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According to Valve’s operating system market share statistics for November 2022, Linux’s share has been stagnant for many years, and the past month saw its biggest increase in years: reaching 1.44%. Windows is still the dominant 96.11%, macOS 2.45%. Linux’s share has long been around 1.2%, reaching 1.28% in October, up 0.16% over the past […]

Android OEMs use platform certificates or platform keys to sign operating systems and core applications. If malicious programs are signed with the same key, they will be assigned to a highly privileged android.uid.system user ID with system-level access rights . Łukasz Siewierski of Google’s Android Security Team reported that multiple malicious app samples used 10

TSMC’s factory in Arizona, which will start production in 2024, was previously planned to produce 5nm chips, but according to the latest reports, the chip’s manufacturing process has been upgraded to its most advanced 4nm. TSMC has come under pressure from U.S. customers. Apple hopes to source more components for iPhones and MacBooks from the

Australian insurer Medibank confirmed last month that hackers had accessed the personal information and some claims data of all of its customers, including all of its international student clients, in a recent ransomware attack. Medibank is one of Australia’s largest private health insurance companies. Hackers issued a statement on the dark web on Thursday, demanding

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the organization received more than 9,400 new crown-related deaths last week, compared with the 75,000 global weekly deaths received in February this year, a drop of nearly 90% in nine months. He expressed cautious optimism, while calling on governments around the world to remain vigilant. The World Health

Lenovo updated the firmware of 25 laptops, including ThinkPads, Yoga Slims and IdeaPads, to fix a vulnerability that would allow attackers to disable UEFI Secure Boot and then install malicious firmware to plant a permanent backdoor. UEFI is located on the flash memory chip of the motherboard. It is the first link in the security

TikTok’s strong stickiness has sparked countless discussions, with most analysts agreeing that TikTok’s greatest asset is its algorithm. But Wired believes that the biggest asset of short video applications is actually your mobile phone. From movie theaters to televisions to cell phones, the way we receive and process information has changed dramatically over the past

A year-long study of the eating habits of 9341 Australians has shown growing evidence that highly processed and refined foods are the main cause of rising obesity rates in Western countries. The new study, based on a national survey on nutrition and physical activity conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), further supports the

The National Health Commission, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the National Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention released the “Notice on Printing and Distributing the “14th Five-Year Plan” National Health Informatization Plan on Wednesday, planning to give each resident a fully functional electronic health code by 2025. The “Notice” stated that by

IBM announced the 433-qubit Osprey chip, more than triple last year’s 127-qubit Eagle chip. Big Blue also plans to launch a system with more than 4,000 qubits by 2025. IBM is continuing to invest in quantum computers, and its roadmap for the next three years includes a 1,121-qubit Condor chip in 2023, a 1,386-qubit Flamingo

Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Tuesday that he had signed a letter of intent to acquire rival FTX. But on Wednesday Binance announced it had decided not to pursue an acquisition of FTX after due diligence. Binance said it decided not to pursue a potential acquisition of FTX.com

Microsoft released .NET 7. The new version improves performance, introduces new features from C# 11/F# 7, .NET MAUI, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, Web APIs, WinForms, WPF, etc. NET 7 containerization just got easier. Other aspects include improved Linux support, native support for ARM64, improved cross-platform mobile/desktop application support, HTTP/3 improvements for cloud-native applications, and support for 64-bit

According to Bloomberg calculations, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s net worth evaporated 93% in one day, plummeting from $16 billion a day earlier to $991 million, and he is no longer a $1 billion billionaire. The reason is that the value of FTT, the native token of the FTX exchange, has dropped from $20.47 a day