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Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

03:02 - Microsoft sent out an advisory on Friday detailing an under-attack zero-day vulnerability for Internet Explorer.

09:24 - Pine64's $200 pro-grade Linux laptop is now available with a US keyboard, and customers who pre-ordered theirs are receiving the first shipment now.

17:15 - A security shocker out of Microsoft as it has been revealed that 250 million customer records have been exposed online.

24:13 - Not to create false hope, but this is too huge not to mention: Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered a part of our immune system that can kill prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.

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01:13 - Patrick Stewart appeared on The View this week, and personally invited host Whoopi Goldberg to appear in the second season of Star Trek: Picard.

Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

04:58 - PayPal has confirmed that a researcher found a high-severity security vulnerability that could expose user passwords to an attacker.

09:48 - A vulnerability in Broadcom's cable modem firmware has left as many as 200 million home broadband gateways in Europe, and potentially more worldwide, at risk of remote hijackings.

12:06 - Apple has begun selling the rack-mountable variant of its Mac Pro desktop computer.

13:40 - The PinePhone is an affordable Linux smartphone created by Pine64, makers of the Pinebook Pro laptop, the RockPro64 and Pine64 single board computer.

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00:56 - Late last month Citrix disclosed a critical security hole in both its Application Delivery Controller and Unified Gateway offerings. Up to 80,000 systems were thought to be at risk, with some 25,000 instances found online over the weekend.

02:41 - Support for Windows 7 is over. For security, software updates and other reasons, it's time to stop procrastinating and make the move to Windows 10.

Full Stories: https://category5.tv/shows/newsroom/episode/639/

Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

04:06 - US convenience store Wawa recently discovered malware that skimmed customers' payment card data at just about all of its 850 stores.

06:10 - Scientists have developed a brain implant that can read people's minds and turn their thoughts to speech.

11:22 - With criticism mounting, Amazon's Ring revealed a web dashboard of privacy controls it hopes will slash the number of horror stories coming from customers.

15:39 - A plant-based pork substitute has been launched at CES by one of the leading "alternative meat" producers.

21:22 - Google announced on Tuesday all of the new capabilities it's adding to its voice assistant, including various additions to the way it handles privacy.

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01:03 - CES may be flooded with new tech coming out soon, but it's also a great place for companies to show off new things that they're working on.

02:12 - Sony -- yes, Sony -- has even demonstrated its electric car concept. They didn't suggest that this is meant for the public, but rather is being used as a platform for them to demonstrate some of their up-and-coming sensor and entertainment tech.

03:03 - As expected, the PS5 is shaping more than the future of gaming. The next-gen console is inspiring their home cinema devices as well, with Sony's newest TVs made specifically with the PS5 in mind, along with its 8K resolution.

Full Stories: https://category5.tv/shows/newsroom/episode/638/

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Here are the stories we are following this week in the Category5.TV Newsroom:

03:57 - In what the BBC says is their biggest test of machine-generated journalism so far, BBC News published a news story for every constituency that declared election results overnight - all written by a computer.

07:16 - A Russian police raid on Nginx's Moscow office last Thursday has raised concerns among users of the popular web and proxy server software.

15:36 - It's clear that Linux is ruling the world of supercomputers as the latest from Top500 reports that Linux is now the operating system of choice on all of the fastest 500 supercomputers in the world.

18:19 - In late January, the wife of a cryptocurrency-exchange founder testified that her husband inadvertently took at least $137 million of customer assets to the grave when he died without giving anyone the password to his encrypted laptop. Now, outraged investors want to exhume the founder's body to make sure he's really dead.

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01:16 - HP is fighting a very real environmental problem by building their laptops out of ocean-bound plastics.

02:16 - A new high-end Linux laptop has launched that is more powerful than a Macbook Pro, and could even give System76's Oryx Pro a run for its money.

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