Two Twitter employees allowed themselves to be bribed and provided the royal family of Saudi Arabia with data on dissidents in North America. One of the perpetrators was caught and now sentenced to several years in prison. Meanwhile, Amazon Games has secured the rights to publish the next Tomb Raider game. Developed by Crystal Dynamics like the previous installments, the upcoming Lara Croft adventure is Amazon’s first single-player title after several multiplayer games. When this will appear is still uncertain. On the other hand, Microsoft has presented its schedule for the data of European companies and authorities, which should only be processed and stored on servers in the EU – the most important messages in a nutshell.
Because he’s Saudi spied on dissidents Ahmad Abouammo has to go to a US federal prison. The former Twitter staff has princely for it from the royal house of Saudi Arabia get bribedrepeats private data dissident Twitter accounts to raise and to betray. Confronted with the allegations by the FBI, the man lied to investigators and forged a document. For that he was now closed three and a half years imprisonment sentenced. Two co-defendants are on the run: Twitter spy sentenced to 42 months in prison.
Amazon Games will be next Tomb Raider game publish. A date has not been set. The title will continue to be developed by Crystal Dynamics, the studio behind the last three games of the so-called Reboot trilogy. The upcoming Lara Croft adventure will be the first major single player title from Amazon Games. So far, the Amazon division has focused on releasing multiplayer games. The previous titles in the Tomb Raider series were released by the Japanese publisher Square Enix, but they sold the license this year: Next Tomb Raider game comes from Amazon Games.
For European data sovereignty Has Microsoft promised to introduce an EU data border. Strictly speaking, it is an EEA border: Data from authorities and companies from the European Economic Area (EEA) should be in the cloud, but only processed within the EEA will. However, the change should take years and happen gradually. Microsoft does not offer anything in this direction for private customers. Microsoft previously announced that Data from European companies and authorities on EU servers can stay. Now his company is outlining the roadmap: Microsoft’s EU limit for data will come in bits and pieces from 2023.
In line with this, the EU Parliament, Commission and Council of Ministers have European declaration on digital rights and principles signed. The declaration aims to ensure that the community Goals for digital transformation in accordance with their values such as openness, transparency, sovereignty, data protection and self-determination. Above all, people should be the focus of digital transformation. However, it is a strange “climax of digital DNA”because the EU declaration is in some points contradictory: EU statement on digital rights with blemishes.
the Federal Network Agency rate the current one Gas consumption in Germany since Thursday as critical high. The days before, there had been talk of a tense consumption situation. reason is that winter weather with temperatures that are currently 2.7 degrees colder than in previous years. The set Savings target will be clearly missed, according to the current situation assessment. The onset of winter in Germany is increasingly putting the national energy precautions for the winter to the test, because now things are getting serious: this is how the gas storage levels are.
alternative to traditional gas heaters heat pumps. These work with pressure differencesthat too generated by sound waves can become. But so far the performance of such “thermoacoustic heat pumps” is not enough for most applications. Two new approaches should change that now. Instead of a loudspeaker, two pistons working against each other should be used to generate more pressure. In addition, researchers are trying to improve efficiency with another approach by using a liquid heat transfer medium in addition to gas: loudspeakers instead of compressors – heat pumps heat with sound.
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