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Intel fixes a flaw found by a Google researcher that could let attackers steal passwords and other secrets, affecting Skylake, Tiger Lake, and Ice Lake chips — The vulnerability could allow attackers to take advantage of an information leak to steal sensitive details like private messages, passwords, and encryption keys.
More: Downfall Attacks, Intel, Phoronix, Security Affairs, Daniel Moghimi, SecurityWeek, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, CyberScoop, and ServeTheHome
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| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Nvidia unveils the GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, a combination GPU and CPU relying on high-bandwidth memory 3, or HBM3e, expected to enter production in Q2 2024 — - Company is upgrading lineup that fueled $1 trillion valuation — New chip could make it harder for rivals like AMD to catch up
More: Nvidia Newsroom, gHacks Technology News, The Register, TweakTown, Decrypt, Supervised, Tom's Hardware, TechEBlog, Neowin, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, AnandTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, HotHardware, Appuals.com, CNBC, Guru3D.com, Wccftech, and Reuters
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Catherine Perloff / Adweek: |
Google changes the name of one of its advertising video formats from “in-stream ads” to “skippable ads”, after a report accused YouTube of misleading buyers — What was once in-stream ads are now skippable ads — Google removed “in-stream” classification from the name of one of its video formats.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Android Authority, PhoneArena, Neowin, gHacks Technology News, XDA Developers, and Engadget
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Federal Reserve launches a program for overseeing banks' crypto activity and clarifies its pre-approval process for engaging with stablecoins — Fresh crypto guidance from the U.S. central bank doesn't represent a departure from previous policy, but it provides more details on what the Fed expects from banks.| Samuel Axon / Ars Technica: |
Dutch engineer Bram Moolenaar, who in 1991 released and then maintained the very popular Vim open-source code editor, died on August 3 at 62 — The open source software legend left us on August 3 at age 62. — Computing as we know it today was built in no small part by individuals …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a game controller app on the App Store to let users play Netflix games on their TV; the app description says the feature is “coming soon” — After last fall signaling its intentions to expand into cloud gaming, Netflix today launched a new app that will soon allow subscribers to play games on their TV.
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| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol shutters Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages, compromising at least 70K people in 43 countries — A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
More: INTERPOL, Silicon Republic, Group-IB, and The Register
| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
Sources: ex-FTX Digital Markets co-CEO Ryan Salame is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty to criminal charges and may enter a plea as soon as September — - Ryan Salame was the co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets — Salame would be fourth former FTX executive to plead guilty| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Verizon is sunsetting BlueJeans, a business-focused video conferencing app acquired in 2020, starting on August 31, due to “the changing market landscape” — Did you know Verizon acquired a video conferencing app back in 2020? It's fine if you haven't because Verizon has announced that its …
More: The Verge, The Register, Neowin, and TechCrunch
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| Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: |
Lyft CEO David Risher says the company is trying to end surge pricing as “riders hate it”; rides with surge pricing dropped 35% QoQ due to more driver supply — Lyft has been cutting fares in order to secure more riders, and it's working. Bu that success has come with a (literal) cost.| Preetika Rana / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
The SEC fines 11 Wall Street firms $289M total for poor recordkeeping by using apps including Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage; CFTC fines four banks $260M total — - U.S. regulators on Tuesday announced a combined $549 million in penalties against Wall Street firms that failed to maintain electronic records of employee communications.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google updates Messages with group end-to-end encryption and turns RCS on by default for new and existing users, but some have to agree to their carrier's ToS — After testing group end-to-end encryption for the past few months, Google Messages has now fully rolled it out and is enabling RCS by default too.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
NetChoice and the Chamber of Progress back TikTok's lawsuit to stop a Montana law that is set to ban the use of the app on January 1, 2024 — Two tech groups on Monday backed TikTok in its lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a Montana state ban on use of the short video sharing app before it takes effect on Jan. 1.| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Bengaluru-based fantasy sports app Mobile Premier League, valued at $2.2B, cuts ~50% of its staff, after India announced a 28% online gaming tax — India's popular online gaming and fantasy sports startup Mobile Premier League is reducing its staff by approximately 50% …
More: Reuters, Tech in Asia, The Economic Times, Inc42 Media, Business Today, Livemint, and Entrackr
| Martin K.N Siele / Rest of World: |
In Kenya, the most active African country on TikTok, creators make money with protest livestreams, which protesters say help them stay safe from police violence — At least 23 people have reportedly been killed as crowds oppose proposed tax increases. — • NAIROBI, KENYA| CNBC: |
Sony reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $20.7B and PS5 sales up 38% YoY to 3.3M; Sony had said the company expects to sell 25M PS5 units in the year to March 2024 — Sony on Wednesday reported a 31% fall in profit in the first fiscal quarter as its life insurance unit dragged on its bottom line … | Varsha Bansal / Rest of World: |
A look at the Indian Institutes of Technology, established in the 1950s and 1960s to emulate MIT and now comprising 23 schools offering a path to tech success — Indian tech entrepreneur Kesavan Kandadai has many accomplishments under his belt: launching Amazon Prime Video in India and founding …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Project IDX, an AI- and browser-based developer environment using the open-source Visual Studio Code and integrating Google's PaLM 2-based Codey — Google today announced the launch of Project IDX, its foray into offering an AI-enabled browser-based development environment …
More: Google for Developers Blog, Neowin, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, 9to5Google, and IT Jungle
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| Alex Gabriel Simon / Bloomberg: |
India-based Credgenics, which provides an online service to help banks collect on debt, raised $50M led by Accel and Westbridge Capital at a $340M valuation — - It raised $50 million in funding round led also by WestBridge — The startup aims to expand to Southeast Asian countries
More: FinSMEs, The Economic Times, VCCircle, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, Inc42 Media, and Tech in Asia
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Unity releases some of Wētā FX's 2D and 3D tools, including Wig 1.0 for simulating hair and fur, into public beta under its new Unity Wētā Tools division — Unity is releasing some of the specialist 2D and 3D tools from Weta FX — the visual effects company behind Peter Jackson's Lord …
More: SIGGRAPH 2023, Unity on YouTube, Variety, Business Wire, and Game Developer
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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