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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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Wix debuts AI Site Generator, a tool that can create websites from chat prompts, including e-commerce, scheduling, food ordering, and event ticketing components — What does one expect from a website builder in 2023? That's the question many startups — and incumbents …
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The Norwegian Data Protection Authority orders Meta to stop showing users behavioral ads for three months starting on August 4 or face a daily ~€89,500 fine — Social media giants Facebook and Instagram will soon be temporarily banned in Norway from tracking users online to target them with advertising.
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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
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| 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.| 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
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| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
A US appeals court stays for 90 days a ruling letting Apple App Store developers link to third-party payment options, so Apple can prepare a SCOTUS filing — On Monday, Apple was granted a motion putting a hold on the appeals court ruling that would push the company to undo its “anti-steering” … | Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
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.
More: Binance, ZyCrypto, CryptoSlate, Cryptopolitan, Blockworks, Coinspeaker, CoinDesk, Crypto Daily, Cryptonews, Unchained Crypto, crypto.news, CryptoGlobe, Bitcoinist.com, Watcher Guru, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, and CoinGape
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| 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 … | 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 …
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