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Facebook has taken down content that spread lies in Israel against coronavirus vaccinations as the government seeks to drum up support for the programme.

Apple has temporarily shut all of its 53 stores in California, US, because of a coronavirus outbreak and 16 stores in the UK following restrictions introduced by the government in London.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TerraMaster launches U4-111 enterprise-class storage server. Bamboo Systems granted new patent. QNAP expands its switch portfolio. Datadobi and Wasabi announce a partnership. Excelero announces support for next-gen Intel Optane. WekaIO and Rancher partner on Kubernetes deployments. Clumio launches ransomware protection. Morpheus expands hybrid cloud self-service portfolio. JetStream DR for Azure VMWare Solution announced. (more…)

Cyberpunk 2077 has consistently been in the news for all the wrong reasons. The developers have now released a new patch to make the experience better for console players.

An investigation by Karnataka government into the violence at Apple supplier Wistron’s Kolar plant states that the Taiwanese contract manufacturer could not cope up with the rapid scaling up of manpower and breached several laws. The manpower at this plant, which assembles one iPhone model, rose to 10,500 workers from the permitted 5,000 in a short span of time.

Microsoft is designing its own chips to reduce dependence on Intel that powers the former’s server computers and Surface range of laptops, according to people familiar with the plans.

US district judge Amit Mehta hearing an antitrust case against Google filed by the US Justice Department and joined by many states has suggested a potential trial of September 12, 2023.

US prosecutors have charged a Zoom executive for disrupting video meetings commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown at the request of the Chinese government. Xinjiang Jin, 39, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of conspiring. Zoom said it fired Jin for violating company policies and has placed other employees on leave.

US on Friday said that it was adding dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology to a trade blacklist. The US Commerce Department said the action against SMIC stems from Beijing's efforts to harness civilian technologies for military purposes.

The Crucial P2 was released, and reviewed by our team, earlier this year. The drive is a standard M.2 NVMe SSD that is aimed at being low-cost with decent performance for entry to mainstream use cases (think email and web browsing). The initial release came in 250GB and 500GB capacities, with more promised to come. Now Crucial released 1TB and 2TB capacities in the P2, the latter of which we will be looking at in this review. (more…)