The end of Windows 7 is near. On January 14, 2020
the official support for Windows 7 will end and end
users will no longer receive security updates for the
OS. MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials) is not affected.

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It seems as if german cities and public services are
more often a target for ransomware. Just few days ago
the city page of Frankfurt/Main has been taken down
as Emotet has infected the server systems the site is on.

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As an eager user of facebook, you’re always
using facebook on your smartphone as well.
Thinking of the security, you have already
disabled GPS tracking for facebook.

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Big brother is watching you! This is version 2.0 of
what privacy breach can be. Tianhong Li and his
colleagues at the MIT foud a way to make a visible
radiography of a building and make walls translucent.

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As of today, the merger of Fiat-Chrysler Automotives (FCA)
and Peugeot is a closed deal! The 50-billion US$ deal will be
fully done within the next 12 to 15 months and the new alliance
will be the 4th largest car manufacturer worldwide.

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It has been no good time for Boeing lately
especially with the 737MAX grounding due
to two plane crashes of that type causing
346 people to lose their lives.

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Streaming is a power consumer par excellence. The
EU commissioner Margrethe Vestager has warned that
streaming will be the reason for massive power usage
of the internet. Over 200 billion kWh will be used.

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When it comes to autonomous driving, e-cars are first choice.
The Tesla has been the first e-car to offer semi-autonomous
driving using complex camera technology. But Tesla isn’t alone
when it comes to consideration of going autonomous driving.

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According to several news sites, there might be a big surprise on
February 18th, 2020 when Samsung is also releasing it’s newest
flagship phone, the Galaxy S11. Unlike it’s predecessor, the hardly
available Galaxy Fold, it’s display will be protected by glass.

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WordPress has just released a new version of it’s
CMS and we have installed it already. So all is fixed
what has been known of open bugs thanks to the
newest release of WordPress.

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IoT is a fine ting, most people of us think.
Checking room temperature, switch lights
remotely or do a surveillance remotely
using internet-connected webcams.

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Well… when the sum is 60.000 Euros
(or 52.000 US$ in the USA), one would
think of an either exclusive PC with an
even more exclusive case.

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A famous singer has died yesterday. Famous
Roxette singer Marie Frederiksson (✞61) has
died of a longterm brain tumor. Most of us
have heard her songs in the early 90’s.

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Nothing’s forever. While Yahoo has announced
mid-october that it will shut down it’s service on
December 14th, they’re taking the step a bit
further: voluntary archivars aren’t allowed to save…

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Owner of a Panasonic DECT phone? Then you should
be aware of this: A secret code allows resetting the
system base PIN and allow the connection of a new
mobile handset that itself can be used for auditing.

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DRM is omnipresent when it comes to movies, games
or other media that has to be protected against unwan-
ted copying or republishing. But what happens if you
have bought a movie of which the DRM is no longer?

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In this case it affects Splunk, a monitoring tool.
What we remembered from the Y2K bug was the
fact that computers with dual-digit year numbers
were unable to handle dates after 31-12-1999.

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Intel has recently shown a close-shot of their EMIB,
a part of processor-interconnection between multiple
dies. A tiny little pice of circuit plate, but important!
Hence EMIB = Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge

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A “no” seems to be something Xerox won’t accept.
After the denial of HP to agree to the takeover offer
Xerox made few weeks ago, Xerox now intends to get
in touch with the HP shareholders directly.

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The ASUS ROG Zenith II Extreme mainboard is a real
masterpiece when it comes to high-performance
combined in a single board. In the past ASUS was
already producing high-class mainboards.

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The Ryzen Threadripper 3970X is the 32-core
Threadripper from AMD and already a beast when
it comes to multicore computing. Dotriaconta-core
CPUs aren’t often seen for personal systems.

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The Galaxy S10 and the Note10 are the current
flagship cell phones of Samsung and they’re
providing good numbers in various benchmarks.
So should the S11, being leaked recently…

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5G was always a difficult thing for the USA. While
Huawei is being locked out as a supplier for 5G
despite bing the world leader in 5G technology,
Trump sees Apple in charge to take this part.

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Cloud services have become a profitable sector
in IT services in general. That’s why Google,
Amazon and Microsoft have invested massive
amounts of money to build up a massive cloud.

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5G, the next-gen LTE is coming faster and faster to many
countries. in France, the minimum start fee for 5G frequency
blocks has been set to 2.17 billion Euro. When the auction
finished in Germany, the income was about 7 billion Euro.

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Imagine this… you’re playing the lottery
for 16 years and in the moment of your luck
you’re denied your win for some quite doubtful
reason. This man has witnessed it now!

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WordPress 5.3 has been released and we tested
thoroughfully to ensure a pleasant stay on our
site while you read news and history here. With
the update being tested, last 4 days posts are now on.

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Motorola has released smartphones in the
past but none of them were special. They
were like the others. But now it seems as if
the phoenix has risen from the ashes.

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No good news for Cortana users of iOS and Android devices.
Microsoft will start to pull the Cortana App from the Google
Play Store and the AppStore on January 2020 as Microsoft
plans to integrate Cortana more and more into Office 365.

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Microsoft has release a new update and it causes again
trouble to users, especially those who use Access. The
dinosaur of database tools, still bundled with Office, has
ceased functioning properly after the update.

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It seems as if it isn’t safe for you to live in Arizona even
if you’re a caring father. In this surveillance video there’s
a man shown who got tazed even with holding a little
child on his arm. The cops say he was a potential danger.

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What’s up with the rumors that Sprint and T-Mobile who
happen to be No.2 and No.3 on the US mobile communi-
cation market want to merge? As per November 6th, 2019
the U.S. Federal Communication Commission FCC said yes…

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