AWS has discontinued the consumer version of encrypted chat app Wickr
The encrypted chat app Wickr no longer works. AWS permanently shut down the servers behind the service at the beginning of this year, more than eleven years after the application was launched. The consumer version of the app can no…
‘Second Apple iOS 17.3 beta causes bootloop, update has been taken offline’
According to several users, the second beta version of iOS 17.3 causes a bootloop in which the affected iPhone continues to repeat the boot cycle indefinitely. The update with build number 21D5036c can no longer be downloaded. Apple has…
LG shows the first 480Hz OLED panel with a resolution of 2560×1440 pixels
LG has shown a 27" OLED panel with a refresh rate of 480Hz and a resolution of 2560x1440 pixels. This is the first Quad HD OLED panel with such a refresh rate.The screen, which will be shown next week at the CES 2024 fair and is intended…
Download The Bat! 11.0.3
Version 11.0.3 of the more than twenty year old email client The Bat! it came out. The program has everything you would expect from a modern email client, such as automatically sorting, answering or forwarding emails and sending emails…
Download IPFire 2.27 – Core Update 182
IPFire is an open source firewall for i586, x86_64 and Arm systems. It includes an intrusion detection/prevention system, divides the network into zones, performs stateful packet inspection and offers VPN options. For more information…
Rumor: Kioxia is discontinuing 30-year-old SSD and optical drive manufacturer Plextor
Kioxia is reportedly discontinuing the more than thirty-year-old Plextor brand. The latter was an independent brand until 2010 that, among other things, designed optical drives. It then made SSDs as part of Philips & Lite-On and,…
Keyboards of many upcoming Windows 11 PCs will get Copilot key
Microsoft has announced that the keyboards of many Windows 11 PCs released this year will be equipped with a Copilot key. The tech giant calls this the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard in almost thirty years.Microsoft…
LastPass requires master password of at least twelve characters after hack
LastPass now requires customers to use a master password of at least twelve characters. Users who already have an account and use a password with fewer characters will need to change it. In 2022, a hack occurred in which encrypted…
Download Wireshark 4.2.1
Version 4.2.1 of the open source protocol analyzer and packet sniffer Wireshark has been released. This program can be used to analyze various data packets and network protocols on the network. The program can also use previously saved…
Download Visual Studio Code 1.85.2
Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor with support for IntelliSense, debugging, Git and code snippets. Downloads are available for Windows, Linux and macOS. Support for common scripting and programming languages is present…