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The Dutch government does not have to stop using Facebook for the time being. Meta is said to have recently announced that it is prepared to meet the government's privacy concerns, after the company first indicated several times that it did not want to cooperate on a solution. Outgoing State Secretary Alexandra van Huffelen of…

The Chinese online stores Temu and Shein must inform the European Commission before July 12 to what extent they comply with the Digital Services Act rules. This information request follows a complaint that European consumer organizations filed against Temu in April. Temu and Shein must inform the European Commission what measures they have taken to…

Published 1 July 2024 at 10.11 Domestic. A new survey from the analysis company Infostat shows that more Swedes now use white snus than brown snus. The tobacco-free white newcomer is particularly popular among young women. Share the article TwittraShare When Swedes are asked what less healthy habits they have, 14.9 percent state that they…

Published 1 July 2024 at 11.33 Foreign. Maldives Environment and Climate Minister Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem has been arrested since she was accused of using black magic on President Dr. Mohamed Muizzou. This is reported by India Today. Share the article TwittraShare Fathimath Shamnaz Ali Saleem was arrested last weekend along with two other people…

Version 7.12 of Caliber has been released. This open source e-book management program is almost indispensable for any e-reader owner. It can, among other things, look up all relevant information and cover images, edit and convert e-books to make them suitable for various types of e-readers. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news…

Version 24.06 of MediaInfo has been released. This program is intended to inform about the properties of audio and video files. The program provides extensive information about the tags, codecs used and containers. MediaInfo is available for Windows, Linux and macOS, and can be used with a graphical user interface or via the command line.…

Energy supplier Eneco will remotely control the solar panels of business customers from July 1. The company can dim or temporarily switch off the solar panels to ensure the stability of the power grid. The change applies to business customers who have connected more than a hundred panels, Eneco reports. Both existing and new business…

The release date of the strategy game Frostpunk 2 has been postponed to September 20. The game was initially scheduled to be released on July 25, but according to developer 11 Bit Studios, more time is needed to prepare Frostpunk 2 for release. 11 Bit Studios writes in an extensive post that it has received…

The US authorities have offered a $10 million reward for information about the location of 22-year-old Russian Amin Timovich Stigal. He is suspected of using the WhisperGate malware against, among others, the Ukrainian government. According to the US Department of Justice, Stigal is affiliated with the Russian intelligence service GRU. The suspect is said to…

Published 1 July 2024 at 08.26 Foreign. According to a report from South Korea, a 22-year-old man in North Korea has been publicly executed for consuming and spreading South Korean movies and music – so-called k-pop. Share the article h2>TwittraShare The man, who came from South Hwanghae Province, is said to have been publicly executed…

Hamrick Software has released version 9.8.34 of VueScan. The program can be used as a replacement for the twain drivers supplied with scanners and often offers more setting options. In many cases, the program can also control scanners if the manufacturer has not released a driver for the relevant operating system. Besides scanning, it can…

Valve shared an updated list of the most played games on the Steam Deck on Thursday. The list is updated daily and shows which games are currently the most popular on his handheld. The list now shows the prices of the games, daily ranking changes and whether a game is suitable for the Steam Deck.…

YouTube has made several new features available to Premium subscribers on Android. For example, it is now possible to use picture-in-picture with Shorts. Users can now also automatically skip to highlights in a video. YouTube reports in a blog post that the features will also eventually become available to Premium subscribers on iOS. With the…

Bluesky has made 'starter packs' available. Users can use this to compile a feed and list of favorite accounts and share them with new users who still need to learn the social media platform. In a blog post, Bluesky explains how the starter packs work. The feature is available to all users and can be…

Published 30 June 2024 at 11.51 EU. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán wants to create a new anti-immigration party group in the EU Parliament together with the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babi's party ANO. Share the articleTwittraShare – We take responsibility for launching this new platform and grouping. I…

Shotcut is a comprehensive open source and cross-platform video editing program for Windows, Linux and macOS. It uses FFmpeg and therefore has support for the most common audio and video formats. The files are not imported, but are edited in their original format. It can handle different tracks and a mix of formats and resolutions…

Ubisoft wants to release several remakes of older Assassin's Creed games in the coming years. The French developer and publisher has not yet said exactly which game it concerns and when the remakes should be released. Ceo Yves Guillemot says in an interview published by Ubisoft that players 'are very interested in remakes of certain…

TeamViewer was hit by a cyber attack on Wednesday. According to the company behind the software, it is an attack on the corporate environment. It is not yet clear what type of attack it is and which group is behind it. Teamviewer reported on Wednesday that it discovered something striking in the corporate environment. The…

Version 17.8 of the CD, DVD and Blu-ray burning program BurnAware has been released. This program is available in a Free version and in paid Premium and Professional editions, with prices of thirty and forty dollars respectively. The paid versions have additional functionality, such as copying discs and ripping audio CDs. On this page the…

Version 9.0.0 of Cyberduck has been released. This program, which is released under a GPL license, is an FTP, SFTP and WebDAV client, and also has support for various cloud storage services that use S3 or the OpenStack API. The program has a clear interface and supports techniques such as Spotlight, Bonjour, Keychain, Applescript and…

Google appears to be working on more voice options in the Android version for AI assistant Gemini. Now only one vote is possible. The voices are called Ruby and River, according to a beta of the Google app. River is a calm German voice and Ruby is a warm English voice, Android Authority writes based…

OnePlus has announced the Ace 3 Pro in China, its first smartphone with Glacier Battery. The battery with a capacity of 6100mAh has a different chemical composition and should still have 80 percent of its capacity after four years. The new chemical composition ensures a higher density of the battery, which means a higher capacity…

Published 29 June 2024 at 11.56 Foreign. The American left-wing newspaper New York Times believes that Joe Biden should give way to another Democrat before the presidential election in November, after his performance in the last televised debate against Donald Trump ended in disaster. Share the article TwittraShare The newspaper criticizes Biden's decision to run…

Published 29 June 2024 at 13.12 Economics. The wave of bankruptcy continues among Swedish companies. According to the credit information company Syna, the number of bankruptcies this year has reached record levels, with thousands of lost jobs as a result. Share the article TwittraShare It is particularly noteworthy that even larger companies with billions in…