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Economy
A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
Enlarge Microprocessors from Intel, AMD, and other companies contain a newly discovered weakness that remote attackers can exploit to obtain…
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Economy
Coinbase lays off 18 percent of staff as CEO says, “We grew too quickly”
Enlarge / Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022 in Beverly Hills,…
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Economy
Credentials for thousands of open source projects free for the taking—again!
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A service that helps open source developers write and test software is leaking thousands of authentication…
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Investing
Monetary Progress
(From the entry on “Money,” by Charles Francis Bastable, in the famous 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica): The very…
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Economy
New ultra-stealthy Linux backdoor isn’t your everyday malware discovery
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / iStock) Researchers have unearthed a discovery that doesn’t occur all that often in the realm…
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Investing
Paul Krugman and the “Ersatz” Theory of Private Currencies
Although I’ve devoted many essays here to exploding myths about historical private currencies, there’s one I’ve yet to directly challenge.…
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Economy
Gone in 130 seconds: New Tesla hack gives thieves their own personal key
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last year, Tesla issued an update that made its vehicles easier to start after being unlocked…
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Economy
Feds seize SSNDOB marketplace that listed personal data of 24 million people
Enlarge / Seizure notice on ssndob.ws. Federal law enforcement agencies say they shut down a group of websites that made…
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Economy
$10 billion fund starts giving US states money for broadband expansions
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Alan Schein) The US Treasury Department has started approving broadband grants to states from a…
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Economy
Microsoft won’t say if it will patch critical Windows vulnerability under exploit
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) As hacker groups working continue to hammer a former Windows zero-day that makes it unusually easy…
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