MalwareBytes today revealed that Assurance Wireless by Virgin, which receives subsidies from the U.S. government to offer discounted cellular service to low-income Americans, sells an Android phone with "unremovable malware" installed.
The phone in question, the UMX U686CL, is said to cost just $35 from Assurance Wireless. (We couldn't find the device on the Assurance Wireless website, although we did find the UMX U683CL .) Assurance
Intel hosted its CES 2020 press conference three days ago, but there wasn't a peep about Comet Lake-S during the entire event. According to a ComputerBase report , Comet Lake-S's delay could be attributed to the chipmaker's inability to keep the 10-core chip's power consumption within reasonable limits.
Intel has been squeezing every bit of juice out of the 14nm manufacturing process. More often than not, adding more cores
For those looking for a well-rounded chassis with support for high end components, the Silverstone Precision PS14-E is a solid pick. Though it's a feature-packed case that is easy on the wallet, it does come with some design and performance drawbacks.
Cooler Master introduced a record-setting power supply at CES 2020 with the 850W version of its new SFX Gold PSU. The company also introduced the V Gold V2 and the V Bronze series of power supplies, both of which will feature a variety of wattages to appeal to wide audiences, and it said it expects to release all the new PSUs this year.
The 850W
Intel revealed its first details of the DG1 discrete graphics here at CES 2020, but chose to peel the covers back slowly on its fledgling project with a few details sprinkled in a pre-brief , and then an onstage demo of a discrete laptop graphics chip inside of a Tiger Lake-powered notebook. Today the company pulled the covers back further as it revealed the new DG1 development kit and its DG1 mobile graphics in a standard graphics card form factor that the company seeds to independent software vendors
Microsoft released the first new preview build of 2020, Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19541, to Fast ring members of the Windows Insider Program yesterday.
Preview Build 19541 featured relatively small changes. Microsoft said that it changed the icon shown in the Taskbar when a program is accessing the system's location, added a new Architecture section to Task Manager and restored some of Cortana's features. (Although the voice
Mozilla said on Wednesday that it patched a zero-day vulnerability in the Firefox browser that could have allowed hackers to take over target systems. The patch is available in the Firefox 72.0.1 and Firefox ESR 68.4.1 updates released yesterday.
The organization explained that "incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to a type confusion." Attackers could exploit that issue to gain access to, and control over, systems running Firefox
Intel quietly released its quarterly Intel Media Driver update for Linux in December. Phoronix reported on Wednesday that the new driver brings GPU-accelerated encode and decode support for the company's Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake processors, showing that they continue to be on track for a 2020 release.
Tiger Lake is the successor to Ice Lake that was launched during the holidays with Xe graphics . Both Jasper Lake and Elkhart Lake are based on the 10
FTC chairman Joseph Simons said at CES 2020 that the commission's antitrust investigations into Facebook and other tech companies will conclude this year , either by taking action against some of the companies or ending the investigations.
Simons said that:
“This is such an important area. We want to make sure these investigations are done thoroughly, that they’re done properly, and they’re done efficiently, and we either decide to bring an enforcement action or not. We want
Gigabyte brought a trio of new gaming monitors--the Gigabyte G27F, G27QC, and G32QC--to CES 2020. Note the lack of additional branding for each monitor; Gigabyte strangely omitted the Aorus brand it's long used for its gaming-related devices.
The first of the lot is the entry-level G27F, which is a 27-inch Full HD unit that is capable of refreshing