From The Verge: Huawei has demoted and cut the pay of two of its employees after an iPhone was used to send a New Year’s greeting from the company’s official Twitter account. In a memo seen by both Reuters and Bloomberg, the company’s corporate senior vice president Chen Lifang said that the...

From TechCrunch: Starwood’s data breach just got both better and worse at the same time.

Marriott, the parent company of hotel chain giant Starwood, said it has revised down the number of customers affected by its recently disclosed data breach from 500 million to “fewer than 383 million unique...

From Tom's Hardware: According to a new report from a Japanese news source, Nvidia will manufacture its 2020 GPUs using Samsung’s 7nm EUV process. Late last month we also learned that IBM intends to build its 7nm Power processors on the same Samsung process.

Last October, Samsung announced that it...

From The Verge: An unknown person leaked German politicians’ credit card details, private communications, and other data last month — along with data from rappers and other media figures. The leak includes information from the office of Chancellor Angela Merkel and reportedly from people across all...

From CNET: The 5G NR Enhanced Gateway (DWR-2010) debuting at CES 2019 is D-Link's first entry into the buzzy 5G mobile broadband technology space. But you won't be able to get it until later in 2019.

D-Link claims download speeds of 2.8 gigabits per second or more (actually, it claims "40x faster...

From AnandTech: OWC on Thursday announced that it had acquired AKiTiO, creating one of the industry’s largest suppliers of storage and other peripherals aimed at professionals and prosumers. One of the key reasons why OWC decided to take over AKiTiO is the latter’s portfolio of products that...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today announced that the RT-AX88U WiFi router is now available at leading resellers. Featuring the latest 802.11ax Wi-Fi standard, which includes a variety of new technologies that improve WiFi speed and network capacity, RT-AX88U enables users to get cutting-edge...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today announced ASUS Mini PC ProArt PA90, a new series of compact, workstation-class PCs that deliver powerful, fast and stable performance for designers and content creators. Featuring 9th Generation Intel Core processors, NVIDIA Quadro graphics, up to 64GB of high...

From Forbes: Sales of CDs in the UK in 2018 amounted to 32 million units, that’s some 100 million fewer discs that were selling just 10 years ago in 2008, and a drop of 9.6 million year-on-year, according to a report from BBC.

The lack of space being given over to CDs in retail outlets, such as...

From CNET: Apple is pausing sales of some older iPhones in Germany during a patent fight with chipmaker Qualcomm.

On Dec. 20, the District Court of Munich found that Apple infringed Qualcomm's technology for power savings in smartphones and ruled that the iPhone maker must halt sales of the device...