Tech Meme

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: The FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids’ data, accusing the company of violating a 2020 order with its privacy program and COPPA with Messenger Kids  —  – The Federal Trade Commission proposed to bar Facebook parent company Meta from monetizing kids’ data after it says the company violated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft tells IT admins that Edge will soon open links from Teams and some Outlook accounts to “help increase productivity”; Enterprise IT admins can opt out  —  Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, Germany, working with NXP, Bosch, Infineon, and the German government  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in talks with partners to spend as much as €10 billion ($11 billion) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Gmail adds blue checkmarks for brands, indicating verified senders that adopted Google’s Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard  —  After adding support for verified brand logos in 2021, Gmail is now going further by adding a blue checkmark to emails. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal: TikTok announces Pulse Premiere, which lets select publishers such as Condé Nast, BuzzFeed, and NBC sell ads alongside their posts and keep 50% of the revenue  —  New product will let publishers sell ads alongside their posts and take home half the revenue Lees verder op Tech Meme

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: FTC proposes barring Meta from monetizing kids’ data, after an independent assessor found it violated a 2020 privacy order, and accuses Meta of violating COPPA  —  – The Federal Trade Commission proposed to bar Facebook parent company Meta from monetizing kids’ data after it says the company violated … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft tells admins that web links from certain accounts in Outlook and Teams will open in Edge to “increase productivity”; Enterprise IT admins can opt out  —  Microsoft Edge is a good browser but for some reason Microsoft keeps trying to shove it down everyone’s throat … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: TSMC is in talks to spend between €7B and €10B to build a chip plant in Saxony, Germany, working with NXP, Bosch, Infineon, and the German government  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is in talks with partners to spend as much as €10 billion ($11 billion) … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kate Conger / New York Times: Jack Dorsey has posted 59 times per day on average on Nostr since January 2023, often talking about crypto and open source while criticizing Elon Musk  —  The Twitter co-founder has posted prolifically on two new social networks, Nostr and Bluesky, which he also backed financially. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Google plans to change Chrome’s URL bar lock icon, introduced to show HTTPS, to a “variant of the tune icon”, saying HTTPS is now present on malicious websites  —  Google announced today that the lock icon, long thought to be a sign of website security and trustworthiness … Lees verder op Tech Meme