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Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor (Sarah Fallon/Wired)

Sarah Fallon / Wired: Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor  —  In a weird way, I’ve known Ray Holt all my life, but I never knew what he had accomplished—or how his inventions wove their way

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Microsoft's patch for a zero-day privilege escalation Windows bug in June did not fix the vulnerability, which could still be exploited with some adjustments (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: Microsoft’s patch for a zero-day privilege escalation Windows bug in June did not fix the vulnerability, which could still be exploited with some adjustments  —  Back in June, Microsoft released a fix for a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that enabled attackers to increase … Microsoft's patch for a zero-day

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2020 political campaigns secured emails with physical security keys from a nonprofit working with Google and Microsoft; source says Biden's campaign used keys (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: 2020 political campaigns secured emails with physical security keys from a nonprofit working with Google and Microsoft; source says Biden’s campaign used keys  —  – Keys from the likes of Google and Yubico became a hit among campaign workers this year, including in Joe Biden’s campaign. 2020 political campaigns secured emails

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2020 has been the beginning of major streaming exclusivity plays, forcing users to pay for four or five services as big studios prioritize their own platforms (Julia Alexander/The Verge)

Julia Alexander / The Verge: 2020 has been the beginning of major streaming exclusivity plays, forcing users to pay for four or five services as big studios prioritize their own platforms  —  End-of-year turnover is always rough, and it’s going to get worse  —  Two of the biggest movies people want to talk about this

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Interview with Microsoft's VP of gaming ecosystem Sarah Bond, a former T-Mobile executive, on lowering entry barriers by selling Xbox as a subscription (Gene Park/Washington Post)

Gene Park / Washington Post: Interview with Microsoft’s VP of gaming ecosystem Sarah Bond, a former T-Mobile executive, on lowering entry barriers by selling Xbox as a subscription  —  The launch of the new series of Xbox consoles is actually unlike any other console launch in the industry’s history … Interview with Microsoft's VP of

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With 31% market share, MediaTek becomes the biggest smartphone SoC vendor globally in Q3, surpassing Qualcomm, which remains the largest 5G chipset vendor (Ankit Malhotra/Counterpoint Research)

Ankit Malhotra / Counterpoint Research: With 31% market share, MediaTek becomes the biggest smartphone SoC vendor globally in Q3, surpassing Qualcomm, which remains the largest 5G chipset vendor  —  – More than 100 million smartphones were sold globally with MediaTek chipsets in Q3 2020.  — Qualcomm led the market for 5G chipsets in Q3 2020.

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