Chip biz’s fix involves performance-inhibiting LFENCE, if warranted Computer scientists at TU Dresden in Germany have found that AMD’s Zen processor family is vulnerable to a data-bothering Meltdown-like attack after all.… …read more Source:: Register

HPE joins Apple in warning customers of a high-severity Sudo vulnerability. …read more Source:: Threatpost

PayPal is exploring a possible stock-trading platform, after rolling out the ability to trade cryptocurrencies last year. CNBC reports: The San Jose, California-based company recently hired brokerage industry veteran Rich Hagen as part of the move, according to one of the sources. After leaving Ally Invest, Hagen is now the CEO of a previously unreported…

Another NBN corporate plan, another revision downwards for its finances. …read more Source:: ZDNet

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Seattle Times, written by Katherine Anne Long: Amazon systematically attempts to channel 6% of its office employees out of the company each year, using processes embedded in proprietary software to help meet a target for turnover among low-ranked office workers, a metric Amazon calls “unregretted attrition,” according to…

It’s been two years since we first talked about this, and nothing’s changed. Devices that fool Tesla’s safety systems are seriously dangerous. …read more Source:: CNet

Army looking for AI to layer over daycare CCTV to boost ‘family quality of life.’ …read more Source:: Threatpost

Team up with all your favorite Star Wars characters in this Apple Original coming soon. …read more Source:: CNet

Jason Statham is also slated to return. …read more Source:: CNet

Have you ever found yourself suddenly in need of finding a small metal object hidden in the woods? No? Well, neither have we. But we can’t say the same thing for [zaphod], who’s family was hoping to settle a dispute by finding the surveyor stakes that marked the corners of their property. It was a…