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French presidential candidate Macron's campaign says it was targeted in a “massive” hack, after about 9GB of data was posted to Pastebin — French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a “massive” computer hack that dumped …
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Intel remote management flaw more severe than first thought, allows hijacking using any authentication string; Intel expects patches to arrive in coming week — Patch for severe authentication bypass bug won't be available until next week. — A remote hijacking flaw that lurked in Intel chips …
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Report: cyberspies stitch together free tools to build a malware framework, dubbed Netrepser, infecting 500+ computers at government agencies worldwide — The Netrepser cyberespionage group managed to infect hundreds of computers belonging to government agencies and organizations| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Ohioan recounts dinner with Zuckerberg, the presence of eight former secret service agents, and how Zuck said he has spoken to Trump multiple times on the phone — About two weeks ago, Daniel Moore received a cryptic phone call. — The 57-year-old resident of Newton Falls …
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Sources: Facebook planning on premiering about 24 TV-like shows in mid-June, has greenlit virtual-reality dating show from Condé Nast Entertainment — Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its slate of programming in mid-June …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Strategy Analytics: Apple shipped 3.5M Watches In Q1 2017, capturing 15.9% market share in wearables, Xiaomi shipped 3.4M wearables, and Fitbit shipped 2.9M — Apple became the world's largest wearables vendor in the first quarter of 2017 with an estimated 3.5 million Apple Watch shipments … | Ananya Bhattacharya / Quartz: |
A look at India's crowded online food delivery market and how local players, weak brand awareness, and myriad food tastes will test Google's Areo and UberEATS — India's food-tech scene has been quite the party—but the guest list is starting to become more and more exclusive.
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Leaked documents reveal the hotel industry's plan to combat Priceline and Expedia via PR and FTC lobbying campaigns, accusing firms of monopolistic practices — Hotel industry will lobby Trump appointees to the FTC — The U.S. hotel industry plans to step up a lobbying and public relations attack … | Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Ultrahaptics raises $23M Series B for ultrasound-based “touchless interfaces” that users can feel, bringing total raised to about $40M — As huge tech companies continue to dump money into VR and AR technology looking to convince us digital objects in front of us are actually real …
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Seattle writes its own broadband privacy rules requiring user opt-in before ISPs can share data, pushing back against US government; ISPs must comply by May 24 — Hardly anyone was pleased by the rollback of the broadband privacy rule last month, opening up the possibility of ISPs collecting … | AFTVnews: |
Possible image of Echo with a built-in touchscreen and camera found on Amazon's servers — Here is the first look at what Amazon's upcoming Echo with a built-in touchscreen looks like. I was able to locate this unfortunately low resolution image on Amazon's servers in a similar manner …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Square is rolling out debit cards that draw money from users' Square Cash accounts — It's a prepaid card, not a real debit card. But it's like the one Jack Dorsey recently showed off. — Last month, Jack Dorsey teased the launch of a Square debit card.
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