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Amazon Echo turned into snooping device by Chinese hackers
'Alexa, snoop on the West'
Intel to launch X599 platform for its 28-core Skylake-X CPU
That's providing the chip is legit
DeepMind's AI can spot diseases as accurately as ocular docs
94 per cent of the time, it works every time
Nvidia's Turing-powered Quadro GPUs are 'first' built for ray-tracing
But you probably can't afford them
Machine learning algorithms can identify anonymous programmers
Boffins have figured out how to spot fingerprints in coders' style
Intel's first batch of 9th-gen chips will likely arrive on 1 October
Expect a performance hike but nothing revolutionary this year
AMD Radeon Pro WX8200 packs 10.8 teraflops of pixel pushing power
Team Red takes aim at Nvidia's Quadro cards
Lenovo's ThinkPad P1 and P72 get sh*t done with Xeon CPUs, Quadro graphics
Firm touts mobile workstations as 'thinnest, lightest and sleekest' ever
Intel made bank flogging Xeon chips for AI in 2017
Firm estimates it grabbed $1bn from AI-related chip sales last year
Firefox has a decade-old bug that serves users Apple and crypto scams
But odd 'drag and drop' flaw is unlikely too much of a threat
Apple: No, we're not listening to iPhone users' conversations
And it doesn't let third-party apps snoop on users either, firm tells lawmakers
WhatsApp encryption flaw could let hackers cause group chat havoc
Check Point boffins warn that conversations could be manipulated
Samsung's Galaxy S7 is vulnerable to Meltdown exploit, researchers claim
And 'hundreds of millions' of other phones could be affected
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 670 packs high-end features into a mid-range chip
Expect to find it in Honor, Nokia and Motorola phones at some point
Fallout 76 will abandon Steam in favour of Bethesda's own site
Fallout 76 breaks out of the Steam vault
Snapchat source code leaked to GitHub after botched iOS app update
Snap managed to get the sensitive code expunged
Pentagon bans use of fitness trackers and geolocation apps in sensitive military areas
US soldiers won't be able to track how jacked and hench they're getting
Samsung starts cranking out 4-bit high-capacity SSDs
Hopefully this'll drive down terrabyte SSD prices
Google purges 145 Android apps infected with, er, Windows malware
Malware from developers' PCs creeps over to Android apps
Facebook wants your financial data, but only to power chat bots
Social network claims it won't snoop on users' purchases
TSMC says variant of WannaCry forced factory shutdown
Virus made its way onto unpatched Windows 7 machines running critical systems
OpenAI's Dota 2 bots trounce semi-pro players
Puny humans struggle to compete in one of the nerdiest games around
Fortnite for Android will snub Google Play as Epic looks to maximise profits
Epic wants more money and a better relationship with its gamers
AMD unveils custom Ryzen and Vega APU destined for Chinese games consoles
Get ready for a trip or some hefty importing if you want one
Elon Musk's Tesla to drop Nvidia hardware in favour of its own AI chips
Firm will have more control over the hardware plonked in its autonomous systems
DoJ nabs three top Ukrainian cybercrims from 'FIN7' hacking group
US Department of Justice is stretching the long arm of the law
Amnesty International staff targeted by Israeli-made 'Pegasus' spyware
Surveillance tool was developed by Israeli hacking company NSO Group
Facebook's security chief is leaving and he won't be replaced
Alex Stamos is off to Stamford University
Facebook kills user data access for hundreds of thousands of third-party apps
Masses of apps fail to meet Facebook's 1 August re-submission deadline
Nintendo brings Switch anti-piracy measures to the 3DS
Ninty wants to sink software pirates with extreme prejudice
Intel roadmap leak points to Core i9-9900K release in September
Firm looks set to stick 14nm process for the foreseeable
Facebook uncovers 'inauthentic' anti-Trump political campaign on its social network
Political messages looked to manipulate the US midterm elections
Acer Swift 5 review
Acer's superlight laptop takes aim at the ultraportable crown
OpenAI's robot hand system learns to cop a feel like a human
The AI learns through doing....which isn't creepy at all
HP launches 'first of its kind' bug bounty program for, er, printers
That's providing bug hunters find printers that actually work
Google finally brings Chrome to its Daydream VR platform
Get ready to browse with your frickin face
Steam game 'Abstractism' accused of turning users' PCs into crypto-miners
Sneaky software slides scripts and malware into victims' computers
Dell's XPS 13 Developer Edition now ships with Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS
And PC maker promises more Linux-powered lappys are coming
AMD Threadripper 2990WX listing outs CPU's hefty £1,400 price-tag
Core blimey, Threadripper; more like wallet ripper... I'll get my coat
Samsung SmartThings Hub vulnerabilities leave smart home devices open to attack
Cisco Talos' researchers uncover 20 bugs in firm's IoT controller
Inside Dolby's bid to shake up cinema and smartphone tech
A brand you probably don't care about is a big innovator behind the curtains
Intel's Core i9-9900K trounces AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X in alleged 3DMark benchmarks
Intel's next chip also breezes past its 8th-gen Core i7-8700K predecessor
Boffins just made it tougher to trick iris scanners with, er, dead eyeballs
Gruesome hacking won't get cyber crims far
Valve reworks Steam Chat with an eye on Discord
Valve still doesn't seem to want to make games
Google takes on Yubico with its self-made Titan Security Key
2FA key will be made available to the general unwashed in the 'coming months'
Facebook loses one million European users to GDPR
Who gives a Zuck?
Intel's 9th-gen Core i9, i7, and i5 CPUs detailed as full specs leak
Coffee Lake S chips look to have a good dollop of compute grunt
Next-gen Xbox might have hardware dedicated to 'XCloud' game streaming
'Scarlett Cloud' will use Microsoft's cloud infrastructure to stream Xbox games