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Latest Shadow Brokers dump includes evidence NSA hacked SWIFT transaction system in the Middle East, has new exploits for older Windows versions up to Windows 8 — For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers have been patched on all currently supported versions of Windows — Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Robert Taylor, the innovator who played key roles in the invention of Arpanet, the Alto computer, and the computer mouse, dies at 85 — Like many inventions, the internet was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap …
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Microsoft confirms that just 13 Windows Phone models will officially support the Windows 10 Creators Update — Microsoft is rolling out a new test builds for Windows 10 to phone Insiders (and to PC users), while acknowledging that only a dozen or so Windows Phone models will get Windows 10 Creators Update.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format — Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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Apple received permit to test autonomous vehicles in California; DMV spokesman says Apple applied to test three 2015 Lexus RX450h vehicles — Apple has received a permit to test autonomous cars in California, the first official confirmation that the maker of the iPhone sees the century-old automobile …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Stanford and Princeton researchers create ad-blocker that uses computer vision, can evade all known anti ad-blockers; available as a proof of concept on Chrome — A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works … | Brian Santo / SDxCentral: |
VMware says it is acquiring Wavefront, a cloud monitoring company that had previously raised $63.5M — VMware said it is buying Wavefront, a startup that specializes in metrics monitoring for cloud networking. The acquisition lets VMware “leapfrog into application management … | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber shares Q4 2016 numbers: gross bookings up 28% QoQ to $6.9B, net revenue up 74% QoQ to $2.9B, net loss up 5% to $991M — The ride-hailing giant opens up its books for the first time in an interview with Bloomberg. — by — Uber Technologies Inc. isn't required to report its finances publicly …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Pluto VR, co-founded by Popcap Games co-founder John Vechey, raises $13.9M Series A led by Maveron for developing VR communication apps — Pluto VR, the Seattle-based virtual reality startup co-founded by PopCap Games co-founder John Vechey, has raised $13.9 million in a Series A funding round.| Will Knight / MIT Technology Review: |
Deep learning AI systems, which may help make important decisions in the future, are neither understandable to their creators nor accountable to their users — No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
A look at the opportunities and challenges facing Uber in India, where rival Ola, weak infrastructure, and under-educated drivers test the company's ambitions — BANGALORE, India — Nandini Balasubramanya's office here on the southern edge of India's technology capital does not look …
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