Pavel Jelic Something is always happening in the world of information technology, and it doesn't matter if it's the coronavirus or something else. Progress, especially technological progress, simply cannot be stopped. We hereby welcome you to today's regular IT summary, in which we will look together at three interesting news that happened today and over the weekend. In the first news we will look at a new computer virus that can rob you of all your savings, then we will look at how TSMC stops making Huawei processors and in the third news we will look at the sales of the electric Porsche Taycan.
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A new virus is spreading on computers
The Internet could be compared to a proverb a good servant but a bad master. You can find countless different and interesting information on the Internet, but unfortunately, from time to time some virus or malicious code appears that can attack your device. Although it may have seemed that computer viruses have subsided recently, and that they no longer appear so much, a rather hard blow has come in recent days that convinces us of the opposite. Just in the last few days, a new computer virus, namely ransomware, named Avaddon, has started to spread. Cyber security company Check Point was the first to report on this virus. The worst thing about the Avaddon virus is how quickly it spreads between devices. Within a few weeks, Avaddon made it into the TOP 10 most widespread computer viruses in the world. If this malicious code infects your device, it will lock it, encrypt your data, and then demand a ransom. It should be noted that Avaddon is sold on the deep web and hacker forums as a service that literally anyone can pay for - just point the virus correctly at the victim. It should be noted that after paying the ransom in most cases the data will not be decrypted anyway. You can protect yourself against this virus both with common sense and with the help of an antivirus program. Just don't visit sites you don't know, don't open emails from unknown senders, and don't download or run files that look suspicious.
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TSMC stops making processors for Huawei
Huawei is plagued by one problem after another. It all started a few years ago, when Huawei was supposed to collect various sensitive and personal data of users through its devices, in addition, Huawei is accused of espionage, due to which it has to pay US sanctions, for more than a year already. Huawei has simply been collapsing like a house of cards lately, and now there's been another stab in the back - specifically from tech giant TSMC, which made processors for Huawei (the company also makes chips for Apple). TSMC, specifically chairman Mark Liu, has hinted that TSMC will simply stop supplying chips to Huawei. Allegedly, TSMC took this drastic step after a long decision-making process. The termination of cooperation with Huawei occurred precisely because of American sanctions. The only good news for Huawei is that it can manufacture some of the chips in its devices itself - these are labeled Huawei Kirin. In some models, however, Huawei uses MediaTek processors from TSMC, which it will unfortunately lose in the future. In addition to processors, TSMC also produced other chips for Huawei, such as 5G modules. TSMC, on the other hand, unfortunately had no other option – if this decision had not been made, it would most likely have lost important clients from the United States. TSMC will deliver the last chips to Huawei on September 14.
The Huawei P40 Pro uses Huawei's own processor, the Kirin 990 5G:
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Porsche Taycan sales
Despite the fact that the electric car market is ruled by Tesla, which is currently, among other things, the largest car company in the world, there are other car companies that are trying to catch up with Musk's Tesla. One of these car manufacturers also includes Porsche, which offers the Taycan model. A few days ago, Porsche came up with an interesting report in which we learn more about how sales of this electric car are doing. So far, according to available information, around 5 units of the Taycan model were sold in the first half of this year, which represents less than 4% of the total sales of the Porsche car manufacturer. The most popular car from the Porsche range is currently the Cayenne, which has sold almost 40 units, followed by the Macan with sales of almost 35 units. Overall, Porsche's sales fell by just 12% compared to last year, which is an absolutely great result considering the raging coronavirus and compared to other automakers. Currently, Porsche sold almost 117 thousand cars in the first half of this year.
Porsche Taycan:
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