July 2022

The price of memory chips used in nearly every electronic device has skyrocketed during the pandemic. But judging by how much memory chip prices have fallen now, the demand boom may be over . Average contract prices for DRAM fell 10.6% in the April-June quarter from a year earlier, the first year-over-year decline in two

The Cyberspace Administration of China issued the Measures for Security Assessment of Data Exports , which will come into force on September 1, 2022. The “Measures” stipulate that data processors provide important data overseas, key information infrastructure operators and data processors processing more than one million personal information provide personal information overseas, and cumulatively provide

The most contagious subtype of the new coronavirus to date is spreading rapidly in the United States . Variants of the omicron subtype, known as BA.5 and BA.4, are dominating new cases in the U.S., both of which have mutations in the spike protein, the most common SARS-CoV-2 virus to date. The ability to evade

On July 11, 1997, Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan’s film ” Contact ” was released. An anti-mainstream movie that seems like the complete opposite of the trend today: no aliens, no spaceships, and no Earth invaded. The film starred Jodie Foster and Carl Sagan died during filming. On the 25th anniversary of the film’s release,

Strategies to get people to turn off or put their smartphones on silent as a way to reduce distraction or avoid Internet addiction may backfire for some, according to researchers at Penn State University. In one study, researchers reported that people checked their phones more when the device was in silent mode. Those who scored

A new variant of the Hive ransomware written in Go a year ago has been rewritten in Rust, Microsoft security researchers have discovered . Hive appeared in June 2021, two months after the FBI issued a warning . In November, European e-retail giant MediaMarkt was attacked by Hive. This is another ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) dual extortion