Notebook original design manufacturers (ODMs) were still impacted by Intel’s ongoing supply issues in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to DigiTimes , which also reported that CPU shipments in Q1 2020 will be up to 15% lower compared to Q4 2019.

DigiTimes reported on Friday that notebook makers experienced weaker-than-expected shipments in Q4 2019. The report attributed this to Intel’s CPU shortages,

After 10 years of support, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7 today. The company will no longer issue security updates, and Microsoft strongly recommends to update to its current operating system (OS), Windows 10 .

Those who don't update may be vulnerable to security flaws, and bugs won't be fixed. Technical assistance won't be available, and some games will also be discontinued.

The only Windows 7 machines that will continue to be supported are those in

Gartner and IDC both said yesterday that global PC shipments rose in the fourth quarter of 2019. They didn't agree on exactly how much the market grew--Gartner said it saw a 2.3% increase in shipments; IDC said it saw a 4.8% increase--but they did attribute that growth to the same factor. It turns out that Microsoft's decision to finally stop supporting Windows 7 was the push the PC market needed last year

According to a report from DigiTimes , Phison has "reportedly broken into the supply chain of Microsoft's Xbox," seemingly confirming industry speculation that the Taiwanese SSD controller vendor had secured a contract to provide components for the highly-anticipated Xbox Series X.

What does that mean for gamers? The possibility of PCIe 4.0 SSDs that could hit 7 GB/s of throughput and up to 8TB of capacity, though the latter isn't likely because it would

Microsoft released an app called Indexer Diagnostics on January 3 to let people find issues with Windows 10's search tool.

Windows 10's search tool suffered from numerous issues in 2019. Things started with SearchUI.exe having abnormally high CPU usage . Microsoft tried to fix that issue, but in the process it caused Windows Desktop Search to stop working entirely, and the builds it released afterwards didn't appear to make things much better.

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Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) has introduced a bill that seeks to prohibit U.S. intelligence agencies from sharing information with countries that use Huawei's 5G networking equipment, citing national security risks.

“The United States shouldn’t be sharing valuable intelligence information with countries that allow an intelligence-gathering arm of the Chinese Communist Party to operate freely within their borders," Senator Cotton said in a statement, as per CNBC . "I urge our allies around the

Researchers from the University of Lancaster in the UK have succeeded in their efforts to create a type of non-volatile flash memory that is as fast as DRAM but uses just 1% of the energy that modern-day NAND or DRAM memory needs to write bits of data. The memory is called UK III-V Memory, as reported by ElectronicsWeekly .

The power usage required is about 10 to the power of -17 Joules for a gate built on the 20nm lithographic

Researchers today revealed Cable Haunt , a security vulnerability that affects modems from numerous manufacturers, and said it could affect hundreds of millions of modems in Europe alone. Unfortunately, there's little consumers can do about the issue.

According to the researchers, hackers could exploit Cable Haunt to "intercept private messages, redirect traffic, or [participate] in botnets." It turns out the vulnerability itself is exposed to a local network, but due to "improper websocket usage" it can be