US Customs conducted 30,200 searches of devices at the border in FY2017, up from 19,051 in FY2016; fewer than 20% of devices belonged to US citizens
Customs and Border Protection also unveils new policy for searching and seizing electronic devices — WASHINGTON—The Customs …
Dogecoin market cap hits $1B, price has risen 400%+ in the past month; creator says it's a sign of broader market excess as it hasn't been updated in 2 years
Dogecoin, the parody coin named for an internet meme featuring a Shiba Inu dog, has broken off the leash.
Amazon shutters its Anime Strike streaming service, launched in Jan. 2017 for $5/month for US Prime members, moves Anime Strike's curated catalog to Prime Video
After just a year, Amazon has gutted its hard-to-love anime service Anime Strike, rolling the dozens of anime shows …
New US Customs guidelines for border searches of devices still allow search of info stored locally, need “reasonable suspicion” to move info to external devices
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Epic Games blames Meltdown CPU performance issues for Fortnite downtime, releases chart showing CPU usage rise from ~17% to ~44% after patching one server
As the technology industry continues to react to two major CPU bugs, we're starting to see early signs of performance issues from security patches designed to fix the problems.
Meltdown researcher Anders Fogh explains how multiple researchers discovered the same vulnerabilities in modern CPUs at around the same time
Introduction — In this blog post I'll speculate as to how we ended up with multiple researchers arriving at the same vulnerabilities in modern CPU's concurrently. Tweets: @roundtrip Tweets: Greg Llo...
How infosec researcher Daniel Gruss and his team discovered the Meltdown CPU flaw and developed the KAISER tool to patch Meltdown on Windows, Mac, and Linux
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Despite outage in some parts of the world, WhatsApp users sent a record 75B messages on New Year's Eve, up from 63B in 2016, including 13B images and 5B videos
WhatsApp, one of the world's most-used messaging services, hit a new milestone on New Year's Eve: more than 75 billion messages sent by its users.
Thoughts on surprisingly successful Bitcoin Cash fork of Bitcoin that allowed 2 strongly opposed communities to pursue their visions without hurting each other
Nobody could have summed up my thoughts on 2017 any better than Charles Dickens. It was the year where the totality of eventualities … Tweets: @e_barojas , @sirgrantfleming , @robmay , and @rsg Tweet...
Recent public outcry against Alibaba's Sesame Credit and Tencent's WeChat over user privacy point to a growing demand for online data protection in China
SHANGHAI — China's biggest online payment company offers its hundreds of millions of users a breakdown on their spending each year … Facebook: Yohko Hatada . Tweets: @davidakaye , @profchesterman , @p...
iMac Pro (8-core, 32GB RAM): same great screen, RAW video editing is a big plus, awesome space gray color, good value, but no access to RAM, upgrades are costly
Apple's new, high-end iMac Pro packs a ton of power into a svelte, all-in-one desktop machine.
DJI president Luo Zhenhua said he expects the company's 2017 sales to reach $2.7B in an interview with China's Phoenix News
Updated: A previous version of this post stated that Luo Zhenhua is the vice-president of DJI. Luo Zhenhua is now the president of DJI.
Experts: human damage to undersea fiber optic cables would be less severe than military warns; of ~428 cables, one is damaged every couple days, often by nature
IT MIGHT SEEM like nightmare scenario. A terrorist organization or nefarious nation state decides to derail the global internet …
As China mulls regulating power-hungry bitcoin mining, some of the biggest miners including Bitmain, BTC.Top, and ViaBTC open facilities in US, Canada, Iceland
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Web developers and Google's own apps are increasingly diverging from open web ethos by optimizing for Google-developed standards that first ship in Chrome
Tom Warren / The Verge :
The unprecedented power of technology companies is prompting calls for the rethinking of decades-old US antitrust laws focusing on consumer protection
TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES WITH unprecedented power to sway consumers and move markets have done the unthinkable: They've made trust-busting sound like a good idea again. Tweets: @gerrymcgovern , @jaberman ...
What to expect at CES 2018: from energy efficient laptops, high-end TVs, and self-driving car tech to AR/VR gaming, robots, and smart home tech
Daniel Cooper / Engadget :
Sources: sales at Jessica Alba's Honest Company, which reached $300M in 2016, were flat in 2017; CEO says firm is culling products to focus on core categories
Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : After battling moldy baby wipes and other issues, Jessica Alba's Honest Co. has struggled to grow http://www.wsj.com/.....
Sources on how Snap's hub-and-spoke org structure, with Evan Spiegel at the center of all decision-making, has employees on edge amid major overhaul of Snapchat
but could it break the company? http://www.theverge.com/... via @Verge Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : If your CEO has a framed picture of Steve Jobs in his or her office—and isn't the CEO of Appl...
Nielsen: 54% of all US music is now streamed, surpassing all formats for the first time; on demand audio hit 400B streams in 2017, up from 252B in 2016
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Report: China's tech funding rose to record $58.8B in 2017, up from $56.1B in 2016; logistics and transportation sector raised the highest at $16.8B
Steven Millward / Tech in Asia :
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