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Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear targeted European research groups and think tanks that work on issues including election security and nuclear policy — SEATTLE — A group of hackers associated with Russian intelligence targeted civil society groups across Europe ahead of May elections there, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
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| Chris Morris / Fortune: |
Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo might want to brace themselves. Googleis about to enter the lucrative video game sector with its Project Stream.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac using a new SDK that will be released as early as June at WWDC — - This year, it will be easier to turn iPad apps into Mac apps — App merger initiative comes as Apple plans its own Mac chips
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach — It takes Russian state-sponsored hackers less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally within a targeted organization's network …
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| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret” — - In early February, Google announced that Assistant would work with its home security and alarm system, Nest Secure.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
YouTube updates community guidelines with a new system for rule-breaking channels, which now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation — Channels will now get a consequence-free, one-time warning for their first violation — YouTube is overhauling its community guidelines …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Xiaomi debuts Mi 9 with three rear cameras, 6.39-inch AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, and 20W wireless charging, for ~$446 in China, ships on Feb. 26th — Xiaomi has officially launched the Mi 9 at an event in China after months of teasers. The triple-camera flagship is powered … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
House Committee on Energy and Commerce asks in open letter whether Facebook users were misled about what personal data could be leaked by joining closed groups — House committee asked for a briefing — Lawmakers are looking to question Facebook about its privacy practices after allegations …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IFTTT's Linden Tibbets resigns as CEO, will stay as chief design officer; Chris Kibarian, ex-CEO of Monster.com owner Randstad Digital Ventures, named IFTTT CEO — After raising $24 million in funding led by Salesforce in April 2018, the startup IFTTT — which provides an API platform …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
For YouTube, curbing misinformation on its platform may mean punishing some of its stars, a step it's not shown it can broadly take, despite recent policy shift — Last month, the YouTube star Shane Dawson uploaded his new project: a 104-minute documentary, “Conspiracy Theories With Shane Dawson.”
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Regulators globally increasingly view “loot boxes”, which provide random in-game items for real money, as a form of gambling, and are considering regulations — A month ago, a woman known online as CadenceLikesVGs realized she had a gambling problem.
Tweets: @nickstatt and @carnage4life
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fabless semiconductor company Peraso, which is developing wireless networking chips based on WiGig, has raised $42M Series D, bringing total raised to $79.3M — Peraso Technologies, a Toronto-based fabless semiconductor company developing wireless networking chips based …
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Sphero is crowdfunding RVR, a new robot that can connect to accessories like Raspberry Pi through its universal expansion port, starting at $199 on Kickstarter — The RVR is coming — Sphero, the Colorado-based connected toy company, has had a successful, conventional run making sphere-shaped, smartphone-controlled robots.
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TechCrunch, Robotics Business Review, KnowTechie, VentureBeat, MacRumors, IEEE Spectrum, Pocket-lint, Hackaday, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and Engadget. Tweets: @captain_primate
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber and GM's Cruise open source their self-driving car visualization software, a rare move in the hyper-competitive autonomous world — ‘See’ the world of a self-driving car with these free web portals — By now you've probably seen those top-down graphical images of a self-driving car …
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SiliconANGLE, Uber Engineering Blog, Cruise, The Information, and VentureBeat
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Cisco Visual Networking Index: by 2022, 5G will power as many 9% of mobile data connections in North America, compared to 6.5% in Western Europe, and 4% in Asia — U.S. policymakers keep wringing their hands over a competition with China to build the world's first mass-market 5G wireless network.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q4 2018, shipments of smart speakers grew 95% from 22.6M units in Q3 to 38.5M units, with Amazon shipping 13.7M units and Google 11.5M — Smart speakers continue to sell like hotcakes. That's according to Strategy Analytics, which today reported that in the fourth quarter of 2018 …
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Strategy Analytics …, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, and CNET
| Reuters: |
Report: Amazon's China unit in merger talks with NetEase's Kaola, one of the biggest Chinese shopping sites for imported goods — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's Chinese joint venture is in talks about a merger with local e-commerce firm Kaola, which sells imported products in the Asian country …
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TechCrunch, Investor's Business Daily, CCN, TechNode, Moneycontrol, and Thurrott. Tweets: @jonrussell
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
GitHub expands its bug bounty program by upping reward amounts, removing a maximum reward limit, adding Legal Safe Harbor terms; GitHub paid out $250K+ in 2018 — GitHub today beefed up its bug bounty program. The Microsoft-owned company has expanded the program's scope, increased its reward amounts …
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Tweets: @j_winterton, @iancoldwater, and @github
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