768G SoC supports upgradeable drivers, claims 15% performance boost Gaming phones are an increasingly lucrative niche within the smartphone market, particularly in Asia, where vendors like Xiaomi’s Black Shark, ZTE’s Nubia, and Asus all vie for dominance. Catering to this segment is Qualcomm, which today rolled out the Snapdragon 768G platform.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Nintendo announced last week that Animal Crossing: New Horizons has sold over 13.41 million copies in its first six weeks. Animal Crossing: New Horizons is about as far as you can get from a communications super-app geared toward in-app sales or collaboration. From a report: In fact, as a franchise originally made for children, it…

The vehicle is designed to go to the moon and Mars, but first, its latest prototype needs to get some air. …read more Source:: CNet

Beginning Monday, 3.4 million high school students will sit down at desks — and in cars, on bedroom floors and anywhere they can find some quiet — and take Advanced Placement exams with the hopes of proving mastery of a range of academic subjects. From a report: The tests will look much different than in…

No one wants a panicked call or text alerting them that their site is down. Or worse, their site has been hacked. The best way to keep your site up, running, and protected is to constantly monitor it. We present the best tools we’ve found to keep things on track. …read more Source:: ZDNet

But you wanted floating windows? Sorry, too hard The Visual Studio Code team has released version 1.45 and is beginning to implement new features including binary custom editors for content such as images or audio files, as well as Notebook functionality, along the lines of Jupyter notebooks.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Pitney Bowes network infected with Maze ransomware, after the company hot hit by the Ryuk gang in October last year. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Bitcoin appears to be running out of steam just before one of the most anticipated milestones among cryptocurrency enthusiasts. From a report: The largest digital token tumbled over the weekend, declining about 13% to around $8,675. It rebounded to about $8,840 as of 10 a.m. in New York trading on Monday. The decline took place…

If an attacker can get his hands on a Thunderbolt-equipped device for five minutes, he can launch a new data-stealing attack called “Thunderspy.” …read more Source:: Threatpost

The banking trojan has upgraded and is seeing a resurgence on the back of coronavirus stimulus payment themes. …read more Source:: Threatpost