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Millions of sensitive emails have been missent to the .ML domain due to people mistyping the US military's .MIL domain; Mali retakes control of .ML on July 17 — Common spelling error has misdirected sensitive Pentagon messages to a company running Mali's internet domain
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Microsoft plans to discontinue Games with Gold on September 1 and to replace Xbox Live Gold with Xbox Game Pass Core, which includes 25+ games, on September 14 — Microsoft is launching a new Xbox Game Pass Core subscription to replace Xbox Live Gold. This new Game Pass Core offering …
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| Clothilde Goujard / Politico: |
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users personalized ads for three months starting on August 4 or face a daily ~€89,500 fine — Meta's social media platforms will be barred from behavioral advertising in August. — 3 MINUTES READ
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Binance completes integrating the Bitcoin Lightning Network, enabling faster and cheaper bitcoin transactions, after setting up Lightning nodes in June 2023 — - Binance has completed the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network. — The news means Binance users can now deposit and withdraw bitcoin via the Layer 2 network.
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| Larry Madowo / CNN: |
Former Twitter Africa staff, laid off after accepting a May 2023 offer of three months' severance, say they have not been paid or even heard from Twitter since — Former employees of Twitter Africa who were laid off as part of a global cost-cutting measure after Elon Musk's acquisition … | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: the European Commission plans to open an investigation next week into Microsoft for bundling Teams with Office, after deeming concessions insufficient — Investigation would centre on claims US tech giant is unfairly linking its videoconferencing app with popular software
More: Neowin, OnMSFT.com, BigTechWire, and Cult of Mac
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Louisville-based JumpCloud says a state-backed hacking group breached its systems on June 22 via a spear-phishing attack targeting a small set of its customers — US-based enterprise software firm JumpCloud says a state-backed hacking group breached its systems almost one month ago as part …
More: Cybersecurity Dive, TechCrunch, SecurityWeek, and TechRadar
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta rebrands Facebook's Watch tab as Video, which will now include all visual content like Reels, long-form content, and live videos, and adds editing features — Facebook announced new video-related features today ranging from editing to discovery to make the platform competitive with YouTube and TikTok.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
A look at the Artificial Inventor Project, which has filed pro bono test cases in the US and elsewhere seeking patent protection for AI-generated inventions — A group of legal experts are pressing patent agencies, courts and policymakers to address the question as generative A.I. seems … | Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: |
An interview with LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky on designing tools to keep users coming back more often, pulling back from China, “the great reshuffle”, and more — Head of networking site says building a strong team and avoiding day-to-day minutiae are key to the job
LinkedIn: Madan Mohan Chakraborty
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Over a dozen current and former Roblox employees say the company is not doing enough to address concerns about diversity and women and minority marginalization — Current and former employees say Roblox's efforts have not gone far enough to address their concerns| Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: |
Experts explain why there's no magic formula to always distinguish human-written and AI-written text, meaning AI writing detectors can only make a strong guess — Can AI writing detectors be trusted? We dig into the theory behind them. — If you feed America's most important legal document …
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