Tech Meme

Alex Webb / Bloomberg: How Lionel Messi coming to MLS may help Apple attract international TV+ subscribers, as the service has almost no content made for non-English-speaking markets  —  Messi+ Apple TV+ has come a long way in a relatively short period of time.  The streaming service won an Academy Award for best picture with CODA. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Krebs / Financial Times: The SEC’s recent cyber regulations should drive industry awareness, but the incident reporting rules are redundant, misdirected, and overlap with CISA reporting  —  The new SEC rules are redundant and misdirected: business needs to know how to deal with the government Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: PayPal debuts PYUSD, a Paxos-issued stablecoin and fully backed by USD deposits, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US users gradually  —  – PayPal USD will be pegged to dollar, issued by Paxos Trust  — Stablecoins have yet to take off in consumer-payment sector Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Researchers: North Korean hackers placed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for at least five months in 2022 to see emails and more  —  An elite group of North Korean hackers secretly breached computer networks at a major Russian missile developer for at least five months … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: Black Twitter users have become a “digital diaspora” searching for a replacement after Elon Musk’s takeover, such as Mastodon, Threads, Spoutible, and Fanbase  —  The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a “digital diaspora” in search of a new home. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: How a false facial recognition match led to Detroit police wrongfully arresting a Black woman for carjacking and robbery, the first such known case for a woman  —  Porcha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Matishak / The Record: White House unveils cyber initiatives to bolster the defenses of K-12 schools, including $200M over three years from the FCC, amid increasing ransomware attacks  —  The Biden administration on Monday will announce a host of federal and private industry initiatives to strengthen the digital defenses … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Zoom updates terms letting it use customer data to train AI; Zoom says only for users who consented, but consent must be given to enable generative AI features  —  – Zoom’s terms of service update establishes the video platform’s right to use some customer data for training its AI models. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Bing Chat, which previously was only available in Microsoft products like the Edge browser and Bing app, is coming to third-party browsers, including on mobile  —  In late July, Microsoft confirmed its ChatGPT-like Bing Chat was testing in third-party browsers like Chrome and Safari … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: After social media upended the fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack for curated recommendations  —  People still want to know what to wear and what is actually worth buying — and they want to trust the person telling them. Lees verder op Tech Meme