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Samsung has its own AI-designed chip. Soon, others will too

Getty Images reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Samsung is using artificial intelligence to automate the insanely complex and subtle process of designing cutting-edge computer chips. The South Korean giant is one of the first chipmakers to use AI to create its chips. Samsung is using AI features in new software… Read More »

Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords

Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images reader comments 62 with 50 posters participating Share this story Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company’s Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users’ Facebook login credentials. In a bid to win… Read More »

NieR: Reincarnation Coming to US, Releases in July

Today, Square Enix and Applibot, Inc. announced that its mobile game NieR: Reincarnation will be coming to North American, European, and Korean territories on July 28. NieR: Reincarnation (stylized NieR: Re[in]carnation) is the first mobile from the NieR series. It is an turn-based RPG from the mind of Yoko Taro. MONACA’s Keiichi Okabe is the composer,… Read More »

4 vulnerabilities under attack give hackers full control of Android devices

reader comments 24 with 21 posters participating Share this story Unknown hackers have been exploiting four Android vulnerabilities that allow the execution of malicious code that can take complete control of devices, Google warned on Wednesday. All four of the vulnerabilities were disclosed two weeks ago in Google’s Android Security Bulletin for May. Google has… Read More »

League of Legends: Wild Rift Adds Renekton In New Patch

The crocodile man cometh for League of Legends: Wild Rift. Players of the mobile MOBA will see Renekton, the Butcher of the Sands added to the game’s character roster alongside today’s new patch. Renekton is a rage-fueled Ascended warrior from Shurima. Once a great champion, he lost himself to madness while trapped beneath the sands for centuries.… Read More »

Fix for critical Qualcomm chip flaw is making its way to Android devices

Getty Images reader comments 13 with 12 posters participating Share this story Makers of high-end Android devices are responding to the discovery of a Qualcomm chip flaw that researchers say could be exploited to partially backdoor about a third of the world’s smartphones. The vulnerability, discovered by researchers from security firm Check Point Research, resides… Read More »

Google Play apps steal texts and pepper you with unauthorized purchases

Getty Images reader comments 78 with 38 posters participating Share this story Security researchers have uncovered a batch of Google Play apps that stole users’ text messages and made unauthorized purchases on users’ dime. The malware, which was hidden in eight apps that had more than 700,000 downloads, hijacked SMS message notifications and then made… Read More »

Millions of web surfers are being targeted by a single malvertising group

reader comments 81 with 40 posters participating Share this story Hackers have compromised more than 120 ad servers over the past year in an ongoing campaign that displays malicious advertisements on tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of devices as they visit sites that, by all outward appearances, are benign. Malvertising is the… Read More »

Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

Enlarge / Insomnia people and mobile-addiction concepts. (credit: Getty Images) Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google. Now, a researcher has provided a side-by-side comparison that suggests that, while both iOS and Android collect handset data… Read More »

Facebook shuts down hackers who infected iOS and Android devices

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Facebook said it has disrupted a hacking operation that used the social media platform to spread iOS and Android malware that spied on Uyghur people from the Xinjiang region of China. Malware for both mobile OSes had advanced capabilities that could steal just about anything stored on an infected device. The… Read More »