From CNET: After several US states moved to ban TikTok, some universities have followed suit, preventing access to the social media app on computers and Wi-Fi networks out of concern that the app reports user data to the Chinese government. 

Thus far, several universities in Alabama, Georgia and...

From The Verge: Now that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is back in the US, he has been released from federal custody. The New York Times and CNBC report the co-founder of the failed and allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange FTX was released on $250 million bail, secured by his parent’s home, ahead...

From ExtremeTech: The CES trade show takes place in a few weeks, and AMD’s CEO will be delivering the opening keynote. Dr. Lisa Su will take the stage in Vegas, and is expected to deliver the company’s vision for the future. That should include the highly-anticipated Zen 4 CPUs with 3D Cache, as...

From Forbes: Apple’s iPhone 14 launch has been far from smooth, with sales and stock issues and numerous bugs ranging from the bizarre to the serious. Now another major problem has struck owners.

Out of nowhere, large numbers of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max owners have suddenly started...

From The Verge: YouTube will be the new home of NFL Sunday Ticket, Google and the NFL announced, ending the months-long question of where the major broadcasting package would end up. NFL Sunday Ticket has been available in the US exclusively via DirecTV since 1994, but the satellite provider won’t...

From CNET: wo former top associates of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried have pleaded guilty to federal criminal fraud charges and are cooperating with investigators, prosecutors said Wednesday, the same day the disgraced crypto market entrepreneur was extradited to the US to face criminal charges of...

From ExtremeTech: Before Intel’s new Raptor Lake chips launched, we were impressed that someone could get a Core i9-13900K up to 6.2GHz with a liquid chiller. Now that level of performance has been shattered by the overclocking team at Asus. The team has successfully taken a 13900K over 9GHz...

From Forbes: AirTags are useful devices to help you locate your keys and other items. However, there has been some concern over AirTags being used for stalking—after all, it’s pretty easy to slip one into someone’s bag.

This was the subject of an article in The Washington Post, which found by...

From CRN: If Amazon Web Services grows sales at a similar rate in 2023 as it did in 2022, the cloud market share leader will surpass the $100 billion threshold next year.

In fact, even if AWS doesn’t grow cloud revenue as high in 2023 compared to over the past 12 months, the company could still...

From PC Mag: It looks like Twitter has dropped support for text message two-factor authentication (2FA) using Google Voice numbers.

According to 9To5Google(Opens in a new window), trying to confirm a virtual Google Voice number using 2FA results in an error message that says: “We cannot currently...