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China Investigates NVIDIA for Allegedly Breaking Monopoly Law
The Chinese government is investigating U.S. chipmaker NVIDIA for allegedly violating its anti-monopoly law by acquiring interconnect provider Mellanox. On Monday, the State Administration for Market Regulation made a statement via China Central Television announcing the investigation, but it does not discuss the specifics of NVIDIA’s suspected violations. The authority approved NVIDIA’s $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox, an Israeli company,…
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Microsoft pulls WinAppSDK update breaking Windows 10 app uninstalls
Microsoft has confirmed that, since November 12, some Windows 10 users have been unable to update or uninstall packaged applications like Microsoft Teams. This known issue is caused by the WinAppSDK 1.6.2 package, which was automatically delivered to affected users’ systems after installing an app developed using Win App SDK. On impacted Windows 10 22H2 devices, users will see the…
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Here’s a bunch of bananas shit Trump said today about breaking up Google
Yeah, look, Google’s got a lot of power. They’re very bad to me. Very, very bad to me. I can speak from that standpoint. They only have bad stories… in other words, if I have 20 good stories and 20 bad stories, and everyone’s entitled to that, you’ll only see the 20 bad stories. I called the head of Google…
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The Iran cyber threat: Breaking down attack tactics
The Iran cyber threat often comes last when mentioned alongside the other so-called “CRINK” attackers, China, Russia, and North Korea. But the risk posed by the country is growing fast, evolving from simple website defacement to attacks on critical national infrastructure (CNI) and more recently, significant US election interference. In August, US intelligence officials confirmed that Iran was behind a…
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Families can sue app developer for breaking its anti-bullying pledge
An appeals court revived a lawsuit against the anonymous messaging service Yolo, which allegedly broke a promise to unmask bullies on the app. In a ruling issued Thursday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals said Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shouldn’t block a claim that Yolo misrepresented its terms of service, overruling a lower court decision. But it…
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TikTok Is Pushing Old and False News as ”Breaking” Alerts
The popular social media platform TikTok has reportedly been delivering outdated and factually inaccurate content to its users presented in news-like alerts, according to the Financial Times. The alerts included a warning labeled “BREAKING” about a weeks-old tsunami in Japan posted nearly a month after the actual tsunami occurred. Other alerts pushed inaccuracies, such as LA Dodger star Shohei Ohtani…
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