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Modern CPUs Likely Permanently Haunted by Spectre Security Flaws
It's not clear if they can ever be resolved without jettisoning speculative execution, and the tremendous performance benefits it delivers.

Fake-News-Generating AI Deemed Too Dangerous for Public Release
Your friendly neighborhood fake news writer could be out of a job if systems like GPT2 become commonplace. For the time being, the researchers who developed this AI consider it too dangerous to release.

Early Copy of Super Mario Bros. Sells for Record-Setting $100,150
You might think spending $60 on a new AAA video game is a lot, but three video game enthusiasts just spent more than $100,000 on a single game, and they don't even plan to play it.

Western Digital’s RISC-V ‘Swerv’ Core Now Available for Free
Western Digital has announced that it's completed work on its "Swerv" RISC-V CPU core and has published the register-transfer level (RTL) abstraction of the design.

Samsung Won’t Give Up on Android Tablets, Announces the Galaxy Tab S5e
The super-premium Tab S4 arrived last year, and now Samsung has a new midrange tablet: the $400 Galaxy Tab S5e. It's not as fast, but it is impressively thin and light.

NHTSA Claim That Tesla Autosteer Reduced Crashes Proven Bogus
Remember the NHTSA report that claimed Tesla Autopilot cut fatality rates by 40 percent? It wasn't true. It wasn't even close to true.

The Equifax Breach Might Have Been a Foreign Intelligence Operation
Security professionals are starting to suspect this was not the work of a profit-motivated hacker but rather an incredibly successful intelligence operation aimed at spying on US citizens.

Most Website Terms of Service Are Functionally Incomprehensible to Americans
A new analysis of ToS agreements online found that 498 out of 500 of them may be essentially unreadable to average people.

14.8 Million Accounts Compromised in 500px Breach
The first question you have to ask in a situation like this is, "Why are we only hearing about this now?"

Google Decides Android Things Will Only Be for Smart Speakers and Displays
Google announced the nebulous Android Things platform several years ago to power various smart devices as part of the so-called Internet of Things (IoT). Now, Google says it's rethinking the scale of Android Things.

Windows 10 Now Runs on the Raspberry Pi
Ever wanted to run Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi? Now you can. Whether or not you should, well... that's another question.

Abu Dhabi Reportedly Investigating Selling Its Share of GlobalFoundries
There are rumors that Abu Dhabi may be tired of pumping money into the GlobalFoundries venture. The foundry may be being prepped for sale.