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Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips — 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, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, CyberScoop, and ServeTheHome
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| 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
More: Nvidia Newsroom, The Register, TweakTown, Decrypt, Supervised, Tom's Hardware, TechEBlog, Neowin, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, AnandTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, HotHardware, CNBC, Appuals.com, Guru3D.com, Wccftech, and Reuters
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube plans to stop showing users recommended videos in some places when watch history is turned off entirely, including the homepage — Recommended videos keep users engaged on YouTube, but starting today, YouTube will stop showing recommended videos in some places, such as the homepage …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Neowin, XDA Developers, Engadget, and gHacks Technology News
| 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 …
More: Vim announcement maillist on Google Groups, TNW, HackRead, Jan van den Berg, The Verge, The Register, The New Stack, and Stack Diary
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Forums: Hacker News, news.ycombinator.com, r/programming, r/linux, r/vim, r/opensource, r/emacs, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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.| 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.
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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.
More: INTERPOL, Group-IB, and The Register
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Verizon is sunsetting BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app acquired in 2020, starting on August 31, 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 has announced that its …
More: The Verge, The Register, Neowin, and TechCrunch
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| 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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X: @hugh_son. LinkedIn: Adam Aderton. Forums: Hacker News, r/economy, r/amcstock, r/technology, and r/GME
| 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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CEO David Risher says the company is trying to end surge pricing as “riders hate it”; rides with 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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| 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.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
NetChoice and the 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 Jan. 1.
More: Social Media Today, New York Post, and Fortune
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based developer environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and 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 …
More: Google for Developers Blog, Neowin, WinBuzzer, 9to5Google, Thurrott, and IT Jungle
X: @rajtalker, @bb_fresh, @googledevs, @mkobuolys, @romannurik, and @auchenberg
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Sources: Bengaluru-based fantasy sports app Mobile Premier League, valued at $2.2B, cuts ~50% of its staff, after India announced a 28% online gaming tax — India's popular online gaming and fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League is reducing its staff by approximately 50% …
More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, The Economic Times, Inc42 Media, Business Today, Livemint, and Entrackr
| Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success — Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding …
X: @varshaabansal, @restofworld, @vickiturk, @restofworld, @russellbrandom, @restofworld, @anupkaphle, @restofworld, and @schoenmakersk. LinkedIn: Sophie Schmidt
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on cloud competitors, layoffs, AI, Nvidia, the Trainium and Inferentia chips, the Amazon Bedrock library of AI models, and more — Today, I'm talking with Adam Selipsky. He's the CEO of Amazon Web Services, or as it's usually called, AWS. AWS is quite a story.| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
A look at Def Con's White House-backed Generative Red Team Challenge, where contestants try to make AI chatbots go rogue; the results will be sealed for months — Chatbots can be biased, deceptive or even dangerous. Hackers are competing to figure out exactly how.| 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)| The Guardian: |
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
More: UK Electoral Commission, BBC, TechCrunch, NBC News, InfoRiskToday.com, SiliconANGLE, ITPro, HackRead, The Verge, PCMag, CyberScoop, Security Affairs, Silicon Republic, CSO, Tech Monitor, The Register, Engadget, Infosecurity, ComputerWeekly.com, Financial Times, Politico, PublicTechnology, OSnews, Metro.co.uk, Bloomberg, Reuters, and City A.M.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/worldnews, and Slashdot
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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