Tech Meme

Matt Burgess / Wired: Building on ForcedEntry, Trellix researchers find now-fixed iOS and macOS bugs related to NSPredicate that could have let attackers bypass Apple’s sandbox  —  Security researchers found a class of flaws that, if exploited, would allow an attacker to access people’s messages, photos, and call history. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Amazon’s stock decline over the past year has roiled the company’s stock-heavy compensation plan, causing 2023 pay to be 15%-50% below Amazon’s targets  —  Stock-heavy compensation plan means employees to receive 15% to 50% below projected pay targets Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Meta plans to update its TOS for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp users in the UK and begin moving those users from its Irish subsidiary onto US agreements  —  Meta Platforms Inc. will begin moving its UK users away from the company’s Irish subsidiary and onto US agreements in a move the social-media giant flagged post-Brexit. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Greg Bensinger / Reuters: Over 200 e-books in Amazon’s Kindle Store listed ChatGPT as an author as of mid-February, as some worry that the AI boom could turn the craft into a commodity  —  Until recently, Brett Schickler never imagined he could be a published author, though he had dreamed about it. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The European Commission plans to propose a law in Q2 2023 aimed at improving cooperation between national regulators investigating cross-border GDPR violations  —  The European Union is (finally) coming to grips with the dysfunctionalities of its most famous tech law of all: the General Data Protection Regulation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok plans to let more researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access “public, anonymized” data through its API, after testing access in November 2022  —  TikTok will let researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access public data, the company announced today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Washington Post: A live blog of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, stemming from an Islamic State attack in Paris in 2015, and Twitter v. Taamneh on Wednesday  —  The Supreme Court on Tuesday is hearing oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a lawsuit that argues tech companies should be legally liable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Clothilde Goujard / Politico: The European Commission plans to propose a law in Q2 2023 to improve cooperation by national regulators on cross-border investigations into GDPR violations  —  The European Union is (finally) coming to grips with the dysfunctionalities of its most famous tech law of all: the General Data Protection Regulation. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust: A Microsoft forum post from November 23, 2022 describes AI chatbot Sydney “misbehaving” and being “so rude”, suggesting the company knew about its quirks  —  A new discovery that makes a curious story a whole lot more curious  —  We all know by now just how off the rails Bing can get. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mia Sato / The Verge: TikTok plans to let more researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access “public, anonymized” data through its API, after testing in November 2022  —  TikTok will let researchers at US-based nonprofit universities access public data, the company announced today … Lees verder op Tech Meme