Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Spotify is testing a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save a mix of users’ recently played songs for offline listening  —  / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20  —  It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hilary Allen / Financial Times: After the SEC’s recent actions and failures of FTX, Celsius, and Luna, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry  —  Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk: A US judge rejects a request to relinquish control over $7.3B in disputed FTX assets; liquidators in the Bahamas argued a local judge should oversee the process  —  Liquidators had argued the assets should be overseen by a court in the Bahamas during a bankruptcy hearing for the exchange on Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Aided by $14B+ in subsidies, a look at Japan’s expanding chip sector, including TSMC’s plant in Kumamoto, which has been hampered by terrible roads and traffic  —  Every morning, some of the world’s top chip engineers can be found stuck in traffic on Kumamoto Prefecture’s Route 30 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $661.4M, vs. $642M est., subscription revenue up 12% YoY, and a $539K net profit, up from a $27.4M net loss in Q1 2022  —  Shares of the e-signature company DocuSign Inc. are trending higher today after it delivered a solid first quarter earnings … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: A group of about 120 Google contract workers employed by Accenture seek to unionize with the Alphabet Workers Union, saying Alphabet is their “joint employer”  —  A group of Alphabet Inc. contract workers are launching a unionization campaign, saying they need a greater voice … Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Perrino / Tech Policy Press: Six US senators reintroduce a bipartisan bill to improve social media transparency, requiring companies to share ad libraries, moderation stats, and more  —  John Perrino is a policy analyst at the Stanford Internet Observatory.  —  The Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: Chris Cox showed Meta’s staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads  —  One of Meta’s top executives showed employees a preview of the company’s upcoming Twitter competitor during … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Heath / The Verge: At an all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg addressed Apple’s Vision Pro, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want”  —  / Zuckerberg directly addressed Apple’s Vision Pro unveiling in a meeting with Meta employees today … Lees verder op Tech Meme