Month: February 2025

Bei Amazon ist aktuell ein besonders günstiger Laptop von HP erhältlich. Der Onlinehändler bietet ihn günstig wie nie mit 150 Euro Rabatt an. (Notebook, Computer)

NASA should soon announce a new plan for the return of two of its astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to Earth as early as March 19. This is about two weeks earlier than the existing public timeline for their flight home from the International Space Station.

Bringing the two astronauts back to Earth next month will require some shuffling of spacecraft here on the ground and a delay of the privately operated Axiom-4 mission to the International Space Station to later in the spring.

Wilmore and Williams flew to the station on Boeing's Starliner in June 2024. The plight of "Butch and Suni," as they are often referred to, was a major story in the space community last summer after their Starliner spacecraft experienced significant propulsion issues before docking. NASA ultimately decided the safest course would be for the pair to return home on a SpaceX Dragon vehicle, and launched the Crew-9 mission last September with two empty seats. Thus, Butch and Suni's ride home has been docked to the station since last fall.

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Auch als Ork können wir in unser Allianz-Gebäude: Blizzard hat Details zum erstaunlich umfangreichen Housing in World of Warcraft bekannt gegeben. (World of Warcraft, MMORPG)

For much of the past year, the trail of destruction and mayhem left behind by ransomware hackers was on full display. Digital extortion gangs paralyzed hundreds of US pharmacies and clinics through their attack on Change Healthcare, exploited security vulnerabilities in the customer accounts of cloud provider Snowflake to breach a string of high-profile targets, and extracted a record $75 million from a single victim.

Yet beneath those headlines, the numbers tell a surprising story: Ransomware payments actually fell overall in 2024—and in the second half of the year dropped more precipitously than in any six-month period on record.

Cryptocurrency tracing firm Chainalysis today released a portion of its annual crime report focused on tracking the ransomware industry, which found that ransomware victims’ extortion payments totaled $814 million in 2024, a drop of 35 percent compared to the record $1.25 billion that hackers extracted from ransomware victims the previous year. Breaking down the payments over the course of 2024 shows an even more positive trend: Hackers collected just $321 million from July through December compared to $492 million the previous half year, the biggest falloff in payments between two six-month periods that Chainalysis has ever seen.

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Selenium ist eine weitverbreitete Open-Source-Bibliothek für Web-Scraping, mit der sich Browser wie Chrome, Firefox und Safari steuern lassen. Wie das geht und warum das sinnvoll ist. Eine Anleitung von Antony Ghiroz (Web Scraping mit Python, Python)

Langsame Ladezeiten und ein träges System stören den Arbeitsfluss. Die Crucial BX500 soll Programme beschleunigen und Daten schneller laden. (Technik/Hardware, Speichermedien)

Amazon hat eine Gaming-Tastatur von Corsair mit anpassbarer RGB-Beleuchtung, Makrotasten und Elgato-Integration im Angebot. (Corsair, Technik/Hardware)

Statt unparteiischer Technokraten will die US-Regierung regierungstreue Entscheider als CIOs in den Bundesbehörden. (Donald Trump, Politik)

Die BNetzA hat 2024 über 5,3 Millionen nicht gesetzeskonforme Geräte identifiziert. Meist kamen diese aus Drittstaaten, allen voran aus China. (Onlinehandel, Bundesnetzagentur)

Nach weniger als 24 Stunden meldet das Entwicklerstudio Warhorse mehr als eine Million verkaufte Exemplare von Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. (Kingdom Come Deliverance, Rollenspiel)