In an interesting revelation that could give us some insight into how Intel's processor and storage roadmaps converge, even if forcibly, the company's Technical Marketing Performance Engineer Frank Ober recently posted to Twitter that the next-gen Optane SSDs would support the PCIe Gen 4.0 interface.

From what we can glean from the posts, Ober has already sampled

Most security measures are meant to defend against remote attacks. People are told to use strong passwords, limit the information they share about themselves online and refrain from opening files received in suspicious emails. BusKill , a USB "kill cable" developed by Michael Altfield, is more about physically securing a device.

Altfield provided the instructions for setting up BusKill with a Linux notebook on his blog. (Shout-out to ZDNet .) Here's how Altfield described BusKill's purpose:

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The U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security announced yesterday that it would restrict the export of artificial intelligence-related technologies beginning January 6. That might seem like bad news for the American tech industry, but it's actually not as bad as it could've been, because right now the restrictions only apply to geospatial imagery.

Those restrictions won't prohibit U.S. tech companies from exporting AI products related to geospatial imagery outright. The rules allow for the export

People were convinced that computers would stop working in 2000. The so-called Y2K bug was expected to result in massive problems for communication, financial and other systems around the world. That didn't happen--most of the technical problems caused by the new millennium were minor. Now it seems that similar issues are occurring two decades later in systems that weren't prepared for 2020.

The New York Times reported that New York parking meters

The Wi-Fi Alliance released a publication this week announcing a new term for certain Wi-Fi 6 devices. While Wi-Fi 6 devices come with an abundance of performance upgrades, Wi-Fi 6E devices include the additional perk of 6 GHz band support.

Devices labeled with Wi-Fi 6E will come with all of the performance expectations of Wi-Fi 6 devices. When announcing the Wi-Fi 6 standard in September, we detailed these performance upgrades which include 1

Europeans have enjoyed better privacy regulations than Americans since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in May 2018. That started to change on January 1, however, because the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) officially went into effect on the first day of the new roaring '20s.

California passed the CCPA in June 2018. Much like the GDPR, these new regulations are meant to give Californians more control over their personal data,

Keeping up with the latest PC technology is difficult, but it’s overwhelming if you don’t understand all the jargon you encounter when reading articles and spec sheets. From CPUs to GPUs and their inner workings, to motherboards and their varying parts , different display technologies and types and vendor-created phrases, you can wind up in tech terminology turmoil.

That's why we have developed this handy glossary. With the information below, you can learn the meaning of—

If anyone cares more about millisecond-long delays than gamers, it's developers. They know a millisecond can make a big difference in how a game plays. That's bad news for Google Stadia because devs recently claimed an issue with the Linux kernel scheduler can lead to issues in games ported to the platform.

A developer named Malte Skarupke publicized the problem on Monday. Skarupke explained how he became aware of the issue and his efforts to address it in a blog post (shout