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Abandoned Popcorn Time apps had to be disabled to prevent a zombie army

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Stevie Bonifield is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

Remember Popcorn Time, the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA’s least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years, but the “Netflix of Piracy” software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot army. Researchers at Eye Security found the updater for a Popcorn Time fork called “Time4Popcorn” still running on tons of Windows, macOS, and Android devices located around the world, phoning home to now-abandoned web domains over unencrypted HTTP and running an outdated, insecure version of Chrome.

Eye Security’s Niels Teusink says the updater could have been used to install and run basically any kind of software with...

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US Government issues order to remove all DeepSeek products and third-party services developed using DeepSeek…

* US civilian federal agencies must immediately remove DeepSeek from government systems * Federal departments can no longer purchase DeepSeek products or affiliated services * Military and intelligence organizations remain excluded The US government has directed civilian federal departments to immediately eliminate DeepSeek artificial intelligence software and related services from their technology systems.