We shouldn’t have to say that if something on the internet sounds too good to be true, it probably is, but a new report suggests that we do. According to a review of virus activity on mobile devices from antivirus software maker Doctor Web, a new breed of fraudulent apps is taking Google Play by…
Cryptocurrency mining company Hive Blockchain said this week it had begun to deploy 5800 Intel Blockscale accelerator-based BuzzMiner mining systems that it designed itself. To date, this is the first large-scale deployment of Intel-powered mining machines. Also, the company disclosed that it earned $3.15 million in December by lowering its power use and, therefore, the…
Engineers at Meta, Facebook’s parent company, have revealed how they have been able to offer free memory using a software solution called Transparent Memory Offloading (TMO). It is now part of the Linux kernel and, in a nutshell, automatically offloads data to other storage tiers (e.g. Samsung’s CX memory expander) that are less costly and…
Block, the financial services and digital payments company formerly known as Square, has announced that Cash App suffered a data breach last December. Block submitted a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this Monday acknowledging the breach. The filing reveals that a former employee accessed reports containing US customer information. This occurred on…
The quantum computing space seems to deliver new breakthroughs every other week that aim to increase both the usefulness and computing power of quantum-based solutions. As reported by Sky News, the latest development from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia could enable quantum systems that leverage millions of qubits. We’ve detailed many…
Google has designed its own new processors, the Argos video (trans)coding units (VCU), that have one solitary purpose: processing video. The highly efficient new chips have allowed the technology giant to replace tens of millions of Intel CPUs with its own silicon. For many years Intel’s video decoding/encoding engines that come built into its CPUs have…
