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Vitalik Buterin / Vitalik Buterin’s website: How a “stealth address system” using zero-knowledge proofs could improve Ethereum’s privacy vs. trying to hide or mix transfers using services like Tornado Cash  —  Special thanks to Ben DiFrancesco, Matt Solomon, Toni Wahrstätter and Antonio Sanso for feedback and review Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mahmoud Itani / XDA Developers: Apple releases iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, and macOS Ventura 13.2 with FIDO key support for Apple ID, Advanced Data Protection out globally, security fixes, and more  —  Following several weeks of beta testing, iOS 16.3 and macOS Ventura 13.2 are now available to the public as stable releases. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: CryptoSlam and Forkast.News plan to merge and become Forkast Labs, offering news and data for crypto investors; both are portfolio companies of Animoca Brands  —  Animoca Brands Corp. founder Yat Siu helped engineer the merger of two startups his firm backed, aiming to create a data … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Charles Hymas / Telegraph: The UK amends the Online Safety Bill to make senior managers at tech companies criminally liable for failures to protect minors, following demands by Tory MPs  —  Social media bosses who fail to protect children from harmful content will face jail now the Government has conceded to rebel MPs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: Crypto prices are recovering in January so far: bitcoin is up 26%, including 22% in the past week, to over $20,000, ether is up 29%, and meme coins are rising  —  Bitcoin is on the charge in 2023, dragging the crypto market off the floor and electrifying bonk, a new meme coin. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: How Apple built a supply chain in China over two decades, spending billions and embedding staff in factories, creating a dependence before US tensions escalated  —  The company spent two decades and billions of dollars building a supply chain of unprecedented sophistication.  Now, a reckoning is coming Lees verder op Tech Meme

Nikkei Asia: Study: China led the US in AI research output and quality in 2021, producing ~43,000 papers, roughly twice as many as the US, and 7,401 of the most-cited papers  —  Tencent, Alibaba and Huawei among the top 10 companies by output  —  TOKYO/BEIJING — China is the undisputed champion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researcher: firmware for 290+ MSI motherboards has a default UEFI Secure Boot setting that lets any OS run, even those lacking a signature  —  Over 290 MSI motherboards are reportedly affected by an insecure default UEFI Secure Boot setting settings that allows any operating system image … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: A look at Elon Musk’s options to meet his $13B debt obligations after the Twitter buyout; sources say the first interest installment could be due by January-end  —  Billionaire faces tough choices to meet financial obligations of takeover financed by $13bn debt Lees verder op Tech Meme

Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Sources: Foxconn appoints Michael Chiang as the head of its iPhone assembly business, replacing longtime leader Wang Charng-yang, after a tough year in China  —  Key Apple Inc. manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology Group has appointed a new boss for its iPhone assembly business … Lees verder op Tech Meme