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US Customs conducted 30,200 searches of devices at the border in FY2017, up from 19,051 in FY2016; fewer than 20% of devices belonged to US citizens — Customs and Border Protection also unveils new policy for searching and seizing electronic devices — WASHINGTON—The Customs … | Anders Fogh / cyber.wtf: |
Meltdown researcher Anders Fogh explains how multiple researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in modern CPUs at around the same time — Introduction — In this blog post I'll speculate as to how we ended up with multiple researchers arriving at the same vulnerabilities in modern CPU's concurrently.
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Epic Games blames Meltdown CPU performance issues for Fortnite downtime, releases chart showing CPU usage rise from ~17% to ~44% after patching one server — As the technology industry continues to react to two major CPU bugs, we're starting to see early signs of performance issues from security patches designed to fix the problems.| Twitter: |
Twitter says it does not block or remove controversial tweets of world leaders because it would hide important information people should see and debate — There's been a lot of discussion about political figures and world leaders on Twitter, and we want to share our stance.
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iMac Pro (8-core, 32GB RAM): same great screen, RAW video editing is a big plus, awesome space gray color, good value, but no access to RAM, upgrades are costly — Apple's new, high-end iMac Pro packs a ton of power into a svelte, all-in-one desktop machine.| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku: |
Amazon shutters its Anime Strike streaming service, launched in Jan. 2017 for $5/month for US Prime members, moves Anime Strike's curated catalog to Prime Video — After just a year, Amazon has gutted its hard-to-love anime service Anime Strike, rolling the dozens of anime shows … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: Benchmark, GV sold ~14.5% of their Uber stakes, worth ~$900M, ~$350M respectively; Garrett Camp sold ~15% for ~$400M; Menlo sold ~46%, First Round ~38% — Google Ventures, or GV, also sold several hundred million dollars of stock in the transaction.
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What to expect at CES 2018: from energy efficient laptops, high-end TVs, and self-driving car tech to AR/VR gaming, robots, and smart home tech — It's January, which means that Las Vegas, or the bit that pretends not to be Las Vegas for tax reasons, will play host to CES.
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Experts: human damage to undersea fiber optic cables would be less severe than military warns; of ~428 cables, one is damaged every couple days, often by nature — IT MIGHT SEEM like nightmare scenario. A terrorist organization or nefarious nation state decides to derail the global internet … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Despite outage in some parts of the world, WhatsApp users sent a record 75B messages on New Year's Eve, up from 63B in 2016, including 13B images and 5B videos — WhatsApp, one of the world's most-used messaging services, hit a new milestone on New Year's Eve: more than 75 billion messages sent by its users.
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Web developers and Google's own apps are increasingly diverging from open web ethos by optimizing for Google-developed standards that first ship in Chrome — Chrome-only sites are a problem — Chrome is now the most popular browser across all devices, thanks to Android's popularity … | Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
Report: China's tech funding rose to record $58.8B in 2017, up from $56.1B in 2016; logistics and transportation sector raised the highest at $16.8B — China's startups and tech giants pulled in a record US$58.8 billion from investors in 2017, according to the Tech in Asia database.Sponsor Posts
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