IDC estimates global desktop shipments rose 7% YoY in 2021 after dropping sharply in 2020, as some remote workers who started on laptops switched to desktops (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

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Chief Justice Roberts says Judiciary Conference will review rules that led to a concentration of patent cases in a Texas court criticized by Apple and Google (Susan Decker/Bloomberg)

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US Transportation Secretary and head of FAA ask AT&T and Verizon to delay new 5G deployments, planned for January 5, over aviation safety concerns (David Shepardson/Reuters)

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Square Enix President Yosuke Matsuda issues a New Year's Letter indicating the company will pursue blockchain games and NFTs in 2022 (Paul Tassi/Forbes)

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A Y2K22 bug in Microsoft's FIP-FS anti-malware scanning engine appears to be stopping Exchange on-premise servers around the world from delivering email (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

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Sources: tax authorities conducted searches at some of India's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges after detecting tax evasion of around $7M at Binance's WazirX (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)

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PitchBook: supply-chain tech startups raised $24.3B in venture funding in the first three quarters of 2021, 58% more than all of 2020 (Jennifer Smith/Wall Street Journal)

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