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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: |
Source: 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 … | 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 … | Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Annual Harris reputation poll of corporate brands says Amazon retained the top spot, Apple dropped from 5th to 29th, while Google dropped 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 … | 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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MacRumors, Android Police, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, iMore, Ubergizmo, Engadget, CNET, Cult of Mac, and Seeking Alpha
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| 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 … | 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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| 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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Apple, VentureBeat, Business Wire, Macworld, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Softpedia News, iLounge, iPhone Hacks, PhoneDog.com, 512 Pixels, Neowin, Mashable, MacStories, and AppAdvice.com. Tweets: @reneritchie
| 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 …
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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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| 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.| 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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SiliconANGLE, Quartz, TechCrunch, Axios, CNET, Motherboard, Mashable, New York Magazine, and The Hill
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Larry Page-backed flying taxi firm Kitty Hawk signs agreement with New Zealand government to test autonomous planes as part of an official certification process — Since October, a mysterious flying object has been seen moving through the skies over the South Island of New Zealand.
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Digital Trends, YouTube, Gizmodo, Slate, Ars Technica, The Verge, Quartz, Xconomy, Tech Times, Fortune, CNBC, Electrek, InvestorPlace, TechCrunch, TechSpot, CNET, Engadget, Stuff.co.nz, Mashable, Business Insider, Silicon Republic, Seeking Alpha, and Financial Times
Tweets: @ricmac, @nytimesbusiness, and @coraaero
| 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 …
| 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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Binance, BetaNews, Bloomberg, ZDNet, WeLiveSecurity, International Business Times, CCN, Bitsonline, Mashable, and CNET
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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, The Verge, TechSpot, Car and Driver BlogCar …, Getaround, Engadget, InvestorPlace, and Mashable
Tweets: @tictoc and @technology
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Workers, an edge computing service for developers using its network, charging devs $0.50 for every 1M tasks used by their apps — Cloudflare is ready to take the wraps of a new service designed for developers creating Internet-of-Things apps that want to capitalize …
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Cloudflare Blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, GlobeNewswire News Room, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @ebidel and @tjholowaychuk
| 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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