On the occasion of the World Password Day on May 1st, Microsoft proclaimed the end of the passwords for new customers. Accordingly, the company has In his announcement renamed the “World Password Day” into the “World Passkey Day”. Microsoft account: Passkey instead of password Nothing changes for existing customers at first: If you use a … Read more
After a decision by the Data Protection Commission Ireland as the responsible supervisory authority, it is now clear: The Tikok mother company had lied to the supervisory authorities for years. Now she should pay a punishment, which is very welcomed by data protectionists. At least some data from EU users were stored on servers in … Read more
The Mozilla Foundation, which also develops the popular Firefox browser, sees itself increasingly between the fronts in the US cartel procedure against Google: If the partnership with Google ends, which the search engine of the same name provides as a default setting for Firefox, Mozilla’s CFO Eric Mulheim even considers a complete end to the … Read more
The mobile phone provider Vodafone has introduced a spam warning system with which cell phone users are to be protected from rip off. If a Vodafone customer gets a call from a dubious number, the display “Caution: Fraud is possible!” on his smartphone display, as the company in Düsseldorf announced. The customer can continue to … Read more
The iPhone 16e turned out to be a good substitute for its predecessor iPhone SE, with its sales being among the main reasons for Apple’s good financial results for the last quarter. However, it seems the most affordable smartphone of apple I will adhere to the strategy that has also been used for the SE … Read more
Revolut wants to offer its own mobile phone offer in Germany over the course of the year. This is followed by a data tariff with ESIM that has existed since 2024. Revolut: Mobile phone contract with unlimited domestic data volume The Revolut mobile phone offer includes an unlimited data volume in Germany as well as … Read more
Samsung Foundry and Qualcomm will ally for making a 2-nm version of the next generation of Snapdragon 8 Elite’s highest-end chip. The Gen 2 of 8 Elite should be on the market this fall, using a 3-nm TSMC process, and it is expected to be among the main chipsets in most flagship devices of the … Read more
Taiwanese company and leader in the production and design of TSMC semiconductors has announced that its first chips, manufactured with a 1.4-Nm process, will be ready and put into operation in 2028. Although even the most powerful chipsets in the mass market, at least at this point, use 3-nm technology, the development is extremely rapidly. … Read more
Apple allegedly wants to double the final production of iPhones in India in a short time in order to avoid the difficult to calculate US criminal offenses against China. The manufacturer wanted to have all iPhones assembled for the US market in India until the end of 2026, As the Financial Times reports, citing informed … Read more
Attackers can abuse security gaps in Sonos speaker systems to admit malicious code and carry out on the speakers. Updates are ready. It is about a total of three security gaps, for which the Zero-Day initiative (ZDI) from Trend Micro has now published information together with Sonos. All three vulnerabilities miss the classification as a … Read more