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Bloomberg: South Korea passes the K-Chips Act to boost the country’s semiconductor industry by increasing tax credits for companies investing in manufacturing facilities  —  South Korea’s parliament easily approved a bill Thursday to boost the country’s powerhouse semiconductor industry by giving firms tax breaks to spur investments. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manya Saini / Reuters: Memo: Block says 44M of its 51M+ Cash App MAUs were verified via its IDV program as of December 2022, after Hindenburg claimed Block overstated user numbers  —  Block Inc (SQ.N) said on Thursday 44 million of its more 51 million monthly active customers on Cash App were verified through its identity program as of Dec. 31. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found that the flaw could have let anyone alter Bing search results and access users’ Office 365 data  —  A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft’s Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: E3 2023 has been canceled … E3 has been canceled.  Gaming’s big summer show was set to return in person in Los Angeles for the first time since 2019, but it’s been called off after huge gaming companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Ubisoft all said they wouldn’t be participating in the event. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rebekah Valentine / IGN: ESA cancels E3 2023, after Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony, and Ubisoft announced they would not attend the event originally scheduled for June 13 to June 16  —  The show “did not garner the sustained interest necessary”  —  Almost a year after announcing its return, the Entertainment Software … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: E3 2023 has reportedly been canceled … Gaming’s big summer show was set to return in person in Los Angeles for the first time since 2019, but it’s been called off after huge gaming companies like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Ubisoft all said they wouldn’t be participating in the event. Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed, previously verified organizations from paying $1,000 per month for a checkmark  —  Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter’s privacy and data practices. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: Apple wins a US appeal to uphold a patent tribunal’s ruling over two of VirnetX’s VPN patents that invalidated a $502.8M patent infringement verdict from 2020  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) convinced a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to uphold a patent tribunal’s ruling that could imperil … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: Microsoft fixed an Azure vulnerability after researchers found it could have let anyone alter Bing search results and breach Office 365 accounts  —  A dangerous vulnerability was detected in Microsoft’s Bing search engine earlier this year that allowed users to alter search results and access … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Document: Twitter plans to exempt its top 500 advertisers and 10K most-followed orgs that have been previously verified from paying $1K/month for a checkmark  —  Mr. Musk requested a meeting with Lina Khan, the chair of the F.T.C., which has been investigating Twitter’s privacy and data practices. Lees verder op Tech Meme