Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
Google's Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems, affecting some Samsung, Vivo, and Google phones as well as wearables and vehicles
do this before you're next Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : Google discovers 18 vulnerabilities in multiple Samsung chips Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : Baseband RCE flaws in Samsung's Exynos...
Sydney-based Morse Micro, a fabless developer of Wi-Fi chips, raised a $140M Series B led by Japanese SoC developer MegaChips
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Google rebrands Project Fi to Google Fi and adds support for iPhones, currently in beta, and the “majority” of Android devices
A phone plan built for you — iPhone Screenshots Mark Jansen / Digital Trends : How to root Android phones or tablets (and unroot them) Joan Engebretson / Telecompetitor : Google Fi is New Brand for ...
In email to employees, Sundar Pichai says Google fired 48 people, including 13 senior managers, over last 2 years for sexual harassment; none had exit packages
Has Amazon Peaked? Rob Quinn / Newser : Google CEO: NYT Story on Us Is ‘Difficult to Read’ Richard Chirgwin / The Register : If you saw a Google ad recently, know that it helped pay off one of its ‘se...
Intel fixes longstanding Intel Management Engine flaws that let hackers on same subnet run arbitrary code; first 3 generations of Core chips won't get patches
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Let's Encrypt releases service securing HTTP connections via free “wildcard” certificates and the ACME v2 protocol to automate certificate request verification
Code Issues 3 Pull requests Projects Wiki Insights Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Let's Encrypt updates certificate automation, adds splats Tweets: John Feminella / @jxxf : Awesome news: @letsencry...
Google unveils 72-qubit Bristlecone processor as a new research testbed, which isn't yet faster than a classical chip, as it races to claim “quantum supremacy”
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Ransomware attack spreads to orgs in Britain, US, and Europe, including ad firm WPP, Chernobyl power plant, shipping giant Maersk, US hospital, Merck, more
what's happening and how to protect yourself Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : NotPetya outbreak: What we know so far Nandini Yadav / bgr.in : Petya ransomware spreads globally; social media is gracef...
Source: Uber harassment findings result in 20+ fired after 215 claims investigated; a separate Eric Holder-led probe has sent recommendations to board
including some senior employees — after internal investigation Janet Burns / Forbes : Uber Has Fired 20 In Wide Discrimination Probe, Including Some Senior Execs Richard Chirgwin / The Register : Uber...