In an act that has led to him being labelled a grifter, US President Donald Trump has suggested that the US should get a cut from the price paid for social media company TikTok "‘because we’re making it possible for this deal to happen".

The well-known American company Xerox appears to have taken a hit from a gang of cyber criminals who have used the Maze ransomware, that attacks only Windows systems, to steal data from the firm which they have then posted on the dark Web site of the group that owns the ransomware.

More than a month after cyber criminals claimed to have attacked the website of South Korean electronics giant LG Electronics using the Windows Maze ransomware, data stolen from the site has been published on the dark Web site of the ransomware group.

Global shipments of tablets reached 37.5 million units in the second quarter of 2020, a rise of 26% despite the ongoing pandemic, the technology analyst firm Canalys reports, adding that demand came from home users and office workers who needed access to basic computing power and larger screens in order to work from home or else to learn or entertain themselves.

Chinese telecommunications equipment vendor Huawei Technologies on Tuesday brought to mind the prediction made by Linux creator Linus Torvalds back in 2002: "There are three things that have meaning for life...The first is survival, the second is social order and the third is entertainment. Everything in life progresses in that order. And there is nothing after entertainment." Sam Varghese takes a first look at P40+ Pro 5G smartphone just released in Australia.

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