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Researchers extract Intel's secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates that patch vulnerabilities on its Goldmont architecture-based CPUs (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
on October 30, 2020 at 06:50
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers extract Intel's secret key for encrypting and decrypting security updates that patch vulnerabilities on its Goldmont architecture-based CPUs — Hackers can now reverse-engineer updates or write their own custom firmware. — Researchers have extracted the secret key …
Intel announces it will acquire SigOpt, a startup building a platform to optimize AI models; SigOpt will join Intel's machine learning performance division (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
on October 30, 2020 at 03:25
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Intel announces it will acquire SigOpt, a startup building a platform to optimize AI models; SigOpt will join Intel's machine learning performance division — Intel today announced it will acquire SigOpt, a San Francisco-based startup developing a platform to optimize AI software models.
353.6M smartphones shipped in Q3 2020, with Samsung shipping 80.4M up 2.9% YoY, Huawei 51.9M, down 22%, Xiaomi 46.5M, up 42%, and Apple 41.6M, down 10.6% (IDC)
on October 30, 2020 at 03:10
IDC: 353.6M smartphones shipped in Q3 2020, with Samsung shipping 80.4M up 2.9% YoY, Huawei 51.9M, down 22%, Xiaomi 46.5M, up 42%, and Apple 41.6M, down 10.6% — FRAMINGHAM, Mass., October 29, 2020 -The worldwide smartphone market showed signs of improvement in the third quarter of 2020 (3Q20) …
YouTube reports $5B in Q3 ad revenue, up 30% YoY from $3.8B, has more than 30M paid music and premium subscribers; YouTube TV has more than 3M subscribers (Kim Lyons/The Verge)
on October 30, 2020 at 02:55
Kim Lyons / The Verge: YouTube reports $5B in Q3 ad revenue, up 30% YoY from $3.8B, has more than 30M paid music and premium subscribers; YouTube TV has more than 3M subscribers — Parent company Alphabet reported better-than-expected third quarter ad revenue results — Google parent company Alphabet's third …
Instagram says it will temporarily remove the "Recent" tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation leading up to the US election (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
on October 30, 2020 at 02:40
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: Instagram says it will temporarily remove the “Recent” tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation leading up to the US election — - Instagram announced it will temporarily remove the recent tab from hashtag pages to reduce the spread of misinformation in the lead up to the U.S. election.