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In a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, researchers find 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags (Washington Post) 25-07-2023

Washington Post: In a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, researchers find 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags  —  Happy Monday!  Send news tips and summer podcast recommendations to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Paris-based defense electronics and cybersecurity company Thales agrees to buy US-based cybersecurity firm Imperva from Thoma Bravo in a deal worth $3.6B (Sudip Kar-Gupta/Reuters) 25-07-2023

Sudip Kar-Gupta / Reuters: Paris-based defense electronics and cybersecurity company Thales agrees to buy US-based cybersecurity firm Imperva from Thoma Bravo in a deal worth $3.6B  —  French defence electronics and cybersecurity company Thales (TCFP.PA) said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy U.S. cybersecurity company Imperva … Lees verder op Tech Meme

An in-depth look at mainframe computers, their 50+ year history, and the IBM mainframe, a business mainstay that represents most of the estimated 10,000 in use (Andrew Hudson/Ars Technica) 25-07-2023

Andrew Hudson / Ars Technica: An in-depth look at mainframe computers, their 50+ year history, and the IBM mainframe, a business mainstay that represents most of the estimated 10,000 in use  —  In this deep-dive explainer, we look at a big-business mainstay.  —  Mainframe computers are often seen as ancient machines—practically dinosaurs. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The UK plans to force social media and ad platforms like Google Ads to stop scam ads including fake celebrity endorsements, pop-ups with malware, and more (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg) 25-07-2023

Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: The UK plans to force social media and ad platforms like Google Ads to stop scam ads including fake celebrity endorsements, pop-ups with malware, and more  —  – Ad-tech will be forced to crack down on scam advertisements  — Measures are intended to complement the Online Safety Bill Lees verder op Tech Meme

Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism (Casey Newton/Platformer) 25-07-2023

Casey Newton / Platformer: Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X shows his takeover is best understood not as a money-making endeavor, but as an extended act of cultural vandalism  —  RIP Twitter (2007-2023)  —  On Monday afternoon, a crane rolled up to Twitter’s headquarters on Market Street. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023 (Bloomberg) 25-07-2023

Bloomberg: Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023  —  The response to the CFTC complaint is due on July 27 and the defendants plan to submit motions to dismiss, according to a court filing on Monday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A Google researcher finds a vulnerability in AMD's Zen 2 chips, giving access to secure information like encryption keys; AMD expects most patches to come in Q4 (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) 25-07-2023

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: A Google researcher finds a vulnerability in AMD’s Zen 2 chips, giving access to secure information like encryption keys; AMD expects most patches to come in Q4  —  A huge Zen 2 leak requires a patch. … Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google Information Security, posted today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Researchers find, in a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags (Washington Post) 25-07-2023

Washington Post: Researchers find, in a two-day test across top Mastodon instances, 600+ pieces of known or suspected CSAM and ~2,000 posts with the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags  —  Happy Monday!  Send news tips and summer podcast recommendations to: cristiano.lima@washpost.com. Lees verder op Tech Meme

A Web Integrity API standard proposal from Google employees aims to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, but is a nightmare for the open web (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica) 24-07-2023

Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: A Web Integrity API standard proposal from Google employees aims to help enforce IP rights, count ad views, and limit bots, but is a nightmare for the open web  —  It’s just a “proposal,” but it’s also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.  —  Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Adobe's $20B Figma deal faces an in-depth EU probe as Adobe won't offer remedies for potential competition concerns, after the UK began a similar probe (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg) 24-07-2023

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: Adobe’s $20B Figma deal faces an in-depth EU probe as Adobe won’t offer remedies for potential competition concerns, after the UK began a similar probe  —  – EU regulators to follow UK with lengthy review of takeover  — US watchdogs also gearing up for lawsuit opposing the deal Lees verder op Tech Meme