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Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech:Q&A with Intel EVP Dr. Ann Kelleher on lessons learned from the company’s misadventures with 10nm process nodes, its vision for Foundry Services, and moreIt’s somewhat of an understatement to say that Intel’s future roadmap on its process node development is one of the most aggressive in the history of semiconductor design and text correction. Click here to read full news..

The filter is not from Zoom itself but came pre-installed on Dell laptops. Click here to read full news..

The Git team has issued an update to fix a bug in Git for Windows that “affects multi-user hardware where untrusted parties have write access to the same hard disk,” reports The Register. Specifically, the update is concerned with CVE-2022-24765. From the report: Arguably, if an “untrusted party” has write access to a hard disk, then all bets are off when it comes to the nooks and crannies of a PC anyway. In this case, the miscreants would only need to create the folder c:.git, “which would be picked up by Git operations run supposedly outside a repository while searching…

Megan Graham / CNBC:Zuckerberg says Apple is one of Facebook’s biggest competitors and uses its dominant position to preference apps like iMessage against WhatsApp and Messenger- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the opening remarks of the company’s fourth quarter earnings call to blast Apple Click here to read full news..

Rick Whiting / CRN:Big data analytics startup Kyligence, whose founders created Apache Kylin at eBay in Shanghai, raises $70M Series D, bringing its total raised to $118MKyligence develops an advanced data analytics platform, based on the open-source Apache Kylin analytics engine, that’s capable Click here to read full news..

Amy Lewin / Sifted:Dublin-based food ordering service Flipdish raises 40M round from Tiger Global ManagementPre-Covid, says McCarthy, lots of restaurants relied on platforms like Deliveroo for a small portion of orders, but when everything moved online, they realised they weren’t making a whole load Click here to read full news..

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:UK-based Africa-focused payments startup PalmPay raised a $100M Series A in August 2021, after raising a $40M seed in 2019, and says it has 5M usersAfrica-focused payments startup PalmPay raised a $100 million Series A round last year. TechCrunch spotted this news in Partech Africa’s latest end Click here to read full news..

Sam Byford / The Verge:Xiaomi unveils global version of its Mi 11 flagship with Snapdragon 888, 6.8-inch 1440p OLED 120Hz display, and up to 265GB storage, starting at 749The latest Xiaomi flagship to leave ChinaXiaomi is announcing the international version of its Mi 11 flagship phone today after an earlier release in China. Click here to read full news..

Microsoft Edge recently gained a feature that allows people to pay for online purchases in installments. It’s known as buy now, pay later (BNPL), and it’s currently in testing on Microsoft Edge Dev and Canary. The option drew criticism from fans and users of the browser that expressed frustration in the comments section of the post announcing the feature. From a report: The center of most complaints is the belief that Microsoft Edge is becoming bloated with shopping features rather than delivering a pure browsing experience. BNPL is optional, but its detractors are against the concept of Edge having shopping…

“The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released this week its own custom web browser,” reports ZDNet, “for the sole purpose of re-enabling Adobe Flash Player support, rather than port its existing website from using Flash to HTML-based web forms.”To prevent the app from continuing to be used in the real-world to the detriment of users and their security, Adobe began blocking Flash content from playing inside the app starting January 12, with the help of a time-bomb mechanism… As SARS tweeted on January 12, the agency was impacted by the time-bomb mechanism, and starting that day, the agency was…