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Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips — Researchers say they've discovered critical security flaws in AMD chips that could allow attackers to access sensitive data …
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| David Lawder / Reuters: |
Sources: Trump admin looking to impose tariffs on $60B of Chinese goods; tariffs would target tech products and telecoms but would not be limited to those — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump is seeking to impose tariffs on $60 billion of Chinese imports …
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
How conservative activists from Project Veritas use hoax job recruitment and seduction to catfish tech giants like Twitter; experts question legality — Mo Norai has worked in Silicon Valley for a decade. He's done stints at Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple, but only as a contract worker … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 59 arrives with faster page load times, better private browsing, and option to block sites from asking to send notifications or access device's location — Mozilla today launched Firefox 59 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The release builds on Firefox Quantum, which the company calls … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says YouTube will add Wikipedia information to videos about popular conspiracy theories within weeks to provide alternate viewpoints — Pushing back on crazy theories — YouTube will add information from Wikipedia to videos about popular conspiracy theories … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Amazon retains top spot in annual Harris reputation poll of corporate brands, Apple drops from 5th to 29th, Google drops from 8th to 28th — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google corporate brands dropped in an annual survey while Amazon.com Inc maintained the top spot … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2018 will be held June 4-8 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, opens registration — Apple has officially announced dates for its annual developer conference where it is expected to unveil iOS 12, macOS 10.14, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12.
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| IMF Blog: |
IMF head Christine Lagarde shares a plan to regulate cryptocurrencies through Know Your Customer requirements that combine biometrics and machine learning — Versions in (Arabic), (Chinese), Français (French), (Japanese), Português (Portuguese), (Russian)
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Station, a public network of free WiFi hotspots in high-traffic locations, is launching in Mexico with 60+ hotspots and 100+ planned by year's end — Google's Station WiFi is no longer reserved for the eastern hemisphere. As of today, the public hotspots are available in over 60 …
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out voice-triggered Google Assistant routines for smart home devices including six predefined ones like “I'm home”, after announcing it in Oct — We've been hearing about Google Assistant's routines for months now. Cody first discovered them in a Google app teardown …
| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Court filings: women at Microsoft working in US-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints of gender discrimination or sexual harassment from 2010-2016 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Women at Microsoft Corp working in U.S.-based technical jobs filed 238 internal complaints …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Facebook is aiming to launch a news section for its Watch platform this summer and is testing different video partnerships with roughly ten publishers — Facebook is getting ready to launch a news section for its Watch platform and it's testing different video partnerships with roughly 10 publishers, Axios has learned.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Fitbit launches its second mainstream smartwatch, Versa, for $200, and the first fitness wearable for kids, Ace, for $100; both available for preorder today — Fitbit has announced new wearables Fitbit Versa, which runs the upcoming Fitbit OS 2.0, and Fitbit Ace. Both are available for preorder today.
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| Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
In collaboration with Ubisoft, Google launches Agones, an open source, multiplayer, dedicated game server hosting system built on top of the Kubernetes platform — In the world of distributed systems, hosting and scaling dedicated game servers for online, multiplayer games presents some unique challenges.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Binance announces it's developing a new blockchain called Binance Chain, which it hopes will facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange — Binance announced Tuesday that it is launching a public blockchain to facilitate the creation of a new decentralized exchange.
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Twitch announces Free Games With Prime, offering select PC games each month free to download for users of Twitch Prime, a service included with Amazon Prime — A bit of fun news for Amazon/Twitch Prime users: you're going to get some free games each month.
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Engadget, Digital Trends, Twitch Blog, The Verge, GeekWire, Game Informer, Mashable, Polygon, and Seeking Alpha
| Tom Miles / Reuters: |
UN human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar say that Facebook has played a role in spreading hate speech in the country — GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.
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| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sources: GM plans to start pilot program this summer that will allow car owners to rent out their vehicles through its Maven car-sharing service — Carmaker plots peer-to-peer pilot program starting this summer — Service could take on Turo and Getaround, potentially Tesla
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TechCrunch, Getaround, The Verge, Car and Driver BlogCar …, TechSpot, InvestorPlace, Mashable, and Engadget
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Let's Encrypt releases service securing HTTP connections via free “wildcard” certificates and the ACME v2 protocol to automate certificate request verification — In a victory for securing Web, anybody can now get a certificate valid for every site in a domain.| Sonya Dowsett / Reuters: |
Fashion chain Zara, owned by the world's largest clothing retailer Inditex, will introduce augmented reality displays in 120 stores worldwide starting April 18 — A CORUNA, Spain (Reuters) - Zara, the fashion chain owned by the world's biggest clothing retailer Inditex (ITX.MC) … Sponsor Posts
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