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India has decided to lift the ban on the popular media playback software, VLC, nine months after it banned the program.  VideoLAN had filed a legal notice on reasons why it had been banned by the IT and Telecom Ministries. A local advocacy group, Internet Freedom Foundation, supported VideoLAN's suit and pressured the government to lift the unreasonable ban. In a statement, the IFF said the "strange" ban went against the 2009 Blocking Rules laid down by the Indian Supreme Court, and the open-source software had been used by 80 million Indians. Following the ban, Indian telecom operators had begun blocking access to sites with links to download VLC. Read:  Elon Musk's SpaceX buys ad campaign on Twitter for Starlink VideoLAN president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf told Tech Crunch that India was its largest market for VLC and the ban had seen an 80% drop in traffic from the South Asian market. Security firm Symantec had reported that hacker...

HONG KONG: A new game released by "Genshin Impact" developer miHoYo this week has become China's top downloaded app, reflecting pent-up demand as gaming giants restart flagship launches with a crackdown on the industry easing. The blockbuster debut bodes well for several other games due to launch this summer in the world's largest video games market. As of Thursday, the Shanghai-based company's strategy Game "Honkai: Star Rail", where anime characters battle space monsters, had amassed 20 million download s across smartphones and personal computers, miHoYo said. The game scored more than 1.6 million downloads on smartphones in China within five hours after it was published on Wednesday, according to data firm App Magic, and had garnered 5.8 million downloads on smartphones worldwide. It has also become the most downloaded game on Apple's devices across 21 different markets including the US and Japan, according to another data firm SensorT...

Millions of Android users are being warned to check their phone for a string of apps which have been hijacked my malicious viruses. There are three main viruses currently using 19 apps to steal sensitive information and secretly sign up users to premium services, monetising the infection. One of the malware strains has already been downloaded more than three million times. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Because Android is an open source operating system, it can run any third-party app, unlike iOS. While this makes devices more customisable, it also leaves them open to harmful cyber attacks, with malware commonly hidden in the coding of seemingly harmless apps. According to the experts at MalwareFox, cyber criminals download real apps from the Google Play Store, and inject malicious viruses into the backend coding of those programs, before re-uploading them to the store under a new name. Malware is always adapting and finding new ways to inva...