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AWS Data Exchange makes it easy for millions of AWS customers to securely find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the cloud. Once subscribed to a data product, you can use the AWS Data Exchange API to load data directly into Amazon S3 and then analyze it with a wide variety of AWS analytics and machine learning services.
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Under the provisionally agreed rules, payment service providers such as banks, which provide standard credit transfers in euro, will also be required to offer the service of sending and receiving instant payments in euro. The charges that apply (if any) must not be higher than the charges that apply for standard credit transfers.
From: Instant payments: Council and Parliament reach provisional agreement – Consilium.
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Under the new rules, instant payment providers will need to verify that the beneficiary’s IBAN and name match in order to alert the payer to possible mistakes or fraud before a transaction is made. This requirement will apply to regular transfers too.
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“Passkeys will be introduced to bring myGov further into the 21st century, allowing Australians the ability to use biometric options such as facial recognition to access the site,” he said.
The Albanese government has expressed concerns with the security of myGov, with Minister Shorten revealing just days earlier that myGov scams have resulted in $3.1 billion in losses and that 4,500 scams have succeeded just this year.
From: myGov to move to passwordless authentication following reveal of $3.1bn scam loss – Cyber Daily.
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In Google’s defense, it is adding a record of whether an image was altered to data attached to it. But such metadata is only accessible in the original photo and some copies, and is easy enough to strip out.
From: Is Anything Still True? On the Internet, No One Knows Anymore – WSJ.
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Working out in VR, Anson thinks, is natural for older people. “A fair number of these people who are exercising in VR would be embarrassed to walk into a gym,” she said. “But in the headset, the only person they’re seeing is a virtual coach, while [they’re] still feeling like they’re part of a whole new space that feels like it’s real but is pressure-free.”
Anson said she doesn’t really care about social media and wasn’t aware of the term “metaverse” until The Information reached out to her for an interview, after which she read up on it. “If Facebook as we know it went away,” she said, “I’d survive.”
From: The Surprise Fanatics for Meta’s VR Headset? Your Mom’s Facebook Friends — The Information.
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Following its reccent integration with Stripe, TrueLayer’s new A2A payments app has nowgone live in the Shopify App Store, allowing UK and EU merchants to add open banking payments to their checkout.
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In the U.S., the only realistic way to issue digital IDs to most adults across the country without taking decades is through mobile driver’s licenses.
From: Bridging America’s digital identity gap with mobile driver’s licenses | Biometric Update.
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The estimates of how much fraud was carried out against American taxpayers during the pandemic continue to increase, with the recent report from the FinCEN Identity Project that at least $100 billion, or 11 to 15 percent of the total unemployment insurance benefits paid out, were fraudulent.
From: Bridging America’s digital identity gap with mobile driver’s licenses | Biometric Update.
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Meta has unveiled a feature that enables Facebook and Instagram users to connect their accounts with Amazon for a seamless shopping experience.
This move aims to keep users within the apps while making purchases on Amazon, eliminating the need to navigate away from their feeds, CNBC reported Thursday (Nov. 9).
Reached by PYMNTS, an Amazon spokesperson provided an emailed statement: “For the first time, customers will be able to shop Amazon’s Facebook and Instagram ads and check out with Amazon without leaving the social media apps. Customers in the U.S. will see real-time pricing, Prime eligibility, delivery estimates and product details on select Amazon product ads in Facebook and Instagram as part of the new experience. In-app shopping with Amazon is available for select products advertised on Facebook or Instagram and sold by Amazon or by independent sellers in Amazon’s store.”
From: Meta Enables Amazon Shopping Within Facebook and Instagram.
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