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| Ax Sharma / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft admits it signed a malicious driver called “Netfilter” targeting gaming environments; the rootkit malware was observed communicating with Chinese IPs — Microsoft has now confirmed signing a malicious driver being distributed within gaming environments.
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| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Study: an algorithm developed by EHR provider Epic to predict sepsis infections in patients missed two-thirds of sepsis cases and frequently issued false alarms — A study found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Mark Gurman: Apple is considering iPads with larger displays, which are at least a “couple of years down the road” and have not yet left the exploratory stages — In the first instalment of Bloomberg's Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman says that Apple is currently considering future iPad designs with larger displays.| José Adorno / 9to5Mac: |
Telegram adds group video calls, screen sharing, noise suppression, animated backgrounds, tablet and desktop support with side panel and split-screen view, more — Telegram for iOS received a major update this week. After months of teasing and testing, Group Video Calls is finally available …
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| Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft says Windows 11 requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip, excluding a significant number of Windows 10 computers from upgrading to the new OS — Even some three year old computers may not be able to run the OS. — Traditionally, we think of Windows as the operating system …
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| Mitchell Clark / The Verge: |
Microsoft engineer says users will be able to sideload Android Apps on Windows 11 — Many questions about how the feature will work remain, however — According to an engineer at Microsoft, Windows 11 users will have the ability to sideload Android apps onto the operating system …
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| Andrew Deck / Rest of World: |
A look at Chinese content farms behind “Factory TikTok”, a subgenre where workers making products like aloe jelly and gloves also are influencers selling them — How workers manufacturing products like aloe jelly and gardening gloves also became the influencers selling them.| AlleyWatch: |
Rasgo, a GitHub-like repository which helps data scientists explore, clean, join, and transform data sets for machine learning models, raises $20M Series A — Data science is highly coveted and championed because its use extracts insights that transform data into tangible value.
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| Bloomberg: |
Tesla to issue a software fix to 285K+ cars in China, after regulator finds its autopilot can get activated automatically, which may lead to sudden acceleration — - Acceleration risk forces an upgrade for 285,000 vehicles — The software fix in many instances will be made online
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| Jackson Ryan / CNET: |
Inside the intense debate among Wikipedia editors to include the coronavirus lab leak theory on COVID-19 pages, as the theory has gained more media attention — Building a better encyclopedia requires consensus and neutrality, but behind the scenes, editors wrangle with the pandemic's most contentious question.| New York Times: |
Katie Haun, a co-chair of a16z's crypto fund, talks about the geopolitics of blockchain, risk, regulation, outlook for the crypto industry, and the fund's focus — Katie Haun, a co-chair of Andreessen Horowitz's new $2.2 billion crypto fund, is betting that the blockchain will be as big as the internet.
Tweets: @tomicahtd, @unhedgedchatter, @jess, @rachaelrad, and @laurashin
| TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS acquires encrypted messaging service Wickr, says it will continue operating the service and offer it to AWS customers — Amazon's cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced …
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Tweets: @retailprophet, @quinnypig, @lorenzofb, @tokenceo, @mywickr, @tonyajoriley, @mattdevost, @haroonmeer, @karolcummins, @reginadulanjali, @josephfcox, @merket, and @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
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