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Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal: Email app BlueMail’s co-founder says Apple blocked an update that added ChatGPT-powered features over inappropriate content concerns, requiring a 17+ age limit  —  iPhone maker asks email app with AI-language capabilities to set a 17-and-older age restriction  —  Regulation of Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft updates its Bing chatbot to let users toggle between creative, balanced, and precise tones, hoping to counter Bing’s wild outbursts  —  Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot that lets you toggle between different tones for responses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

CyberScoop: The Biden administration releases its cybersecurity strategy, seeking to impose minimum standards, shift responsibility to larger software makers, and more  —  The strategy represents a shift in how Washington approaches cybersecurity, veering toward a more strictly regulated approach. Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Z. Morris / CoinDesk: After a report said Binance misplaced ~$1.8B in USDC, Binance offered confused and sometimes contradictory responses, continuing its petulant and defensive tone  —  The FUD is coming from inside the building, says David Z. Morris, CoinDesk’s chief insights columnist. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022  —  The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Snap plans to let Snapchat users pause Streaks by buying Streak Restores for $0.99 each time and will soon let Snapchat+ subscribers pause Streaks indefinitely  —  Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important to a lot of Snapchat users. Lees verder op Tech Meme

John Gruber / Daring Fireball: After Twitter cut off API access, Tapbots and The Iconfactory update Tweetbot and Twitterrific, asking subscribers to consider declining prorated refunds  —  Long story short: If you’re a subscriber to either Tweetbot or Twitterrific, you can help them out with three simple steps: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elizabeth Weil / New York Magazine: A profile of Emily M. Bender, a computational linguist at the University of Washington who co-wrote a paper in 2020 to illustrate what LLMs can and cannot do  —  Nobody likes an I-told-you-so.  But before Microsoft’s Bing started cranking out creepy love letters; before Meta’s Galactica spewed racist rants … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Staff and analysts: the ~$43B FIS-Worldpay deal suffered from incompatibility, Worldpay’s slow response to changing user needs, and more, resulting in the split  —  Integration was difficult but the deal itself had always been misguided  —  Since it was founded by former UK policeman Nick Ogden … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Martin Smolár / WeLiveSecurity: Researchers detail UEFI bootkit BlackLotus, capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot even on up-to-date Windows 11 systems and selling for $5K since October 2022  —  The first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit bypassing UEFI Secure Boot on fully updated UEFI systems is now a reality Lees verder op Tech Meme