Living in Poland, I have got used to using their local system for payments called BLIK. The way BLIK works is that you access your bank account app, enter a code, get a code back and make a payment at a point-of-sale, ATM, online or anywhere that needs a payment approved. The reason I like … Read more
Last Thursday the CJEU issued a new judgment in the saga of Swiss francs mortgage loan contracts (C-140/22 – there is no English language text available yet). It was a Polish court who asked for a clarification of a few issues related to voiding such contracts as a result of them containing an unfair contract … Read more
Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core processors. The new Core Ultra CPUs (and their underlying architectural changes) were exclusive to laptops. Today, that changes: The Core Ultra 200S … Read more
Getty Pictures Microsoft has up to date a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to face up to assaults from quantum computer systems. The updates had been made final week to SymCrypt, a core cryptographic code library for handing cryptographic capabilities in Home windows and Linux. The library, began in 2006, gives … Read more
