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John McAfee has been arrested in Spain for tax evasion after SEC sues him for allegedly promoting ICOs in 2017, 2018 without disclosing he was paid to do so — John McAfee, the 74-year-old software magnate-turned-crypto-bull, has been arrested in Spain on allegations of tax evasion, according to the Department of Justice.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple removed headphones and speakers from Bose, Logitech, and Sonos from its online store at the end of Sept., asked retail employees to do the same — - Apple is working on first over-ear headphones, smaller HomePod — Products from Sonos, Bose, Logitech pulled from online store
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Nvidia announces Maxine, a set of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing tools that improve video quality, with early access available from next week — Nvidia today launched Nvidia Maxine, a platform that provides developers with a suite of GPU-accelerated AI conferencing software to enhance video quality.
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Nvidia unveils new professional GPUs based on its Ampere architecture: the RTX A6000, coming in December, and A40, coming early 2021 — NVIDIA's second GTC of 2020 is taking place this week, and as has quickly become a tradition, one of CEO Jensen Huang's “kitchenside chats” kicks off the event.
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Google rebrands G Suite as Google Workspace, integrates Meet, Chat, and Rooms across all its applications, and introduces new logos for all apps in the suite — Google is rebranding G Suite, its set of online productivity and collaboration tools for businesses that include the likes of Gmail, Drive, Docs and Meet.
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Instagram marks its 10th anniversary by expanding in-app warnings when users post nasty comments and adds a private map of stories from the last three years — Instagram is officially 10 years old, and is marking the end of its first decade with new features meant to encourage users to be nice to one another.
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Researcher says that Macs with T2 chips are vulnerable to a variant of the checkm8 exploit, which could jailbreak certain iPhones and was unpatchable — Jailbreak involves combining last year's checkm8 exploit with the Blackbird vulnerability disclosed this August.
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Kaspersky researchers spot malware embedded in UEFI firmware on motherboards of victims' devices, affecting diplomats working on issues related to North Korea — The tool attacks a device's UEFI firmware—which makes it especially hard to detect and destroy.
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Sources: Facebook has informed the Turkish government that it won't be complying with recent legislation mandating it establish a local presence in the country — Erdogan government alarmed human rights groups with rules to oversee tech companies — Facebook has decided to defy a new law …
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Spotify updates its iOS and Android apps to let users search for songs by lyrics, a feature Apple Music has had since 2018 — Spotify has rolled out a useful new feature today for iOS and Android that allows users to search for songs by its lyrics, something that Apple Music users have enjoyed for a couple of years.| Allison Levitsky / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
A US district judge ordered Cisco to pay $1.9B to Virginia-based Centripetal Networks for infringing four cybersecurity patents; Cisco says it will appeal — Cisco Systems Inc. was hit Monday with a $1.9 billion judgment in a 2018 patent infringement suit filed by Centripetal Networks, a small cybersecurity firm in Virginia.| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Slack experienced an outage for about six hours on Monday, the second time this week the service has experienced degraded performance — Slack Technologies Inc. experienced outages and degraded performance for more than six hours Monday, disrupting work for thousands of customers who have grown …
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