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Instagram vulnerability could have allowed malicious actors to hijack user accounts

By Duncan Riley Sep 24, 2020

Facebook Inc. has patched a vulnerability in its photo-sharing app Instagram that could have allowed hackers to take over user accounts through a malicious image. The vulnerability, discovered and publicized today by researchers at Check Point…

Security

Microsoft warns ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Server vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

By Duncan Riley Sep 24, 2020

An exploit in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server is actively being exploited in the wild even though a patch for the critical vulnerability was issued last month. Dubbed “ZeroLogon” by cybersecurity professionals and “Netlogon EoP”…

Security

DHS discloses data breach of US agency but doesn’t name which was hacked

By Duncan Riley Sep 24, 2020

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency today issued an analysis report in relation to a U.S. federal agency that has suffered a data breach after being hacked. CISA didn’t name…

Apps

Microsoft to launch new, nonsubscription version of Office in 2021

By Mike Wheatley Sep 24, 2020

Microsoft Corp. has revealed it will release a new, flat-priced version of its Office productivity software sometime in 2021. The announcement comes as a surprise, since Microsoft has for several years been moving away…

Emerging Tech

Amazon debuts new Echo, Fire TV, Ring devices and more, with an Alexa boost

By Kyt Dotson Sep 24, 2020

Amazon.com Inc. today announced a panoply of new devices at its annual Devices and Services hardware event, including new Echo, Ring, Fire TV and other devices — as well as a novel indoor drone…

AI

Amazon builds custom AZ1 ‘neural edge’ processor into its new Echo speaker

By Maria Deutscher Sep 24, 2020

Amazon.com Inc. today debuted a new iteration of its bestselling Echo smart speaker with a custom-made artificial intelligence processor for processing voice commands. The Echo is the flagship device in Amazon’s eponymous family of…

AI

Facebook’s Dynabench tool fools neural networks to advance AI research

By Maria Deutscher Sep 24, 2020

Facebook Inc. today debuted Dynabench, a research tool it hopes will allow computer scientists develop more powerful natural-language processing models. To build cutting-edging neural networks that advance the state of the art, researchers need…

Infra

Fungible buys infrastructure software startup Cloudistics

By Mike Wheatley Sep 24, 2020

Data center chip maker Fungible Inc. said today it’s buying a cloud software company called Cloudistics Inc. as it bids to make compute infrastructure more efficient. Fungible, which is led by Chief Executive Pradeep…

Infra

Nuvia, led by Apple veterans, raises $240M to build better server processors

By Maria Deutscher Sep 24, 2020

Nuvia Inc., a new chip startup with high-profile founders and investors, today said that it has picked up an additional $240 million in funding to support its effort to develop a “leading-edge” server processor.…

Policy

Facebook says it won’t pull out of EU after all but insists something must change

By James Farrell Sep 23, 2020

After a court document this week suggested Facebook Inc. might be forced to close its business in the EU, the company now says it’s not going to happen. Earlier this month, Ireland’s Data Protection…

explore news

Instagram vulnerability could have allowed malicious actors to hijack user accounts

Microsoft warns ‘ZeroLogon’ Windows Server vulnerability is being exploited in the wild

DHS discloses data breach of US agency but doesn’t name which was hacked

Microsoft to launch new, nonsubscription version of Office in 2021

Amazon debuts new Echo, Fire TV, Ring devices and more, with an Alexa boost

Amazon builds custom AZ1 ‘neural edge’ processor into its new Echo speaker

Facebook’s Dynabench tool fools neural networks to advance AI research

Fungible buys infrastructure software startup Cloudistics

Nuvia, led by Apple veterans, raises $240M to build better server processors

Facebook says it won’t pull out of EU after all but insists something must change

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