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“Cotton candy planet” WASP-107b with a surprisingly small core

The solid core of the “cotton candy planet” WASP – 107 b is obviously much lighter, than previously thought possible with such gas giants. This is the result of a group of astrophysicists who have analyzed the already known exoplanet in more detail. According to this, the celestial body is about as big as Jupiter,… Read more

AWS SDK for Go: Second version packages service clients as individual Go modules

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released the second major version of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Go programming language. According to the publisher, user feedback from the first version was incorporated and new features of the language were taken into account. Modularize service clients The revised modularization is new: Version 2 of the… Read more

heise offer: Online workshop: Monitoring and data analysis with the Elastic Stack

The combination of Beats for collecting and Logstash for preparing data, Elasticsearch for storing and searching and Kibana for visualizing the data results in a powerful software stack. The areas of application of the Elastic Stack range from logging and monitoring of complex environments to complex data analysis. The online workshop Elastic Stack Fundamentals takes… 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

New music synthesizer ICs from SSI

For some time now, analog synthesizers, especially in modular form, have experienced a real revival; as a result, even special synthesizer ICs were reissued, for example some components from the former manufacturer Curtis (CEM 33 xx series), the are now being manufactured by OnChip Systems in Latvia. The Californian manufacturer Sound Semicondutor Inc. takes a… Read more

The GLA with electric drive: electric compact SUV Mercedes EQA 250

Mercedes-Benz presents the EQA, an electric compact SUV. In addition to the high demand for such cars, there is another reason for the design: With an already tall structure, it is easier to find space for the battery. Like the EQC 375 (test) originates from the GLC, the EQA shares the platform with the GLA…. 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

Facebook releases Platform SDK 9 and other updates for SDKs

Facebook has released version 9 of its Software Development Kit (SDK) and other updates for the platform SDKs. The company has also announced that it will begin marking all SDK versions below version 9.0 as deprecated. Developers are encouraged to migrate to the current version. The Facebook SDKs provide helpful analysis functions and are used… Read more

Apple Car: allegedly produced in Kia’s US factory

Is the first “Apple Car” a Kia? According to a media report from South Korea, Hyundai, which is being seriously considered as a producer of Apple’s electric cars, is considering moving to a location in the United States that currently produces vehicles of that brand. Hyundai has a stake in Kia with around 34 percent…. 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

Eleven year cycle confirmed: solar activity reconstructed for almost 1000 years

The most accurate data on solar activity so far for the past 993 not only confirm “impressively” the eleven-year activity cycle of our star, but also provide clues for two previously unknown radiation outbreaks in the High Middle Ages. This has been determined by an international team of researchers with the collaboration of the Max… Read more

Apple's high-end AirPods Max headphones opened: teardown with surprises

iFixIt has carried out a first detailed teardown of Apple’s new high-end headphones. The over 600 Euro headphones AirPods Max are – as was to be expected from the iPhone manufacturer – not easy to take apart. “Adorably Confusing” AirPods Max The process of opening the AirPods Max was “slightly confused and overcomplicated”, write 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

Numbers, please: Jean-Philippe Baratier – the short life of a “child prodigy”

Exactly to the day before 50 years ago the Huguenot son Jean-Philippe Baratier was born in Schwabach. He was the first “child prodigy” of the Enlightenment. He was able to read at the age of three, and at the age of six he argued in German, French, Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Chaldean, Syriac and Arabic… Read more