Month: December 2021

Zu wenig Regen und Systemversagen

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Noch immer zu wenig Grundwasser, Behördenversagen, Repression und Unwillen, auf die Lage in den Krankenhäusern Rücksicht zu nehmen

Die Energie- und Klimawochenschau: Noch immer zu wenig Grundwasser, Behördenversagen, Repression und Unwillen, auf die Lage in den Krankenhäusern Rücksicht zu nehmen

Nokia 9 PureView won’t be getting Android 11, HMD offers discounts on new phones instead

HMD Global, the company that’s been producing Nokia-branded smartphones over the past few years, had earned a reputation for offering decent bang for the buck, a near-stock Android experience, and several years of guaranteed software updates. And then came the Nokia 9 PureView. When the company launched the phone in 2019, it shipped with Android […]

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HMD Global, the company that’s been producing Nokia-branded smartphones over the past few years, had earned a reputation for offering decent bang for the buck, a near-stock Android experience, and several years of guaranteed software updates.

And then came the Nokia 9 PureView. When the company launched the phone in 2019, it shipped with Android 9, but the company promised to eventually deliver Android 10 and 11. But that hasn’t happened, and the phone has been stuck on Android 10 for the past year. Now HMD has acknowledged that it will not be delivering an Android 11 update for the phone.

While HMD had planned to provide two years of OS updates and three years of security updates, the company says the unusual 5-camera system on the Nokia 9 PureView has caused “incompatibilities between the camera and the software” that “would have led to a compromised experience that does not meet our high standards.”

Folks who want to keep using the Nokia 9 PureView with Android 10 will be able to continue doing so indefinitely. Most recent Android apps and services will likely continue to work just fine on Android 10 for the foreseeable future, given that this is hardly the only phone still running the software.

But HMD says folks who really want a newer version of Android have another option: buy a newer phone. The company is offering a 50% discount to PureView owners who want to buy some newer models including the Nokia XR20… assuming you’re still interested in buying a Nokia phone after this.

That said, there is some reason to think that this inability to deliver an OS update will be a one-off problem. While smartphones with a high camera count have become increasingly common in the past few years, the Nokia 9 PureView was the first to ship with 5 rear cameras thanks to a partnership with Light, a startup that attempted to replicate functionality of DSLRs by using different cameras for different features.

Not only did that make this phone’s camera system unlike anything else available at the time, but it’s unlike anything released since then, as Light has exited the smartphone camera space, likely leaving HMD on its own when it comes to trying to develop software updates.

That’s an issue that shouldn’t affect the company’s other phones.

via GSM Arena

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OpenRAN: Offenheit birgt “Sicherheitsrisiken und neue Chancen”

Das BSI hat schwere Sicherheitsbedenken zu Open RAN. Ein Fraunhofer-Experte erwartet sogar mehr Sicherheit auf lange Sicht. Ein CTO hält O-RAN noch nicht für nutzbar. (Open RAN, Netzwerk)

Das BSI hat schwere Sicherheitsbedenken zu Open RAN. Ein Fraunhofer-Experte erwartet sogar mehr Sicherheit auf lange Sicht. Ein CTO hält O-RAN noch nicht für nutzbar. (Open RAN, Netzwerk)

Pflegenotstand droht sich zu verschärfen

Die Barmer-Krankenkasse warnt: In den nächsten zehn Jahren braucht Deutschland deutlich mehr Pflegekräfte. Der Beruf soll attraktiver werden – nicht nur mit höheren Löhnen

Die Barmer-Krankenkasse warnt: In den nächsten zehn Jahren braucht Deutschland deutlich mehr Pflegekräfte. Der Beruf soll attraktiver werden – nicht nur mit höheren Löhnen

Energiewende: Rohstoffkosten sorgen für Umbruch auf dem Akkumarkt

Hohe Rohstoffpreise stoppen den Fall der Akkupreise. Neue Rekordpreise bei Lithium werden Akkus 2022 sogar teurer machen. Eine Analyse von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Energiewende, Elektroauto)

Hohe Rohstoffpreise stoppen den Fall der Akkupreise. Neue Rekordpreise bei Lithium werden Akkus 2022 sogar teurer machen. Eine Analyse von Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer (Energiewende, Elektroauto)

Thousands of AT&T customers in the US infected by new data-stealing malware

Malware exploits 2017 vulnerability in a widely used network edge device.

Thousands of AT&T customers in the US infected by new data-stealing malware

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Thousands of networking devices belonging to AT&T Internet subscribers in the US have been infected with newly discovered malware that allows the devices to be used in denial-of-service attacks and attacks on internal networks, researchers said on Tuesday.

The device model under attack is the EdgeMarc Enterprise Session Border Controller, an appliance used by small- to medium-sized enterprises to secure and manage phone calls, video conferencing, and similar real-time communications. As the bridge between enterprises and their ISPs, session border controllers have access to ample amounts of bandwidth and can access potentially sensitive information, making them ideal for distributed denial of service attacks and for harvesting data.

Researchers from Qihoo 360 in China said they recently spotted a previously unknown botnet and managed to infiltrate one of its command-and-control servers during a three-hour span before they lost access.

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