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As part of the current cabinet reshuffle, Federal Minister of Transport Schnieder must apparently give up his post.

ValidationContext now also works with the Native AOT compiler.

The setting sun will also be partially obscured by the moon over German-speaking countries on August 12. For observation, not only the weather needs to be right.

Starship is still being tested, and it's unclear when the giant rocket will be ready for use. SpaceX is likely no longer accepting reservations for the Falcon 9.

In recent days, Ukraine has repeatedly attacked Wildberries warehouses, Russia's largest online retailer. These are also used for the military.

During the annual crisis exercise, Taiwan will test internet restrictions for the first time. The population and military are to be prepared for such scenarios.

The stock market is honoring a strong Intel quarter. The reported billion-dollar loss exists only on paper.

Tesla increases quarterly revenue with cars and batteries, yet the stock plummets. This is because Tesla is spending much more money.

The EU Commission has registered the initiative “Stop Killing The Internet” against mandatory eIDs and age verification. Now it's about signatures.

After their parliamentary coup, EU countries have, as expected, agreed to extend an exemption for chat control again.

Interior Ministry seeks to curb transparency rights for citizens, press, and politicians with mandatory real names and abolished oversight.

At Farnborough, NASA is showcasing an aircraft with a hybrid-electric engine. It recently flew as high as a conventional passenger aircraft.

New edition is brighter than its predecessor, charges via USB-C, and attaches to magnetic mounts for iPhones. There are also improvements in operation and Wi-Fi.

To extend the missions of satellites, Darpa has had a maintenance robot developed. However, it will take some time before it reaches its destination.

Ban on Chinese network equipment suppliers would cost European mobile operators up to 40 billion euros, a study shows – four times as much as Brussels estimated.

The maintainers of the anonymizing Linux distribution Tails use Gnome's default for shutdown. The new video player is Celluloid.

After the failure of Nina Protocol, SoundCloud takes over its cultural infrastructure and expands its offerings for independent artists.

The AI attack on Hugging Face is causing a stir far beyond the IT world. Now there are insights into the immediate reactions at OpenAI itself.

For months, Brussels investigated Google for possible violations of the Digital Markets Act. Fines totaling almost 900 million euros have now been imposed.

ClickLock Stealer has reportedly attacked over 100 people via shell script. It proceeds quite maliciously to get the password and steal data.

Standard Ubuntu installations are vulnerable to a flaw that allows privilege escalation to root. The trigger is snap.

Thunderbird 153 “Meadow” brings a new setup dialog, native Exchange connectivity via EWS, and more features in notifications.

Important security updates close several vulnerabilities in various Atlassian applications.