creepy Android virus, erotica in Odnoklassniki and the Russian analogue of YouTube
Ban on selling gadgets without RuStore
The State Duma is discussing the following idea: to ban the sale of smartphones that do not allow the use of the domestic RuStore app store. And in general, they plan to ban discrimination against Russian applications in the App Store and Google Play. The corresponding bill has already been introduced, and this means that the clouds are slowly beginning to thicken over iPhones.
The fate of the bill is still unknown. What are your predictions?
Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this in more detail.
Odnoklassniki has learned to find (and hide) erotica
Now the social network can independently recognize images and GIFs that users consider erotic. To do this, the OK team had to conduct a whole study, they found out what people think porn spicy content and what they would not want to see anymore. Such images will be automatically blurred.
But don't worry, if you're tempted to watch 18+, you can click on the image and watch it anyway.
Gazeta.ru tells in more detail.
Android Trojan attacks users of Samsung, Xiaomi, Vivo and Huawei
The virus bears the sonorous name Rafel. It completely takes control of the device: it can steal data, clear call logs, delete the contents of SD cards, like exesintercept notifications, etc. But there is good news: almost 90 percent of hijacked devices worldwide were running older versions of Android that do not receive updates.
Details and statistics in English.
Microsoft No Longer Floods Its Servers
In 2016, Microsoft had an idea to install data centers in the seas and oceans. They said that they could save on cooling and maintenance. In 2018, the idea was implemented: 864 servers were installed off the coast of Scotland. And now, 8 years later, they decided to close the project. Only the corporation's top brass and, perhaps, Neptune know why.
Read more about this in Lenta.ru.
Google Translate Learns Udmurt, Chechen, and Buryat Languages
In total, 110 languages were added to the service, and now there are 243. Why do we need to know this – I don’t know, but it’s cool. In the list of new ones you can also find Chuvash, Chukchi, Yakut, Ossetian, Avar and many other languages of the peoples of Russia and the world. The system was trained using the PaLM language model.
RBC tells about this in detail.
An analogue of YouTube was presented in Russia
It's called an analogue of video hosting “Platform”and it was developed by the guys from the Rteam company. They say that the interface and functionality are “close” to YouTube. There are all sorts of gadgets for bloggers, you can upload videos up to 4K, you can add subtitles to them. There will be their own “shorts” and their own moderation system – so that no one violates Russian legislation. In general, a complete set.
What do you think? Viable?
TASS journalists attended the presentation.
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