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| Chris Baraniuk / BBC: |
WannaCry ransomware attacks reportedly spotted in 99 countries on Friday, including UK, US, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, and Taiwan — A massive ransomware campaign appears to have attacked a number of organisations across Europe. — Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers …
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| Troy Hunt: |
Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware — I woke up to a flood of news about ransomware today. By virtue of being down here in Australia, a lot happens in business hours around the world while we're sleeping but conversely, that's given …
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| Damien Gayle / The Guardian: |
Multiple hospitals across UK hit by ransomware attack, locking staff out of their computers and forcing hospitals to divert emergency patients — Many hospitals having to divert emergency patients, with doctors reporting messages demanding money … Hospitals across England have been hit …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Hackers are using EternalBlue vulnerability discovered by NSA and an exploit released by Shadow Brokers to infect unpatched Windows computers with WannaCry — A new strain of ransomware has spread quickly all over the world, causing crisis in National Health Service hospitals and facilities around England …
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| Phillip Misner / MSRC: |
In response to WannaCry attacks, Microsoft issues security update for older Windows versions, including Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003 — Microsoft solution available to protect additional products Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend …
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| The Guardian: |
Cybersecurity researcher @MalwareTechBlog accidentally finds kill switch to stop spread of WannaCry malware by registering domain hardcoded into malware — Expert who stopped spread of attack by activating software's ‘kill switch’ says criminals will ‘change the code and start again’| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Google's Project Treble in Android O tries to make vendor and carrier updates easier by separating vendor specific implementations from the higher levels of OS — How Google can build one update that works everywhere. — In March 2016, when the Android N developer preview was released, we noticed something was different.
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| Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Magic Leap quietly settles sex discrimination lawsuit; sources say the company is raising a new financing round, led by Alibaba again, at $6B to $8B valuation — Despite its critics, the secretive startup is raising more cash in its quest to be the Apple of augmented reality. — Hi Backchannel readers.
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Apple awards Corning a $200M investment from its new Advanced Manufacturing Fund; the money will go toward R&D, capital equipment, and glass processing — $200M Investment Supports Revolutionary Glass Production Methods — Harrodsburg, Kentucky — Apple today announced Corning Incorporated … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Samsung and Intel file amicus briefs against Qualcomm, supporting FTC's antitrust action — Samsung says Qualcomm stops it from selling modems to others — South Korean firm is one of biggest users of Qualcomm chips — Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. weighed in with their own gripes … | Mike James / I Programmer News: |
Fraunhofer, the major contributor to MP3, shut down its licensing program in April as MP3 patents expired — Red Hat has announced that Fedora will include official MP3 decoding and encoding. The reason is that MP3 is now patent free - as far as anyone can tell.| David Faber / CNBC: |
Sources: Spotify, valued at $13B, plans direct listing on the NYSE in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018; Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Allen & Co. are advising — - Spotify expected to go public as a direct listing on the NYSE between Q4 2017 and Q1 2018, according to sourcesSponsor Posts
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