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Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a telematic control unit (TCU) from a salvage yard in Poland... Marchand tore down the TCU, which is based on a Qualcomm system on a chip, and extracted the Linux-based file system from the Micron multi-chip package (MCP) which contained NAND-based non-volatile storage memory. The non-volatile storage contained sensitive information, including system configuration data and more importantly, logs that revealed the vehicle's GPS positions over time.

None of that information was encrypted, Marchand told iTnews, which made it possible to collect and retrieve sensitive data of interest. What's more, the global navigation satellite system (GNSS) logs with GPS positions covered the BYD's full journey from the factory in China to its operational life in the United Kingdom, and to its final wrecking in Poland, Marchand explained in an analysis... The issue is not restricted to BYD, and Marchand added that the hardware architecture of the Chinese car maker's TCU is broadly similar to what can be found in other brands.

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"From 2008 to 2024, the number of four-year computer science degrees granted rose about fivefold..." reports the Washington Post. Then in 2025 CS suddenly dropped from the fourth-largest undergraduate major to sixth, they report (citing data from the nonprofit National Student Clearinghouse, which compiles numbers from 97% of U.S. universities.

The 54,000-student drop was "the biggest one-year drop of any major discipline going back to at least 2020." But what major are they choosing instead?

Sarah Karamarkovich, a research associate with the National Student Clearinghouse, pointed to an explanation from the data that we had overlooked. Enrollments in two interdisciplinary majors, data analytics and data science, topped a combined 35,000 in the fall of 2025. That was up from a few hundred when those disciplines were broken out into their own majors in 2020. Those relatively new categories reflect colleges' zeal to create specialized majors, including in AI, data science, robotics and cybersecurity. Some of those disciplines may be counted in the national enrollment data as computer science. Others are not.

The numbers suggest that some of the disappearing computer science majors didn't flee so much as they splintered into related disciplines.... The 8 percent decline in computer science majors last fall was nearly mirrored by a 7.3 percent increase in engineering majors, according to the National Student Clearinghouse data. Within engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering major enrollments increased by the largest absolute amounts — a jump of 11 percent and 14 percent, respectively.

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Yesterday the U.S. Congress approved "a short-term extension" of a FISA law that allows wiretaps without a warrant for surveilling foreign targets, reports CNN — but only until April 30. Republican congressional leaders had sought an 18-month extension, but "failed to secure" the votes after "clamoring from some of their members for reforms to protect Americans' privacy."

The warrantless surveillance law, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, was set to expire on Monday night. Members are hoping the additional time will allow them to come to agreement without ending authorization for the intelligence gathering program, which permits US officials to monitor phone calls and text messages from foreign targets... There was an hour of suspense in the Senate Friday morning when it appeared possible that Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, a longtime critic of FISA 702, might block the House-passed extension. But ultimately, he said his House colleagues had assured him "this short-term extension makes reform more likely, and expiration makes reform less likely," and so he chose not to object....

House Republican leaders believed Thursday night they had struck a deal with conservative holdouts who harbor deep and longstanding concerns that a key piece of the law infringes on Americans' privacy rights. But in a pair of after-midnight votes, more than a dozen rank-and-file Republicans rejected the long-term reauthorization plan on the floor, which was the result of days of tense negotiations among leadership, lawmakers and the White House.

The law allows authorized US officials to gather phone calls and text messages of foreign targets, but they can also incidentally collect the data of Americans in the process. Senior national security officials have for years said the law is critical for thwarting terror attacks, stemming the flow of fentanyl into the US and stopping ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure. Civil liberties groups on the left and the right, meanwhile, argue the surveillance authority risks infringing on Americans' privacy.

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After a tough start to his Cadillac career, things should start getting better for Bottas.

SEOUL (ANP) - Noord-Korea heeft zondag minstens één ballistische raket getest, meldt het Zuid-Koreaanse persbureau Yonhap. Het is de nieuwste test in een hele reeks recente lanceringen door Noord-Korea. De Zuid-Koreaanse legertop heeft volgens Yonhap één ballistische raket gedetecteerd die in oostelijke richting werd afgevuurd. Het Zuid-Koreaanse leger analyseert het incident.

Noord-Korea liet eerder deze maand weten tussen 6 en 8 april ook al tests te hebben uitgevoerd met diverse militaire technologieën, waaronder een kop met clustermunitie voor een tactische ballistische raket en een elektromagnetisch wapensysteem. Ook zou toen een zogenoemde koolstofvezelbom zijn getest.

Bovendien waarschuwde de chef van de VN-atoomwaakhond vorige week dat Noord-Korea bezig is met een "zeer ernstige uitbreiding" van zijn vermogen om kernwapens te produceren. Noord-Korea voerde in 2006 zijn eerste test uit met een atoombom.

MADRID (ANP) - De regeringen van Brazilië, Spanje en Mexico hebben zaterdag toegezegd hun hulp aan Cuba op te voeren. Daarmee willen zij een volgens hen door een Amerikaanse blokkade veroorzaakte humanitaire crisis op het eiland verlichten. In een gezamenlijke verklaring riepen de drie landen op tot een oprechte dialoog, die in lijn is met de bepalingen van het Handvest van de Verenigde Naties. De landen voegden eraan toe dat het Cubaanse volk vrij moet zijn om zijn eigen toekomst te bepalen.

De verklaring kwam naar buiten nadat de Spaanse premier Pedro Sánchez in Barcelona de Braziliaanse president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva en de Mexicaanse president Claudia Sheinbaum ontving voor een internationale top gericht op het vinden van een antwoord op de opkomst van radicaal-rechtse partijen en denkbeelden.

NUMANSDORP (ANP) - Tijdens een ruzie in de Schubertstraat in het Zuid-Hollandse Numansdorp is een jongen gewond geraakt. Hij werd met een scherp voorwerp gestoken. Bij de ruzie waren meerdere jongeren betrokken, meldt de politie. De verdachte, een jongen van 15 uit Numansdorp, is aangehouden.

De toedracht van de ruzie en de steekpartij wordt nog door de politie onderzocht.