The Event Horizon Telescope captures one of the most powerful objects in existence. And basically, it’s the Eye of Sauron. …read more Source:: CNet

Qi whiz! You’ll never believe where these phone-charging pads are showing up. …read more Source:: CNet

Microsoft has been working with a Chinese military-run university on AI research that could be used for surveillance and censorship. From a report: Three papers, published between March and November last year, were co-written by academics at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing and researchers with affiliations to China’s National University of Defense Technology (NUDR), which…

News only spoiled by fact it was a complete waste of time US lawmakers approved a net neutrality bill on Wednesday that would repeal the repeal of rules that would force ISPs to treat all internet content equally.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Market share statistics from research firms Gartner and IDC suggest that the Windows 10 refresh in Q1 helped offset supply constraints from CPU shortages. …read more Source:: ZDNet

That’s almost a hundred BEEEELLION dollarydoos Semiconductor sales by Chinese manufacturers are said to have reached ¥653.2bn in 2018 – that’s about $97.3bn, or around 20 per cent of global semiconductor revenue for the year ($476.7bn).… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Bill takes aim at all the tricks Facebook uses to convince people to give up their personal data, and all the games that addict kids. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Sixteen months ago, researchers reported an unsettling escalation in hacks targeting power plants, gas refineries, and other types of critical infrastructure. Attackers who may have been working on behalf of a nation caused an operational outage at a critical-infrastructure site after deliberately targeting a system that…

Malware campaign, which finds and exfiltrates a user’s contact list and banking credentials, could potentially grow to global proportions. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Sen. Ted Cruz criticizes the tech giants for a “lack of transparency.” …read more Source:: CNet