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Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users — Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately …
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| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it's resigning from W3C after the standards org voted for browser DRM, a move hostile to archiving, accessibility, security research, more — In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of Satya Nadella, who has stopped infighting, restored morale, and has led Microsoft over the past 3.5 years as its market cap increased by $250B+ — Microsoft's CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DoJ has opened a criminal investigation into three Equifax executives' stock sales that occurred days after the historic data breach was discovered — U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to lead probe alongside SEC — Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay Cash is coming in a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4 in the fall, not in the iOS 11 launch tomorrow — Apple today confirmed that Apple Pay Cash will be released as part of a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4. … Apple added a “Coming This Fall” label to Apple Pay Cash …
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| New York Times: |
Facebook and other tech giants are increasingly coming into conflict with governments around the world that are exerting greater control over the internet — On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Tez, a mobile payments app that uses ultrasonic sounds to let you exchange money, launching today on iOS and Android in India — After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia.
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Tweets: @mhbergen, @gadgets360, @pranavdixit, @spignal, and @ingridlunden
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Study: Apple may be overselling its differential privacy protections, which add noise to a user's info before it's sent to iCloud; Apple disputes the findings — FOR THE LAST year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data … | Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Slack raises $250M, largely from Softbank's Vision Fund, valuing the firm at $5.1B, up from $3.8B at the time of its April 2016 round — Workplace messaging app Slack has been valued at $5.1bn in its latest fundraising, which drew $250m from investors as the weight of cash in private markets continues … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How a slowdown in Moore's Law led to the rise of specialized chips like FPGAs and GPUs for AI and other applications in computing — New technologies are testing the limits of computer semiconductors. To deal with that, researchers have gone looking for ideas from nature.| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
SEC filing: Roku more than doubles its IPO target, hopes to raise up to $252M — Roku Inc. set a price range for its upcoming IPO that more than doubles the amount it hopes to raise in the offering and could increase its valuation by about a third. — The leading maker of streaming media players … | Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google has offered to auction off shopping ad spaces to rivals, to comply with EU's antitrust order; Google would set price cap for its own bids — Tech giant would bid against its competitors to display products for sale in the space above its general search results| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers will not stand for re-election in December; CEO Chuck Robbins will assume the role — Chuck Robbins has been the company's leader since July 2015 — Move cements Robbins's position as he tries to remake company — Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive … Sponsor Posts
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