From CNET: Microsoft has sued a cybercrime group in an effort to disrupt its alleged attacks on the public. The North Korea-based group used phishing emails and fake websites that pretended to come from the Windows maker to steal consumers' credentials, Microsoft says.

A court order has allowed the...

From Tom's Hardware: Some think success is the greatest revenge. If that's true, Huawei practically became vengeance personified this year, because the company reported a record-high revenue of $122 billion in 2019 despite U.S. government efforts to bring it down.

By now you've probably heard about...

From ExtremeTech: The international medical community was aghast last year when a Chinese scientists announced the first ever genetically engineered babies. He Jiankui and his team used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing tool to make two twin girls immune to HIV infection but did so without authorization...

From Tom's Hardware: In what seems to be an unprecedented move, even for Intel, Comet Lake might end up taking residence on not one, but two new sockets: Chip detective @momomo_us recently discovered a string in the latest version of CPU-Z that references the LGA1159 socket, which may complement the...

From TechCrunch: The holidays might be a time of slowed activity for most companies in the tech sector, but for SpaceX, it was a time to ramp production efforts on the latest Starship prototype – “Starship SN1” as it’s called, according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. This flight design prototype of...

From PC Mag: WhatsApp confirmed it'll end support for older versions of iOS and Android early next year.

In a security bulletin, the messaging platform revealed it'll no longer support iOS 8 or earlier and Android 2.3.7 or earlier. iOS 8 debuted five years ago, and Gingerbread arrived in December...

From Tom's Hardware: According to one Redditor, whose post was subsequently deleted, the specifications for a Radeon RX 5600 XT were posted for a brief moment, revealing some possible details about AMD's unreleased graphics card.

The Radeon RX 5600 XT reportedly features 2,304 Stream Processors...

From CNET: Security camera startup Wyze has confirmed it suffered a data leak this month that may have left the personal information of millions of its customers exposed on the internet. No passwords or financial information were exposed, but email addresses, Wi-Fi network IDs and body metrics were...