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January 4, 2018, 12:10 PM
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| Google Online Security Blog: |
Google's Project Zero says it discovered three variants of CPU attack, affecting AMD, ARM, and Intel; Android devices with latest security update are safe — Last year, Google's Project Zero team discovered serious security flaws caused by “speculative execution,” a technique used by most modern processors …
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| Meltdown and Spectre: |
Official webpage for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which has links to research papers and an FAQ — Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data. Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs …
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| Spectreattack.com: |
Researchers wrote a Spectre attack in JavaScript that violates browser sandboxing and reads data from the address space of the browser process running it — Modern processors use branch prediction and speculative execution to maximize performance. For example, if the destination …
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| New York Times: |
Researchers say there is no known fix for Spectre CPU flaw; Meltdown flaw affects almost all Intel CPUs, requires software patch that could cause slowness — SAN FRANCISCO — Computer security experts have discovered two major security flaws in the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world's computers.
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| Troy Wolverton / Business Insider: |
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold ~$24M of stock in Nov. and now owns 250K shares, the minimum he's required to hold; Intel was informed about chip flaws in June — - Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off $24 million worth of stock and options in the company in late November.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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| Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: |
White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones at work, 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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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 9 Series 9810 processor, likely to be used in upcoming Galaxy S9, and teases iPhone X-like features including face detection using AI — Starting off the new year by introducing its latest custom smartphone processor, Samsung has revealed some of what we might expect from its next Galaxy S flagship.
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| 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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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AT&T announces plans to start rolling out a true 5G network in 12 cities by the end of 2018 — AT&T has announced plans to roll out a true 5G network in a dozen markets in accordance with the 3GPP's recently released 5G NR (new radio) guidelines by the end of 2018.| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Zuckerberg says his personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing Facebook's “important issues” and the company makes “too many errors” enforcing policies — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Johnson Controls' Cortana-powered thermostat that runs Windows 10 IoT inside is now available for preorder in March for $319 — Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled the Cortana-powered thermostat last year …
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| New York Times: |
How Nvidia researchers generated pictures of faces that appear to be real but aren't by analyzing photos of celebrities and detecting patterns — To create the final image in this set, the system generated 10 million revisions over 18 days. — The woman in the photo seems familiar.
Tweets: @alexsteffen, @pnhoward, @rafael_parente, @cademetz, @nvidiaai, and @nvidiaaidev
| Lori Grunin / CNET: |
French startup Shadow to launch cloud game streaming service for PCs, Macs, and Android, on Feb. 15 in California, for $34.95/month with one-year subscription — Are you ready to ditch the bought-and-paid-for PC on your desk in favor of a subscription to a remote computer?
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Mesh Wi-Fi router startup Eero lays off ~30 staff as it shifts priorities to its core business; Eero was launched in 2015 and has raised $90M in funding — Eero, the mesh Wi-Fi router startup, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce (about 30 employees), TechCrunch has learned.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple announces that its $99 developer program membership is now available at no cost to nonprofits, accredited educational institutions, government entities — Apple announced today it will begin allowing select publishers to waive the membership fees associated with its App Developer Program.| Joe Shields / AnandTech: |
Dell updates XPS 13 laptop with 13.3" 4K InfinityEdge touch display, 8th Generation Intel Quad Core i5/i7, 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, available January 4 from $999 — Dell is releasing a few new items at CES 2018 starting with its brand new XPS 13 laptop today.
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The Verge, Engadget, ZDNet, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, and Windows Central. Tweets: @paulobrien
| Reuters: |
Sources: Google exploring sale of US restaurant review guide Zagat which it bought for $151M in 2011 — (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is exploring a potential sale of Zagat, the U.S. restaurant review guide which the search giant bought for $151 million in 2011, people familiar with the matter said.
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