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Intel remote management flaw more severe than first thought, allows hijacking using any authentication string; Intel expects patches to arrive in coming week — Patch for severe authentication bypass bug won't be available until next week. — A remote hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips …
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Server for HandBrake, a popular Mac video transcoder, hacked; users who downloaded app between May 2-6 have 50% chance of infection with a remote access trojan — The developers of open source video transcoder app Handbrake have issued a security warning to Mac users after a mirror download server hosting the software was hacked.| Lucian Constantin / PCWorld: |
Report: cyberspies stitch together free tools to build a malware framework, dubbed Netrepser, infecting 500+ computers at government agencies worldwide — The Netrepser cyberespionage group managed to infect hundreds of computers belonging to government agencies and organizations| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Ohioan recounts dinner with Zuckerberg, the presence of eight former secret service agents, and how Zuck said he has spoken to Trump multiple times on the phone — About two weeks ago, Daniel Moore received a cryptic phone call. — The 57-year-old resident of Newton Falls …
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Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about two dozen TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment — Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
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| Avi Asher-Schapiro / The Intercept: |
As Uber investigates harassment claims by its employees, some female drivers say that Uber's processes dealing with sexual harassment by riders are inadequate — In 2012, shortly after Uber started operating in Los Angeles, Rachel Galindo bought a new car and signed up as a driver.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 3.5M Watches In Q1 2017, capturing 15.9% market share in wearables, Xiaomi shipped 3.4M wearables, and Fitbit shipped 2.9M — Apple became the world's largest wearables vendor in the first quarter of 2017 with an estimated 3.5 million Apple Watch shipments … | Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
A look at India's crowded online food delivery market and how local players, weak brand awareness, and myriad food tastes will test Google's Areo and UberEATS — India's food-tech scene has been quite the party—but the guest list is starting to become more and more exclusive.
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| Recode: |
Sources: Amazon and Apple close to an agreement to launch Amazon video app on Apple TV; Amazon employees expect the app in Q3 — Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook bury the hatchet. — Amazon and Apple may have reached a truce. — The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers' time …
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| Bloomberg: |
Leaked documents reveal the hotel industry's plan to combat Priceline and Expedia via PR and FTC lobbying campaigns, accusing firms of monopolistic practices — Hotel industry will lobby Trump appointees to the FTC — The U.S. hotel industry plans to step up a lobbying and public relations attack … | Reuters: |
French presidential candidate Macron's campaign says it was targeted in a “massive” hack, after about 9GB of data was posted to Pastebin — French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a “massive” computer hack that dumped …
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Possible image of Echo with a built-in touchscreen and camera found on Amazon's servers — Here is the first look at what Amazon's upcoming Echo with a built-in touchscreen looks like. I was able to locate this unfortunately low resolution image on Amazon's servers in a similar manner …
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