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During an international operation by investigative authorities, several botnets that played an important role in ransomware attacks were taken offline. In the Netherlands, 33 servers were taken offline and one search was conducted. The international investigative authorities took the botnets IcedID, Smokeloader, SystemBC, Pikabot and Bumblebee offline on Tuesday, May 28, under the name 'Operation…

This week, Wout Funnekotter, Jurian Ubachs, Arnoud Wokke and Eric van Ballegoie talk about the passing of Erik Bais, adblockers and YouTube, a smart ring from AliExpress, Xboxes from other manufacturers and brighter and larger TVs. 0:00 Intro0:21 Opening1:11 .post13:37 Erik Bais is deceased16:48 Nuances around YouTube and adblockers32:10 A smart ring from Ali: different…

Framework introduces a new version of its Framework Laptop 13. It features the latest Core Ultra processors from Intel, which are based on the Meteor Lake architecture. The Laptop 13 can soon also be equipped with an optional 120Hz screen. Framework confirms the arrival of its new Laptop 13 model with Core Ultra processor in…

Published 30 May 2024 at 08.06 Foreign. Tensions are increasing between the anti-immigration parties in Europe. Alternative for Germany (AFD) is now criticizing Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni for having greatly increased immigration to Italy and supporting the war in Ukraine.– This melonization will not affect us, says AFD party leader Tino Chrupalla. Share the…

Published 30 May 2024 at 09.26 Domestic. The Sweden Democrats reject the Moderates' invitation to form a “Team Sweden” together with the Social Democrats in the European Parliament. Share the article TwittraShare Last week it was reported that the Moderates invited The Sweden Democrats and the Social Democrats to form an alliance in the European…

Amazon announces a partnership with Maverick Games, founded by former employees of Forza developer Playground. Amazon will publish the first Maverick game. The name of the game has not yet been announced. The first Maverick game will be a 'story-driven racing game with an open world', Amazon writes in a press release. The game will…

Version 4.3.2 of SABnzbd has been released. SABnzbd allows files to be downloaded from usenet. This open source program is available for Windows, Linux and macOS, and offers the ability to load nzb files, after which the appropriate files are grabbed from Usenet. The built-in web interface makes it possible to operate the program via…

iXsystems has released version 24.04.1 of TrueNAS Scale, also called Dragonfish. With TrueNAS, a computer can be used as network attached storage. Where TrueNAS Core is based on FreeBSD, TrueNAS Scale uses Debian as a base and includes an HCI, which makes it possible to use virtual machines and run applications in containers. Other differences…

Activision has won its lawsuit against German cheat maker EngineOwning. The Call of Duty publisher will therefore receive compensation of more than 14.4 million dollars from EngineOwning, which sold cheats for Call of Duty and other games. An American judge ruled in favor of Activision this week, according to court documents. This was a default…

HYTE introduces its Thicc Q80 Trio water cooler. This is based on the existing Thicc Q60 cooler, but has a larger 360mm radiator. The cooler again has a screen on top of the CPU cooling block. A cheaper 240mm water cooler is also coming. HYTE provides the Thicc Q80 Trio with a radiator with a…

Published 30 May 2024 at 10.58 Domestic. The consumption of new textiles increases every year, but used still makes up a very small proportion of what is bought, a new study shows. We also throw almost twice as much textiles in the garbage as we leave for reuse. Share the article TwittraShare – About a…

Published 30 May 2024 at 12.27 Foreign. The DJ association in Germany is strongly critical of the club classic “L'amour toujours” being banned from being played at Oktoberfest and other events, reports ZDF Heute. Share the article TweetShare The video clips of partying young Germans dancing and singing “Ausländer raus” are shaking the German establishment.…

Published 30 May 2024 at 14.03 Domestic. The Vatican apologizes after being accused of making disparaging remarks about homosexuals, The Guardian reports. Share the article TwittraShare It was during a meeting with Italian bishops to whom the Pope is said to have stated that there is “already too much homosexuality” in the seminaries. He used…

Published 30 May 2024 at 15.31 Cultural news. Niccolò Machiavelli's 16th-century book “The Prince”, which instructs Renaissance rulers in cold-blooded power politics, is hot in Sweden's prisons. Share the article TwittraShare – I have drawn off an order of ten copies. How funny that you call and ask about it, says Fredrik Paganus, librarian at…

Version 15.54.3 of TeamViewer has been released. This program allows other computers to be managed remotely via a secure VPN connection. That connection runs via the TeamViewer servers, so no settings need to be adjusted on the router to make it all work. TeamViewer is free for non-commercial use and is being developed for Windows,…

The current head of the High Tech Crime Team of the Dutch police, Matthijs van Amelsfort, will become the director of the National Cyber ​​Security Center from September 1. The NCSC is a government body that works on digital security in the Netherlands. Source: Matthijs van Amelsfort/NCSC Van Amelsfort previously worked on digital investigation at…

Intel will host the Innovation 2024 event in San Jose, the United States, on September 24, 2024, where it is expected to announce its next generation of CPUs. The company previously said that these processors, under the name Arrow Lake, should be released this year. Over the past three years, the company has announced the…

KPN has started offering a service for private 5G networks for companies. These networks remain online, even if the KPN network experiences a disruption. In addition, the network handles data traffic locally. The service is called Campus, KPN reports. The intention is that companies can use it for connections that must remain online at all…

The world's largest dating apps, Tinder and Bumble, have been experiencing a decline in the number of monthly users for some time, writes the Financial Times business newspaper. Young women in particular seem to be dropping out. At Tinder, the decline started in 2021 and Bumble followed in 2023, reports the Financial Times. Tinder fell…

Published 29 May 2024 at 07.09 Domestic. Christian Democrats party leader Ebba Busch now portrays Islam as a threat and proposes that the EU should finance return migration for Muslims who do not want to adapt. Share the article TwitterShare The Christian Democrats is below the threshold in opinion polls. Now the party is raising…

Published 29 May 2024 at 08.41 Media. Expressen is blamed by the Media Ethics Committee after hanging a gang criminal man by name and picture and portraying him as a Nazi. Share the article TwittraShare The current 23 -year-old was a skinhead for a period during his school days, but in adulthood has instead moved…

Published 29 May 2024 at 10.17 Domestic. The government and the Sweden Democrats are now presenting a record-breaking support package for the war in Ukraine – worth SEK 13.3 billion. Share the article TwitterShare The new weapons package should, according to the government, strengthen Ukraine's combined air defense. Among other things, Sweden is to hand…

Published 29 May 2024 at 18.44 Domestic. Alexander Edbom is leaving his job at the Sweden Democrats' communications department after Expressen hanged him for “glorifying Putin and spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda”. To support this thesis, Expressen has, among other things, taken joke posts out of context. Share the article TwittraShare “So chaotic in Ukraine right now,…