WannaCry ransomware attacks reportedly spotted in 99 countries on Friday, including UK, US, Spain, Italy, China, Russia, and Taiwan
A massive ransomware campaign appears to have attacked a number of organisations across Europe. — Screenshots of a well known program that locks computers …
Multiple hospitals across UK hit by ransomware attack, locking staff out of their computers and forcing hospitals to divert emergency patients
Many hospitals having to divert emergency patients, with doctors reporting messages demanding money … Hospitals across England have been hit …
Hackers are using EternalBlue vulnerability discovered by NSA and an exploit released by Shadow Brokers to infect unpatched Windows computers with WannaCry
A new strain of ransomware has spread quickly all over the world, causing crisis in National Health Service hospitals and facilities around England …
Everything you need to know about the WannaCry / Wcry / WannaCrypt ransomware
I woke up to a flood of news about ransomware today. By virtue of being down here in Australia, a lot happens in business hours around the world while we're sleeping but conversely, that's given …
Cybersecurity researcher @MalwareTechBlog accidentally finds kill switch to stop spread of WannaCry malware by registering domain hardcoded into malware
Expert who stopped spread of attack by activating software's ‘kill switch’ says criminals will ‘change the code and start again’
Google's Project Treble in Android O tries to make vendor and carrier updates easier by separating vendor specific implementations from the higher levels of OS
How Google can build one update that works everywhere. — In March 2016, when the Android N developer preview was released, we noticed something was different.
In response to WannaCry attacks, Microsoft issues security update for older Windows versions, including Windows XP, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2003
Microsoft solution available to protect additional products Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend …
Apple awards Corning a $200M investment from its new Advanced Manufacturing Fund; the money will go toward R&D, capital equipment, and glass processing
$200M Investment Supports Revolutionary Glass Production Methods — Harrodsburg, Kentucky — Apple today announced Corning Incorporated …
Samsung and Intel file amicus briefs against Qualcomm, supporting FTC's antitrust action
Samsung says Qualcomm stops it from selling modems to others — South Korean firm is one of biggest users of Qualcomm chips — Samsung Electronics Co. and Intel Corp. weighed in with their own gripe...
Fraunhofer, the major contributor to MP3, shut down its licensing program in April as MP3 patents expired
Red Hat has announced that Fedora will include official MP3 decoding and encoding. The reason is that MP3 is now patent free - as far as anyone can tell.
Magic Leap quietly settles sex discrimination lawsuit; sources say the company is raising a new financing round, led by Alibaba again, at $6B to $8B valuation
Despite its critics, the secretive startup is raising more cash in its quest to be the Apple of augmented reality. — Hi Backchannel readers.
Google tightens its review process for web apps that request user data following Google Docs phishing attacks
In the wake of the Google Docs phishing debacle last week, Google has added a few new safeguards to better protect us from these types of attacks.
Sources: Spotify, valued at $13B, plans direct listing on the NYSE in Q4 2017 or Q1 2018; Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Allen & Co. are advising
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E-commerce startup Spring raises $65M round led by Fidelity Investments, bringing the total raised to around $100M
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Study by UCSF and Cardiogram app shows Apple Watch paired with deep neural network detects atrial fibrillation, which can lead to stroke, with 97% accuracy
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Intel releases Itanium 9700 Series, the last of the Itanium Processor Family envisioned as a x86 replacement
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Xiaomi opens first Mi Home store in India in Bengaluru, plans 100 more in two years; the store is being run by a partner to comply with regulations
The Economic Times :
European food delivery startup Delivery Hero raises $421M from Naspers
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comScore introduces Total Home Panel, a service to offer viewership data for OTT services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu
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Sources: NBCUniversal paid around $230M for Craftsy, a site that sells videos of crafts classes, as well as craft supplies and kits
Jason Del Rey / Recode : Tweets: @benedictevans and @danprimack Tweets: Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : iVillage: $600m Daily Candy: $140m And now Craftsy: $230m... http://www.recode.net/... Dan Pr...
Announcements at Build show Microsoft is fully embracing iOS and Android's domination on mobile by focusing on extending Windows experiences to those platforms
Exactly fifty years … Jgovernor / James Governor's Monkchips : Build 2017: The Microsoft Story Remix
Chinese investment into Israeli tech companies surged in 2016 as investments into US tech decreased amid increasing regulatory scrutiny
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