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    • Samsung says it has developed a 5nm semiconductor process using its Extreme Ultra Violet tech and expects to commercialize it in 2020 (Cho Mu-Hyun/ZDNet)

    Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: Samsung says it has developed a 5nm semiconductor process using its Extreme Ultra Violet tech and expects to commercialize it in 2020  —  Samsung Electronics has successfully developed a 5nm semiconductor process to gain more chip-making clients, pushing Moore’s Law to its limit. Samsung says it has developed a 5nm semiconductor

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    • Behind the scenes: Electrum hackers steal $4M with Bitcoin phishing attacks

    Electrum Bitcoin wallet users have lost 771 BTC (approximately $4 million) since late December 2018, in an ongoing series of targeted phishing attacks. According to research released by Malwarebytes Labs, fraudsters were able to trick unsuspecting users into downloading a malicious version of the wallet by exploiting a weakness in the software. In February, the developers behind

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    • Salesforce acquires Salesforce.org, which had been a public benefit corporation, for $300M, will integrate it as part of a new nonprofit and education vertical (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Salesforce acquires Salesforce.org, which had been a public benefit corporation, for $300M, will integrate it as part of a new nonprofit and education vertical  —  Salesforce yesterday announced a move to reposition how it provides software to and works with non-profits like educational institutions … Salesforce acquires Salesforce.org, which had been

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    • Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad (Guilherme Rambo/9to5Mac)

    Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad  —  It’s undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display.  Apple ships computers … Sources: Apple is

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    • Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won't be released this year (Peter Rubin/Wired)

    Peter Rubin / Wired: Sony says its next-gen PlayStation console will be backward-compatible, support 8K graphics with ray tracing, and have an SSD, but won’t be released this year  —  MARK CERNY WOULD like to get one thing out of the way right now: The videogame console that Sony has spent the past four years

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    • Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

    Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics  —  Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points.  —  A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google … Mozilla executives reflect on how Google

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    • Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

    Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Leapwork, which develops a process automation platform that can be used by non-technical staff, raises $10M Series A led by DN Capital and e.ventures  —  Most work involving computers is highly repetitive, which is why companies regularly have developers write code to automate repetitive tasks. Leapwork, which develops a process automation

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    • Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Facebook will discontinue P2P payments in Messenger in the UK and France on June 15; the service will remain active in the US  —  Facebook is pulling away from its ambitions to provide peer-to-peer money transfers via Messenger in Europe.  Today, the company announced that it would be discontinuing … Facebook

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    • Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded (Wired)

    Wired: Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded  —  Scandals.  Backstabbing.  Resignations.  Record profits.  Time Bombs.  In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook. Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over

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    • This location tracking tech could save your life across the EU in 2020

    Advanced Mobile Location (AML) has been one of the biggest technological developments for emergency services around the globe. Once enabled, AML automatically activates the geo-locating capabilities of smartphones all over the world during emergency calls — sending locations to dispatchers that are 4,000 times more accurate than was previously possible. There’s just one problem, only

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