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Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston's subway fare system; the transit authority invited them to present their work, a contrast to its response 15 years ago (Andy Greenberg/Wired) 11-08-2023

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Teens replicated a 2008 hack of Boston’s subway fare system; the transit authority invited them to present their work, a contrast to its response 15 years ago  —  In 2008, Boston’s transit authority sued to stop MIT hackers from presenting at the Defcon hacker conference on how to get free subway rides. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distribution development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch) 11-08-2023

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ launch the Open Enterprise Linux Association to foster RHEL-based distribution development, after Red Hat limited RHEL source code access  —  The fallout from Red Hat’s recent decision to make it harder to access to the source code of its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution continues. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that “communications-like customer content” won't be used to train AI models (Jay Peters/The Verge) 11-08-2023

Jay Peters / The Verge: Zoom updates its terms of service and a recent blog post to explicitly say that “communications-like customer content” won’t be used to train AI models  —  Zoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing its generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B (Reuters) 11-08-2023

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

At an Australian parliamentary hearing, an X executive defended restoring a user who shared CSAM as an example of posting “out of outrage to raise awareness” (Josh Taylor/The Guardian) 11-08-2023

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: At an Australian parliamentary hearing, an X executive defended restoring a user who shared CSAM as an example of posting “out of outrage to raise awareness”  —  At Australian parliamentary hearing, company points to content being shared ‘out of outrage to raise awareness of an issue’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zoom updates its terms of service and rewords a recent blog to explicitly say that “communications-like customer content” won't be used to train AI models (Jay Peters/The Verge) 11-08-2023

Jay Peters / The Verge: Zoom updates its terms of service and rewords a recent blog to explicitly say that “communications-like customer content” won’t be used to train AI models  —  Zoom has updated its terms of service and reworded a blog post explaining recent terms of service changes referencing its generative AI tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B (Reuters) 11-08-2023

Reuters: ION Group, which sells trading, analytics, and other financial market tools, plans to acquire Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme

X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count” (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) 11-08-2023

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: X lowers its eligibility threshold for ad revenue sharing from 15M to 5M impressions in the past three months; Musk: “only views from verified handles count”  —  Elon Musk-owned social network X, formerly Twitter, said late Thursday that it is lowering requirements for its creator payout program. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources and docs detail Worldcoin's struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people's eyes and allowing multiple signups per person, and more (Richard Nieva/Forbes) 11-08-2023

Richard Nieva / Forbes: Sources and docs detail Worldcoin’s struggle to define its purpose, the orb not scanning Asian people’s eyes and allowing multiple signups per person, and more  —  Is it a crypto company?  A biometric authentication platform?  A “human economic system”?  Inside Worldcoin’s struggle to find itself. Lees verder op Tech Meme

ION Group, which develops trading, analytics, and other software for financial markets, to buy Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B (Reuters) 11-08-2023

Reuters: ION Group, which develops trading, analytics, and other software for financial markets, to buy Italian credit management company Prelios, sources say for €1.35B  —  U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner Capital Management (DK) said on Friday it had agreed to sell Prelios to fintech firm ION Group … Lees verder op Tech Meme