Natasha Singer / New York Times: The Khan Lab School trials Khanmigo, an AI chatbot developed by Khan Academy to simulate one-on-one tutoring, one of the first such 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: The Dutch government asks TikTok to allow researchers access to the functioning of the platform, with plans 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

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Barracuda asked its Email Security Gateway customers on June 6 to replace infected 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 a new feature called Your Offline Mix, which will automatically save 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