In the US, a new stage of confrontation between the authorities and TikTok has begun. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote letters to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook. In them, he demanded that TikTok be removed from the Google Play and App Store stores.

According to Carr, the application collects and transfers too much sensitive data, and then the program transfers them to Beijing. Carr noted that the application can save drafts, has access to search history, intercepts button presses, tracks biometrics, and also has access to text, images and videos on the clipboard.

“TikTok is not just an app for sharing funny videos and memes. This is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, ”the American official said. He also stated that a recent study showed that TikTok employees in China had access to the personal data of American users.

Stores were given until July 8 to remove the app or justify their refusal to do so. Note that this is not the first confrontation between the Chinese application and the US authorities. Previously, ByteDance companies wanted to ban transactions on TikTok.

The network has information that Microsoft Defender Antivirus can significantly reduce PC performance when running on a system running Windows 10 or 11 with an Intel Core processor from 8th to 11th generation.

It is reported that the antivirus sometimes crashes, which causes the application to occupy all seven hardware performance counters. Because of this, the performance of the system as a whole drops.

The problem was found by Kevin Glynn, who created the RealTemp and ThrottleStop utilities. He developed the Counter Control utility, which allows you to reset performance counters, thereby reducing resource consumption. The only alternative is to disable Defender.

If the Current Status section of the utility is set to Defender, then you only need to click the Reset Counters button to reset the performance counters. You can also do this automatically – you need to enable the Windows Defender Boost option in the utility, and then the reset will be performed by itself.

There is no official fix for Microsoft Defender yet. It’s also unclear if Microsoft is aware of this. Earlier it was reported that Microsoft Defender antivirus was released on iOS and macOS.

More and more details about Huawei Mate 50, the company’s new flagship, appear on the web. This time, the device was shown in the online store, thanks to which new details about the characteristics appeared.

If earlier it was said that the Kirin 9000s SoC would be used in the Mate 50, now it is talking about the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 – this platform was just expected. But at the same time, 5G support is also indicated. Apparently, it will be implemented using a third-party tool – a cover. Although, Huawei may present some kind of surprise in this regard.

Alas, no surprises are expected in terms of memory. More precisely, everything here is at the level of its predecessors – and even worse: the maximum RAM is only 8 GB. For the flagship, which will be a step above the P50, this is not enough. Potential smartphone buyers will not be spoiled with a large amount of flash memory either – either 128 or 256 GB. And this despite the fact that Honor 70 have 256 GB of flash memory already in the database.

The presence of a triple camera is also confirmed, the fingerprint scanner will be sub-screen. The Mate 50 is credited with a BOE AMOLED screen with a diagonal of about 6.3 inches, a resolution of 2800 x 1225 pixels and a frame rate of 120 Hz.