Huawei, one company seemed to be impacted heavily due to US-China’s recent trade ban. While the US claiming the technology company to be sniffer of the Chinese government, China retaliated with imposing heavy tax duties on US imports. While all these being continued, Huawei, along with other companies have been banned from trading with US firms. Many believed this to impact Huawei, as stoppage of Google’s services on any Android smartphone will be of no use of them....

An analyst name Goldman Sachs estimated that if Apple is to be ban in China, it could lose 29% of its profits if China proceeds with the ban. China is responsible for 17% percent of Apple product sales, and such a ban could be awful news for Apple. All of this is just hypothetical as China doesn’t have to ban Apple for sure. However, banning them would be a statement to Trump and its administration that China won’t be bullied into decisions, and they can take a gutsy call as well....

Further, OEMs focusing on budget 5G handsets will further trigger the growth of sales, while overall smartphone shipments are expected to fall. 5G is expected to drive a number of sectors in India, including AI and self-driving cars. 5G Adoption in India India is one of the key markets for almost every tech OEM – due to its vast population and budget focus consumers. Smartphones are among them that are often sold in millions of units every year....

Searching by an image was an option a few years back, however, with a new API update in 2018, Instagram technically encrypted all the photos meaning you will face immense difficulty should you choose to find someone’s profile on Instagram using a photo and the reverse image search tools. Note that finding someone on Instagram with just a photo isn’t impossible but way difficult after an API update. Similarly, you can use the Instagram reverse image search feature to find if someone is using your images/photos or not which can be used for plagiarism or for any fraudulent activities....

As per Adam Mosseri, Instagram users can now use the music of any video to make a remix for their new video. However, to date, it’s only limited to Reels. Also, content creators can let people know of an upcoming life through a separate feed post, a story post, and a badge on their profile. Scheduling Live and Remixing Video Giving a tough competition to its rivals, Instagram is testing and rolling out new features almost every week this year....

The result isn’t public, since it was tested in a closed environment by a laptop manufacturer. The i9-12900HK is belonged to the Alder Lake family and comes with 14 cores and 20 threads, and 2.9GHz as the base frequency. Intel’s Best-Ever Productivity Chip For a long, Intel’s been the best and no.1 choice for many in the computer CPU segment. But lately, AMD is picking up in the budget segment, and Apple’s made its own M1 chip – making it tough for Intel in its own game....

New apps found in Playstore infected with Joker malware Joker malware has long been a persistent problem for many Android phones. The makers of it are highly sophisticated to sneak it stealthily into users’ phones via various means, especially through Google’s Playstore. Though Google removed about 1,700 apps containing it to date, they’re popping up with just new techniques every time. And now, a new report from Pradeo security revealed that about six apps named as Separate Doc Scanner, Fingertip GameBox, Push Message – Texting&SMS, Emoji Wallpaper, Safety AppLock, and Convenient Scanner 2 are reported to have infested with Joker malware and are infecting users devices upon installing....

He won the bid for providing internet connectivity to Michigan’s Washtenaw county, thus getting a fund of $2.6 million from the government to establish connections to nearly 600 homes. Here’s his story; Building Internet For Self to Many Jared Mauch works as a network architect for Akamai but has been bugged by the slow internet connection from AT&T. Since it’s pathetic, he approached Comcast to get his home pegged to a reliable fiber optic connection but was slashed with a cost of $50,000 to that service....

Helio G80 Specifications: The SoC is built on the 12nm node and offers an Octa-Core CPU with 2x Cortex-A75 cores clocked at 2.0GHz. While the other cluster works on 6x Cortex-A55 cores ticking at 1.8GHz. As we can see, G80 specs are quite similar to G70 but have a higher clock frequency. Other similarities between G70 and G80 are the Mali-G52 GPU, but the new chipset has a higher frequency. As the G70 clocks a maximum of 820MHz while G80 boasts up to 950Mhz GPU....

Microsoft Installs Office Apps Automatically Microsoft is already been criticised for forcing users to make its Edge browser default. Now, it’s found that not just the pushing of Edge is intrusive, but also installing apps without users permission. This happened with some users, and as observed by Windows Latest and BleepingComputer. They reported that Microsoft has updated its desktop’s Edge browser based on Chromium, which is now installing Office PWA apps without asking users any permission....

This is informed by the company along with a warning notice, as the Windows 11 22H2 may come with more bugs and be problematic. Thus, it’s advising testers to move into the Beta channel if they’re unprepared. Windows 11 22H2 Testing Windows 11 users running on the insider builds, heads up. Even before rolling out the stable version of Windows 11, Microsoft is internally working on the next version of it....

As announced by Microsoft, the new Teams app will provide faster performance on Mac MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, 24-inch iMac, and the Mac Studio run on Apple M1 or M2 chips. Till then, Apple users were forced to use Rosetta 2 compatibility layer for making the Teams app work on Apple chips-based computers. Microsoft Teams on Apple Computers For a long, Apple has been using Intel chips for all its computer line-up....

Microsoft’s “The New Windows” Update Windows 10 is undoubtedly the widest used PC platform today. Besides being simple and tweak-able, Microsoft rolls out regular updates to patch any security vulnerabilities and also to aid with new features. But, the design is where it has been lagging for years and is asked by the community for so long. And it’s coming. Microsoft is now marketing about the new UI changes coming to its Windows 10 OS, on the name of “The New Windows“....

Launch of Disney Plus last month has garnered over 10 million subscribers on the first day alone. That’s enough popularity for the entertainment company, as it’s running successfully with hit shows as Simpsons, High School Musical etc. The Mandalorian with its Baby Yoda is swirling sweetly on every social media to garner even more fans every week. Even with that hit, Disney is now serving Linux users as it restricted its DRM cores only to run on Android and iOS services....

Google launched the vanilla Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro earlier, which came with a lot of fingerprint sensor issues that didn’t settle even after a few firmware updates. So compared to them, the upcoming Pixel 6a’s fingerprint sensor is a welcoming part. Pixel 6a Fingerprint Sensor As expected, Google launched the stripped-down Pixel 6 variant – Pixel 6a at the I/O event last month. While we’re waiting for them to be publicly available, some units made their way to Malaysia, and some YouTubers have already reviewed them!...

While it restored the systems and running as usual now, the ransomware group behind this incident – identified as Ragnar Locker, has posted screenshots of the stolen data on its site. Now, it threatens to leak a dump of 1.5TB data soon! ADATA hit by a Ransomware Attack Usually, most companies don’t report the cyberattacks they face, as they could degrade their value. But, they show up shamelessly once the adversary behind the incident whistleblow the attack....

Targeting Servers Rather Than Workstations It’s common that Ransomware groups, just like any other, shift to new strategies to make their work successful. Since last year, they have adapted to a double extortion strategy after being started by the Maze group to steal sensitive data before encrypting the systems to threaten them into paying the ransom. While this worked till today, some companies aren’t bothering and are now either backing up or remedying the attacked situations anyway....

CompuCom Restoring Expenses CompuCom, a subsidiary of ODP Corporation and the provider of IT MSP services to several known companies like Citibank, Home Depot, Target, Trust Bank, and Wells Fargo, was hit by a ransomware attack last month. The threat actor behind this was the DarkSide ransomware group, which managed to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons. These beacons planted across CompuCom’s network let the ransomware group steal unencrypted data and encrypt all the connected systems....

Reverb.com Disclosed Data Breach Reverb is a popular marketplace for buying and selling musical instruments, even if they’re vintage. In a sudden intimation to its community, the platform on Monday started sending email notifications to its customers about a data breach incident it suffered this year. The notification said the customers’ information like their names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses were exposed through a database, which has been secured immediately after realizing....

The City Hack The city’s government services were under attack on December 13th this year. This was found when Kim LaGrue, the city’s Chief Information Officer revealed to press about the hack when they found suspicious activity happening in their systems at 5 AM on 13th December. After three hours, the situation of suspicion was confirmed when their employees started accessing their respective systems. This was soon informed to Federal for help and the entire city’s servers were closed to jeopardize the hack....