Vulnerability confirmed on Skylake and Kaby Lake CPU series. Researchers suspect AMD processors are also impacted.
Source: Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability | ZDNet
Proof-of-concept shows researchers opening the Chrome landing page from Edge via Firefox
Source: Researchers ‘break’ Edge with zero-day remote code exploit
Windows Defender with sandbox support rolled out to Windows insiders, but some Windows 10 users can enable it right now.
Source: Windows Defender becomes first antivirus to run inside a sandbox | ZDNet
You launch Edge on your new PC, search for “download Chrome,” and click the first result headed to “google.com” on Bing. You’re now on a phishing website pushing malware, disguised to look like the Chrome download page.
The acquisition is by far IBM’s largest deal ever, and third-biggest in the history of U.S. tech.
Source: IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion