Restricted file sharing to help its government chums

Fruity cargo-cult Apple has decided that it is much better to be on the side of the Chinese government, than it is on the side of its users.

Foxconn locked them in for two weeks

Workers are fleeing the Foxconn in China’s Zhengzhou and swearing that they will never return after being locked in for two weeks under China’s tough zero Covid policy.

Blames Covid and Putin

Cisco cut its full-year earnings forecast on Wednesday after COVID lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine dragged sales below estimates in the third quarter, sending shares down 13 per cent in extended trading.

Avoiding Corona crisis

Foxconn says that it has managed to avoid the worse of China’s draconian Covid crackdown in Kunshan city by moving production elsewhere.

Covid-triggered lockdowns to blame

China’s quarterly production of semiconductors shrunk for the first time since early 2019 as consumer electronics demand softened and Covid-triggered lockdowns in regions, including Shanghai, disrupted output.

Fortunately, they were not real

A cock-up in the programming department of the CDC resulted in more than 72,000 being reported dead of Covid.

A half of British adults visited

More than half of British adults visited a pornographic website or app in 2020 according to the media regulator Ofcom said.

You only had one job

The COVID-19 exposure notification app used in England and Wales failed to warn users if they were in close contact with potentially infectious COVID-19 patients.

Council of Europe warns

A report published today by the Council of Europe identifies a number of shortcomings in the protection of privacy and personal data in some of the legal and technical measures adopted by governments to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Temperatures still Ryzen

AMD announced the expansion of donations to assist 18 additional institutions in their fight against COVID-19.