The Berlin administration is facing a fundamental change of course in its IT policy. With its newly presented open source strategy, the city-state is attempting to gradually break away from its decades-long dependence on proprietary software solutions from international technology corporations. What was long considered a pragmatic decision in favor of stable and feature-rich systems […]

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Asus will not be making any more smartphones for the time being. This was confirmed by CEO Jonney Shih at an event in Taiwan. Officially, the company is referring to a “break” rather than a permanent exit. In practice, however, this is exactly what it amounts to. A return is neither scheduled nor strategically plausible. […]

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There is no respite for AMD’s AM5 platform. After earlier Ryzen generations had already attracted attention due to voltage problems, there are now increasing reports of sudden total failures of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. After the phenomenon was initially observed mainly on motherboards from another manufacturer, AM5 boards from ASUS are now also in the […]

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Apple’s long-standing special status at TSMC could be at a turning point. The background to this is the changed revenue structure of the world’s largest contract manufacturer, which is increasingly benefiting from the boom in AI accelerators and data center chips. While Apple has been the most important single customer for many years and was […]

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With version 0.97.0, Microsoft is releasing another major update for PowerToys. The focus is clearly on productivity, improved usability, and greater integration between the individual modules. Particular attention is paid to a new mouse tool called CursorWrap and a comprehensively revised range of functions in the Command Palette. CursorWrap is primarily aimed at users with […]

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In 2026, companies will continue to face a tense and highly dynamic threat situation. Current evaluations by security researchers at Ontinue show that cybercriminals are evolving strategically and adapting their methods specifically to changing work environments and technical protection mechanisms. The analyses are based on observations from underground forums, criminal networks, and real attack scenarios, […]

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The Minisforum MS-R1 occupies a special place in the current mini PC market because it is the first commercially available system to use a Chinese ARM CPU called CIX P1 CP8180 that is explicitly not only aimed at the embedded or industrial sector. Right out of the box, the device differs significantly from well-known ARM […]

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