IT News Digest #29: Congress is investigating Twitter whistleblower claims, Snap agrees to $35 million settlement over privacy lawsuit, Zoom’s update on Mac includes a fix for a dangerous security flaw

Last week in the news: Updates of Java’s developer tools – Micronaut, Helidon, Payara; Apple’s and Zoom’s updates, which fix dangerous security flaws.

Development:

Java News Roundup by InfoQ: JDK 19-RC1, Multiple Spring Updates, Micronaut, Helidon, Payara.
Spring Authorization Server 1.0 is planned for November 2022. The project is based on Spring Security 6.0.
Processing Data with Kotlin Dataframe Preview. The DataFrame library works together with Kotlin data classes.

Career and IT market:

Congress is investigating Twitter whistleblower claims. And they’re calling on the FTC and DOJ to do the same.
Snap agrees to $35 million settlement over privacy lawsuit. Illinois Snapchat users may be eligible for a cut.
Meta reaches $37.5 million settlement of Facebook location tracking lawsuit.

Online Security:

Meta Just Happens to Expand Messenger’s End-to-End Encryption.
Zoom’s latest update on Mac includes a fix for a dangerous security flaw. The flaw could let a hacker take over your system.
Apple has released an update to fix security flaws on its iPhone, iPad and Mac devices, which it says hackers may have "actively exploited".

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