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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC is requiring carriers to block SMS messages from “invalid, unallocated, or unused numbers”, targeting the increase in scam robotexts sent to consumers  —  First robotext rule requires blocking of texts from invalid and unused numbers.  —  The Federal Communications … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: New Zealand plans to ban TikTok on all devices with access to the parliamentary network by the end of March 2023 because of cybersecurity concerns  —  New Zealand will ban TikTok on devices with access to the parliamentary network because of cybersecurity concerns, a government official said on Friday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: SpectrumAi, which offers tools like EHR for applied behavior analysis therapy for autism patients, raised up to a $20M Series A led by CVS Health Ventures  —  The funds will be used to accelerate the adoption of the platform’s applied behavior analysis-focused tools. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Google’s Project Zero finds 18 zero-day vulnerabilities, including four top-severity flaws, affecting some Samsung phones and other devices with Exynos chipsets  —  Google’s security research unit is sounding the alarm on a set of vulnerabilities it found in certain Samsung chips included … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Kozlowski / Good e-Reader: Amazon stops selling newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print, and plans to shut down Kindle Newsstand in September 2023  —  Amazon has announced they are abandoning the Kindle for Periodicals or the Kindle Newsstand, which will completely shutter on September 2023. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, but not by whom, initially for iOS users on the tweet details page, with plans to expand  —  Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by.  There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patricia Nilsson / Financial Times: Private equity firm Ethical Capital Partners acquires Pornhub owner MindGeek, which had $460M in 2018 revenue and sources say profit margins near 50% at times  —  MindGeek acquired by Ethical Capital Partners for undisclosed sum  —  MindGeek, one of the world’s largest and most controversial porn companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter starts showing the number of times a tweet has been bookmarked, initially for iOS users, with plans to expand  —  Twitter is adding yet another public metric to measure posts by.  There’s now a counter for how many bookmarks a tweet has gotten that lives beside the retweet, quote retweet, and like numbers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 Copilot, which will bring OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and its other Office apps in the coming months  —  Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the company’s oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian: In a U-turn, the UK bans TikTok from ministers’ and civil servants’ work phones after a security review that began in November 2022, following the EU and the US  —  Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China  —  Britain is to ban … Lees verder op Tech Meme