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Apps infected with Joker malware have been downloaded more than 500,000 times from the Huawei AppGallery. The apps have since been removed from that app store, but users have to get them from their device themselves.   Antivirus company Doctor Web writes in a report that it has found a dozen apps on Huawei's AppGallery that are a vehicle for Joker malware. These include a messaging service, a puzzle game and a camera app. Those apps largely do what they are supposed to do, but the device users also subscribe to paying mobile services. According to the report, the apps also request access to notifications to fool users for longer. With that permission, the software could intercept any confirmation text messages sent when you subscribe to a paid service. According to Doctor Web, the...

Samy Bengio, who has worked for Google as an AI scientist for 14 years, is leaving the company after the recent riot over diversity and censorship.   A shareholder of Alphabet, meanwhile, is asking for better protection for whistleblowers. Bengio gave his notice a few weeks after two of his colleagues were fired. He is the highest-ranking AI employee to leave the company, believed to be in the wake of an internal battle over Google's scientists' independence. Samy Bengio has been with the tech giant for fourteen years, in the Google Brain department focuses on deep learning and artificial intelligence. Google has confirmed the resignation. The man is leaving amid ongoing controversy within Google's AI department. It started in December when the company fired Timnit Gebru, a promi...

Periscope, the Livestream platform of Twitter messaging service, will cease to exist today.   The app never enjoyed much popularity and became obsolete when Twitter integrated its own live broadcast option. Twitter already announced the imminent end for Periscope in December last year. "There are fewer and fewer users, which means that it is no longer financially viable to keep the service," the company said at the time. The app was still available for download since then, but users could no longer create a new account. In the meantime, Periscope has been completely removed from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Twitter bought Periscope in 2015. The basic functions have now been integrated into the Live function of Twitter, which is accessible via the camera icon in a ne...

With the third generation of EPYC processors, AMD is marketing nineteen variants for servers. Several major tech players have already confirmed that they will be using the new processors.   AMD immediately launches the EPYC 7003 series. The series is the successor to the 7002 series and, following the consumer series that appeared last fall, is based on the Zen 3 architecture that promises, among other things, 19 percent more instructions per clock. The processor manufacturer targets three domains: high-performance computing (HPC), cloud players and enterprise, including I / O and memory throughput and better performance for transactional database processing, among other things. The 19 different server chips have 8 to 64 cores with 16 to 128 threads, respectively. In that range, f...

A judge in the United States has given the green light to a class-action lawsuit against Google over tracking in Chrome's incognito mode.   As a result, the case can continue in the name of thousands of users. Google had asked the judge to dismiss the class action class-action lawsuit, but it failed, Bloomberg writes. The lawsuit, which was started in June last year by three users, is claiming $ 5 billion in damages, almost $ 5,000 per user. The case revolves around Chrome's private mode, which would still forward user data to the company even after turning off tracking. This includes Google Analytics, Google Ad manager and a few other apps. The tech giant itself defends itself against the allegations. In a press release, Google says Incognito Mode in Chrome allows you to surf wi...

The Belgian chemical multinational UCB and Microsoft have entered into an agreement to search more efficiently for new drugs together.   The two companies report this in a press release. UCB and Microsoft are already collaborating in the global quest for antivirals, with Microsoft technology's computing power helping scientists work faster. That collaboration is now being expanded to a strategic multi-year collaboration where Microsoft will provide cloud services and artificial intelligence. In this way, UCB wants to find drugs more quickly, including for conditions other than covid-19.