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Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications has updated the Cybersecurity Law (PDF) to make it mandatory for tech giants and telecommunications companies to store user data within its borders, with entities in the country controlling the data. User data covered by cybersecurity laws is not limited to names, emails, credit cards, phone numbers, and IPs, […]

Blackwater founder Erik Prince is pushing for a highly secure phone from smartphone startup Unplugged, but his description of the phone has been questioned by many. Promotional materials for the new phone claim that its operating system and hardware cannot be tampered with, and that messaging services cannot be intercepted or decrypted. The smartphone, which

Wall Street’s biggest banks, including Bank of America, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, are nearing a deal to pay up to $200 million each in fines and admit their employees violated regulatory requirements by using encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp. The total fine could exceed $1 billion, and the settlement will

Apple has announced the 20th anniversary of Shazam, the song-recognition service it acquired for $400 million in 2017. The eponymous company that created Shazam was founded in 1999 and went live in 2002. According to an Apple press release, Shazam officially surpassed 70 billion song recognitions this week. The platform is now an important part

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, drinking establishments such as bars have been hit hard, resulting in a sharp drop in sales of alcohol products and related taxes. The government’s response isto encourage young people to drink more . Japan’s National Tax Agency has launched a campaign called Sake Viva!, inviting contestants to submit new ideas to

The most expensive space telescope ever built by humans uses a lot of scripts written in JavaScript, and it uses a 20-year-old version of the JS language. According to the manual of the JWST Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM), the software of the ISIM is controlled by the Script Processor Task (SP), which runs scripts

Raymond Chen, a senior software engineer at Microsoft and author of “The Old New Thing,” has confirmed that an unnamed PC maker found a certain model of laptop while playing Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit music video “Rhythm Nation.” will crash. The investigation found that playing a music video also crashed a competitor’s laptop, and even

Netizens claim that Baidu is recruiting human reviewers for Baidu’s online disk, saying that it can review information such as photos uploaded by users. The matter immediately attracted widespread attention. Baidu Netdisk’s official Weibo responded that there is no so-called manual photo review on Baidu Netdisk, and the content of Baidu Netdisk’s photo review by

Business Times reported that TSMC will begin mass production of 3-nanometer (N3) process chips in September. Wei Zhejia, president of TSMC, previously stated that N3 has a high yield rate and will be mass-produced stably in 2023. An improved version of the N3, the N3E, will be mass-produced in the second half of 2023, with

Untamed Isles, the online game project that raised NZ$840,994 (approximately RMB 3.6 million) on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, has announced that it has stopped development because it spent its crowdfunding money on cryptocurrencies, which are now lost due to the collapse of cryptocurrencies , now can only stop development. It’s out of money, so a

According to a study published in the journal Science Immunology, researchers at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a new antibody that neutralizes all known coronavirus variants , including Omicron, in laboratory tests. The researchers hope that the antibodies will have the same effect in patients. The antibody, called SP1-77, works in

The GNOME desktop project turns 25 this week, and the developers released GNOME 43.beta . On August 15, 1997, two developers, Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena Quintero, announced the development of a set of user-friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE, but based entirely on free software. The first major version,

Apple’s Bluetooth tracking device AirTag has led to the arrest of an airport contractor . Giovanni De Luca, 19, was charged with stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of passenger belongings. One traveler reported last month that her luggage, which contained about $1,600 worth of items, did not reach her destination. There was an