Month: December 2024

Der Bundestag streitet sich heftig über die Speicherung von IP-Adressen. SPD und Union sind sich grundsätzlich einig. Bis auf einen wichtigen Punkt. Ein Bericht von Friedhelm Greis (Vorratsdatenspeicherung, Politik)

Nach einer Kündigung dürfen Kunden von Mobilfunkanbietern nicht ohne konkreten Grund um einen Rückruf gebeten werden. Die Berufung von Freenet war erfolglos. (Freenet, Mobilfunk)

Eine kompakte Ladestation, die iPhone, Apple Watch und Airpods gleichzeitig laden kann, sorgt für mehr Ordnung und Effizienz im Alltag. (Technik/Hardware, Anker)

Die Malware wird von mehreren Angreifern eingesetzt, die dafür 3.000 US-Dollar im Monat zahlen. Opfer zahlen potenziell mit einem leeren Bankkonto. (Malware, Android)

Das Flying Suit Project arbeitet am Traum vom individuellen elektrischen Fliegen. (Jetpack, Technologie)

Hackers pocketed as much as $155,000 by sneaking a backdoor into a code library used by developers of smart contract apps that work with the cryptocurrency known as Solana.

The supply-chain attack targeted solana-web3.js, a collection of JavaScript code used by developers of decentralized apps for interacting with the Solana blockchain. These “dapps” allow people to sign smart contracts that, in theory, operate autonomously in executing currency trades among two or more parties when certain agreed-upon conditions are met.

The backdoor came in the form of code that collected private keys and wallet addresses when apps that directly handled private keys incorporated solana-web3.js versions 1.95.6 and 1.95.7. These backdoored versions were available for download during a five-hour window between 3:20 pm UTC and 8:25 pm UTC on Tuesday.

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SteamOS is a Linux-based operating system designed for gaming. It’s developed by gaming company Valve, and right now the only device that ships with SteamOS pre-installed is Valve’s Steam Deck handheld gaming PC. But Valve has been saying for years that it plans to work with third-party device makers to  include the operating system on […]

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Microsoft will die Store-App zu einem zentralen Element von Windows machen. Deshalb wurde die Software in letzter Zeit stark überarbeitet. (Betriebssysteme, Microsoft)

In 2013, researchers reported an eye-opening case of a healthy pregnant woman with a puzzling prenatal test result. A routine genetic screen using cell-free DNA—a highly accurate blood test—suggested her fetus had an extra copy of chromosome 13 (Patau syndrome) and only one copy of chromosome 18. These results are devastating; both conditions can cause severe abnormalities. Those with Patau syndrome often only survive a few days or weeks after birth. But, when doctors looked at scans and did additional pregnancy testing, all they found was a healthy fetus developing normally. The woman carried on with her uncomplicated pregnancy and gave birth to a healthy baby.

The alarming genetic results may have been written off as a freak testing flub. But soon after giving birth, the otherwise healthy 37-year-old mother of two reported severe pelvic pain. Imaging revealed what looked like multiple bone tumors, and she was subsequently diagnosed with metastatic small cell carcinoma of vaginal origin. Tragically, she has since died.

Testing of one of her tumors found that the cancerous cells had an increased number of chromosome 13 relative to chromosome 18. Her prenatal test had picked up her deadly cancer.

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Nasa und SpaceX präsentieren die Schlüsselmomente von Artemis III. Ein umgebautes Starship soll zwei Astronauten auf den Mond bringen. (Artemis, Nasa)