Several government agency websites in Taiwan have been targeted by DDOs on Tuesday. Some websites, including those of the Taiwanese president, were taken offline as a result.

The Tor Project has started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the maintenance of the browser. The makers hope to raise $75,000 to fix bugs and maintain the platform.

The majority of ransomware infections on European companies and institutions are not reported to authorities. It is also unknown how many victims get infected and whether they pay the ransom. That would complicate the approach to ransomware.

Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg has permanently left Meta. It was already known that the top woman would leave sometime this year, but Sandberg has definitively no longer fulfilled the role since this week.

VMware has released a beta of virtualization software VMware Fusion that supports the ARM version of Windows 11 for Macs with Apple Silicon. The company added fast encryption to its virtual TPM chip, a graphics driver and network driver.

The Indonesian government has temporarily blocked the online services of Yahoo, PayPal, Steam, Epic Games and some other companies. The companies would not comply with local legislation requiring them to register with the government.

Lenovo plans to extend official support for Linux as an operating system to at least 36 platforms. Several systems in Lenovo’s L-series, E-series and Z-series are getting official Linux support.

Apple has seen a significant increase in service revenues in the past quarter. iPhones also continue to provide more earnings. Other products such as Mac computers, iPads and wearables underperformed.

Microsoft is changing the way it collects telemetry from European enterprise customers. Currently, the processor is determined via policies per device, but in the future this will be done via a single policy in Active Directory.

Amazon is shutting down its Drive cloud storage service. The company started this in 2011, but from the end of next year the service can no longer be used. Storage of photos and videos is automatically migrated to Amazon Photos.