Techstrong News Recap – March 28, 2023

Hi again, everyone here the headlines from March 28th. First up Utah has become the first state to introduce laws aim to protecting children and teenagers from the effects of social media. The governor of Utah signed two new laws that require parental consent for those under 18 to access social media platforms such as tiktok Snapchat Facebook and Instagram Additionally the loss prohibit social media use between 10:30 pm and 6:30 AM require age verification and allow lawsuits to be brought up by children who claim that social media has caused them harm the legislation aims to prevent children from being drawn to apps by addictive features and advertising.

Although the regulations have been praised by parent and child advocacy groups technology companies and digital privacy groups have criticized the time limits and age verification requirements for potentially infringing on free speech and privacy rights. It is currently unclear how the laws will be enforced in social media companies are expected to sue before they come into effect in March of 2024. Next openai is widely used AI chatbot chat GPT has gained the capability to browse the internet through a new plugin named web browsing.

The feature is currently in an alpha and only available to a select group of developers and subscribers with the ability to access third-party knowledge sources the web browsing plugin gives the bot the ability to retrieve content from the web via the Bing search API to provide answers to queries. however, experts have raised concerns that web access could expose the chatbot to unfiltered and unreliable information as was the case with previous incidents involving chatbots from meta and webgpt that when astray when granted internet access in other news British antitrust Regulators have scaled back their investigation into Microsoft's proposed purchase a video game maker Activision Blizzard. The competition and markets Authority dropped its initial concerns that the 69 billion dollar deal would damage the console games Market in the UK as new evidence showed that it would not be profitable for Microsoft to make games such as Call of Duty exclusive to its Xbox console.

While Sony is still opposing the deal Microsoft sees the cma's decision as a positive indication and this being said though while Microsoft has gotten over one hurdle. The CMA is still looking at how the acquisition would affect cloud computing markets and is expected to release its final report in April 20 on April 26th. Next up Twitter is disclosed that some of its source code was leaked online according to a recent legal filing.

The company had requested the code be taken down by GitHub and it complied Twitter noted in the filing that the posting violated is copyright and it's asked the court to identify the party behind the leak as well as provide personal details, including the names addresses and IP addresses of the suspected user who went by the account name Free, Speech enthusiast. With all this being said the breach does not appear to pose a significant cyber-security threat though. com.

com On container Journal we have an article that looks at torque acquiring kodalike for its Cloud native development Network. Torx is stated that codelike will complement Torx tools to ultimately improve developer tool sets. com.

Finally on Security Boulevard. We have an article looking at a survey showing the severity of business email compromise or BEC according to the survey which was conducted by Osterman research in iron scales. It found that the Bec is increasing annually with 93% of organizations, encountering one or multiple forms of BEC attacks, and it is twice as severe as the threat of fishing.

com. And that's today's texturing news recap.