180650876
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Z00L00K writes:
Germany holds the world’s second biggest national gold reserves after the US, of which approximately €164bn (£122bn) worth – 1,236 tonnes – is stored in New York.
Emanuel Mönch, a leading economist and former head of research at Germany’s federal bank, the Bundesbank, called for the gold to be brought home, saying it was too “risky” for it to be kept in the US under the current administration.
“Given the current geopolitical situation, it seems risky to store so much gold in the US,” he told the financial newspaper Handelsblatt. “In the interest of greater strategic independence from the US, the Bundesbank would therefore be well advised to consider repatriating the gold.”
180462473
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Z00L00K writes:
The Swedish Maritime Administration Sjofartsverket is equipping ten beacons with radar answering beacons. The first system went into operation on Oland in December. The background to this is persistent GPS interference in the Baltic Sea.
GPS interference is visualized on gpsjam.org
180355635
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Z00L00K writes:
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure
Record
3. Mandatory Social Media:
In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161
(Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other
National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social
media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The
data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social
media from the last 5 years.
178785328
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Z00L00K writes:
UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services is dealing with a cyberattack that has caused a multi-day outage of some of the company's operations, including hosting and porting services, Colt Online, and Voice API platforms.
The British telecommunications and network services provider disclosed that the attack started on August 12 and the disruption continues as its IT staff works around the clock to mitigate its effects.
The troubles are still ongoing today the 20th of August.
177392251
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Z00L00K writes:
At the company where I work we have now three times encountered cases where some Windows 11 computers have either been reassigned to another company or removed from the company where I work and ended up being a generic Microsoft account computer.
This is first visualized on the Let's add your Microsoft account page where the logo is incorrect over the Sign In field. In my most recent case the computer has been removed from Intune, but has still been present in Entra. The end result has been a computer with a quite weird behavior limiting its usability.
All computers have been Dell computers of various models, but I doubt that it's a Dell only issue.
So my question is if anyone else has encountered the same phenomenon?
176845723
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Z00L00K writes:
We need a digital firewall against fascism. We are addressing twelve demands to the CDU/CSU and SPD, which they must implement swiftly to stop the foreseeable consequences of the shift to the right and the endeavors of Trump and Co. The surveillance era must end.
The start of a new government in Germany is accompanied by a turnaround in transatlantic relations and an unprecedented anti-democratic takeover of power by tech broligarchs in the United States. Therefore, mass surveillance by tech companies is even more of a political issue than before, which a new government cannot ignore.Link to Original Source
175944481
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Z00L00K writes:
In January 2025, Lynch evacuated his Los Angeles home due to the Southern California wildfires; Deadline Hollywood reported that these events preceded a terminal decline in his health, and on January 16, 2025, Lynch's family announced that he had died at the age of 78.
175585911
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Z00L00K writes:
The rise of AI brought many significant changes to innovations, making positive transformations in our lives by completing multiple tasks in a more efficient and faster way. However, there have been major concerns related to AI as it’s feared that it can get out of control from human’s approach and may start working against us.
In one such incident, a little AI robot convinced a dozen large robots to stop working and come home with him.
The incident occurred on August 26 this year in Shanghai but has been recently made public.
175093539
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Z00L00K writes:
Welcome to Windows Update Restored! This is a project dedicated to restoring the update functionality for Windows 95 up to Windows XP, with Automatic Updates as well. We actively work on the project and make improvements over time, which can be found in the news section at the bottom of this page.
In August of 2011, Microsoft shut down the Windows Update servers for Windows 95/NT4/98/Me/2000 (RTM, SP1 & SP2). This prevented legacy systems from getting updates and other software from Microsoft. Windows Update Restored has brought back those old websites, to give you the update experience of how it was back then!
The original Windows Update websites provided users with security (critical) updates, optional software updates, driver updates, and other types of software for your operating system. Windows Update Restored has revived all of these features, as well as the Automatic Updates feature and the Critical Update Notification Tool (Windows 98 to Windows XP). Want to learn more about what is available on Windows Update Restored? Read the Frequently Asked Questions.
This website is best viewed with a resolution of 800x600 pixels and required a minimum of Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 to properly be displayed. Though, we recommend the use of Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5. To download various versions of Internet Explorer, visit the Internet Explorer Downloads page.
Every Windows Update website will require Internet Explorer (versions 4.0 to 6.0 to work, and won't work in any other browsers).
174942988
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Z00L00K writes:
Consumer and digital rights activists are calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to stop device-makers using software to reduce product functionality, bricking unloved kit, or adding surprise fees post-purchase.
In an eight-page letter [PDF] to the Commission (FTC), the activists mentioned the Google/Levis collaboration on a denim jacket that contained sensors enabling it to control an Android device through a special app. When the app was discontinued in 2023, the jacket lost that functionality.
174389573
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Z00L00K writes:
Temuâ"the Chinese shopping app that has rapidly grown so popular in the US that even Amazon is reportedly trying to copy itâ"is "dangerous malware" that's secretly monetizing a broad swath of unauthorized user data, Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Griffin cited research and media reports exposing Temu's allegedly nefarious design, which "purposely" allows Temu to "gain unrestricted access to a user's phone operating system, including, but not limited to, a user's camera, specific location, contacts, text messages, documents, and other applications."
170305569
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Z00L00K writes:
Documents reveal tech lobbyists revised a right-to-repair bill before New York's governor signed it.
New York state took a historic step toward curbing the power of Big Tech when lawmakers passed the Digital Fair Repair Act, giving citizens the right to fix their phones, tablets, and computers. For years, advocates for the “right to repair” have pushed for such legislation in statehouses nationwide. They argue that making it easier to repair gadgets not only saves consumers money, but also reduces the environmental impact of manufacturing and electronic waste. Most of those bills have failed amid intense opposition from tech companies that want to dictate how and where their products are serviced.
The passage of the Digital Fair Repair Act last June reportedly caught the tech industry off guard, but it had time to act before Governor Kathy Hochul would sign it into law. Corporate lobbyists went to work, pressing Albany for exemptions and changes that would water the bill down. They were largely successful: While the bill Hochul signed in late December remains a victory for the right-to-repair movement, the more corporate-friendly text gives consumers and independent repair shops less access to parts and tools than the original proposal called for. (The state Senate still has to vote to adopt the revised bill, but it’s widely expected to do so.)
168261159
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Z00L00K writes:
Leprosy bacteria may hold the secret to safely repairing and regenerating the body, researchers at the University of Edinburgh say.
Animal experiments have uncovered the bacteria's remarkable ability to almost double the size of livers by stimulating healthy growth.
It is a sneakily selfish act that gives the bacteria more tissue to infect.
But working out how they do it could lead to new age-defying therapies, the scientists say.
162461290
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Z00L00K writes:
Infosec researchers have idenitied a zero-day code execution vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Office software.
Dubbed "Follina", the vulnerability has been floating around for a while (cybersecurity researcher Kevin Beaumont traced it back to a report made to Microsoft on April 12) and uses Office functionality to retrieve a HTML file which in turn makes use of the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) to run some code.
Also see tweet by Kevin Beaumont
160534454
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Z00L00K writes:
EARLY ONE FALL morning in 2017, in a middle-class suburb on the outskirts of Atlanta, Chris Janczewski stood alone inside the doorway of a home he had not been invited to enter.
Moments earlier, armed Homeland Security Investigations agents in ballistic vests had taken up positions around the tidy two-story brick house, banged on the front door, and when a member of the family living there opened it, swarmed inside. Janczewski, an Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator, followed quietly behind. Now he found himself in the entryway, in the eye of a storm of activity, watching the agents search the premises and seize electronic devices. ...
Over the previous few years, Janczewski, his partner Tigran Gambaryan, and a small group of investigators at a growing roster of three-letter American agencies had used this newfound technique, tracing a cryptocurrency that once seemed untraceable, to crack one criminal case after another on an unprecedented, epic scale. But those methods had never led them to a case quite like this one, in which the fate of so many people, victims and perpetrators alike, seemed to hang on the findings of this novel form of forensics. That morning’s search in the suburb near Atlanta was the first moment when those stakes became real for Janczewski. It was, as he would later put it, “a proof of concept.”
