New Malware Norman Uses Your PC to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency By Lucian Armasu published 14 August 19 Varonis security firm found a unique new strain of cryptoming malware that deploys sophisticated evading techniques to avoid getting caught.
Microsoft Patches New Wormable Bugs in Massive Security Update By Lucian Armasu published 14 August 19 Microsoft patched 93 security vulnerabilities for the month of August, including two new wormable bugs.
Arm, GlobalFoundries Test High-Performance 3D Chips By Lucian Armasu published 8 August 19 GlobalFoundries announces partnership with Arm to develop 3D Arm-based chips for high-performance data center and consumer applications.
Red Hat Joins Foundation for Developing Open-Source RISC-V ISA By Lucian Armasu published 8 August 19 Red Hat, now part of IBM, joined the RISC-V Foundation to develop support for the open-source instruction set architecture in its Linux distributions.
Samsung's 7nm Exynos 9825 Updates Efficiency (But Not Much Else) By Lucian Armasu published 7 August 19 Samsung announced the Exynos 9825, a refresh of the Exynos 9820 SoC. It's built on the company's 7nm EUV process for significant power efficiency improvements.
Pentagon Suspends Cloud Contract to Investigate Potential Amazon Favoritism By Lucian Armasu published 2 August 19 The Pentagon suspends awarding of the $10 billion contract as the new Defense Secretary investigates if the selection process has been rigged to favor Amazon.
Cisco to Pay $8.6M for Knowingly Selling Hackable Surveillance Gear to US Government By Lucian Armasu published 1 August 19 Cisco has agreed to a settlement with whistleblower James Glenn, the U.S. federal government and multiple state governments over its surveillance technology.
Former HR VP Says IBM Wanted to Look 'Cool' to Millennials, Fired 100,000 Workers By Lucian Armasu published 1 August 19 After firing over 100,000 employees, IBM is facing discrimination lawsuits accusing the company of targeting older workers to be "trendy."
Steam Proposes Linux Kernel Changes To Improve Multi-Threaded Games By Lucian Armasu published 1 August 19 Steam developers have proposed some changes to the Linux kernel that would reduce the CPU load for multi-threaded Windows games that run on Linux via the WINE-based Proton utility.
TSMC Upgrades 7nm, 5nm Processes For Performance By Lucian Armasu published 31 July 19 TSMC has quietely introduced the performance-enhanced N7P and N5P versions of the N7 and N5 nodes, respectively.
AMD’s Epyc Potential Win: Google May Ditch Intel By Lucian Armasu published 30 July 19 A new report said that Google has been building its own servers with AMD Epyc CPUs as it considers a switch to AMD over Intel.
Alibaba Unveils Open Source RISC-V CPU Amid US-China Trade War By Lucian Armasu published 26 July 19 Alibaba announced its first-ever RISC-V-based processor of its on design, Xuantie 910. It plans to outsource production of the chip to local Chinese firms.
Huawei's Arm-y: Vendor Investing Millions in Server Chip Ecosystem By Lucian Armasu published 24 July 19 Huawei said that it will continue to develop its Arm-based Kunpeng server CPUs and will invest $436 million in the ecosystem around it over the next five years.
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