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Tech + Social M
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
Daemon Tools users: It’s time to check your machines for stealthy infections stat. Daemon Tools, a widely used app for mounting disk images, has been backdoored in a monthlong compromise that has pushed malicious updates from the servers of its developer, researchers said Tuesday.
AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That’s good news for the Steam Machine.
Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon. Last year, we noted how the long-standing vagaries ofHDMI licensing and open source AMD driver developmentcombined to prevent the upcomingSteam Machine from receiving official support for the HDMI 2.1 display standard.
Economy + Money
Morningstar CEO: I agree with the SEC on ending quarterly reporting—with conditions
The SEC is weighing one of the most significant changes to public company disclosure in decades: moving mandatory reporting from quarterly to semiannual. At Morningstar, we’ve effectively been running that experiment for more than 20 years.
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