Researcher details SigSpoof, a recently patched critical flaw in PGP that allowed hackers to spoof digital email signatures, says the bug dates back to 1998
SigSpoof flaw fixed inGnuPG, Enigmail, GPGTools, and python-gnupg. — For their entire existence, some of the world's …
Oprah Winfrey signs multiyear non-exclusive deal for new original programs with Apple; Winfrey is expected to have an on-screen role as host and interviewer
Oprah shares her secrets to success with graduates — Apple has signed Oprah Winfrey to a multiyear deal for new original programs.
Block.one finally launches EOS blockchain but many in the crypto community remain skeptical about project's centralization and its prospects
After a messy weeks-long process, CoinDesk broke the news yesterday that the EOS blockchain is officially live. — To some, it's already an event for the cryptocurrency history books.
Foxconn says it is establishing its North American headquarters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after announcing plans to build a $10B LCD plant in the state last year
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn said it would establish its North American corporate headquarters in Milwaukee …
Some mass email marketing firms complain they cannot get most of the people in mailing lists to check their emails and may lose ~80% of them due to EU's GDPR
- The GDPR requires companies to send emails to people on their mailing list who have never bought anything, asking permission to keep emailing them.
17 backdoored Docker images, posted to Docker Hub over the past year and downloaded 5M+ times, removed; some were used to mine at least $90K worth of Monero
17 images posted by a single account over 10 months may have generated $90,000. — A single person or group may have made as much as $90,000 …
Amazon ends its Mayday video calling service for customer support for Fire tablets, nearly five years after its high-profile launch
Amazon is pulling the plug on its Mayday video calling feature for on-screen customer support on its Fire tablets, ending a service that was personally unveiled … Tweets: @rstephens . Thanks: @kevinli...
Interview with Sonos CEO Patrick Spence: Google Assistant is coming, Dolby Atmos in current speakers is doubtful, “Works with Sonos” program to expand, more
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence sat down with The Verge's editor-in-chief Nilay Patel for an hour-long interview on this week's Vergecast. Tweets: @alxmcco Tweets: @alxmcco : I'm being cautious about the “20...
In the past few months CryptoKitties saw sharp drop in daily active users, number of transactions, and average price of kitties according to analytics sites
- In March, investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures gave a total of $12 million to CryptoKitties, a blockchain game for digital collectibles.
As Facebook and Google start using Wikipedia to combat fake news and conspiracy theories, Wikimedia Foundation says companies should do more to support the site
If big tech companies are going to use Wikipedia as a resource, they should better support its important work, says the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation Tweets: @brianmcc Tweets: Brian M...
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's alleged right-hand man Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, extradited to US after 2.5+ years in Thai custody
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Crown, a Match Group dating app made by a team of millennial women that lets users pick daily winners to chat with by a process of elimination, launches in LA
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Seattle's dockless bike trial shows 74% of city is in favor of bikeshare even as some complain about clogged streets and working conditions at bike providers
SEAN HEALY WAS driving for Uber in Seattle when a passenger offered him an intriguing job. It wasn't the first time a rider … Tweets: @sandraupson Tweets: Sandra Upson / @sandraupson : Seattle let 3 ...
Avalara, a Seattle-based sales tax automation cloud startup, closes up 87% on its first day of trading, after raising $180M in its IPO at $2B+ valuation
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Letting AT&T buy Time Warner was wrong since it conflated internet platforms with providers after the government made a weak case
Let's read 170 pages of dunking on Professor Carl Shapiro together — AT&T and Time Warner won a historic court victory this week … Tweets: @gigibsohn and @reckless See also Mediagazer Tweets: Gigi S...
JD.com's new Shanghai fulfillment center ships 200,000 orders per day and employs four people to service the robots
Steve LeVine / Axios : Tweets: @khanoisseur Tweets: Adam Khan / @khanoisseur : Even at Amazon it's hard not to see correlation between decline of 24,000 human employees and increase of 75,000 robot e...
AlphaPoint raises $15M Series A from Novogratz's Galaxy Digital to help build cryptoasset exchanges and digitize assets like gold and real estate via blockchain
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Samsung ordered to pay $400M by US federal jury for willful infringement on a patent for FinFET chip manufacturing technology owned by a South Korean university
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US-based Semiconductor Industry Association says that some US companies may end up paying tariffs on their own products because of Trump's $50B tariffs on China
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MetaFilter considers subscription-based and community-funded models as it discloses that it's running at an $8,000/month deficit in financial update
Josh Millard / MetaTalk : Tweets: @joshmillard , @joshmillard , @joshmillard , @joshmillard , @mikkelmarius , and @joshmillard See also Mediagazer Tweets: Josh Millard / @joshmillard : MetaFilter fun...
Twitter loses bid to dismiss lawsuit by banned “white advocate” but judge says Twitter did not violate free speech rights or discriminate by banning accounts
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