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| Meltdown and Spectre: |
Official webpage for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which has links to research papers and an FAQ — Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data. Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs …
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Tweets: @attritionorg, @nicoleperlroth, @hacks4pancakes, @hacks4pancakes, @albertwenger, @agl__, and @dnvolz
| Spectreattack.com: |
Researchers wrote a Spectre attack in JavaScript that violates browser sandboxing and reads data from the address space of the browser process running it — Modern processors use branch prediction and speculative execution to maximize performance. For example, if the destination …
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Tweets: @_jonasschnelli_, @aras_p, and @jschauma
| Google Online Security Blog: |
Google's Project Zero says it discovered three variants of CPU attack, affecting AMD, ARM, and Intel; Android devices with latest security update are safe — Last year, Google's Project Zero team discovered serious security flaws caused by “speculative execution,” a technique used by most modern processors …
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| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
| Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: |
White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, will only allow use of government-issued devices — The White House is going to start barring employees from using their personal cellphones at work, press secretary Sarah Sanders said early Thursday.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 9 Series 9810 processor, likely to be used in Galaxy S9, and teases iPhone X-like features including face tracking and unlocking — Starting off the new year by introducing its latest custom smartphone processor, Samsung has revealed some of what we might expect from its next Galaxy S flagship.
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg says his personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing Facebook's “important issues” and the company makes “too many errors” enforcing policies — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @kantrowitz, @ericnewcomer, @kottke, @bendwalsh, @econ_marshall, @jwherrman, @jillianiles, @edmundlee, @franberkman, @mattyglesias, @mikeisaac, and @jyarow
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AT&T announces plans to start rolling out a true 5G network in 12 cities by the end of 2018 — AT&T has announced plans to roll out a true 5G network in a dozen markets in accordance with the 3GPP's recently released 5G NR (new radio) guidelines by the end of 2018.| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Reports suggest India's Aadhaar national ID database was breached, exposing information of ~1.2B Indians and allowing creation of admin accounts by other admins — In 2010 India started scanning personal details like names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile numbers, and more …
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The Tribune, Washington Post, Gizmodo, The Quint, The Guardian, The Tribune, BGR India, Firstpost, MediaNama, and BGR India
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Johnson Controls unveils $319 Cortana-powered thermostat called GLAS, which runs Windows 10 IoT Core; available now for preorder, ships in March — Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled …
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Windows Experience Blog, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, CNET, Windows Central, ZDNet, Engadget, TechSpot, On MSFT, and Mashable
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys predicts worldwide smart speakers sales will reach 56.3M in 2018, with 38.4M sales in the US, outpacing AR, VR, and wearables — Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over the holidays by discounting their hardware in order to gain market share. The reason?| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen reportedly owns 5.19B XRP tokens and a 17% stake in the company, valued at ~$59.9B after 36,000% increase in XRP value — - With Ripple's XRP coin hitting a high of $3.84, the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Chris Larsen, is now worth about $59.9 billion on paper.
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Forbes, Telegraph, Bitcoinist.com, Business Insider, The Independent, ValueWalk, ValueWalk, CoinSpeaker, Fortune, and Virtual Mining Bitcoin News. Tweets: @novogratz
| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
French startup Shadow to launch $34.95/month cloud game streaming service for Windows, macOS, and Android on Feb. 15 in California with one-year subscription — For all sorts of products we've irremediably blurred the lines between renting vs. owning, local vs. cloud — but are we ready to do the same for the PC?
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Gizmodo, The Verge, PCWorld, AppleInsider, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Polygon, and Blue's News
| New York Times: |
How Nvidia researchers generated pictures of faces that appear to be real but aren't by analyzing photos of celebrities and detecting patterns — To create the final image in this set, the system generated 10 million revisions over 18 days. — The woman in the photo seems familiar.
Tweets: @alexsteffen, @pnhoward, @rafael_parente, @cademetz, @nvidiaai, and @nvidiaaidev
| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Wealthfront raises $75M led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Benchmark, Greylock, Index Ventures, more, and says it has $9B+ under management — Wealth management startup gains new investor in funding round — Competition is growig as startups target milennials onlineSponsor Posts
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Intel:
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
Intel Delivers powerful CPUs for AI and Networking — With the onset of AI, businesses demand powerful and efficient CPUs. Explore new Intel Xeon 6 processors, for the broadest set of workloads with leadership performance and lower TCO.
Zoho:
What made Zoho “Sign” up for a paper-free future — Just a decade ago, when cloud-based software solutions were not commonplace, signing a document meant dealing with a printer, a scanner, and a courier service that never seemed to arrive on time.
What made Zoho “Sign” up for a paper-free future — Just a decade ago, when cloud-based software solutions were not commonplace, signing a document meant dealing with a printer, a scanner, and a courier service that never seemed to arrive on time.
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