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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2018 will be held June 4-8 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, opens registration — Apple has officially announced dates for its annual developer conference where it is expected to unveil iOS 12, macOS 10.14, watchOS 5, and tvOS 12.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Experts reveal 13 alleged flaws in AMD Ryzen and EPYC chips, just 24 hours after showing AMD, that allow malware to be installed on secure portions of the chips — Researchers have discovered critical security flaws in AMD chips that could allow attackers to access sensitive data …
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amdflaws.com, Laptop Mag, The Hacker News, CRN, TechSpot, Business Wire, Slashdot, and Seeking Alpha
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| Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
President Trump signed an order blocking Singapore-based Broadcom's proposed acquisition of US-based Qualcomm, citing national security concerns — President Donald Trump killed Broadcom's proposed buyout of Qualcomm, citing national security concerns, according to a statement issued by the White House on Monday.
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
Larry Page-backed flying taxi firm Kitty Hawk signs agreement with New Zealand government to test autonomous planes as part of an official certification process — Since October, a mysterious flying object has been seen moving through the skies over the South Island of New Zealand.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Facebook is aiming to launch a news section for its Watch platform this summer and is testing different video partnerships with roughly ten publishers — Facebook is getting ready to launch a news section for its Watch platform and it's testing different video partnerships with roughly 10 publishers, Axios has learned.
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MacRumors, Gizmodo, Engadget, iMore, AppleInsider, CNET, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @margarita, @pkafka, @shiraovide, @sarafischer, and @baekdal
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Annual Harris reputation poll of corporate brands says Amazon retained the top spot, Apple dropped from 5th to 29th, while Google dropped from 8th to 28th — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google corporate brands dropped in an annual survey while Amazon.com Inc maintained the top spot … | Tom Miles / Reuters: |
UN human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar say that Facebook has played a role in spreading hate speech in the country — GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts investigating a possible genocide in Myanmar said on Monday that Facebook had played a role in spreading hate speech there.
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Tweets: @mattyglesias, @lifewinning, and @jmgrygiel
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Fitbit launches its second mainstream smartwatch, Versa, for $200, and the first fitness wearable for kids, Ace, for $100; both available for preorder today — Fitbit has announced new wearables Fitbit Versa, which runs the upcoming Fitbit OS 2.0, and Fitbit Ace. Both are available for preorder today.| Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
In collaboration with Ubisoft, Google launches Agones, an open source, multiplayer, dedicated game server hosting system built on top of the Kubernetes platform — In the world of distributed systems, hosting and scaling dedicated game servers for online, multiplayer games presents some unique challenges.| David Welch / Bloomberg: |
Sources: GM plans to start pilot program this summer that will allow car owners to rent out their vehicles through its Maven car-sharing service — Carmaker plots peer-to-peer pilot program starting this summer — Service could take on Turo and Getaround, potentially Tesla| iFixit: |
Galaxy S9+ teardown: two blades for changing aperture versus the usual five on normal cameras; battery, iris scanner, front cam are basically unchanged from S8+ — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — While phone makers and operating system developers of dubious numeracy skip straight … | Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloudflare launches Cloudflare Workers, an edge computing service for developers using its network, charging devs $0.50 for every 1M tasks used by their apps — Cloudflare is ready to take the wraps of a new service designed for developers creating Internet-of-Things apps that want to capitalize …
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Cloudflare Blog, VentureBeat, and GlobeNewswire News Room
| Christine Lagarde / IMF Blog: |
IMF head Christine Lagarde shares a plan to regulate cryptocurrencies through Know Your Customer requirements that combine biometrics and machine learning — Whether Bitcoin's value goes up or Bitcoin's value goes down, people around the world are asking the same question: What exactly is the potential of crypto-assets?
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Motherboard, CoinDesk, and BetaNews
| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
Rise in reports of TSA searching devices of passengers of domestic flights has led ACLU to sue the agency, demanding it disclose its policies; TSA denies claims — Exclusive: growing number of reports raises concerns US government may be increasing surveillance and privacy violations at airports
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ACLU of Northern CA, Cult of Mac, BetaNews, Motherboard, Tom's Guide, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Engadget, and Slashdot
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
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