Programming languages: Python overtakes Java on GitHub as Google Dart use soars

Programming languages: Python overtakes Java on GitHub as Google Dart use soars

Developers love Python, Microsoft’s GitHub says, also revealing the site’s biggest open-source projects. The hit programming language Python has climbed over once-dominant Java to become the second most popular language on Microsoft-owned open-source code-sharing site GitHub. Python now outranks Java based on the number of repository contributors, and by that metric Python is now second…

Google reveals ‘Project Nightingale’ after being accused of secretly gathering personal health records

Google reveals ‘Project Nightingale’ after being accused of secretly gathering personal health records

By Mary Beth Griggs – Nov 11, 2019 Google secretly gathered millions of patient records across 21 states on behalf of a health care provider, in an effort dubbed “Project Nightingale,” reports The Wall Street Journal. Neither the provider’s doctors nor patients were made aware of the effort, according to the report. The Wall Street…

Thelen verlässt “Höhle der Löwen” – endlich

Thelen verlässt “Höhle der Löwen” – endlich

Gründer-Show “Höhle der Löwen”: Ur-Löwe Frank Thelen (3. v. r.) ist ausgestiegen. Wer einmal einen realen Start-up-Investmentvertrag gelesen hat, weiß: Selten wurde Realität so verzerrt Schluss mit dem Gründerwahn! Eine Meinungsmache von Jens-Uwe Meyer Der Investor Frank Thelen verlässt die TV-Sendung “Die Höhle der Löwen”. Da kann man nur sagen: endlich! Denn das Schmierentheater zur…

Here’s how US Cyber Command is using ‘defend forward’

Here’s how US Cyber Command is using ‘defend forward’

U.S. Cyber Command is using new authorities to gain insights and access to foreign networks to help better inform defense. (U.S. Cyber Command Public Affairs) U.S. Cyber Command is gaining important insights into malware and adversarial actors by working with partner nations to help secure their systems, according to a top official. “We’re also working…

BKA verzeichnet Anstieg der Cyberkriminalität

BKA verzeichnet Anstieg der Cyberkriminalität

Jeder zweite Befragte zu Beginn des Jahres veröffentlichten Bitkom-Umfrage gab an, in den letzten zwölf Monaten Opfer von Internetkriminalität geworden zu sein. Deutschlandweit registrierte das Bundeskriminalamt allein durch Computerbetrug und missbräuchliche Nutzung von Telekommunikationsdiensten Schäden in Höhe von 61,4 Millionen Euro – dabei dürfte es sich aber nur um einen Bruchteil der tatsächlichen finanziellen Folgen…

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Biggest 2019 Drop as Hash Rate Spikes

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sees Biggest 2019 Drop as Hash Rate Spikes

Bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty adjusted downwards more than at any time since its 2018 price low on Nov. 8, data shows.  As noted by entrepreneur and cryptocurrency commentator Alistair Milne on Monday, difficulty fell by around 7% after the network’s latest readjustment. Difficulty reveals Bitcoin network maneuvering Mining difficulty refers to the effort required for…

Wie Geheimdienste Cyberattacken durchführen

Wie Geheimdienste Cyberattacken durchführen

Symbolbild, echte Geheimagenten tragen natürlich Schlapphüte. Ein Ex-FBI-Agent spricht über staatliche und nichtstaatliche Cyberangriffe, deren Zuschreibung und den Sony-Pictures-Hack. Von Sylvester Tremmel Wie gehen Geheimdienste gegen Cyber-Attacken vor und wie führen sie selber solche Angriffe durch? Auf dem Web Summit in Lissabon hat Andre McGregor (LinkedIn) darüber etwas aus dem Nähkästchen geplaudert. McGregor war früher…

Weaponizing Blockchain — Vast Potential, but Projects Are Kept Secret

Weaponizing Blockchain — Vast Potential, but Projects Are Kept Secret

When Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh said that blockchain and artificial intelligence would “revolutionize war,” as Cointelegraph reported on Nov. 4, did he take things a bit too far? Jet engines have revolutionized warfare, and so have missiles and nuclear weapons — but shared digital ledgers? Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, for one,…

Kepler achieves a world-first for satellite broadband with 100Mbps connection to the Arctic

Kepler achieves a world-first for satellite broadband with 100Mbps connection to the Arctic

Small-satellite startup Kepler has done something never before accomplished with satellite-based broadband connectivity: providing a high-bandwidth to the Arctic. Kepler’s nanosatellites have successfully demonstrated achieving over 100Mbps of network speed to a German icebreaker sea vessel that acts as a mobile lab for the MOSAiC research expedition. This is the first time there’s been a…

How the US Air Force plans to find ‘Defense Unicorns’

How the US Air Force plans to find ‘Defense Unicorns’

Dr. Will Roper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, said he wants to “start making defense unicorns.” (Alan Lessig/Staff) Dozens of space companies descended on San Francisco, California Nov. 5 for a unique opportunity: the chance to walk away with a same day contract with the Air Force. Opportunities like…

Alike DARPA: Schumer proposes $100B US-tech ‘Moon Shot Agency’ versus China

Alike DARPA: Schumer proposes $100B US-tech ‘Moon Shot Agency’ versus China

Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling for a new, deep-pocketed agency to fund cutting-edge tech development. WASHINGTON ― With an eye on China, the U.S. Senate’s top Democrat is floating plans for a new, deep-pocketed agency to invest $100 billion into cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics and fifth-generation networking known as 5G. Speaking…

So finden Sie ganz leicht den Besitzer einer unbekannten Handynummer heraus

So finden Sie ganz leicht den Besitzer einer unbekannten Handynummer heraus

Wer regelmäßig unbekannte Anrufer hat, sollte im Netz recherchieren, wer dahinter steckt   Schon wieder ein unbekannter Anrufer auf dem Smartphone? Das kann ganz schön nerven: Ist es vielleicht ein Freund mit einer neuen Nummer – oder doch nur wieder der lästige Hotline-Mitarbeiter des Mobilfunkanbieters, der einen neuen Vertrag anpreisen will? Noch schlimmer: Vielleicht klingelt…

Alexa, Siri, Google Smart Speakers Hacked Via Laser Beam

Alexa, Siri, Google Smart Speakers Hacked Via Laser Beam

Smart voice assistants can be hijacked by attackers using lasers to send them remote, inaudible commands. Researchers have discovered a new way to hack Alexa and Siri smart speakers merely by using a laser light beam. No physical access of the victims’ device, or owner interaction, is needed to launch the hack, which allows attackers…

Bitcoin Just Hit $1 Billion in All-Time Transaction Fees

Bitcoin Just Hit $1 Billion in All-Time Transaction Fees

On Oct. 30, 2019, the bitcoin blockchain reached $1 billion in cumulative transaction fees. “This milestone is a really cool milestone just because it shows how much people value block space,” said Bryan Aulds, founder of bitcoin wallet Billfodl. “And that it’s something people don’t mind paying for, which I think is really important moving…

11 Years Ago Today Satoshi Nakamoto Published the Bitcoin White Paper

11 Years Ago Today Satoshi Nakamoto Published the Bitcoin White Paper

Today, Oct. 31, marks eleven years since the publication of the Bitcoin white paper by the still-mysterious person or group pseudonymously identified as Satoshi Nakamoto. A revolutionary text Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System — published on Oct. 31, 2008 —  outlined a tamper-proof, decentralized peer-to-peer protocol that could track and verify digital transactions, prevent…