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Das Verteidigungsministerium gibt offenkundig von allen Ministerien am meisten Geld für externe Berater aus. Donnerstag, 08. August 2019 Berater für Verteidigungsressort Ministerium zahlte 155 Millionen Euro Seit mehreren Tagen ist bekannt, dass 13 Ministerien im ersten Halbjahr insgesamt 178 Millionen Euro für externe Beratungen ausgegeben haben. Darin ist das Budget des Verteidigungsministeriums allerdings nicht enthalten.…
By Catherine Shu @catherineshu The Federal Reserve Bank announced today that it is developing a new service called FedNow that will allow all banks in the United States to offer 24/7 real-time payment services every day of the week. FedNow is expected to be available by 2023 or 2024 and will initially support transfers of…
By Lila MacLellan August 3, 2019 Americans are still coming to terms with all the ways they’re being watched by phones and smart home devices with a front seat to their daily lives. But there’s an incoming threat to privacy that looms high above: Camera-outfitted mass-surveillance balloons that can capture every moving vehicle across a…
by Zak Doffman Forbes Contributor Cybersecurity – I write about security and surveillance (LinkedIn). “We need to develop our asymmetric edge and bring focus to the orchestration of intelligence, information operations, cyber, electronic warfare and unconventional warfare,” Lieutenant General Ivan Jones, the commander of Britain’s field army, said as he announced the formation of a…
Cyber Kill Chain Reimagined: Industry Veteran Proposes “Cognitive Attack Loop” The Cyber Kill Chain is dead. Long live the Cognitive Attack Loop. This is the thesis of Tom Kellermann’s (Chief Security Officer at Carbon Black and former cyber commissioner for President Obama) new paper, ‘Cognitions of a Cybercriminal’. The problem with the Cyber Kill Chain…
Rattenembryo nach 15,5 Tagen: Die Forschung soll eines Tages Patienten helfen, die auf ein Spenderorgan warten. DONNERSTAG, 1. AUGUST 2019 | BERLINER MORGENPOST click on each article for higher resolution English articles: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02275-3 https://futurism.com/the-byte/japanese-scientist-human-organs-animal-embryos
More than 100 million customers have had their data compromised by a hacker after a cloud misconfiguration at Capital One. A massive breach of Capital One customer data has hit more than 100 million people in the U.S. and 6 million in Canada. Thanks to a cloud misconfiguration, a hacker was able to access to…
Tuxedo makes it easy to buy an out-of-the-box “penguin-ready” laptop. 19 Jul 2019 – by Ricardo Berlass – OpenSource.com Recently, I bought and started using a Tuxedo Book BC1507, a Linux laptop computer. Ten years ago, if someone had told me that, by the end of the decade, I could buy top-quality, “penguin-ready” laptops from…
An angle-of-attack sensor can be seen at far right, near the nose of a 737 MAX at Boeing Field in Seattle. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times) Uncritical adherence to processes and procedures allows diffusion of responsibility, where many contribute to the problem, but no one is responsible. “It was all about loyalty” a Boeing…
The Japanese government is attempting to spearhead the creation of a new, global cryptocurrency payments network that would be similar to SWIFT. Replace SWIFT with a global crypto payments network? Citing an anonymous source, a Reuters report published on July 18 claimed that the country’s push for the network is motivated by a resolve to…
Algorithms that can decode market sentiment are making waves in the institutional crypto landscape, a July 17 report from Reuters claims. An arms race for algorithms With the resounding return of Bitcoin’s (BTC) volatility amid an ever-hotter crypto market, hedge funds and asset managers are increasingly turning to software developers to help them interpret and…
Bitcoin (BTC) now has more computing power behind its security than ever before, passing another milestone as hash rate reaches an all-time high. Data from monitoring resource Blockchain confirmed that the Bitcoin network’s total hash rate reached a peak of 79 million tera hashes per second (TH/s) on July 20. Broadly accepted as…
Tech giant IBM has tripled the number of blockchain patents secured in the United States since last year, currently boasting over 100 active patent families. That makes IBM’s growth in US patents the largest of last year, according to a report by crypto-related news site BeinCrypto on July 16. According to data gathered by Yuval…
Starting next year, new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations will require German cryptocurrency businesses to hold a Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)-issued license, Cointelegraph Deutschland reported on July 24. Possible innovation obstruction Per the report, the new regulations will require cryptocurrency-related businesses such as exchanges and wallet providers to be licensed by BaFin and comply with…
Internet group brands Mozilla ‘internet villain’ for supporting DNS privacy feature by Zack Whittaker An industry group of internet service providers has branded Firefox browser maker Mozilla an “internet villain” for supporting a DNS security standard. The U.K.’s Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the trade group for U.K. internet service providers, nominated the browser maker…
Freitag, 05. Juli 2019 – von Thomas Schmoll Von der Leyens Berateraffäre “Versagen befördert die Karriere” Von der Leyen will nach Brüssel, doch ihre Vergangenheit könnte sie einholen. Viele Mitglieder im Untersuchungsausschuss zur Berateraffäre beharren auf einer Aussage: “Schließlich soll die europäische Öffentlichkeit erleben, wen die Kanzlerin nach Brüssel geschickt hat.” Als erste Signale in…
Overview: Overview of Berlin’s startup landscape Update on Berlin’s unicorns and future unicorns Update on investment: is Berlin keeping up with Europe? Local PDF copy: https://www.bgp4.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Berlin-Launch-2019-FINAL.pdf Original web PDF copy: https://blog.dealroom.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Berlin-Launch-2019-FINAL.pdf
[just quoting the statistics … the power use discussion is more complex] Der Bitcoin verbraucht laut Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index aktuell rund 60 Terrawattstunden Strom pro Jahr. Das ist mehr als beispielsweise die Schweiz oder Irland. Von 219 der im CIA Factbook gelisteten Länder und Gebiete verbrauchen nur 42 mehr als die Digitalwährung. Deutschland…
Lookin’ for a heartbeat… Forward-looking: Biometrics is advancing and evolving at a rapid rate. It seems like just yesterday we were unlocking our phones with our fingerprint — now it’s our face. What’s it going to be tomorrow — our heartbeat? Well, maybe. MIT Technology Review reports that the Pentagon now has a prototype infrared laser…
Fünf Gründe sprechen dagegen, dass Trump und sein Handelskrieg die Welt erschüttern werden: ► Erstens: China und Amerika sind zwar die größten Wirtschaftsmächte der Gegenwart. Aber beide produzieren im Wesentlichen für ihre riesigen Binnenmärkte. Hier gibt es keine Zölle und daher auch keinen Zollkrieg. ► Zweitens: Der chinesisch-amerikanische Anteil am weltweiten Handel von Waren und…
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