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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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Windows Blog, BBC, SlashGear, SecurityWeek, lkml.org, BleepingComputer.com, Security Affairs, Tom's Hardware, Softpedia News, Forbes, Android Authority, Neowin, LWN.net, Silicon Republic, MSPoweruser, and AskWoody
Tweets: @_jonasschnelli_ and @aras_p
| 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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| 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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Quartz, The Next Web, MarketWatch, CNBC, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Mashable, MacDailyNews, Softpedia News, and Seeking Alpha. Thanks:@lexnfx
| Google Online Security Blog: |
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| New York Times: |
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
| 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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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @buzzfeednews, @kantrowitz, @ericnewcomer, @kottke, @jillianiles, @edmundlee, @mikeisaac, @bendwalsh, @mattyglesias, @econ_marshall, @franberkman, @jwherrman, and @jyarow
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 9 Series 9810 processor, likely to be used in Galaxy S9, and teases iPhone X-like features including face tracking and unlocking — 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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Samsung Global Newsroom, PCWorld, AppleInsider, Business Insider, ValueWalk, SlashGear, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Seeking Alpha, AnandTech, CNBC, Cult of Mac, BGR, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Android Authority, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @faryaab
| 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.| 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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| 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, The Quint, Gizmodo, Washington Post, The Tribune, The Guardian, BGR India, BGR India, Firstpost, and MediaNama
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| 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, Telegraph, Bitcoinist.com, The Independent, ValueWalk, Business Insider, ValueWalk, and CoinSpeaker
Tweets: @novogratz and @cnbc
| 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, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Windows Central, CNET, ValueWalk, ZDNet, TechSpot, Engadget, and Mashable
| 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?| 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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Android Authority, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, Android Central, 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 — 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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Gizmodo, The Verge, PCWorld, AppleInsider, Polygon, TechSpot, Digital Trends, and TechCrunch
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Nintendo says Switch is the fastest selling game console ever in the US, selling 4.8M units in 10 months, breaking the Wii's record of 4M units in the same time — The Switch has broken the US record for the fastest selling console ever, with 4.8 million units sold in just 10 months, Nintendo says.
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Tweets: @pixelpar, @mochi_wsj, and @domsplaying
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