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Investigation details how a man became a burglary suspect when police used a "geofence warrant" to gather Google location data from devices near a crime scene (Jon Schuppe/NBC News)

Jon Schuppe / NBC News: Investigation details how a man became a burglary suspect when police used a “geofence warrant” to gather Google location data from devices near a crime scene  —  “I was using an app to see how many miles I rode my bike and now it was putting me at the scene

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Researchers detail two new side channel attacks that can leak secret data from all AMD CPUs made between 2011 and 2019 (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Researchers detail two new side channel attacks that can leak secret data from all AMD CPUs made between 2011 and 2019  —  AMD processors from 2011 to 2019 impacted  —  A new paper released by the Graz University of Technology details two new “Take A Way” attacks, Collide+Probe and Load+Reload

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Kang-Xing Jin, friend of Mark Zuckerberg and long-time Facebook employee, is leading efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about coronavirus on the site (Issie Lapowsky/Protocol)

Issie Lapowsky / Protocol: Kang-Xing Jin, friend of Mark Zuckerberg and long-time Facebook employee, is leading efforts to stop the spread of misinformation about coronavirus on the site  —  As the company works to contain coronavirus misinformation, Facebook’s head of health steps into the spotlight. Kang-Xing Jin, friend of Mark Zuckerberg and long-time Facebook employee,

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When former tech execs reinvent themselves as experts on taming Big Tech, they seize attention and resources, which undermines the work of independent activists (Maria Farrell/The Conversationalist)

Maria Farrell / The Conversationalist: When former tech execs reinvent themselves as experts on taming Big Tech, they seize attention and resources, which undermines the work of independent activists  —  The tech executive turned data justice warrior is celebrated as a truth-telling hero, but there’s something a bit too smooth about this narrative arc. When

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Equinix, a leading provider of colocation services, says it has closed its acquisition of bare metal cloud provider Packet for $335M in a deal announced in Jan. (Yevgeniy Sverdlik/Data Center Knowledge)

Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: Equinix, a leading provider of colocation services, says it has closed its acquisition of bare metal cloud provider Packet for $335M in a deal announced in Jan.  —  The colocation giant’s platform-building endeavor enters a whole new phase.  —  Equinix has closed its acquisition of Packet … Equinix, a

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