Tech Meme

Associated Press: German police, Europol, the FBI, and Ukrainian police disrupt a ransomware gang that deployed DoppelPaymer; Europol says US victims paid €40M+ from 2019 to 2021  —  German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andy Greenberg / Wired: A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by late privacy and tech luminary Peter Eckersley, meant to guide AI’s evolution to safeguard humanity’s future  —  Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web.  After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: The EU says Meta agreed to improve transparency over WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy changes, letting users reject the changes and saying user data is not shared  —  Meta Platforms’ (META.O) WhatsApp has agreed to be more transparent about changes to its privacy policy introduced in 2021 … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Keith Zhai / Wall Street Journal: Sources: China plans to create an agency to manage the country’s data stores, shifting from multiple ministries to streamline security and regulatory practices  —  Beijing’s plan to streamline regulatory structure would bring all data-related issues under a single agency Lees verder op Tech Meme

Laurie Chen / Reuters: At the National People’s Congress in Beijing, Tencent CEO Pony Ma and other executives were absent, as China boosts representation from its tech hardware sector  —  Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) founder Pony Ma and others from China’s crackdown-hit internet sector will be absent … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free to use, no longer requiring an Office license or Microsoft 365 subscription  —  Microsoft is making Outlook for Mac free to use today. … It’s a surprise move that coincides with Microsoft’s push to make its Windows desktop Outlook email client more web-powered. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kris Holt / Engadget: Some Twitter services were down, like loading images and TweetDeck; clicking a link in a tweet gave the error “your current API plan does not include access”  —  Links and images were completely busted on Twitter for a spell on Monday across the company’s website and mobile apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benedict Evans: Analysis: Amazon had $38B in 2022 ad revenue, more than the entire global newspaper industry and likely more than the revenue Prime generated from subscriptions  —  I first started paying attention to Amazon’s ad business a couple of years ago, when a line called ‘other’ in the back of the accounts started to grow really fast. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Antoine Gara / Financial Times: US private equity firm Silver Lake and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board offer to acquire Qualtrics for $12.4B as SAP looks to divest its 71% stake  —  Deal for survey software group would be one of largest this year  —  US private equity group Silver Lake and one of Canada’s largest pension funds … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: How buy now, pay later services became a popular target for fraudsters, sometimes helped by companies’ loose underwriting process for customer applications  —  Seung Song said his identity was stolen and used to buy $5,000 worth of gun components from an online dealer using a buy now, pay later service. Lees verder op Tech Meme