A new finding suggests Samsung is throttling the performance of thousands of Android apps on Galaxy smartphones, including Google and Samsung’s first-party apps. Samsung has an app called Game Optimization Service that comes preinstalled on many Galaxy phones. Although the name suggests the app helps improve gaming performance, it’s apparently Read more…
Two of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase and Binance, rejected calls on Friday for a blanket ban on all Russian users to stop their platforms from being used as a way round Western sanctions. “We believe everyone deserves access to basic financial services unless the law says otherwise,” Coinbase Read more…
Apple is working on a new “Apple Studio Display” with a 7K resolution, according to 9to5Mac. The display is also expected to feature a dedicated Apple silicon chip. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman was first to report that Apple was working on at least one new external display, but he said that Read more…
After years of zooming through deep space, a presumed leftover piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon today, just as space tracking experts expected it would. At least, it should have hit the Moon around 7:30AM ET this morning, as long as the law of gravity has not Read more…
Data extortionists who stole up to 1 terabyte of data from Nvidia have delivered one of the most unusual ultimatums ever in the annals of cybercrime: allow Nvidia’s graphics cards to mine cryptocurrencies faster or face the imminent release of the company’s crown-jewel source code. A ransomware group calling itself Read more…
Facebook and Twitter on Friday were blocked in Russia, amid President Vladimir Putin’s ongoing military invasion of Ukraine. In a statement issued on Friday, Roskomnadzor, the country’s communications regulator, explained the decision was made to “block access to the Facebook network” after at least 26 cases of “discrimination against Russian Read more…
A leading American Internet service provider, Cogent Communications, said it was severing relations with Russian customers on Friday, a move that gives Ukrainian officials another victory in their campaign to isolate Russia online. Cogent chief executive Dave Schaeffer said the company did not want to keep ordinary Russians off the Read more…