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The default BIOS settings for MSI motherboards were found to be insecure, allowing any operating system images to run, whether they were signed or not signed or signed incorrectly. More than 290 models of MSI motherboards are affected. Polish security researcher Dawid Potocki, who first discovered the issue, tried to contact MSI but received no […]

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has proposed in an amendment to its national IT policy that the Information Bureau of India and other government agencies be the arbiters of truth about whether user information is misleading. In the draft amendments, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology requires social media companies and online

Mozilla released Firefox 109, catching up with Chrome in version numbers. Google released Chrome 109 last week. New changes in Firefox 109 include: Manifest Version 3 (MV3) extension support is enabled by default, and MV2 extensions are still supported; a unified extension button is introduced, through which users can quickly delete, report, and manage extensions

The game licensing agreement between NetEase and Blizzard will expire on January 23rd. Blizzard said on Tuesday that it was looking for a new partner and had offered NetEase to extend the deal for six months, but was rejected. On Tuesday night, the NetEase official account issued a response, accusing Blizzard of being arrogant, inappropriate,

According to reports, Microsoft will announce about 11,000 layoffs as early as Wednesday, US time. A Microsoft spokesman said it doesn’t comment on rumors. Microsoft, which has more than 220,000 employees, made two small layoffs last year. The latest layoffs will involve engineering and human resources. The largest layoffs in the tech industry over the

Marvel Studios announced that “Black Panther 2” and “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum of Frenzy” will be released in mainland China on February 7 and February 17, respectively. This is the first time a Marvel movie has returned to the Chinese mainland market after three and a half years. The last Marvel/Sony movie was Spider-Man:

Black holes are sitter gatherers rather than hunters, patiently waiting for hapless stars to pass by. When the star is close enough, the black hole’s huge gravity will tear it apart and swallow it, releasing intense radiation at the same time. This phenomenon is known as a black hole tidal disruption event. Astronomers are using

Scientists have demonstrated experimentally for the first time that rapidly firing lasers can deflect lightning. The research suggests that laser beams could be used as “lightning rods” to protect infrastructure, though it may take some time. Metal lightning rods are commonly used to deflect lightning strikes and dissipate the charge safely. But the size of

Machine learning software development frameworks have undergone dramatic changes over the past decade. While most frameworks rely heavily on CUDA, the best performance is on CUDA. But with the arrival of PyTorch 2.0 and OpenAI Triton, NVIDIA CUDA’s monopoly on machine learning is gradually disintegrating. A few years ago, Google’s TensorFlow framework and dedicated accelerator

Because the licensing agreement between NetEase and Blizzard will expire on January 23, 2023, Blizzard’s games such as “World of Warcraft”, “Hearthstone”, “Warcraft III: Remastered Edition”, “Watching Pioneer”, “StarCraft”, “Diablo III” and “Heroes of the Storm” will suspend operations in China. Before the agreement expired, NetEase began disbanding its Blizzard game operation team, and its

Researchers at the University of Leeds have found that chocolate taste is associated with lubrication. When a bar of chocolate comes into contact with the tongue, the fat plays a key role almost immediately. After this, the solid cocoa particles are released and they become important to the touch, so the fat deep inside the

Didi Chuxing, a taxi-hailing software giant, issued a statement to resume new user registration: “For more than a year, our company has seriously cooperated with the national network security review, seriously dealt with the security problems found in the review, and carried out comprehensive rectification. After reporting to the network security review office for approval,

The latest nostalgic product popular with Gen Z is the flip phone. One reason is that flip phones are much cheaper than smartphones, have simpler functions, and are easier to operate. There is no social software, so you don’t have to check who said what and who sent you messages all the time. It’s also