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Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting on August 4 or face a daily ~€89,500 fine  —  Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.  —  3 MINUTES READ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Louisville-based JumpCloud says a state-backed hacking group breached its systems on June 22 via a spear-phishing attack targeting a small set of its customers  —  US-based enterprise software firm JumpCloud says a state-backed hacking group breached its systems almost one month ago as part … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Over a dozen current and former Roblox employees say the company is not doing enough to address concerns about diversity and women and minority marginalization  —  Current and former employees say Roblox’s efforts have not gone far enough to address their concerns Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft plans to discontinue Games with Gold on September 1 and to replace Xbox Live Gold with Xbox Game Pass Core, which includes 25+ games, on September 14  —  Microsoft is launching a new Xbox Game Pass Core subscription to replace Xbox Live Gold.  This new Game Pass Core offering … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Millions of sensitive emails have been missent to the .ML domain due to people mistyping the US military’s .MIL domain; Mali retakes control of .ML on July 17  —  Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali’s internet domain Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting on August 4 or face a daily ~€89,500 fine  —  Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.  —  3 MINUTES READ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Yogita Khatri / The Block: Binance completes integrating the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions, after setting up Lightning nodes in June 2023  —  – Binance has completed the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network.  — The news means Binance users can now deposit and withdraw bitcoin via the Layer 2 network. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Singapore-based fintech Thunes, which provides a cross-border B2B payment service, raised a $72M Series C led by Marshall Wace at a $900M+ valuation  —  Thunes, a Singapore and London-based fintech that has built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each other internationally … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: Sources: next week, the European Commission plans to open an investigation into Microsoft for bundling Teams with Office, after deeming concessions insufficient  —  Investigation will centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting August 4 or face a daily fine of €89,500  —  Meta’s social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August.  —  3 MINUTES READ Lees verder op Tech Meme