Tech Meme

Alex Konrad / Forbes: Emails: X has begun work on an account handle marketplace for purchasing handles left unused, requesting a flat fee of $50K from potential buyers in some cases  —  Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A security researcher says that a Flipper Zero device can carry out DoS attacks on iPhones running iOS 17 by continuously sending Bluetooth pairing requests  —  No cure yet for a popular iPhone attack, except for turning off Bluetooth.  —  One morning two weeks ago, security researcher Jeroen van der Ham … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft employees will keep free access to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate after Phil Spencer stepped in to reverse the company’s plans to remove the benefit  —  Microsoft was planning to remove a free Xbox Game Pass Ultimate benefit for most of its 238,000 employees in January … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: China says it attended the UK AI Safety Summit’s ministerial meeting on its second day, despite not being listed by the UK among the “like-minded” participants  —  China said it attended a top-level ministerial meeting at the UK AI Safety Summit on Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: OpenSea lays off ~50% of staff and is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; after laying off 20% of its workforce in July 2022, the NFT marketplace said 230 staff remained  —  A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google Play rolls out an “Independent security review” badge for apps that have conducted a Mobile Application Security Assessment audit, starting with VPN apps  —  Google Play, Android’s official app store, is now tagging VPN apps with an ‘independent security reviews’ badge … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: An interview with Mozilla Senior Director of Content Carolyn O’Hara about joining the fediverse, technical hurdles when onboarding users, moderation, and more  —  Consumers are hungry for a new way of social networking, where trust and safety are paramount and power isn’t centralized … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew Hayward / Decrypt: OpenSea lays off 50% of staff and says it is moving to “OpenSea 2.0”; the NFT marketplace said it had 230 staff after laying off 20% of workforce in July 2022  —  A company representative told Decrypt that approximately 50% of employees were impacted across the company. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google Play rolls out an “Independent security review” badge for apps that conduct a Mobile Application Security Assessment audit, starting with VPN apps  —  Google Play, Android’s official app store, is now tagging VPN apps with an ‘independent security reviews’ badge if they conducted … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Zac Bowden / Windows Central: Microsoft updates its support documentation to say Surface PCs shipped after January 1, 2021 will receive firmware updates for six years, up from four years  —  Surface PCs shipped in 2021 onward are getting two extra years of firmware updates.  —  What you need to know Lees verder op Tech Meme