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Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability (Allison Johnson/The Verge) 07-08-2023

Allison Johnson / The Verge: Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability  —  It’s a big update year for Samsung’s flip-style foldable — and a much larger cover screen makes all the difference. Lees verder op Tech Meme

PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg) 07-08-2023

Anna Irrera / Bloomberg: PayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers 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

Researchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read emails and more (Reuters) 07-08-2023

Reuters: Researchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read 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 last year … Lees verder op Tech Meme

How Black users are searching for a replacement to Black Twitter after Elon Musk's takeover, from Mastodon to Threads to Fanbase, becoming a “digital diaspora” (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post) 07-08-2023

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: How Black users are searching for a replacement to Black Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover, from Mastodon to Threads to Fanbase, becoming a “digital diaspora”  —  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

How a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, the first such known case for a woman (Kashmir Hill/New York Times) 07-08-2023

Kashmir Hill / New York Times: How a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, 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

Toshiba announces a $14B tender offer to take the company private at $32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press) 07-08-2023

Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: Toshiba announces a $14B tender offer to take the company private at $32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies  —  Toshiba announced a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer on Monday in a move that would take it private … Lees verder op Tech Meme

India's lower house of parliament passes a revised Digital Personal Data Protection Bill despite pushback from critics, who worry over granting Modi more power (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) 07-08-2023

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: India’s lower house of parliament passes a revised Digital Personal Data Protection Bill despite pushback from critics, who worry over granting Modi more power  —  India’s lower house of parliament greenlit the revised data privacy legislation presented the previous week … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Germany's “Silicon Saxony”, set to become the home of TSMC's European fab, may be undermined by a lack of local workers and rising anti-immigrant sentiment (Guy Chazan/Financial Times) 07-08-2023

Guy Chazan / Financial Times: Germany’s “Silicon Saxony”, set to become the home of TSMC’s European fab, may be undermined by a lack of local workers and rising anti-immigrant sentiment  —  Industry concerned rise of anti-immigration movements in state of Saxony will hinder efforts to attract foreign talent Lees verder op Tech Meme

After social media upended the fashion and beauty magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack to find curated recommendations (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times) 07-08-2023

Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: After social media upended the fashion and beauty magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack to find 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

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma plans to buy 10.3% stake in Paytm from Ant, an unusual deal to make him Paytm's largest shareholder without paying any cash (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) 07-08-2023

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma plans to buy 10.3% stake in Paytm from Ant, an unusual deal to make him Paytm’s largest shareholder without paying any cash  —  Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and chief executive of Paytm, has entered into a deal with Ant Financial to acquire a 10.30% stake … Lees verder op Tech Meme