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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips, that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
More: Downfall Attacks, Intel, Phoronix, Daniel Moghimi, SecurityWeek, Wccftech, Tom's Hardware, CyberScoop, and ServeTheHome
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” — After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV.
More: App Store, Ars Technica, Mashable, The Verge, Android Headlines, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, MacRumors, BGR, iThinkDifferent, TechRadar, Gizmodo, MobileSyrup, Cord Cutters News, Engadget, Droid Life, iMore, The Streamable, AppleInsider, Android Police, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024 — - Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62 — The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62. — Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals …
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| Nivesh Rustgi / Decrypt: |
El Salvador grants Binance licenses to offer custodial services, process crypto payments, provide digital wallets, and operate a digital asset exchange — Today, El Salvador's central bank and crypto regulator granted Binance a Bitcoin Services Provider License (BSP) and Digital Assets Services Provider license (DASP)| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve launches a program for overseeing banks' crypto activity and clarifies its pre-approval process for engaging with stablecoins — Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn't represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Fed expects from banks.| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total — - U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications.
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CEO says Lyft is trying to get rid of surge pricing because “riders hate it” and rides affected by surge pricing dropped 35% QoQ due to more driver supply — Lyft has been cutting fares in order to secure more riders, and it's working. Bu that success has come with a (literal) cost.| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Verizon is sunsetting BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app it acquired in 2020, starting August 31, 2023, due to “the changing market landscape” — Did you know Verizon acquired a video conferencing app back in 2020? It's fine if you haven't because Verizon …
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol shutters Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages, compromising at least 70K people in 43 countries — A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
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The UK Electoral Commission reports a hack by “hostile actors” starting in August 2021 and discovered in October 2022; the full scope isn't “conclusively” known — Names and addresses of 40 million registered voters were accessible as far back as 2021 after cyber-attack
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based dev environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and that integrates Google's PaLM 2-based Codey — Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment …
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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September — - Ryan Salame was the co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets — Salame would be fourth former FTX executive to plead guilty
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube will stop showing users recommended videos in some places, including the homepage, when watch history is turned off entirely — Recommended videos keep users engaged on YouTube, but starting today, YouTube will stop showing recommended videos in some places, such as the homepage, if your watch history is turned off entirely.
More: Android Authority, The Verge, gHacks Technology News, Neowin, XDA Developers, and Engadget
| Catherine Perloff / Adweek: |
Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers — What was once in-stream ads are now skippable ads — Google changed the name of one of its video formats …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Messages with group end-to-end encryption and turns RCS on by default for new and existing users, but some have to agree to their carrier's ToS — After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too.
More: Android Authority, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup, BGR, Phone Scoop, Engadget, PCMag, ZDNet, CNET, Android Central, Android Police, and The Verge
| Reuters: |
NetChoice and Chamber of Progress back TikTok's lawsuit to stop a Montana law that is set to ban the use of the app on January 1, 2024 — Two tech groups on Monday backed TikTok in its lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a Montana state ban on use of the short video sharing app before it takes effect on January 1.
More: Social Media Today, New York Post, and Fortune
| Wall Street Journal: |
EchoStar co-founder Charlie Ergen strikes a deal to merge Dish and EchoStar, a move aimed at getting the funds for a wireless network to rival AT&T and Verizon — Deal aims to give Dish the financial flexibility it needs to compete in the next generation of wireless| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Singapore-based Endowus, which operates a digital wealth management platform, raised $35M from Citi Ventures, MUFG, and others, taking its total funding to $95M — Back in 2021 and early 2022, there was a flurry of VC interest in Southeast Asian investment apps.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Google and UMG are in talks to license artists' melodies and voices for AI-made songs; goals include making a tool for fans and paying copyright owners — New technology that can mimic artists' voices has been seen as growing threat — Google and Universal Music are in talks … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Unity is releasing some of Wētā FX's 2D and 3D tools, including Wig 1.0 for simulating hair and fur, into public beta under its new Unity Wētā Tools division — Unity is releasing some of the specialist 2D and 3D tools from Weta FX — the visual effects company behind …
More: SIGGRAPH 2023, Unity on YouTube, and Variety
| Alex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: |
India-based Credgenics, which provides an online service to help banks collect on debt, raised $50M led by Accel and Westbridge Capital at a $340M valuation — - It raised $50 million in funding round led also by WestBridge — The startup aims to expand to Southeast Asian countries
More: The Economic Times, VCCircle, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, Inc42 Media, and Tech in Asia
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
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