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RFC: C++ Buffer Hardening
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NVIDIA and nouveau
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Splunk IP suit against Cribl
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Fiserv, LG back Korea Credit Data as the SME-focused fintech startup raises another $24.7M
In South Korea, there are about 7.3 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. Their workforces combined make up 83.1% of all corporation employees in the country, totaling about 17.1 million people, according to OECD data. To help meet SMEs’ financial needs in the country, Seoul-based fintech … Read more
Former Uber security chief found guilty of covering up massive 2016 data breach
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Former Uber chief security officer Joe Sullivan has been found guilty of charges that he covered up a 2016 cyberattack where a hacker downloaded the personal information of more than 57 million people. The information stolen from Uber included names, email addresses, and phone numbers for more than … Read more
Halo Car’s teleoperated car-sharing service to roll out this year with no one behind the wheel
Halo Car, a Las Vegas-based startup that combines teleoperations and car sharing, said it will remove the human safety operator from behind the wheel later this year — the last hurdle before its commercial launch. The milestone would mean Halo Car will use humans to remotely control vehicles through public streets and deliver them to … Read more
So you’re using a weird language
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Know the price-matching policies for Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and others
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Nothing is more frustrating than buying a new pair of headphones, an OLED, or a backpack just to find out that you could have gotten it for a lot cheaper somewhere else. In order to keep customers happy — and prevent them from going elsewhere — many … Read more
Phones from and by Google: a visual history of the Pixel and its predecessors
The 2016 Google Pixel next to the 2017 Google Pixel 2. This is the midpoint in Google’s journey of delivering phones by Google. | Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Several years ago, if someone told you they had an Android phone, then it would have been safe to assume they were not talking … Read more
DoorDash Outage
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Jq Internals: Backtracking (2017)
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Daily Crunch: Google will use private subsea cable to launch its first full-scale cloud region in Africa
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Happy Wednesday! Haje is enjoying a well-deserved day off, but I’m here to dive into some news with you. Let’s join hands and jump in at the same time, shall we? — … Read more
SpaceX notches eighth human spaceflight mission with Crew-5
SpaceX successfully launched another batch of astronauts to the International Space Station Wednesday, part of an ongoing astronaut transportation contract with NASA. Like the company’s seven other human spaceflight missions, it was completely routine — and that’s what made it so remarkable. The Crew-5 mission (so named because it’s SpaceX’s fifth crewed mission with NASA’s … Read more
Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China
Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country’s quinquennial party congress that will see a top leadership reshuffle. Greater censorship is not at all uncommon during countries’ politically sensitive periods, but the stress facing censorship circumvention tools in China … Read more
The shortest pull request ever
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How to use Microsoft’s new Windows HDR Calibration app
Photo by Cameron Faulkner / The Verge Back in February, Microsoft announced that an HDR Calibration app to help Windows 11 users optimize color accuracy and consistency for gaming on their HDR displays was on its way. The app, spotted by Thurrott, has now arrived and is available for download. The app includes three test … Read more
Startups and VCs are increasingly embracing the federal government. Here’s why
On paper, the federal government looks like an ideal customer for an enterprise startup: Its seemingly endless budget doesn’t fluctuate with market conditions and it’s always in the market for new tech. But it’s a slog to break into, and for a long time, startups and VCs didn’t seem to want to associate with it. … Read more