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GM buys Uber rival Sidecar, which shut down in December

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General Motors has acquired the technology and most of the employees behind the now-defunct ride-hailing startup Sidecar, according to Bloomberg. Sidecar Co-founder and CEO Sunil Paul will apparently not be joining the company, but no explanation was given as to why.

The deal bolsters GM’s move into the driverless quasi-taxi space—earlier...

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December Patch Tuesday avalanche of patches includes leaked Xbox certificate

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Today, Microsoft issued three new security advisories and a dozen new patches in the company’s monthly round of security updates. And one of the advisories was apparently the result of a security fumble by Microsoft's internal IT team: the inadvertent disclosure of the private encryption keys for a wildcard SSL/TLS certificate.

The certificate, which...

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