US Attorney General Reignites Call For Encryption Backdoors By Lucian Armasu published 24 July 19 Attorney General William Barr has restarted the war on cryptography with a renewed call to to tech companies to implement encryption backdoors.
US DOJ Launches Antitrust Review of Amazon, Facebook, Other Tech Giants By Lucian Armasu published 24 July 19 The U.S. DOJ announced that it's reviewing the big tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple, over antitrust issues.
Google Escapes Its Biggest Privacy Scandal Virtually Unscathed By Lucian Armasu published 22 July 19 Bloomberg reported that Google has settled for $13 million with the people whose data the company stole with its Street View cars between 2008-2010.
Russian Secret Intelligence Contractor Tried to Deanonymize Tor Users By Lucian Armasu published 22 July 19 A Russian FSB contractor called SyTech has experienced a data breach and the leaked data revealed all of its projects with the Russian spy agency.
Chrome 76 To Prevent Incognito Mode Detection By Lucian Armasu published 20 July 19 Chrome 76 will stop websites from detecting whether or not a user is in Incognito Mode.
BlackBerry's Cylance AI Antivirus Defeated by Embarrassing Universal Bypass By Lucian Armasu published 19 July 19 BlackBerry's leading AI-based antivirus product defeated by embarrassing universal bypass.
Trump Says Pentagon Cloud Contract Is Fueling Many 'Complaints' By Lucian Armasu published 19 July 19 President Trump told the press that he may look into the $10 billion JEDI contract that is supposed to be awarded to either Amazon or Microsoft next month.
Huawei Says Its New OS Isn't an Android Replacement By Lucian Armasu published 19 July 19 Despite Huawei's promises of an Android replacement, an exec has said the Hongmeng OS isn't for smartphones and that Huawei devices will continue using Android.
Researchers Build Transistor-Like Gates With Highly-Efficient Quantum 'Qudits' By Lucian Armasu published 16 July 19
Linux May Gain Protection Against Hyper-Threading Attacks By Lucian Armasu published 12 July 19 Devs have built a feature that aims to protect apps running in the Linux kernel against side-channel attacks on Intel CPUs using Hyper-Threading.
Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview Gains FIDO2 Passwordless Login By Lucian Armasu published 11 July 19 Microsoft enabled FIDO2 passwordless login for Microsoft accounts and other third-party apps and services in the Windows 10 20H1 Insider Preview edition in the Fast Ring.
Security Flaws Found in Intel Software, Data Center SSDs By Lucian Armasu published 11 July 19 Intel revealed that its processor diagnostic tool and data center SSD firmware were affected by two security vulnerabilities, both of which have now been patched.
Civil Rights Group Wants to Ban Feds From Using Facial Recognition By Lucian Armasu published 9 July 19 Fight for the Future launched a campaign to ask for the banning of facial recognition technology use in the federal government.
Faster Than Silicon: Researchers Develop Semiconductors for Next-Gen Communications By Lucian Armasu published 9 July 19 Researchers from UK's Cardiff University's Institute have developed a new type of semiconductor that's more sensitive to light with lower-noise.
Macs That Have (or Had) Zoom Are Vulnerable to Webcam Spying By Lucian Armasu published 9 July 19 Malicious websites can spy through Mac users' webcams if they've ever installed the Zoom video conference app on their machines.
Huawei Promises Mobile OS 60% Faster Than Android By Lucian Armasu published 8 July 19 Huawei revealed that its new OS HongMeng will likely be 60% faster than Android in a report by Chinese media site Global Times.
US Lawmakers Ask Facebook to Suspend Libra Cryptocurrency By Lucian Armasu published 3 July 19 U.S. House representatives has called on Facebook to immediately suspend the development of its Libra digital currency. Facebook hasn't responded yet.
India's First CPUs Are Ready for App Development By Lucian Armasu published 1 July 19 The Indian Institute of Technology Madras is closer to completing the Shakti CPU project with the release of an SDK that developers can use to make apps.
New Chinese Competitor Entering DRAM Market By Lucian Armasu published 1 July 19 Tsinghua Unigroup will enter the DRAM market in an attempt to provide Chinese customers with locally-built DRAM products.
Ubuntu Compromises on 32-Bit App Support By Lucian Armasu published 24 June 19 After Steam and Wine developers threatened to stop supporting Ubuntu, Canonical announced that Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 will support select 32-bit applications.
U.S. May Ban All 5G Equipment Made In China By Lucian Armasu published 24 June 19 The U.S. government plans to ban companies that sell telecom equipment made in China, forcing some European vendors to move their production outside of China.
NSA Starts Contributing Low-Level Code to UEFI BIOS Alternative By Lucian Armasu published 21 June 19 NSA's Eugene Myers has started contributing low-level implementation code for a SMI Transfer Monitor for the Coreboot projected, raising potential security and privacy issues.
Dell Discovers Yet Another SupportAssist Security Flaw By Lucian Armasu published 21 June 19 A new security vulnerability in Dell SupportAssist was found that could allow malicious parties to take over Dell PCs.
U.S. Chip Firms Continue to Dominate Global IC Market By Lucian Armasu published 20 June 19 IC Insights revealed a new report in which it showed that U.S. integrated circuit companies continued to dominate the IC market in 2018.
