A new state agency has a $10 million budget to regulate Google, Facebook and others. But first it needs to be created.
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Intel to Invest at Least $19 Billion for New Chips Plant in Germany
The Silicon Valley company said it would build factories in Magdeburg, mirroring a plan announced in late January to begin manufacturing in Ohio.
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Researcher uses Dirty Pipe exploit to fully root a Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung S22
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A researcher has successfully used the critical Dirty Pipe vulnerability in Linux to fully root two models of Android phones—a Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung S22—in a hack that demonstrates the power of exploiting the newly discovered OS flaw. The researcher chose those two handset models for a good reason: They...
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Microsoft announces progress on a completely new type of qubit
Enlarge / Microsoft says it sees two clear peaks at the ends of a wire, with a nice energy separation between those and any other energy states. (credit: Microsoft) So far, two primary quantum computing technologies have been commercialized. One type of hardware, called a transmon, involves superconducting wire loops linked to a resonator; it is...
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Banks on alert for Russian reprisal cyberattacks on Swift
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto | Getty Images) Big banks fear that Swift faces a growing threat of Russian cyberattacks after seven of the country’s lenders were kicked off the global payments messaging system over the weekend. VTB, Russia’s second-biggest bank, and Promsvyazbank, which finances Russia’s war machine, were among the lenders removed on Saturday from Swift...
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Apple iPhone SE Review: A Phone for the Anti-Consumer
Why spend more if you don’t have to? The new $430 iPhone meets all the criteria of what most of us need in a smartphone.
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Researcher uses 379-year-old algorithm to crack crypto keys found in the wild
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cryptographic keys generated with older software now owned by technology company Rambus are weak enough to be broken instantly using commodity hardware, a researcher reported on Monday. This revelation is part of an investigation that also uncovered a handful of weak keys in the wild. The software comes from a basic...
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(BPRW) Africans Rising Together 2063 (ART 2063) is hosting the Transatlantic Partnerships: Model and Opportunities Webinar from April 1 to April 2, 2022.
(Black PR Wire) ART 2063 is an initiative led by African Americans and Africans in the Diaspora to build bridges of reconciliation and constructive partnerships for the common development of people of African descent. It works with the
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Ukrainian Minister Has Turned Digital Tools Into Modern Weapons of War
Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s youngest minister, has turned technology, cryptocurrency and social media into modern weapons of war.
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What It Was Like to Work for Russian State Television
Until RT America ended abruptly, life as a journalist there was “actually so normal.”