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Guardio Labs details a campaign using fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) 11-09-2023

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Guardio Labs details a campaign using fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts  —  Hackers use a massive network of fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send out millions of Messenger phishing messages … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering its options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired for $1.4B in February 2021 (Reuters) 11-09-2023

Reuters: Sources: seeking to shore up its finances, Embracer is considering its options for US-based Borderlands developer Gearbox, acquired for $1.4B in February 2021  —  Embracer (EMBRACb.ST) is considering options for its U.S. game developer Gearbox Entertainment including a sale … Lees verder op Tech Meme

WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, revealing how Meta plans to comply with the EU's DMA chat interoperability regulations (WABetaInfo) 11-09-2023

WABetaInfo: WhatsApp releases an Android beta that adds a “Third-party chats” screen, revealing how Meta plans to comply with the EU’s DMA chat interoperability regulations  —  WhatsApp is rolling out a new update through the Google Play Beta Program, bringing the version up to 2.23.19.8. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Microsoft drops software support for the first-generation Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) 11-09-2023

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft drops software support for the first-generation Surface Duo, three years after its launch; the Android smartphone received only two major OS updates  —  On its third birthday, the original Surface Duo is no longer supported by Microsoft.  —  What you need to know Lees verder op Tech Meme

Why there has never been a better time to be an online creator: it might be harder than ever to earn $1M per year, but it has never been easier to make $50K (Hunter Walk) 11-09-2023

Hunter Walk: Why there has never been a better time to be an online creator: it might be harder than ever to earn $1M per year, but it has never been easier to make $50K  —  I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Survey: 22% of US workers worry that tech will replace their job, up from 15% in 2021, 17% in 2019, and 13% in 2017, a jump driven by college-educated workers (Lydia Saad/Gallup) 11-09-2023

Lydia Saad / Gallup: Survey: 22% of US workers worry that tech will replace their job, up from 15% in 2021, 17% in 2019, and 13% in 2017, a jump driven by college-educated workers  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fear of becoming obsolete, or FOBO, remains uncommon among U.S. workers, but it has grown more in the past … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: FTX's estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $2.6B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and ~$200M in 38 properties in the Bahamas (Jack Schickler/CoinDesk) 11-09-2023

Jack Schickler / CoinDesk: Filing: FTX’s estate has now marshalled ~$7B in assets, including $2.6B in cash, $1.16B in solana, $560M in bitcoin, and ~$200M in 38 properties in the Bahamas  —  The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year.  —  Register Now Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nintendo and DeNA tell Mario Kart Tour users that the mobile game won't be updated after October 4, 2023, hinting at Nintendo's lessening focus on mobile titles (Andy Robinson/Video Games Chronicle) 11-09-2023

Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: Nintendo and DeNA tell Mario Kart Tour users that the mobile game won’t be updated after October 4, 2023, hinting at Nintendo’s lessening focus on mobile titles  —  NO NEW TRACKS OR DRIVERS WILL BE RELEASED FROM NEXT MONTH  —  Nintendo and DeNA have confirmed that they will soon stop creating … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A Myanmar official says his ethnic minority militia arrested and repatriated 1,200+ Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations (Associated Press) 11-09-2023

Associated Press: A Myanmar official says his ethnic minority militia arrested and repatriated 1,200+ Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations  —  One of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved … Lees verder op Tech Meme

UK researchers unveil Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace for examining AI's potential role in air traffic control, part of a £15M government project (Clive Cookson/Financial Times) 11-09-2023

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: UK researchers unveil Bluebird, a “digital twin” of English airspace for examining AI’s potential role in air traffic control, part of a £15M government project  —  Project Bluebird is looking at how artificial intelligence could reduce the environmental impact of aviation Lees verder op Tech Meme