Google's Project Zero says it discovered three variants of CPU attack, affecting AMD, ARM, and Intel; Android devices with latest security update are safe
Last year, Google's Project Zero team discovered serious security flaws caused by “speculative execution,” a technique used by most modern processors …
Official webpage for the Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities, which has links to research papers and an FAQ
Bugs in modern computers leak passwords and sensitive data. Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors. These hardware bugs allow programs …
Researchers discover vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre, that let hackers steal data from running apps on most Intel chips, some ARM and AMD chips
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet :
Intel says CPU flaws not limited to its own chips, exploits can't corrupt/modify data but can access sensitive data, is working with AMD and ARM to find fixes
unclear if there's even manufacturing capacity for this— OR customers will have to wait for secure processors to reach the market, and do their own risk analysis as to whether they need to swap out al...
Researchers wrote a Spectre attack in JavaScript that violates browser sandboxing and reads data from the address space of the browser process running it
Modern processors use branch prediction and speculative execution to maximize performance. For example, if the destination …
Researchers say there is no known fix for Spectre CPU flaw; Meltdown flaw affects almost all Intel CPUs, requires software patch that could cause slowness
SAN FRANCISCO — Computer security experts have discovered two major security flaws in the microprocessors inside nearly all of the world's computers.
Spectre researcher Daniel Gruss says attacks work “super-reliably” on AMD CPUs, despite the company claiming “near zero risk” due to different architecture
Meltdown and Spectre Security Attacks Haunt Chip Industry Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs Robert Graham / Errata Security : Som...
Microsoft issued a rare out-of-band security patch today to protect against Intel, AMD, ARM flaws; sources say patch will be applied automatically on Windows 10
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Reports suggest India's Aadhaar national ID database was breached, exposing information of ~1.2B Indians and allowing creation of admin accounts by other admins
In 2010 India started scanning personal details like names, addresses, dates of birth, mobile numbers, and more …
ARM says some high-end processors, including its Cortex-A processors, are affected by CPU flaws; Cortex-M processors often used in IoT devices aren't impacted
Ina Fried / Axios :
Intel's memory access design flaw was partially addressed by Apple in macOS 10.13.2, released Dec. 6, with additional tweaks in next update, currently in beta
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
AWS: all but a small percentage of EC2 instances are patched, remaining will be within hours; says customers must also patch their instance operating systems
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White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones at work, will only allow use of government-issued devices
The White House is going to start barring employees from using their personal cellphones at work, press secretary Sarah Sanders said early Thursday.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold ~$24M of stock in Nov. and now owns 250K shares, the minimum he's required to hold; Intel was informed about chip flaws in June
- Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off $24 million worth of stock and options in the company in late November.
AT&T announces plans to start rolling out a true 5G network in 12 cities by the end of 2018
AT&T has announced plans to roll out a true 5G network in a dozen markets in accordance with the 3GPP's recently released 5G NR (new radio) guidelines by the end of 2018.
Samsung unveils Exynos 9 Series 9810 processor, likely to be used in upcoming Galaxy S9, and teases iPhone X-like features including face detection using AI
Starting off the new year by introducing its latest custom smartphone processor, Samsung has revealed some of what we might expect from its next Galaxy S flagship.
Johnson Controls' Cortana-powered thermostat that runs Windows 10 IoT inside is now available for preorder in March for $319
Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled the Cortana-powered thermostat last year …
Dell updates XPS 13 laptop with 13.3" 4K InfinityEdge touch display, 8th Generation Intel Quad Core i5/i7, 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports, available January 4 from $999
Dell is releasing a few new items at CES 2018 starting with its brand new XPS 13 laptop today.
Zuckerberg says his personal challenge for 2018 is to focus on fixing Facebook's “important issues” and the company makes “too many errors” enforcing policies
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year …
Sources: Google exploring sale of US restaurant review guide Zagat which it bought for $151M in 2011
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google is exploring a potential sale of Zagat, the U.S. restaurant review guide which the search giant bought for $151 million in 2011, people familiar with the matter said.
Apple announces that its $99 developer program membership is now available at no cost to nonprofits, accredited educational institutions, government entities
Apple announced today it will begin allowing select publishers to waive the membership fees associated with its App Developer Program.
French startup Shadow to launch cloud game streaming service for PCs, Macs, and Android, on Feb. 15 in California, for $34.95/month with one-year subscription
Are you ready to ditch the bought-and-paid-for PC on your desk in favor of a subscription to a remote computer?
How Nvidia researchers generated pictures of faces that appear to be real but aren't by analyzing photos of celebrities and detecting patterns
To create the final image in this set, the system generated 10 million revisions over 18 days. — The woman in the photo seems familiar. Tweets: @alexsteffen , @pnhoward , @rafael_parente , @cademetz...
Sources: Spotify confidentially filed IPO documents with the SEC at the end of December; indications are the company wants to list in Q1
Mesh Wi-Fi router startup Eero lays off ~30 staff as it shifts priorities to its core business; Eero was launched in 2015 and has raised $90M in funding
Eero, the mesh Wi-Fi router startup, has laid off 20 percent of its workforce (about 30 employees), TechCrunch has learned.
French president proposes law to let authorities remove content or block sites publishing fake news during elections, improve sponsored content transparency
Angelique Chrisafis / The Guardian :
Nintendo says Switch is the fastest selling game console ever in the US, selling 4.8M units in 10 months, breaking the Wii's record of 4M units in the same time
Steve Dent / Engadget :
Sources: TPG and Dragoneer converted Spotify debt into equity at ~$10B valuation, sold it to Tencent at ~$20B, solving Spotify's $1B debt problem ahead of IPO
Analysts: Amazon and Google's deep price cuts on their smart speakers over the holidays meant they likely lost a few dollars per unit
Volkswagen and Hyundai partner with self-driving startup Aurora Innovation, aiming to put its vision software and other tech into production vehicles by 2021
Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal :
Lenovo updates ThinkPad lineup with Intel 8th-gen CPUs and USB-C power adapters, with new T and X models shipping in January and L models in February
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat :
JD.com opens its first 7Fresh premium supermarket in Beijing, featuring robot carts that follow shoppers, and its first “unmanned” convenience store in Shandong
Bloomberg :
Russian and Venezuelan governments talk about digital currencies, to be theoretically backed by countries' natural resources like oil, to sidestep sanctions
New York Times :
WordPress host WP Engine raises $250M from Silver Lake to fund international expansion, says it has $100M in annual revenue and 75K users, up 30% YoY
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Gaming hardware company Mad Catz, bought by a Chinese firm after March 2017 bankruptcy, says it will start making products again
Microsoft partners with Seattle-based Adaptive Biotech to build an AI-driven universal blood test that can screen for dozens of diseases at once
A tech giant partners … Thanks: @toddbishop
YouTube had re-uploads of Logan Paul's video in Trending section before removing them, says non-graphic videos offering commentary don't violate guidelines
Sources: since 2015, the NSA has lost several hundred hackers, engineers, and data scientists, due to low pay, slumping morale, and an unpopular reorganization
Washington Post :
Didi Chuxing confirms it has acquired Brazilian ride-hailing company 99, reports say for ~$600M, as it expands into Latin America
Johana Bhuiyan / Recode :
IBM sues Expedia and its subsidiaries over alleged patent infringement dating back years, a day after settling a patent infringement lawsuit with Priceline
Baidu and BlackBerry announce partnership on autonomous car initiatives, including using BlackBerry's QNX OS in Baidu's Apollo self-driving vehicle platform
Apptopia data suggests only 825 iOS apps, ~30% of which are games, have integrated Apple's ARKit framework since September launch, most within first two months
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Rubikloud, which builds SaaS products to help retailers modernize, raises $37M Series B led by Intel Capital
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Report: China will spend $2.1B on building a 548.7K square meter technology park dedicated to developing AI in Mentougou, western Beijing
Sources discuss SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son's often hard-edged dealmaking style as he runs Vision Fund, making some of the largest-ever tech startup investments
Chinese news app Toutiao suspends 1.1K+ blog accounts, updates app to cover more state media, as source says its parent is in talks to raise at $30B+ valuation
Raymond Zhong / New York Times :
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