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    Vitaliy_Kiselev
    War: New trend - touch sensor in power buttons
    • It is becoming standard in latest notebooks, will be standard in new Macbooks and Macs in general, and will be feature of many Android smartphones.

      Main idea is not just reduce costs, but to force you to 100% touch the sensor. Such way manufacturer will always collect lot of your fingertips and upon request (for people who have value) send them to government. Yes, without any approval and your knowing it. Such functionality is performed by special parts of modern CPUs or hubs. They also have secure storage for fingertips that you can't check.

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    Crypto scam: China stands behind many things
    • The Chinese authorities decided to limit the growth of energy consumption in the region of Inner Mongolia, which attracted miners due to its relatively cheap electricity. According to some estimates, this autonomous region of China generated up to 8% of the global supply of bitcoins, while the whole of China accounted for approximately 65% of the computing power of the world's distributed network.

      Why so much interest?

      It is all simple, hundreds of thousands of corrupt clerks paired with business owners need to rise bitcoin price as it allows them to transfer more money outside China without any control or restriction. This is why they do all to support big farms.

      Also China use lot of Mordor origin energy to do mining with price set very low using special secret long time contracts.

      I had been told that Communist party and local government workers perfectly know where big farms are located and instead of killing them that any responsible guy must do - they help them.

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    War: Around 100k Apple computers are infected and waiting to do something
    • The new malware Silver Sparrow, found on nearly 30,000 Mac computers worldwide, has caught the attention of security experts. There are several reasons. First, the malware comes in two binaries, one for the M1 processor. Second, researchers cannot understand the purpose of the attackers.

      Once an hour, infected computers check the control server for new commands or binaries to execute.

      But so far, no payload has been delivered to any of the 30,000 infected machines. The absence of a payload suggests that malware can take action as soon as an unknown condition is met.

      Curiously, the malware comes with a complete removal mechanism that is commonly used in professional intelligence operations. However, there are still no signs of using the self-destruct function, which raises the question of why this mechanism is needed.

      In addition to these issues, the malware is notable for the presence of a binary for the M1 chip, which was introduced in November 2020. This is just the second known macOS malware for M1. The binary is even more cryptic because it uses the macOS installer JavaScript API to execute commands.

      One of the most impressive things about Silver Sparrow is the number of Macs it infects. Colleagues at Malwarebytes found Silver Sparrow installed on 29,139 macOS endpoints as of February 17, 2021. This is a significant achievement.

      And these are only computers available for MalwareBytes antivirus, so the real number is much higher.

      Real number is from 100k up to 500k.

      Rumors in the industry are that small number of viruses for MacOS also is due to Apple specially sponsoring virus toolkits authors so they can do more for Windows and not make their tools available for MacOS. Apple do not control lot of virus authors, but controls authors of core tools and owners of communities (so they can kill and social activity and prevent groups forming).

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    War: Sudden war with third party cookies and GDPR
    • As part of its war on web tracking, Mozilla is adding a new tool to Firefox aimed at stopping cookies from keeping tabs on you across multiple sites. The "Total Cookie Protection" feature is included in the web browser's latest release — alongside multiple picture-in-picture views (more on that below) — and essentially works by keeping cookies isolated between each site you visit. Or, in Mozilla's words: "By creating a separate cookie jar for every website."

      Google is also working on a plan to kill off third-party cookie tracking on its Chrome web browser as part of its Privacy Sandbox project, an initiative that seeks to allow personalized ads while limiting individually identifying data.

      Firefox's new feature pares with last month's network partitioning tool, which works by splitting the Firefox browser cache on a per-website basis to prevent tracking across the web, itself targeted at blocking more stubborn "supercookies." According to Mozilla, these types of cookies are more difficult to delete and block as they are stored in obscure parts of the browser, including in Flash storage, ETags, and HSTS flags. Both tools are available as part of Firefox's enhanced tracking protection suite in "strict mode" on desktop and Android.

      It is not very easy to spot by untrained eye - but this is part of total control and censorship war. Plus hundreds of billions of more income for big guys who control all major browsers.

      Let me explain - now small and medium sites get only around 10-35% of income from ads (mostly thanks for Google) and this number constantly drops, especially for small guys. Hence we see more and more unnecessary ads.

      Most income comes from referrals and selling personal data and tracking data.

      Tech giants want to cut large part of this income and such way force small and medium guys to place even more ads. In same time all sites that will considered unnecessary will be silently killed by lower ranking (as Google do with forums now) and by simple economic reasons.

      GDPR also hit smallest sites most - as they have worst aka default large popups, they also needed to spend time on doing this shit. But large sites are quite happy with it as it did not change anything for them - instead it made it look nice and legal.

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    MiniLED becoming mainstream finally, thanks to Apple
    • Singapore-based semiconductor packaging equipment vendor K&S has seen strong influx of orders for wire bonders for logic ICs and memory chips with delivery lead times extending to 6-9 months, and is optimistic that equipment demand for miniLED backlight applications may grow exponentially starting in 2021.

      Cheam estimates that miniLED applications will see exponential increases this year, as more brand vendors are moving to apply miniLED backlighting technology to a variety of devices including notebooks, tablets, desktops and TVs.

      Not bad, but remember - almost all manufacturers will be selecting cheapest led chips and made worst cooling possible (now around 90% of TVs failure is due to horrible led backlight cooling).

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    Yet another metalens, from MIT this time
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      Optical phase change materials (O-PCMs), a unique group of materials featuring exceptional optical property contrast upon a solid-state phase transition, have found widespread adoption in photonic applications such as switches, routers and reconfigurable meta-optics. Current O-PCMs, such as Ge–Sb–Te (GST), exhibit large contrast of both refractive index (Δn) and optical loss (Δk), simultaneously. The coupling of both optical properties fundamentally limits the performance of many applications. Here we introduce a new class of O-PCMs based on Ge–Sb–Se–Te (GSST) which breaks this traditional coupling. The optimized alloy, Ge2Sb2Se4Te1, combines broadband transparency (1–18.5 μm), large optical contrast (Δn = 2.0), and significantly improved glass forming ability, enabling an entirely new range of infrared and thermal photonic devices. We further demonstrate nonvolatile integrated optical switches with record low loss and large contrast ratio and an electrically-addressed spatial light modulator pixel, thereby validating its promise as a material for scalable nonvolatile photonics.

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      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12196-4

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    Google: Chrome actually does not have incognito mode
    • Google is accused of relying on pieces of its code within websites that use its analytics and advertising services to scrape users’ supposedly private browsing history and send copies of it to Google’s servers. Google makes it seem like private browsing mode gives users more control of their data, Amanda Bonn, a lawyer representing users, told Koh. In reality, “Google is saying there’s basically very little you can do to prevent us from collecting your data, and that’s what you should assume we’re doing,” Bonn said.

      Andrew Schapiro, a lawyer for Google, argued the company’s privacy policy “expressly discloses” its practices. “The data collection at issue is disclosed,” he said.Another lawyer for Google, Stephen Broome, said website owners who contract with the company to use its analytics or other services are well aware of the data collection described in the suit.

      So, Chrome specially let their tools track you adding the into secret white list, but not any competitor or site author. Typical monopoly thing.

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