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January 6, 2019, 11:15 PM

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Jon Porter / The Verge:

Samsung's 2018 and 2019 TV models will be able to access iTunes content directly via a dedicated app and support Apple's AirPlay 2 wireless streaming standard — Coming to all 2018 and 2019 TVs along with AirPlay 2 — Samsung's 2018 and 2019 range of televisions will be able to access …

Henry T. Casey / Laptop Mag:

HP announces Chromebook 14, its first AMD-based Chromebook with a 14" screen, AMD A4/A6 CPU, integrated Radeon R4/R5 GPU, and 4GB of RAM, starting at $269 — HP's new Chromebooks for CES 2019 include the first-ever AMD processor powered model, the HP Chromebook 14 (db0020nr).

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Mark Hachman / PCWorld:

Acer's first AMD Chromebook comes with a 15.6-inch display, AMD A4 or A6 CPUs, integrated Radeon graphics, and up to 8GB of RAM, starting at $280 — Acer's Chromebook 315 continues the company's tradition of affordable, intriguing Chromebooks, with several points of interest.

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Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph.com News:

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken says it has received 475 law enforcement inquiries in 2018 compared to 160 in 2017; 315 of the inquiries came from US agencies — Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has received nearly three times more law enforcement inquiries in 2018 than in 2017, the exhange reported in a tweet Jan. 5.

More: CCN, CryptoGlobe, NewsBTC, and Bitcoinist.com

Tweets: @krakenfx and @erikvoorhees

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

NSA to open source its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool that breaks down executable files into assembly code that can be analyzed by humans — GHIDRA is written in Java and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. — The US National Security Agency will release a free reverse engineering tool …

More: SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, and Engadget

Ashley Rodriguez / Quartz:

Netflix has released about 345 original series, movies, and other productions in 2018, which comes to an estimated 90,000 minutes or 1,500 hours of content — Netflix released a ridiculous amount of original programming in 2018. How ridiculous? By Quartz's measure …

Ian Cutress / AnandTech:

AMD at CES 2019: challenging Intel in Chromebooks with A-Series CPUs and launching Ryzen Mobile 3000-Series chips with 2nd-generation Ryzen Mobile parts — This year at CES, we have a series of announcements from AMD before the company's keynote presentation.

More: CNET, ZDNet, PCWorld, and ZDNet. Thanks:@iancutress

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

CES 2018 tech updates: Nvidia's 65" 4K HDR gaming monitors delayed, Sony's Aibo slowly shipping, Intel processors with AMD graphics facing low adoption — But sometimes, companies surprise us by actually shipping them, too. — Today, on the eve of CES 2019, let's see what happened to last year's most intriguing new technologies.

More: Digital Trends, CNET, and USA Today

The Verge:

What to expect at CES 2019: foldable devices, 5G phones and laptops, phone displays with hole-punch cameras, and 8K TVs — CES 2019 is upon us, and The Verge is headed back to Las Vegas to bring you all of the news from the gadget-filled electronics show next week.

Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet:

Samsung's first SoC for cars, Exynos Auto V9, will support up to 6 displays and 12 camera connections, will debut in Audi's new infotainment system in 2021 — Samsung Electronics' Auto Exynos V9 has eight A76 cores and will power Audi's next-generation in-vehicle infotainment system.

More: Reuters, The Economic Times, HotHardware, The Fast Mode, VentureBeat, SlashGear, AnandTech, Engadget, and Android Central

Patrick Donahue / Bloomberg:

Report: German authorities seek help from NSA after finding that hackers had released private data linked to Chancellor Merkel and hundreds of other politicians — - German politicians criticize technology security agency — Interior minister pledges to get to bottom of data dump

Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @lukolejnik, and @carneross

Janosch Delcker / Politico:

A look at Finland's strategy to become a leader in practical AI applications, starting with a grassroots program to teach 1% of its population the basics of AI — Inside Finland's plan to train its population in artificial intelligence. — HELSINKI — Jaana Partanen is not your typical AI programming geek.

Tweets: @politicoeurope, @goncalossilva, and @politicoeurope

The Economist:

Masayoshi Son believes Arm's chip blueprints could someday be in 1,000 internet-connected devices per human; his strategy for Arm is revenue growth, not profit — The British company's pre-eminent position in chip design helps him predict tech's future — On the outskirts of Cambridge …

Tweets: @syamant and @shashj. Thanks:@seanmills

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