“The events of recent days have taken us away from the stable and predictable development of mankind,” argue two Moscow-based technology professors in Communications of the ACM, citing anticipated shortages of high-performance processors. But fortunately, they have a partial workarond… One of the professors — Andrei Sukhov of HSE University Read more…
Cogent Communications, one of the world’s largest internet intercontinental backbone providers, has cut ties with Russian customers over its invasion of Ukraine. In a letter to Russian customers obtained by The Washington Post, Cogent cited “economic sanctions” and “the increasingly uncertain security situation” as the motives behind its total shutdown Read more…
“Fitbit has announced a voluntary recall of its Ionic Smartwatch,” reports Newsweek, “amid more than 170 reports that the battery has overheated, causing more than 100 reports of burn injuries….” The Ionic smartwatch was first introduced in 2017 and the company stopped producing it in 2020. When worn, the smartwatch Read more…
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…
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…
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…