Bundeshaushalt: Bahn muss womöglich bei ICE-Bestellungen sparen

Der Bundeshaushalt hat bei der Deutschen Bahn Milliardenlöcher aufgerissen. Bauprojekte werden daher in ihrer Bedeutung sortiert – und nicht nur die. (Deutsche Bahn, Bundesregierung)

Der Bundeshaushalt hat bei der Deutschen Bahn Milliardenlöcher aufgerissen. Bauprojekte werden daher in ihrer Bedeutung sortiert - und nicht nur die. (Deutsche Bahn, Bundesregierung)

Anzeige: Einstieg in den Industriestandard – Adobe Photoshop

Das unangefochtene Standardprogramm für die digitale Bildbearbeitung. Dieser Online-Workshop der Golem Karrierewelt bietet den perfekten Einstieg in das Profi-Tool! (Golem Karrierewelt, Adobe)

Das unangefochtene Standardprogramm für die digitale Bildbearbeitung. Dieser Online-Workshop der Golem Karrierewelt bietet den perfekten Einstieg in das Profi-Tool! (Golem Karrierewelt, Adobe)

Canada vows to ban Flipper Zero device in crackdown on car theft

How do you ban a device built with open source hardware and software anyway?

A Flipper Zero device

Enlarge / A Flipper Zero device (credit: https://flipperzero.one/)

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1 in his new crackdown on car theft: the Flipper Zero, a $200 piece of open source hardware used to capture, analyze and interact with simple radio communications.

On Thursday, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada agency said it will “pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian marketplace through collaboration with law enforcement agencies.” A social media post by François-Philippe Champagne, the minister of that agency, said that as part of the push “we are banning the importation, sale and use of consumer hacking devices, like flippers, used to commit these crimes.”

In remarks made the same day, Trudeau said the push will target similar tools that he said can be used to defeat anti-theft protections built into virtually all new cars.

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A sleuthing enthusiast says he found the US military’s X-37B spaceplane

Officials didn’t disclose details about the X-37B’s orbit after its December launch.

File photo of an X-37B spaceplane.

Enlarge / File photo of an X-37B spaceplane. (credit: Boeing)

It turns out some of the informed speculation about the US military's latest X-37B spaceplane mission was pretty much spot-on.

When the semi-classified winged spacecraft launched on December 28, it flew into orbit on top of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, which is much larger than the Atlas V and Falcon 9 rockets used to launch the X-37B on its previous missions.

This immediately sparked speculation that the X-37B would reach higher altitudes than its past flights, which remained in low-Earth orbit at altitudes of a few hundred miles. A discovery from Tomi Simola, a satellite tracking hobbyist living near Helsinki, Finland, appears to confirm this suspicion.

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