Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism  —  RIP Twitter (2007-2023)  —  On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter’s headquarters on Market Street. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023  —  The response to the CFTC complaint is due on July 27 and the defendants plan to submit motions to dismiss, according to a court filing on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: A Google researcher finds a vulnerability in AMD’s Zen 2 chips, giving access to secure information like encryption keys; AMD expects most patches to come in Q4  —  A huge Zen 2 leak requires a patch. … Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google Information Security, posted today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: Researchers find, in a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags  —  Happy Monday!  Send news tips and summer podcast recommendations to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: A Web Integrity API standard proposal from Google employees aims to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, but is a nightmare for the open web  —  It’s just a “proposal,” but it’s also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.  —  Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: Adobe’s $20B Figma deal faces an in-depth EU probe as Adobe won’t offer remedies for potential competition concerns, after the UK began a similar probe  —  – EU regulators to follow UK with lengthy review of takeover  — US watchdogs also gearing up for lawsuit opposing the deal Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vitalik Buterin: A deep dive on “proof of personhood”, achieved via biometric or social-graph-based systems alongside public keys, related privacy issues, and Worldcoin’s plans  —  Special thanks to the Worldcoin team, the Proof of Humanity community and Andrew Miller for discussion. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kim Zetter / Wired: Researchers find flaws, likely backdoors, in encryption algorithms from the TETRA standard used in radios commonly deployed by police and military orgs globally  —  A secret encryption cipher baked into radio systems used by critical infrastructure workers, police, and others around the world is finally seeing sunlight. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US court jury says Google violated a software developer’s patent rights related to streaming tech used in Chromecast devices and must pay $338.7M in damages  —  Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) violated a software developer’s patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and must pay $338.7 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok rolls out support for text posts, available via the app’s Camera page and letting users add sounds, locations, stickers, and more  —  As Twitter shoots itself in the foot with a rebrand this morning, TikTok has announced that it’s rolling out support for text posts. Lees verder op Tech Meme