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| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft decries “stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments”, citing NSA, CIA leaks, reiterates points from its Feb. call for a “Digital Geneva Convention” — Early Friday morning the world experienced the year's latest cyberattack.
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| New York Times: |
Europol chief says 200K computers in 150 countries were affected by WannaCry ransomware, while experts warn that new wave of attacks next week is likely — LONDON — Security experts are warning that the global cyberattack that began on Friday is likely to be magnified in the new workweek …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Payments to the three Bitcoin addresses reportedly hardcoded in the WannaCry ransomware totaled just $26K by Saturday — As thousands of organizations work to contain and clean up the mess from this week's devastating Wana ransomware attack, the fraudsters responsible for releasing …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Lyft and Waymo confirm a deal was reached to collaborate on self-driving cars, which sources say will be through pilot projects and product development efforts — SAN FRANCISCO — As the race to bring self-driving vehicles to the public intensifies, two of Silicon Valley's most prominent players are teaming up.
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to release “The Legend of Zelda” for smartphones following “Animal Crossing”, which is slated to ship in the second half of 2017 — Nintendo plans to offer its game “The Legend of Zelda” for smartphones in the second half of the year …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Two experts say Gizmodo's phishing test for members of Trump's team may invite prosecution under CFAA — “Security test” sent to 15 officials, advisors, others skirts the edges of CFAA. — Earlier this week, the team at Gizmodo's Special Projects Desk published a report on how they …
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| Tess Townsend / Recode: |
Y Combinator President Sam Altman is considering running for governor of California as soon as 2018, former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown says — Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown says it's a possibility. — Y Combinator President Sam Altman might run for governor of California …
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| Andrew McMillen / New York Times: |
How Australia bungled its $36B broadband modernization effort that began in 2009, as the country now ranks #51 globally in internet speeds, behind Kenya — BRISBANE, Australia — Fed up with Australian internet speeds that trail those in most of the developed world, Morgan Jaffit turned …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Desmos' graphing calculator app for mobile and PC looks to upend TI's dominance in the market, integrates with standardized testing software — Desmos says online graphing calculator better for today's students — Silicon Valley startup Desmos Inc. is going after one of the oldest names in technology …
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| Evan Ackerman / IEEE Spectrum: |
Researchers teach drone to fly autonomously by incorporating an obstacle avoidance AI algorithm which was trained using data from 11.5K crashes — “Learning to Fly by Crashing,” a paper from CMU roboticists Dhiraj Gandhi, Lerrel Pinto, and Abhinav Gupta, has such a nice abstract that I'll …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Silk Ventures debuts a new $500M fund, backed 50% by Chinese government, to invest in European and US startups from Series-A upwards — European and U.S.-based tech ‘scale-ups’ with Asia ambitions, rejoice. Outing today is a new $500 million VC fund from Silk Ventures, and backed in part by the Chinese government.
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| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Snap's disappointing earnings report and stock tumble send a warning to other unprofitable IPO-bound tech companies — SAN FRANCISCO — A day after Snap posted a $2.2 billion loss and decelerating user growth in its first earnings report as a public company, the repercussions started spreading through … Sponsor Posts
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