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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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Tweets: @attritionorg, @nicoleperlroth, @hacks4pancakes, @hacks4pancakes, @albertwenger, @agl__, and @dnvolz
| 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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| 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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Tweets: @_jonasschnelli_, @aras_p, and @jschauma
| 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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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
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CNBC, iPhone in Canada Blog, Barron's Online, Tom's Hardware, Softpedia News, Firstpost, NPR, Patently Apple, The DigitalOcean Blog, BBC, BGR, and BleepingComputer.com. Tweets: @nicoleperlroth. Thanks:@inafried
| 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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| 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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TechCrunch, Recode, Gizmodo, GeekWire, The Verge, Axios, Quartz, Mashable, Business Insider, CNET, and Fortune
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @kantrowitz, @kottke, @bendwalsh, @econ_marshall, @jwherrman, @jillianiles, @edmundlee, @franberkman, @mattyglesias, @mikeisaac, 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 — 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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Gizmodo, The Verge, PCWorld, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, Polygon, and Blue's News
| 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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| 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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TechCrunch, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Wire, and SlashGear
Tweets: @pixelpar, @mochi_wsj, and @domsplaying
| Reuters: |
Analysts: Amazon and Google's deep price cuts on their smart speakers over the holidays meant they likely lost a few dollars per unit — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google both discounted their virtual assistant speakers so deeply …
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