Technology

While the bitcoin price is already reaching new heights, the popular crypto app Blockfolio has been hacked. Users were shown downright racist and pornographic messages.   Anyone who owns bitcoins or other crypto coins is also familiar with Blockfolio: one of the most used apps to check your digital wallet's status. The app has been systematically expanded in recent months with new functionality, including Signal: a communication platform through which the team behind a crypto coin can share messages in the app. And things went wrong this morning. Hackers managed to break into Signal and send messages to Blockfolio users. Especially hateful messages. Like the false message that blacks would no longer be able to access Blockfolio. Links to child pornography were also included in the ...

Intel has invested $ 475 million in a factory in Vietnam, on top of a previous investment of $ 1 billion.   It concerns a chip assembly and production facility in Saigon, the construction of which was announced in 2006, at the time investment of one billion dollars. Intel is announcing that it invested an additional $ 475 million in the factory in the second half of last year. It currently employs 2,700 people, including on 5G products, processors with Intel's Hybrid Technology and the Intel Core CPUs of the 10th generation. The choice to expand the site in Vietnam is no coincidence. In recent years, diplomatic tensions between China and the US have risen sharply, making (cheap) production in China more difficult. That is why some American players such as Apple and now Intel are ...

It's relatively easy to crash Windows 10 by opening a specific path. It is also easy for hackers to hinder a user. It is a method whereby developers can work directly with their hard drive without the file system. But with a specific Win32 device namespace path for the console multiplexer driver, things go wrong, Bleeping Computer reports. In short, whoever opens the link to that location will see a BSOD, the blue Windows crash screen where you have to restart the PC. According to Bleeping Computer, the problem occurs with Windows 10 version 1709 and later versions. Earlier versions do not have the problem. While a Windows 10 crash is an inconvenience in itself, it can be exploited. For example, it is possible to put a link to the path in a URL file. Forward something like th...

In the European Union, Facebook is not only answerable to Ireland, where the tech giant's European headquarters are located, says the chief adviser to the European Court of Justice.   Privacy watchdogs from other EU countries can also tackle Facebook, he says. The Luxembourg court has to rule on a Belgian lawsuit against Facebook. The Belgian counterpart of the Dutch Data Protection Authority wants the social network to stop tracking the surfing behaviour of non-users. The advocate general of the European court disagrees with Facebook. Judges from the other Member States are also allowed to consider Facebook's trade and walk in some cases, he believes, even though Ireland is in principle in the lead. This is only possible if it concerns "cross-border" cases and Ireland, for examp...

Dozens of journalists' iPhones have been affected by malware that allows nation-states to listen in. It would be Pegasus spyware.   That writes CitizenLab, a research group linked to the University of Toronto. The spyware would reach the phones through an exploit of the NSO Group, an Israeli espionage company. This is a similar exploit to the one that hit WhatsApp last year. According to Citizenlab, 36 personal phones have been affected, belonging to journalists at Al-Jazeera and Britain's Al Araby TV. The attacks are said to come from several NSO customers from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The investigation came at the request of one of the victims, an Al Jazeera reporter who suspected his phone had been hacked. In their technical report, the researchers explain tha...

Google has gone beyond its scope in a far-reaching collaboration deal with Facebook. Ten American states have come up with that accusation, including Texas.   They took Google to court on Wednesday for alleged abuse of power with its advertising services. As far as the collaboration with Facebook is concerned, this is a deal from 2018, which allows Facebook advertisers to also place advertisements within the Google network. In itself that is not a special deal, Google entered into similar partnerships with other parties. But what the indictment never made publicly known is that Facebook would have received preferential treatment. Google and Facebook contradict the claims. The states have not accused Facebook of misconduct in the complaint. Google has been under more and more fire...

President-elect Joe Biden will have access to all US presidential Twitter accounts following the inauguration on January 20, 2021.   The messaging service has stated that it will hand over the accounts to Biden regardless of whether or not President Donald Trump admits his loss. "Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition within the White House," a Twitter representative said over the weekend. 'Just like during the presidential transition in 2017, this process also takes place in close consultation with various authorities.' Not only will Biden gain access to the official presidential account @POTUS starting January 20, other White House accounts, such as the First Lady's, will also be transferred. Donald Trump has never actively used the presidential account, which ...