Nearly two years after the United States launched a broad attack on Chinese tech giant Huawei, the campaign is showing signs of working. Huawei’s smartphone sales have collapsed outside of China, hurt by a U.S. export ban that prevents new Huawei phones from carrying the Google Play app store, which means many of the most […]
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People Can Fly shows off Outriders co-op campaign demo
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Publisher Square Enix and developer People Can Fly are releasing a demo of their Outriders RPG shooter today in advance of the game’s release on April 1. The demo is three hours, […]
Russian Campaign Promotes Homegrown Vaccine and Undercuts Rivals
Russian news outlets with connections to the Kremlin ran disingenuous Spanish-language stories targeting vaccines made in the United States and Europe, researchers said. Russian news outlets connected to election disinformation campaigns in the United States have set their sights on a new target: convincing Spanish-speaking countries that the Russian coronavirus vaccine works better than its […]
SolarWinds: UK assessing impact of hacking campaign
Getty Images UK security officials are trying to establish the extent of the impact on the UK of a major hacking campaign that threatened national security in the US. The attack, using US firm SolarWinds’ Orion platform, was discovered last week but has been going on for months. A number of organisations, including US government […]
PlayStation’s The Last of Us Part II campaign boosts game TV ad spending in June
Gaming industry TV ad spend jumped up to an estimated $ 18.7 million in June, an 81% increase from May’s $ 10.3 million, with PlayStation serving as the main driver of that growth. Together with Nintendo, the two brands have been the powerhouses of gaming industry TV spend so far in 2020. Looking at January […]
Twitter removes more than 170,000 accounts linked to Beijing-backed propaganda campaign
(Reuters) — Twitter on Thursday said it removed more than 170,000 accounts tied to a Beijing-backed influence operation that deceptively spread messages favorable to the Chinese government, including about the coronavirus. The company suspended a core network of 23,750 highly active accounts, as well as a larger network of about 150,000 “amplifier” accounts used to […]
Chinese Hackers Target Email Accounts of Biden Campaign Staff, Google Says
WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers are targeting the personal email accounts of campaign staff members working for former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Google said on Thursday, while confirming previous reports that Iran has targeted President Trump’s campaign. In disclosing the attempts, Google’s chief of threat analysis, Shane Huntley, who oversees the tracking of state-sponsored, […]
The “Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition” is a shock-and-awe campaign against reality
The Galaxy S20 Tactical Edition! It has a case. Samsung This picture probably best describes what’s going on. A Galaxy S20 goes in a case, and then the marketers take over. Samsung This photoshoot is incredible. Samsung You can use it with gloves! You can also use the regular S20 with gloves. Samsung Use it […]
The Technology 202: Trump campaign ads reignite concerns about census misinformation on Facebook
With Tonya Riley Figurines are seen standing in front of the logo of social network Facebook on a cracked screen of a smartphone in Paris. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images) Ctrl + N Facebook’s handling of a deceptive Trump campaign ad is sparking worries that the social […]
Iranians tried to hack U.S. presidential campaign in effort that targeted hundreds, Microsoft says
Jay Greene Reporter focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest October 4 SEATTLE — An effort believed to be tied to the Iranian government attempted to identify, attack and breach email accounts belonging to a U.S. presidential campaign, government officials and journalists, according to new data unveiled by Microsoft, highlighting the continued global security […]
Iranian Hackers Target Trump Campaign as Threats to 2020 Mount
SAN FRANCISCO — The 2020 presidential election is still 13 months away, but already Iranians are following in the footsteps of Russia and have begun cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the campaigns. Microsoft said on Friday that Iranian hackers, with apparent backing from the government, had made more than 2,700 attempts to identify the email accounts […]
Inside Chris Hughes’s campaign to break up Facebook, the tech ‘monopoly’ he helped create
Mark Zuckerberg, left, and Chris Hughes created Facebook together at Harvard University. Hughes has now become one of Facebook’s biggest antagonists. (Rick Friedman/Corbis News via Getty Images) July 29 at 2:48 PM SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has become one of the company’s biggest problems. In recent weeks, Hughes, who left the social […]
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare reveal: Old name, new campaign, new brutality
A familiar face, but Captain John Price returns to Call of Duty in an entirely new timeline and plot. Infinity Ward / Activision The rest of this gallery, sadly, is taken from levels that Activision and Infinity Ward did not show to members of the press ahead of today’s reveal. Thus, we can’t clarify exactly […]
MeToo founder Tarana Burke: Campaign now 'unrecognisable'
The founder of the MeToo movement has said that the campaign against sexual violence she began more than a decade ago has become “unrecognisable” to her. Speaking at TEDWomen in Palm Springs, Tarana Burke said a media backlash had framed the movement as a witch hunt. “Suddenly, a movement to centre survivors of sexual violence […]