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Researchers find alarming number of Macs remain vulnerable to stealthy hacks due to outdated EFI firmware; Windows and Linux PCs are also likely at risk — At-risk EFI versions likely put Windows and Linux PCs at risk, too. — An alarming number of Macs remain vulnerable to known exploits …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Apple quietly acquired French computer vision startup Regaind earlier this year; the company had raised €400K from Side Capital — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has acquired a small French startup called Regaind, according to multiple sources.
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Sources: Google is building a smart screen competitor to Amazon's Echo Show, codenamed “Manhattan”, to launch in late 2017 or early 2018 — Multiple sources tell TechCrunch that Google is building a tabletop smart screen for video calling and more that will compete with Amazon's Echo Show.
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| Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed: |
ACLU challenges DoJ warrants for Facebook account information of users involved in anti-Trump protests, arguing the requests are overbroad — Three Facebook users are challenging newly disclosed search warrants for their account information, arguing that the warrants are overbroad …
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| Matthew Allen / SWI swissinfo.ch: |
Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority issues guidance on ICOs, is investigating at least 11 suspicious cases — Ten days after shutting down a fake cryptocurrency scam, the Swiss financial regulator said it is investigating the procedures for setting up new companies in the rapidly expanding sector.
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Japan's Financial Services Agency has approved 11 companies as operators of cryptocurrency exchanges — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Financial Services Agency said on Friday it has approved 11 companies as operators of cryptocurrency exchanges, in a move that sets the country apart from its neighbors …
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Podcast startup Anchor raises $10M Series A led by GV for its audio broadcasting app, which makes it easy for creators to record and distribute audio — A recent spate of investments in the podcast space continues today with news that Anchor has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by Google's venture capital arm, GV.
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Amazon quietly announces Fire OS 6, based on Android Nougat 7.1.2; the OS will premiere on the 4K Fire TV — Amazon's fork of Android is known as Fire OS, and it ships on all of the company's tablets and TV devices. The current version, Fire OS 5, is getting a bit long in the tooth … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rovio closes flat, at €11.50, on its first day of trading, valuing the company at $1B — Rovio, maker of the Angry Birds gaming franchise, saw a small pop of 4.3 percent in its first day of trading as a public company, but like the very birds that get catapulted in Rovio's original blockbuster game, the rise was not to last.| Cynthia Kim / Reuters: |
South Korea bans raising money through initial coin offerings — SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's financial regulator on Friday said it will ban raising money through all forms of virtual currencies, a move that follows similar restrictions in China on initial coin offerings.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sources: open source database startup MariaDB to raise another $27M, led by Alibaba, at $354M valuation — Alibaba has spent 2017 pushing its cloud computing business and now it is preparing to make its first major investment in a Western startup in the space.
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| Akane Otani / Wall Street Journal: |
Stockpile, an online brokerage that enables fractional share investing, raises $30M Series B led by Fidelity-backed Eight Roads Ventures — Asset manager's proprietary investment arm leads funding round for Stockpile, a startup allowing young—and old—investors to buy fractional shares
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After court order Google removes Catalan referendum app On Votar 1-Oct from Spanish Play Store — Sep 29 2017—NEWS—New order issued because the blanket instruction issued on September 23 only covered websites, not apps. Google app referendum The Catalan referendum Google app on the Play store.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sen. Mark Warner, top Democrat on Senate Intel Committee, said Twitter's briefing on Russian accounts was “inadequate” and “deeply disappointing” — The comments from Sen. Mark Warner could create new political headaches for the tech giant.
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