The Chinese government vowed to increase oversight of the nation’s beleaguered solar industry, which has suffered billions of dollars in losses as an over-abundance of manufacturing capacity slashes prices. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said in a statement that it would strengthen its guidance over the industry to help it solve urgent problems….
Example call graph of a simple Android app. Credit: Future Internet (2025). DOI: 10.3390/fi17050186 Researchers have discovered a modern solution to detect vault applications (apps) on smartphones, which could be a game-changer for law enforcement. The paper is published in the journal Future Internet. The analysis, led by researchers from Edith Cowan University (ECU) and…
Far too many companies in Hong Kong have left themselves vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to a new police review that should warn all operators to immediately step up their game. Regular security checks are required by law for private firms with infrastructure deemed “critical” for the normal functioning of society. The rules in place since…
Dataset collection and experimental environment This study employs an online experiment to investigate the impact of eco-positioning strategies on consumer behavior. For participant recruitment, the research team collected data through the SoJump platform. To ensure sample representativeness and experimental validity, random sampling was used to recruit participants from the platform’s user pool. Additionally, the following…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Fashion is found on runways, shop windows and the accounts of social media influencers. Until recently, Varun Grover, Distinguished Professor at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and other information systems researchers had considered fashion and technology uncomfortable bedfellows. “Most of the time when we talk about technology, we’re talking…
Chinese semiconductor developer Loongson Technology has released its next-generation of chips as part of a strategy to “enter new era of AI processors”, according to company statements. The new processors, designated 2K3000 and 3B6000M, share identical silicon but differ in packaging; one for industrial control applications and the other for mobile devices. Both integrate eight…
Credit: Junchen Zhou from Pexels Chinese EV maker Xiaomi said it would cooperate with a police investigation into a fatal crash involving one of its cars which had been in autonomous mode just before the accident. Three college students died on Saturday night after their Xiaomi SU7 hit a concrete barrier on a section of…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Some “unofficial” parental control apps have excessive access to personal data and hide their presence, raising concerns about their potential for unethical surveillance as well as domestic abuse, according to new research from UCL and St. Pölten UAS, Austria. According to some sources, up to 80% of parents use apps to…
It’s 10 p.m. — and you definitely know where your children are. Thanks to a proliferation of location-sharing apps, it’s become easy for parents, partners and pals to sneakily pinpoint the exact location of their loved ones at any moment — without them even knowing. Check your device: It’s likely these apps, like iPhone’s Find…
An example of the different types of IoT devices, physical objects that contain sensors and software that connect to the internet, that are coordinated to increase power grid resilience. Credit: Anu Annaswamy and Vineet Nair There’s a lot of untapped potential in our homes and vehicles that could be harnessed to reinforce local power grids…