Hilary Allen / Financial Times: After the SEC’s recent actions and the FTX, Celsius, and Luna failures, Republican lawmakers proposing a crypto market bill is a jarring gift to the industry  —  Republican proposal for new legislation would legitimise the digital asset industry and undermine investor protection Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Barracuda asked its customers on June 6 to replace impacted Email Security Gateway appliances immediately, after patching a zero-day vulnerability on May 20  —  It’s not often that a zero-day vulnerability causes a network security vendor to urge customers to physically remove and decommission … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Porter / The Verge: Spotify is testing Your Offline Mix, a new playlist feature that automatically saves a mix of users’ recently played songs for offline listening  —  / The playlist is described in the app as ‘a mix of recently played songs for when the vibe is high but your connection is low.’ Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natasha Singer / New York Times: Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot from Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one human tutoring, one of the first such education experiments in the US  —  Proponents see the tools as a way to automatically customize academic support.  They could also make children test subjects for A.I. experiments. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Dutch Minister for Digitalization Alexandra van Huffelen asks TikTok CEO Shou Chew to let researchers access the platform to analyze how the algorithm functions  —  The Dutch government asked ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the social media platform in a bid to protect users online. Lees verder op Tech Meme