10 things in tech you need to know today

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Good morning! Here's the tech news you need to know this Tuesday.

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1. Netflix's stock shot up 20% after a big earnings beat. Its net international subscriber growth was 3.2 million, and Wall Street was only forecasting 2 million.

2. Apple's secret car project seems wracked with internal strife. It has been labelled an "incredible failure of leadership."

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3. IBM quarterly earnings were a beat all the way around. The stock dropped slightly in after-hours trading.

4. The "Apple of the gaming industry" bought an audio company founded by George Lucas. Razer has acquired THX.

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5. Workers in London's financial centre are being bombarded with ransomware. The City of London is subject to far more of the attacks than anywhere else in Europe, a new study has found.

6. The maker of a $700 (£570) juicer has hired a former Coca-Cola president to be its new CEO. Juicero founder Doug Evans is stepping down.

7. Twitter trolls were part of the reason why Salesforce walked away from a deal. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has said Twitter is "not the right fit" for his company.

8. Aggressive drivers are planning to bully self-driving cars. Because autonomous vehicles will rigidly apply the rules of the road, some drivers intend to drive recklessly around them, a study found.

9. Apple's latest hire could signal a big shift in the company's approach to AI. It has appointed Ruslan Salakhutdinov, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher, as a director of AI research.

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10. UK security agencies unlawfully collected citizens' data for 17 years, The Guardian reports. That's according to a new court ruling.