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Symantec: a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group co-opted and repurposed NSA hacking tools to attack US allies and private companies in Europe and Asia in 2016 — Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies …
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| Ju-min Park / Reuters: |
Samsung says it cannot confirm the shipping date for Galaxy Fold and will cancel pre-orders, unless told not to, if they do not ship by May 31 — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it cannot confirm the shipping date for its foldable device Galaxy Fold yet and apologized …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Cruise Automation, GM's self-driving division, raises $1.15B at a $19B valuation from investors including SoftBank, Honda, and T. Rowe Price Associates — Post-money valuation is now $19 billion — Cruise Automation, the self-driving division of General Motors, announced on Tuesday …
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Google to update Android Auto in the summer to make it more intuitive with features like a dynamic, persistent bar for navigating apps, and a default dark mode — A bunch of little changes that should make Android Auto easier to use — Android Auto is getting a little refresh …
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Current and former employees discuss how Apple's stores changed under Angela Ahrendts' reign, with challenges around customer service festering — Web Smith's recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration.
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Microsoft debuts WSL 2, featuring “dramatic” performance increases, support for Docker, and shipping with a Linux kernel, to be updated through Windows Update — Microsoft today announced Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2—that's WSL 2. It will feature “dramatic file system …
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
As Europe clamps down on online hate speech and misinformation, concerns grow that these efforts will harm free expression and stifle dissent — LONDON — In Spain, activists were convicted for social media posts that violated an expanded antiterrorism law.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
US Department of Energy says AMD and Cray will build the world's fastest supercomputer, dubbed Frontier, by 2021, with 1.5 exaflops of processing power — Dubbed Frontier, the supercomputer expected to go online in 2021 with 1.5 exaflops of processing power
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More than 100 Riot Games employees walked out on Monday to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits — ‘League of Legends’ developers walkout to protest the company's use of forced arbitration to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.
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Starting today Twitter lets you add images, GIFs, and videos to quote tweets — Exciting news: Today we are launching the ability to Retweet with GIF, photos, and video! We find solutions to many challenges as we build for a global, vocal audience. Here is a glimpse into our process as we worked on this feature. https://twitter.com/...
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
How Epic Games and ILM tried to recreate the Apollo 11 moon landing using HoloLens 2 for a demo that failed to run during Microsoft's Build 2019 keynote — The story of a tech demo 20 years in the making that fell apart in mere minutes. — How Epic & ILM's John Knoll Tried to Recreate …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft unveils .NET 5, which will support Java, Swift, and Objective C interoperability on multiple platforms, and makes ML.NET 1.0 generally available — Build is Microsoft's annual developer conference, which makes Visual Studio and .NET the stars of the show.
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A parent's first-hand account about how content found on Reddit, 4chan, and YouTube helped their 13-year-old become infatuated with the alt-right — A Washington family's nightmare year. — When my son Sam,* who was then 14, asked me to take him to the Mother of All Rallies on the Mall in September 2017 …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Flexe, which operates an on-demand warehouse marketplace for retailers, raises $43M Series B led by Activate Capital and Tiger Global Management — As more consumers shop online, retailers need capacity to ship products across the country — particularly as they battle e-commerce kingpin Amazon.
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With today's WordPress 5.2 release, the CMS for ~34% of all websites finally gets cryptographically-signed updates and a modern cryptographic software library — WordPress 5.2 released with support for cryptographically-signed updates, a modern cryptographic library.| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Satya Nadella and other Microsoft execs talk about the future of AI, the company's approach to open platforms, and how the era of the “talented jerk” is over — MICROSOFT HASN'T ALWAYS had a reputation for being “open,” but CEO Satya Nadella and the rest of his executive team …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
Tourlane, a travel booking service that coordinates bookings from different suppliers, raises $47M Series C led by Sequoia and Spark Capital — There still exists an old-fashioned problem in travel: group travel which requires individuals and groups to plan and book personalized, multi-day tours online.
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