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Microsoft’s Pluton security processor debuts on AMD chips in new Lenovo ThinkPad laptops

GeekWire

But beneath the environmentally friendly hardware there’s another innovation: Microsoft’s Pluton security processor. Pluton takes security technologies that otherwise exist in a separate hardware component in Windows PCs and integrates them directly into the central processing unit.

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IDF 2013 Keynote, Day 1

Scott Lowe

So, in the transition from servers to desktops to notebooks to tablets to phones and next to the “Internet of Things,” the volume of computing increases. Krzanich talks about how this migration to the “Internet of Things” drives Intel away from CPU-centric architectures into integrated (i.e.,

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IDF 2013: Keynote, Day 2

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 2 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 in San Francisco. He walks through an example of taking a picture of “the most frequently found animal on the Internet—the cat.” They are doing that via Intel Identity Password, which embeds keys into the hardware to enable passwordless VPNs.

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Microsoft Pluton: New chip design draws lessons from Xbox to make Windows PCs more secure

GeekWire

A new architecture for computer processors, unveiled by Microsoft this morning under the name “Pluton,” will take security technologies that currently exist in a separate hardware component in Windows PCs and integrate them directly into the central processing unit, promising a major advance in security.

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Google account hacks dropped by half after pushing two-step authentication by default

The Verge

That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. Twitter, which rolled out two-factor authentication in 2013, revealed in 2020 that only 2.3 Nudging users toward security works.

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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded

The Accidental Successful CIO

Even before the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a pervasive reality, tech experts and public-safety professionals are fretting over the intersection of virtual and real in what they call cyber-physical security. Retrofitted equipment was never designed with both the software and the hardware in mind at the same time.

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Xbox Series X and S: everything you need to know about the next-gen of Xbox

The Verge

And that’s before we get into Microsoft’s game streaming service, xCloud, which could mean you won’t need any Xbox hardware at all to play many of the latest games. It’s not unusual for console manufacturers to offer a couple of different hardware options at launch, but normally, the differences are minor.

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