The Entity List includes Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) and its subsidiaries, the world’s most popular drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. and more than 60 other Chinese companies. According to the Commerce Department, the action against SMIC stems from China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military-industrial complex. “We will not allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary....

For those unaware, every year the USTR publishes an updated list of its “Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets.” The list includes cyberlockers such as 1fichier and Uploaded, streaming portals including FMovies , and the torrent sites RARBG , Rutracker, The Pirate Bay , and 1337x as some of the largest websites as notorious piracy and counterfeiting sites. Check out the copy of the USTR’s 2019 overview of notorious markets here (pdf) ....

Huawei P40 Phones Could Be World’s First ‘Dual OS’ Smartphone With Android 10 And HarmonyOS Chinese telecom giant, Huawei, already has its own in-house operating system called ‘ HarmonyOS ’ (known as HongMeng in China). While the company has launched a smart TV named ‘Honor Vision’ running the internal OS, Huawei has confirmed that it is not ready to use the internal OS in its smartphones yet. To that effect, even Huawei’s founder and CEO, Ren Zhengfei had recently made a statement that “ Huawei’s HarmonyOS Will Compete With Apple’s IOS In 2 Years ”....

Meta-owned WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new lockdown-style security feature designed to protect users who may be targeted by highly advanced cyber campaigns, including journalists, activists, and public figures. The feature, called Strict Account Settings , adds an additional layer of protection beyond WhatsApp’s default end-to-end encryption. With a single tap, it locks an account into the platform’s most restrictive privacy and security settings, limiting features that have previously been exploited in sophisticated spyware and surveillance attacks....

A group of developers have managed to successfully install Windows 10 on ARM on a Samsung’s Galaxy S8. One of the lead developers, Evsio0n told Windows Latest that they were able to get Windows 10 running on a Samsung Galaxy S8 after fixing a memory leak bug in the Windows 10 ARM project for Snapdragon 835. The team shared the screenshots of the results on Twitter. pic.twitter.com/idhHhcMAJk — Evsio0n (@boby2001820) April 14, 2020...

If your PC is still running Windows 10, here is an important update: Microsoft has officially moved the operating system to “end of life” status. While your Windows 10 computer will continue to function, it will no longer receive essential security updates from Microsoft. All Windows 10 users – whether on Home, Pro, or Enterprise editions are affected by this end-of-support date. To keep your device secure after October 14, you will need to act manually....

Windows Update broken for some Windows 7 users, throwing error ‘80248015’ Many users are reporting that Windows Update in Windows 7 is broken, as they are getting an error ‘80248015’ while trying to update their operating system. The users came across this issue on December 3 and has been growing since then. When Windows 7 users attempt to run Windows Update on their machines, they are greeted with a message which says, “Windows Update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running....

Microsoft has started detecting CCleaner, a popular utility tool for Windows as a P otentially Unwanted Application (PUA) PUA: Win32/CCleaner threat in the Microsoft Defender, the first wall of defence and security for Windows. Piriform’s CCleaner is a top-rated utility tool that has features such as registry cleaner , application/browsers data cleaner amongst various other useful things. Their Disk Analyzer and Driver Wiper has garnered positive reviews for providing the utility for free....

Out of all forms of cybercrime, none has seen a more dramatic increase in recent years than online identity theft. The 3.3 million identity theft reports received in 2019 rose by 45% in 2020 , reaching almost 5 million individual attempts at these fraudulent activities. Through malware, phishing sites, and data information hacks and leaks, malicious companies are exposing more information than ever, going on to use this for identity theft or extortion....

Kevin David Mitnick, a hacker once on the FBI’s most wanted list of hackers and known to be one of the world’s best hacker . Best known for his high-profile 1995 arrest and five years in prison for various computer and communications-related crimes, has died at the age of 59. He was suffering from pancreatic cancer and succumbed to his death on July 16, 2023. The news was confirmed to the New York Times by a spokeswoman for KnowBe4 , the cybersecurity company where Mitnick worked....

Stardock tool to let you mix AMD and NVIDIA cards in one PC NVIDIA and AMD GPUs have never been best of friends, but a startup called Stardock is about to revolutionize the video-card market for PCs and change all that. There are two ways how it will benefit PC gamers; it will make it more affordable and allow virtual reality content to be within reach of millions of consumers....

Grammy award-winning artist Maria Schneider on Thursday filed a class-action lawsuit against YouTube (as well as Google and Alphabet, Inc.) in California federal court accusing the giant video-sharing platform of failing to protect her and other “ordinary creators” from unauthorised copying and use of their work, reports TorrentFreak . According to Schneider, YouTube’s system for policing copyright infringement protects the “behemoths of the creative industry” such as major studios and record labels, but leaves small producers like her to basically to look out for themselves....

Curiosity to know more about the deadly Coronavirus (COVID-19) disease has resulted in an increase in rentals and torrent downloads of the 2011 pandemic movie ‘Contagion’. As a result, the most popular torrent site, YTS has recently re-released two high-quality rips of the movie to meet the increase in demand, reports TorrentFreak . For those unaware, Contagion is a 2011 American medical action thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Its ensemble cast includes Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Kate Winslet....

Android is the most popular smartphone OS of all time. In fact, more than 85% of smartphone users prefer using Android over iOS. One of the primary reasons why people prefer using Android over much more stable and reliable iOS is the ability to customize their smartphones as per their preference. Well if you have been scouting for some of the best Android launchers to customize your smartphone, then this article might help you....

Google keeps adding new features to Chrome from time to time. Users often add extensions to get extra functionality on the web browser. These features stem from Chrome flags, which are experimental features that the company keeps on testing before bringing it to the standard version. What are Chrome Flags? How To Enable Chrome Flags Settings? Best Chrome Flags for Windows and Android 1. Parallel Download 2. Tab Groups (Desktop only) 3....

The Pirate Bay , KickassTorrents , 1337x , ExtraTorrent , and YTS are prominent torrent websites that are admired by most tech-savvy people. Unfortunately, none of these BitTorrent sites differentiate between legally and illegally shared content. Thankfully, the aforementioned problem can be resolved using completely free and legal torrent websites. As the name implies, legal torrenting sites only host legitimate movies , music , ebooks , TV shows, games , and software....

Adobe Photoshop for iPad has officially arrived on the App Store before its formal launch at the Adobe 2019 Max Conference that starts in Los Angeles on Monday. The app for iPad was announced by the California-based company last year when the 2018 iPad Pro was unveiled. As per the listing on the App Store, the first version of Photoshop for iPad is available as a 30-day free trial. The app has full support for Apple Pencil, PSD editing, layers, context-aware tools, advanced selection tools, retouching and cloud syncing....

Software company Adobe on Tuesday introduced Adobe Firefly, a new family of creative generative AI (artificial intelligence) models designed to help users create high-quality images, video, and stunning text effects from simple inputs. According to the company, Adobe Firefly will bring even more precision, power, speed, and ease directly into Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Adobe Express workflows where content is created and modified. It will be part of a series of new Adobe Sensei generative AI services across Adobe’s clouds....

The telecom company fixed the security flaw associated with its mobile application after it was notified by the BBC. Ehraz Ahmed, a Bengaluru-based independent cyber-security researcher, who first found the vulnerability in one of Airtel’s Application Programming Interface (API), said in his blog that it took him 15 minutes to find the flaw. “It revealed information like First and Last Name, Gender, Email, Date of Birth, Address, Subscription Information, Device Capability information for 4G, 3G & GPRS, Network Information, Activation Date, User Type [Prepaid/Postpaid] And Current IMEI number,” Ahmed wrote in his blog....

AMD on Monday announced the launch of its Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processors based on the upcoming “Zen 4” CPU architecture during the company’s Computex 2022 keynote address in Taiwan. Based on TSMC’s 5nm process technology, the new Ryzen 7000 Series desktop processor is projected to provide a greater than 15% uplift in single-thread performance as compared to its predecessor, for a better desktop PC experience. The new desktop processors will feature up to 2x chiplets or CCDs (Core Complex Dies)....