The distributed denial of service attack that hit Telegram Wednesday came from China, the secure messaging app’s founder said. Pavel Durov’s tweet suggested that the country’s government may have done it to disrupt protests in Hong Kong. In a DDoS attack, an online service gets bombarded with traffic from networks of bots, to the point …

China’s ambassador to the UK has warned Britain’s government that barring the use of Huawei equipment from the country’s 5G network could hurt trade relations and investment. It’s yet another twist in the international relations saga as the US puts pressure on its allies to avoid dealing with the telecommunications equipment maker. “It will send a very bad message not …

Apple is reportedly prepared if the US-China trade war forces it to move production outside China. Its Taiwanese manufacturing partner Hon Hai Precision Industry (better known as Foxconn) can make enough iPhones to meet the needs of Apple’s US market outside China if needed, according to Bloomberg. Most iPhones are currently produced in China, but Foxconn semiconductor division chief Young …

A San Francisco Bay Area man reportedly used Snapchat’s gender swap filter to take down a police officer allegedly looking for an underage hookup on Tinder. Ethan, a 20-year-old college student, took a photo of himself and used the feature to pose as a teenage girl named “Esther” as way to hunt predators, NBC Bay Area reported Tuesday.  The fake profile …

Huawei is reportedly giving itself more time to overtake Samsung as the world’s biggest phone-seller. The scandal-scarred Chinese company took the No. 2 spot from Apple in the second quarter of 2018, and CEO Richard Yu previously said it aimed to become the world’s largest phone vendor by the end of 2019. Its chief strategy officer revised that goal in …

Google apparently has warned the Trump administration that its Huawei ban could endanger US national security. The search giant’s senior executives are pushing for an exemption from the Huawei blacklisting that basically banned US companies from doing business with the Chinese company, according to the Financial Times, which cited three anonymous sources. Now playing: Watch this: What is going on …

Facebook has slapped Huawei with yet another ban by no longer letting the embattled Chinese phone marker preinstall its apps. Huawei phone owners will still be able to download and update Facebook’s apps, but fresh Huawei devices can’t come with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram apps preinstalled, as previously reported by Reuters. “We are reviewing the Commerce Department’s final rule and …

Huawei‘s inked a deal to help with Russia’s 5G network. The embattled Chinese telecom will work with Russian counterpart MTS to develop the country’s next-generation cellular network over the next year. Huawei Chairman Guo Ping and MTS boss Alexei Kornya signed the agreement in the Kremlin on Wednesday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping watching. “We …

China approved 5G licenses for a quartet of state-owned bodies on Thursday, winning investment in vendors like Huawei, a report said. Carriers China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, as well as broadcaster China Broadcasting Network Corporation, got the licenses, according to Reuters. The carriers were given trial licenses at the end of 2018, but Thursday’s announcement lets them begin …

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers on Sunday reversed restrictions it had slapped on Huawei last week, letting the Chinese company’s scientists review its papers once again. “Our initial, more restrictive approach was motivated solely by our desire to protect our volunteers and our members from legal risk,” the US publisher wrote in its statement. The IEEE, which publishes …