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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Intel begins issuing patches to combat Spectre and Meltdown flaws, with plans to release updates for 90% of chips from past five years this week — Following up on yesterday's confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable …
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Intel Newsroom, The Verge, Gizmodo, PCWorld, The Verge, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Windows Central, iPhone Hacks, CNBC, The Tech Report, and On MSFT
Tweets: @theregister, @selenalarson, and @jeremiahg
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Google Online Security Blog, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Ubuntu Wiki, The Verge, CNET, Windows Blog, eWeek, Windows Central, Flashpoint, insideHPC, BBC, Cointelegraph.com News, BleepingComputer.com, SecurityWeek, SlashGear, Security Intelligence, Tom's Hardware, CircleID, Softpedia News, Computerworld, Silicon Republic, Security Affairs, Help Net Security, SemiAccurate, Forbes, and Motherboard
| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
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Quartz, The Hill, The Next Web, Axios, Ars Technica, MarketWatch, TechSpot, CNBC, Neowin, Ubergizmo, and Mashable. Tweets: @jgreendc. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Meltdown and Spectre: |
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Tweets: @attritionorg, @zeynep, @zeynep, @hacks4pancakes, and @hacks4pancakes
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says his 2018 personal challenge will be addressing issues like interference by nation states, abuse, quality of time spent on platform — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year, including state interference and harassment on its platforms.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @rhhackett, @kantrowitz, @jillianiles, @buzzfeednews, @ericnewcomer, @kottke, @bendwalsh, @econ_marshall, @jwherrman, @edmundlee, @franberkman, @mattyglesias, @mikeisaac, and @jyarow
| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance at CES after receiving death threats — The threats have intensified following an FCC vote to repeal net neutrality rules. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance … | Billboard: |
Sources: Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August, a time believed to coincide with the full vesting of his Apple stock — His planned departure is likely timed to his shares fully vesting, sources tell Billboard. — Look for Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August.
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| Apple: |
App Store customers spent $300M worldwide on New Year's Day and spent over $890M in the week starting Dec. 24; developers earned $26.5B in 2017, up 30%+ YoY — New Year's Day Sets Record With $300 Million in Purchases — Cupertino, California — App Store customers around the world …
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MacRumors, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, TechCrunch, Quartz, ZDNet, CNBC, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, MacStories, and AppAdvice.com
Tweets: @neilcybart, @scotttaylor, @_inside, @benedictevans, and @benedictevans
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen reportedly owns 5.19B XRP tokens and a 17% stake in the company, valued at ~$59.9B after 36,000% increase in XRP value — - With Ripple's XRP coin hitting a high of $3.84, the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Chris Larsen, is now worth about $59.9 billion on paper.
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Forbes, Gizmodo, Bitcoinist.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Telegraph, TechSpot, The Independent, ValueWalk, Business Insider, and CoinSpeaker
Tweets: @novogratz, @tsimonite, and @cnbc
| Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: |
White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, will only allow use of government-issued devices — The White House is going to start barring employees from using their personal cellphones at work, press secretary Sarah Sanders said early Thursday.
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Axios, The Verge, Bloomberg, Fast Company, ABC News, ZDNet, SlashGear, Axios, CBS News, UPI, Engadget, and CNET
Tweets: @maggienyt, @zekejmiller, @kimberlyeatkins, and @thebradfordfile
| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Reports suggest India's Aadhaar national ID database was breached, exposing information of ~1.2B Indians and allowing creation of admin accounts by other admins — In 2010 India started scanning personal details like names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile numbers, and more …
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The Tribune, Washington Post, The Quint, The Tribune, The Guardian, BGR India, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @thetribunechd, @bjp4india, @thequint, @sitaramyechury, @nixxin, @rameshsrivats, @troyhunt, and @randomlysid
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Johnson Controls unveils $319 Cortana-powered thermostat called GLAS, which runs Windows 10 IoT Core; available now for preorder, ships in March — Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled …
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Windows Experience Blog, GeekWire, PR Newswire, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, ValueWalk, CNET, Mashable, ZDNet, and Engadget
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys predicts worldwide smart speakers sales will reach 56.3M in 2018, with 38.4M sales in the US, outpacing AR, VR, and wearables — Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over the holidays by discounting their hardware in order to gain market share. The reason?
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Canalys, MacRumors, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, and AppAdvice.com
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Apple quietly joined the Alliance for Open Media, focused on video compression tech, which counts Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook as members — For months, powerful companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have been working to shrink online video sizes.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, VentureBeat, iMore, AppleInsider, Engadget, FierceCable, iPhone Hacks, and MacDailyNews
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Spotify says it has 70M paying subscribers, up from 60M in late July 2017, as the company prepares for an IPO — Spotify today announced on Twitter that it has hit a new milestone, with the streaming music service reaching a total of 70 million paid subscribers.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, CNET, Bloomberg, The Verge, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @spotify, @apollozac, @shiraovide, and @alexeheath
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Instagram confirms it's testing a feature that allows cross-posting of Stories to WhatsApp as a Status — Last October, Facebook extended the usage (and flexibility) of Instagram Stories — the Snapchat-like feature that lets you patch together photos and videos into a slide show …
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SlashGear, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, MSPoweruser, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Central, Cult of Mac, Digital Trends, iPhone in Canada Blog, and BGR India. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
French startup Shadow to launch $34.95/month cloud game streaming service for Windows, macOS, and Android on Feb. 15 in California with one-year subscription — For all sorts of products we've irremediably blurred the lines between renting vs. owning, local vs. cloud — but are we ready to do the same for the PC?
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