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WannaCry ransomware attacks reportedly spotted in 99 countries on Friday, including UK, US, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, and Taiwan — A massive ransomware campaign appears to have attacked a number of organisations across Europe. — Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers …
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| Damien Gayle / The Guardian: |
Multiple hospitals across UK hit by ransomware attack, locking staff out of their computers and forcing hospitals to divert emergency patients — Many hospitals having to divert emergency patients, with doctors reporting messages demanding money … Hospitals across England have been hit …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Hackers are using EternalBlue vulnerability discovered by NSA and an exploit released by Shadow Brokers to infect unpatched Windows computers with WannaCry — A new strain of ransomware has spread quickly all over the world, causing crisis in National Health Service hospitals and facilities around England …
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Apple awards Corning a $200M investment from its new Advanced Manufacturing Fund; the money will go toward R&D, capital equipment, and glass processing — $200M Investment Supports Revolutionary Glass Production Methods — Harrodsburg, Kentucky — Apple today announced Corning Incorporated …
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| Jerry Hildenbrand / Android Central: |
Google's Project Treble in Android O tries to make vendor and carrier updates easier by separating vendor specific implementations from the higher levels of OS — How Google can build one update that works everywhere. — In March 2016, when the Android N developer preview was released, we noticed something was different.
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Judge in Waymo-Uber suit rejects Uber's bid for private arbitration, sends the case to DOJ for investigation — A judge has denied Uber's request to force Waymo's case against the company into arbitration. — Judge William Alsup's denial is the first major decision in the case since …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Study by UCSF and Cardiogram app shows Apple Watch paired with deep neural network detects atrial fibrillation, which can lead to stroke, with 97% accuracy — New research conducted by the University of California, San Francisco, in collaboration with Apple Watch app Cardiogram … | Rob LeFebvre / Engadget: |
Google tightens its review process for web apps that request user data following Google Docs phishing attacks — In the wake of the Google Docs phishing debacle last week, Google has added a few new safeguards to better protect us from these types of attacks.
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
E-commerce startup Spring raises $65M round led by Fidelity Investments, bringing the total raised to around $100M — As legacy players stumble, an e-commerce upstart gets a big cash infusion. — With traditional department stores struggling, the mutual fund giant Fidelity is placing …
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| David Faber / CNBC: |
Sources: Spotify, valued at $13B, plans direct listing on the NYSE in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018; Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Allen & Co. are advising — - Spotify expected to go public as a direct listing on the NYSE between Q4 2017 and Q1 2018, according to sources
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| Ben Munson / Fierce Cable: |
comScore introduces Total Home Panel, a service to offer viewership data for OTT services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu — ComScore to offer viewership numbers for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu — Through what it's calling a “breakthrough,” ComScore says it will now be able to offer OTT activity statistics … | Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Announcements at Build show Microsoft is fully embracing iOS and Android's domination on mobile by focusing on extending Windows experiences to those platforms — An awful lot of people own a Windows PC and an iPhone or Android phone. Rather than being unhappy with that, Microsoft now sees it as an opportunity.Sponsor Posts
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