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Hackers infiltrated Tesla's Kubernetes console, which lacked a password and contained credentials for its AWS environment, and began mining cryptocurrency — The Cryptojacking Epidemic — A few months ago, the RedLock Cloud Security Intelligence (CSI) team found hundreds …
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Google Pay begins its global rollout, replacing Android Pay, with the home screen showing a personalized list of relevant stores accepting Google Pay — As we reported last month, Google is uniting all of its different payment tools under the Google Pay brand.| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Sources: Facebook VP of ads Rob Goldman apologized internally for his tweetstorm about Russian interference, saying “I conveyed my view poorly” — ON FRIDAY MORNING, just before 10am on the West Coast, the office of special counsel Robert Mueller published his indictment … | Sheera Frenkel / New York Times: |
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One hour after news broke about the Florida school shooting, hundreds of suspected Russian-linked Twitter bots released divisive posts on the gun control debate — SAN FRANCISCO — One hour after news broke about the school shooting in Florida last week, Twitter accounts suspected of having links …
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Microsoft outlines limitations of Windows 10 on ARM compared to on x86: no initial support for 64-bit apps, Hyper-V, or certain app classes, and no x86 drivers — For over a year we've been treated to the fantasy that Windows 10 on ARM was the same as Windows 10 on x86. But it's a bit more nuanced than that.| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Report: Venezuela debuts its Petro crypto token in pre-sale, with 82.4M available initially, amid fiat currency's hyperinflation woes and US lawmaker concerns — The Venezuelan government has officially launched the pre-sale of its controversial “petro” token, according to a report.
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Microsoft adds game sales for over 5,000 titles to Mixer, its Twitch competitor, and will pay streamers 5% for every purchase from their channel — Twitch has long since allowed its streamers to generate revenue from their channels through things like subscriptions, virtual tipping and game sales.
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Snapchat now lets users add GIF stickers to their posts via Giphy and rolls out tabs on Friends and Discover sections to help organize and follow Stories — Snapchat is bringing one of the best recent features of Instagram Stories to its own app, with the ability to add GIF stickers from Giphy to your posts.
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| Leigh Cuen / International Business Times: |
Coinbase says it will roll out support for a Bitcoin network update called SegWit to all customers by next week; Bitfinex announced support for SegWit today — Coinbase, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchange platforms, just announced it is rolling out a bitcoin network update called SegWit.
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Sources: Amazon tried to buy smart lock maker August Home for $100M in 2016, focusing on Amazon Key after deal was rebuffed; August was later bought for $150M — In mid-2016, Amazon.com made a $100 million offer to buy August Home, which makes locks that can be opened with an app … | Reuters: |
Qualcomm raises its bid for NXP Semiconductors from ~$38B to ~$44B, or from $110 to $127.50 per share, in an effort to win shareholder support — (Reuters) - U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors NV (NXPI.O) to $127.50 per share from $110 …
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Facebook's 3D posts now support glTF 2.0 file format for better textures, lighting, rendering of objects that can be dropped into News Feed, shared to Spaces VR — What if you could digitally sculpt a 3D object and share it on Facebook, play with it in virtual reality or insert it into your world with augmented reality?
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