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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the U.S. Navy and Air Force are the focus of new cyberattacks as the hackers search the computer systems of contractors to find classified advanced military technology. A Chinese hacking group known as Temp.Periscope or Leviathan is using email phishing...

A robot arm malfunctioned and impaled a porcelain factory worker in China (Warning - Graphic Images). Zhuzhou Liling was working the night shift when disaster struck and the robot arm suddenly fell on him. This left him with 10 steel nails impaled into his body that were 12" long and 5/8" in...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told a U.S. congressional panel Tuesday that it has no plans to relaunch its search engine in China. "But he added that internally Google has 'developed and looked at what search could look like. We've had the project underway for a while. At one point, we've had...

Citing a Reddit thread, PCGamesN reports that popular games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Paladins, Fortnite, and H1Z1 have been been banned in China, while others like World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo and League of Legends require "corrective action." According to the Reddit post, the...

Following a lengthy investigation, Supermicro sent an open letter to their customers claiming that they "found absolutely no evidence of malicious hardware on our motherboards." The company hired a "leading, third party investigations firm" to assist with the review, and they tested both newer...

Qualcomm is laying off 269 staff members with jobs related to its ARM server division. Qualcomm hasn't announced that it is done with servers, but all indications lead to that conclusion. The Centriq 64-bit 48-core Arm-compatible data-center-grade processor project still lives on through the HXT...

Reuters reports that Qualcomm won a case involving the importation and sale of iPhones in China. According to the report, the order "affects the iPhone 6S through the iPhone X sold with older versions of Apple’s iOS operating system," but Apple told Reuters that "all iPhone models remain...

The Chinese government sponsored hacking group known as "APT 10" or "cloudhopper" is expected to be charged with a multiyear scheme of breaking into U.S. technology service providers in order to compromise the networks of their clients. "The service providers often are not the initial victim...

Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported the the U.S. Government asked its allies to stop buying Huawei equipment. Since then, things have gone downhill for the Chinese company. Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK have all all allegedly stopped buying Huawei equipment...

Private investigators analyzing the Marriott International data breach are finding hacking tools, techniques, and procedures previously used in attacks attributed to Chinese government intelligence gathering operations. The sources are reluctant to blame China as other parties have access to the...

Samsung had trade secrets related to its foldable screen technology allegedly stolen by Samsung supplier Toptec who sold it to Chinese rivals for $14 million. Toptec has an affiliate paper company in China that it used to transfer the blueprints of Samsung's "flexible OLED edge panel 3D...

Earlier this week, scientists in China claimed they produced the world's first genetically edited babies. While many assumed the work was legal in China, the Chinese government begs to differ. Xu Nanping, the vice-minister for science and technology, reportedly told CCTV that the researchers...

A report by AP claims that automobiles from over 200 manufacturers transmit location data to the Chinese government. Tesla, Volkswagen, BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Nissan, Mitsubishi, and NIO are among the manufacturers in the list, and AP says it generally "happens without car owners'...

The Independent is reporting that the dystopian Chinese Social Credit system that is scheduled for implementation in 2020 is already in use in parts of the country. The Chinese government had already barred discredited citizens from taking 11.14 million flights and 4.25 million high-speed train...

Mirroring a similar protest by Amazon employees last month, Google employees have published an open letter on Medium protesting Google's censored search engine project for the Chinese government. The employees say many of them joined Google back when the company openly protested China's...

According to AP, researchers have made the world's first gene-edited babies in China. The twin girls, who's names remain anonymous, had their genomes edited by CRISPR to give them natural resistance to the HIV virus. Naturally, this has sparked considerable controversy around the world, as the...

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. government has asked its allies to persuade "wireless and internet providers in these countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co." The same sources also claim the U.S. is considering extra...

In 2016, we reported that China was working on a "social credit score" system like something straight out of a dystopian novel. As it turns out, the Chinese weren't just blowing smoke, and have plans to implement it. According to a report posted by the Chinese government, which Bloomberg...

The Financial Times reports that Chinese regulators have found "Massive Evidence" of DRAM price-fixing. While the article itself is behind a paywall, summaries from other news sites have hinted at a few of the details. According to silicon.co.uk, Chinese officials didn't give any specific...

Digitimes claims that Taiwan ODMs, who manufacture computers for companies like HP, Dell, and Apple, are trying to move notebook production out of China at the request of their clients. While notebooks, all-in-one PCs, smartphones and wearables are excluded from recently imposed tariffs on...

Alibaba has set a new e-commerce sales record on China's 11.11 or Singles Day as over $30.8 billion was spent during the event. It took the online retail portal 85 seconds to hit $1 billion in sales. Sales increased 27% over last year and more than 1 billion delivery orders were processed. In...

Xinhua News Agency, the government-run news agency of China, has unveiled their first AI news anchor. The anchor made "his" debut at the World Internet Conference, and the news agency claims he "learns from live broadcasting videos by himself and can read texts as naturally as a professional...

A report on Tech Xplore says that Chinese authorities have a new surveillance tool in their arsenal. The new software analyzes a person's body shape and gait to identify them, even if their faces are hidden from the surveillance camera. The system can reportedly identify people as far as 165...

Tencent is determined to get back into the good graces of Chinese censors after the Chinese government stopped approving new video game licenses to fight myopia. First they added facial recognition to the popular mobile game "Honor of Kings" as an age check. Now they are beginning to verify...

Last week, the U.S. Justice Department charged Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit with stealing intellectual property from Micron. But, in a press release posted on their Chinese website, Jinhua claims they didn't steal anything at all. Interestingly, a separate press release posted in July claims...

Ubisoft has announced the creation of a global Rainbow Six Siege game that will fit meet regulations and compliance in certain Asian territories. This is being done to streamline the development process. Supposedly everything that will be censored is purely cosmetic. Some items that will be...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged three Taiwanese nationals and United MIcroelectronics Corp (UMC) in addition to Chinese state-owned Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. with stealing intellectual property from the U.S. largest memory maker, Micron Technology Inc. Attorney General Jeff...

Over a period of 5 years, Chinese intelligence officers Zha Rong and Chai Meng, along with other co-conspirators sought to involve co-opted company insiders to hack and steal sensitive commercial aviation and technological data from firms in the United States and abroad. The intelligence...

According to a report published by researchers Chris C. Demchak and Yuval Shavitt, China Telecom is redirecting sensitive internet traffic between the U.S. and other countries through China. China itself only has 3 major access nodes that connect to other countries, leaving China's network...

According to a report by gamesindustry.biz, Steam gained about 23 million active monthly users in just over a year, bringing their active user count to 90 million. The research firm Niko Partners claims that at least some of that growth can be attributed to the Chinese market, which grew from 15...

NAND flash prices are expected to drop even further in 2019 after declining by 50% this year. This is due to the creation of more capacity expansion in the industry to meet demand. There are 6-7 leading manufacturers of NAND flash products and some may face increased pressure to remain...

Local, state-owned newspapers in Chengdu, China announced a plan to launch an artificial moon above the city in 2020. The satellite would reflect sunlight to an area between 10 and 80 kilometers in diameter, and shine 8 times brighter than Earth's own moon. The plan is to at least partially...

AMD launched a cut down version of the RX 580 with only 2048 stream processors instead of 2304. Curiously, it has the exact same core configuration, base clock, and memory bandwidth as the RX 570. The only thing separating the RX 580 2048SP from the 570 a 40Mhz boost clock bump. According to...

The Intercept obtained a transcript that suggests Google's plans for a censored Chinese search engine don't line up with their public statements. Earlier this year, after The Intercept originally broke the story, Ben Gomes told a BBC reporter that Google was merely doing "some exploration, but...

Bloomberg says that security expert Yossi Appleboum has found evidence of altered Supermicro hardware in a major U.S. telecom's network. Mr. Appleboum has worked for the Israeli Army Intelligence Corps and is now co-chief executive officer of Sepio Systems in Gaithersburg, Maryland. His...

According to Digitimes Research, Taiwanese server motherboard manufacturers are accelerating plans to move production out of mainland China. Thanks to a trade war between China and the U.S, the companies were already on their way out, but a report by Bloomberg suggesting that the Chinese...

Official newspaper Beijing Youth Daily has reported that two Chinese prisoners serving life sentences for such crimes as murder and robbery, have escaped from Lingyuan No 3 Prison in Liaoning province. Initially it was reported that they used only a keycard and stolen guard uniforms to make the...

According to a report by Bloomberg, the Chinese government has been spying on US tech companies with chips the size of a pencil head. Citing anonymous sources, Bloomberg claims intelligence officials went to the White House with information suggesting "China's military was preparing to insert...

According to Weng Wei of China Times, AMD motherboard sales were up 15% during the month of September in China as the growth trend more than doubled. This has led to the price of AMD processors increasing from 30% to 50% within the region. The price of high-end AMD motherboards has increased...

Twitch has been blocked in China after Chinese citizens flocked to the free streaming service to watch the Asian Games. Due to state broadcaster CCTV's complete lack of coverage of the event, Twitch became the third most popular app in the iOS App Store in China. Even though Chinese esports...