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A Ukrainian man has been sentenced to 13 years in prison in the United States for a series of ransomware attacks distributed through service provider Kaseya. 2,500 REvil infections were carried out through that supply chain company. An American judge has sentenced the man from Ukraine, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, to a prison term of thirteen years…

Ubisoft will release XDefiant on May 21 for the Xbox Series X and S, PlayStation 5 and for PC via Ubisoft Connect. During this 'preseason', five game modes are available and five factions are playable, based on existing Ubisoft franchises. There are two types of gameplay modes, Ubisoft explains. Linear games consist of teams that…

Adobe may discontinue the Photoshop Camera app. At least one tweaker has received an email from the company stating that the app can no longer be used from June 4. The app is also no longer available via the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The email, seen by Tweakers, states that the Adobe…

Published 4 May 2024 at 08.31 Domestic. Students who are at risk of right-wing radicalization must be caught by the schools and made to change their opinion early in life. That is the government's promise “in the waves of Gubbängen”, reports Dagens Nyheter. Share the article TwittraShare Sweden after Gubbängen The parties gather for crisis…

Published 4 May 2024 at 13.49 Domestic. The Christian Democrats, the Center Party and the Liberals are all below the four percent barrier in Novus' latest opinion poll ahead of the EU elections in June. Share the article TwittraDela Those who mentioned other parties among those asked amount to 2.6 percent. Among them, according to…

Published 4 May 2024 at 14.04 Domestic. The criminal immigrant gangs that are currently waging gang wars in Sweden do not belong here and must get out of here – even if that means withdrawing distributed citizenships. That's what SD leader Jimmie Åkesson said in his spring speech at Långholmen today. Share the article TwittraShare…

Published 4 May 2024 at 15.39 Foreign. A mysterious “black book” purportedly from the late financier Jeffrey Epstein is now being sold to the highest bidder, the Daily Beast reports. Share the article TwitterShare The book reveals names and identities of 221 previously secret “high-profile” people, and bidders are assured that the auction company will…

Facial recognition is in principle prohibited, but there are some exceptions. In a new legal framework, the Dutch privacy regulator Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens provides clarity about the rules surrounding facial recognition. Facial recognition may be used if users have freely given explicit consent. Another exception is if facial recognition is necessary for authentication or security purposes,…

Dropbox reports that a hacker has gained unauthorized access to systems for the Sign program, formerly HelloSign. The attackers had access to various personal data, but not to signatures. Those affected will be informed by email. The company writes that the cyber attack took place on April 24, during which hackers gained access to the…

The Document Foundation has released version 24.2.3 of LibreOffice. This open source office package was created as a spin-off from OpenOffice and comes with the word processor Writer, spreadsheet program Calc, presentation program Impress, drawing program Draw, database program Base and Formula, an application for creating scientific notations. Version 24.2.3 is a bug fix release…

Ring has presented a new indoor camera that can also be rotated and tilted. In this way, different corners and doorways can be visualized with a single camera. The camera is called 'Swivel and tilt indoor camera' and will be released on May 30. The Rotate and tilt indoor camera provides HD video and color…

Ukrainian Foreign Ministry starts using an AI-generated spokesperson named Victoria Shi. The artificial spokesperson must officially speak to the media and citizens with 'verified information'. On X, the ministry shares a video of Shi and emphasizes that a QR code is shown with every official communication using Shi. This code directs users to the official…

Published 3 May 2024 at 07.48 Domestic. For the first time, Sweden now conducts host country support as an ally in NATO. Share the article TwittraShare The armed forces conduct Immediate Response 24, part of NATO's Steadfast Defender 24 exercise series . The purpose is to test the plans to move units from North America…

Published 3 May 2024 at 09.23 Cultural news. It will not be allowed to bring Palestinian flags into the Eurovision arena in Malmö, reports Göteborgs-Posten. Share the article TwittraShare Only national flags from the countries participating in the music festival will be allowed inside the arena according to the EBU, which is responsible for the…

Published 3 May 2024 at 17.13 Domestic. The prosecutor has today charged a man and a woman with nine cases of human trafficking. The couple are representatives of and owners of a Swedish berry picking company. Share the article TwittraShare According to the indictment, the couple has recruited berry pickers from Thailand who, instead of…

Published 3 May 2024 at 17.56 Foreign. Nick Fuentes, who had a major impact on the rising anti-Semitism within the American right, gets his account back on X (formerly Twitter). This is announced by the owner Elon Musk. Share the article TwittraShare Anti-Semitism in the USA Conservative anger as US Congress "bans criticism of Israel"…

Published May 3, 2024 at 10:35 a.m. Economics. After several years of rampant bidding, the majority of housing sales now land close to the starting price, according to the Swedish Real Estate Agency's brokerage panel Bostadsutsikten. Share the article TwittraShare After a sluggish housing market the last two years on, sellers and buyers seem to…

Published 3 May 2024 at 12.14 Foreign. In a new exhibition in Moscow, the Kremlin is displaying heavy Western weapons taken from Ukrainian forces, AP reports. Share the article TwitterShare It's the Russian the Ministry of Defense behind the exhibition, which opened on Wednesday at a World War II memorial in western Moscow. Here, visitors…

Published 3 May 2024 at 13.58 Foreign. No “half-measures” will do – Israel's Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calls for a “total annihilation” of Gaza, reports Haaretz. This by referring to a genocidal passage in the Torah. Share the article TwittraShare The minister made the revelation earlier this week during a speech to celebrate the end…

Published 3 May 2024 at 15.41 Domestic. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet may have found a new way to treat obesity and related conditions by targeting the cells' powerhouses, the mitochondria. A study published in Nature Metabolism shows that a specific class of drugs that block the function of mitochondria can counteract obesity, fatty liver and…

Published 3 May 2024 at 15.58 Domestic. The Sweden Democrats pay users to spread their message on Tiktok – without disclosing the connection to the party. Now the Social Democrats are accusing the party of using “Russian methods”. Share the article TwittraShare – It's personal campaigns, it's twisted propaganda, it's pitting group against group in…

Benchmark results of an unannounced HTC smartphone have surfaced. That's what MySmartPrice writes. The new smartphone is said to have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7 Gen 3 SoC. According to the tech website, this is the HTC U24 or HTC U24 Pro. The benchmark results show that the HTC device achieves 1095 points in the single-core…

Version 6.10.2 of Enpass for Windows has been released. This password manager is available for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. The program allows you to easily log in to websites and manage your passwords. This allows new passwords to be generated and the program lets you know whether a password is weak, old or…