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Intel was aware of the chip vulnerability when its CEO sold off $24 million in company stock

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich sold off $24 million worth of stock and options in the company in late November.

The stock sale came after Intel was informed by Google of a significant vulnerability in its chips â a flaw that only became public this week.

Intel says the stock sale was unrelated to the vulnerability, but came as part of a planned divestiture program.

But Krzanich put that stock sale plan in place in October â several months after Intel was informed of the vulnerability.

In fact, Google informed Intel of the vulnerability in June, an Intel representative told Business Insider in a statement.

That means Intel was aware of the problem before Krzanich sold off a big chunkÂ of his holdings.

It closed down $1.59, or 3.4%, to $45.26. Get the latest Intel stock price here. »

After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband

Authored by arstechnica.com

Last night's city council vote came after residents of Fort Collins approved a ballot question that authorized the city to build a broadband network.

Residents approved the ballot question despite an anti-municipal broadband lobbying campaign backed by groups funded by Comcast and CenturyLink.

The Fort Collins City Council voted 7-0 to approve the broadband-related measures, a city government spokesperson confirmed to Ars today. »

Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians

Authored by theguardian.com

Genetic analysis of a baby girl who died at the end of the last ice age shows she belonged to a previously unknown ancient group of Native Americans.

A baby girl who lived and died in what is now Alaska at the end of the last ice age belonged to a previously unknown group of ancient Native Americans, according to DNA recovered from her bones.

The newly-discovered group, named “ancient Beringians”, appears to have split off from the founding population of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago. »

Lucky break: Edgewater mother of two wins $5M on ticket bought by mistake

Authored by northjersey.com

Oksana Zaharov, a 46-year-old mother of two from Edgewater, won a $5 million prize on a scratch-off lottery ticket she bought on a whim while shopping in Manhattan.

EDGEWATER — A spur-of-the-moment lottery purchase landed a North Jersey mother of two a $5 million prize last week.

Oksana Zaharov, 46, was shopping in Manhattan when she decided to buy a $1 scratch-off ticket. »

Jon Bernthal to his "alt-right" Punisher fans: "Fuck them"

Authored by avclub.com

In some ways, Marvel’s The Punisher—a guy powered by little more than boundless rage, easy access to guns, and a spirit of classic, all-American murderous industriousness—is the quintessential conservative superhero.

That doesn’t mean the Netflix show’s star, Jon Bernthal, has any time for the modern trolls of the internet right-wing, though, bluntly telling any “alt-right” fans of his work that they can promptly go fuck themselves.

According to Bernthal, he’s proud to play a character whose symbol appears on the jackets and helmets of American soldiers fighting in foreign countries. »