured Fox News. At the moment the service only… 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

1 & 1 no longer actively markets mobile phone tariffs in the Vodafone network

1 & 1 Drillisch has stopped active marketing of its mobile phone tariffs in the Vodafone network. A company spokesman confirmed this to heise online. Accordingly, the tariffs in the D-Netz can still be booked via the customer hotline. First, teltarif reported on the marketing stop. The industry magazine has received an email in which… 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

“Big Island”: China is testing its first own GPU accelerator with 7 nm technology

China has taken another step on the way to becoming an independent semiconductor industry: According to its own statements, Shanghai Tianshu Zhixin Semiconductor has designed a GPU accelerator developed entirely at home, of which the first test chips are running in the laboratories. It is intended to be similar to Nvidia’s Ampere-GPU A 100 for… Read more

“Hitman 3” alluded to: Death suits him well

Bald man and master assassin agent 47 is a real Methuselah of the video game scene. For around 20 years, corpses pave its way through the High society of gangsters and agents. Since 2016 there is agent 47 in reboot mode: With “Hitman 3” the World of Assassination trilogy is now completed, the was only… Read more