Month: March 2025

Nicht nur Chrome-Nutzer sollten dieser Tage ihren Browser updaten. Eine aktiv ausgenutzte Sicherheitslücke betrifft auch die Windows-Version von Firefox. (Sicherheitslücke, Firefox)

In der Affäre um den Chat der US-Regierung ordnete ein Richter an, dass die sich selbst löschenden Nachrichten gespeichert werden müssen. (Messenger, Instant Messenger)

Die United States Space Force hat die Vulcan-Centaur-Rakete der ULA zertifiziert. Einen Starttermin gibt es aber noch nicht. (Rakete, Raumfahrt)

Der Bau der Starlab-Raumstation geht in die vollständige Entwicklung. Teile der kommerziellen Raumstation werden bei Airbus in Bremen montiert. (Raumstation, Nasa)

Künftig entstehen Assassin's Creed und Far Cry nicht mehr direkt bei Ubisoft, sondern bei einer Tochterfirma. Auch Tencent ist beteiligt. (Ubisoft, Far Cry)

Der Discounter Naked Mobile setzt auf ein Tarif-Modell, bei dem der Kunde nur für die tatsächliche Datennutzung zahlt. Das Angebot soll Mitte 2025 starten. (Tarife, Mobilfunk)

Microsoft Intune ermöglicht die sichere und effiziente Verwaltung von Microsoft-, Apple- und Google-Geräten in Unternehmensumgebungen. Dieser Online-Workshop zeigt, wie IT-Teams das Gerätemanagement optimal umsetzen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Office-Suite)

The Light Phone line of handsets are positioned as minimalist phones that do less than most modern smartphones, while still letting you make calls, send messages, and perform basic functions… without giving into the temptation to spend hours doomscrolling. But that doesn’t mean users don’t want a nice screen or a decent camera. So last year […]

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Two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission who were fired by President Trump sued him today, saying their removals are "in direct violation of a century of federal law and Supreme Court precedent."

"Plaintiffs bring this action to vindicate their right to serve the remainder of their respective terms, to defend the integrity of the Commission, and to continue their work for the American people," said the lawsuit filed by Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya in US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Trump last week sent Slaughter and Bedoya notices that said, "I am writing to inform you that you have been removed from the Federal Trade Commission, effective immediately." They were then cut off from their FTC email addresses, asked to return electronic devices, and denied access to their offices.

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It's no secret that "driving while black" is a real phenomenon. Study after study has shown that minority drivers are ticketed at a higher rate, and data from speed cameras suggests that it's not because they commit traffic violations more frequently. But this leaves open the question of why. Bias is an obvious answer, but it's hard to eliminate an alternative explanation: Minority groups may engage in more unsafe driving, and the police are trying to deter that.

But now, Lyft has given a group of researchers access to detailed data from their drivers. The results confirm that minority drivers get more tickets, and they pay higher fines when they do. And the results also show that minorities aren't in any way more likely to speed or engage in unsafe driving. Which suggests, in their words, that the problem is "animus" against minority drivers.

Giving research a Lyft

The work was done thanks to cooperation from the ridesharing company Lyft, which provided data on its drivers in Florida, all 222,838 of them, along with a record of all the GPS pings their tracking systems sent into the company's servers. Combined with a detailed map of Florida's roads, along with their speed limits, they could determine when a given driver was speeding. They also obtained Florida police records of any accidents and cross-referenced their locations to any vehicle that experienced a sudden stop in that spot at the same time.

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