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Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA's digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue (Financial Times) 22-04-2023

Financial Times: Sources: the UK plans to propose a bill next week letting the CMA’s digital markets unit target Big Tech companies with £25B+ global revenue or £1B UK revenue  —  Draft bill expected within days that will put CMA’s digital markets unit on a statutory footing Lees verder op Tech Meme

US PIRG Education Fund: Chromebooks are less sustainable and more costly for schools than other devices due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability (Monica Chin/The Verge) 22-04-2023

Monica Chin / The Verge: US PIRG Education Fund: Chromebooks are less sustainable and more costly for schools than other devices due to their short lifespans and lack of repairability  —  Back in early 2020, as the covid pandemic drove classrooms online, school districts found themselves needing to bulk purchase affordable laptops … Lees verder op Tech Meme

A look at GeoComply, which says its tech checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the wagers occur in a US state where they're legal (Katherine Sayre/Wall Street Journal) 23-04-2023

Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal: A look at GeoComply, which says its tech checks 10B online sports bets per year on 400M+ devices to verify if the wagers occur in a US state where they’re legal  —  Even before online wagering on sports was legal in the U.S., Anna Sainsbury and David Briggs predicted that gambling apps would need to know where their customers were. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Boston-based cloud infrastructure startup Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (Meir Orbach/CTech) 23-04-2023

Meir Orbach / CTech: Boston-based cloud infrastructure startup Volumez, which develops controller orchestration software, raised a $20M Series A led by Koch Disruptive Technologies  —  Volumez’s controller-less architecture composes direct Linux data paths between media and applications, helping companies convert knowledge … Lees verder op Tech Meme

GitHub's private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers confidentially disclose flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) 23-04-2023

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub’s private vulnerability reporting, which lets researchers confidentially disclose flaws to open-source project maintainers, hits general availability  —  GitHub announced that private vulnerability reporting is now generally available and can be enabled at scale, on all repositories belonging to an organization. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet (Financial Times) 23-04-2023

Financial Times: Sources: Arm plans to work with manufacturing partners to build a test chip showcasing the capabilities of its designs, its most advanced chipmaking effort yet  —  Company to build test chip with factory partners, stoking fears it could in future compete with its biggest customers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hacker group naming schemes, such as Microsoft's new system, are counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis; a government body should set a naming convention (Andy Greenberg/Wired) 23-04-2023

Andy Greenberg / Wired: Hacker group naming schemes, such as Microsoft’s new system, are counterproductive for cybersecurity analysis; a government body should set a naming convention  —  Pumpkin Sandstorm.  Spandex Tempest.  Charming Kitten.  Is this really how we want to name the hackers wreaking havoc worldwide? Lees verder op Tech Meme