What to expect from Apple's Far Out event: the iPhone 14 lineup, including Pro models with a revamped notch, new AirPods Pro, a rugged Apple Watch Pro, and more
Apple's biggest event of the year is just a few days away, with the iPhone 14, Apple Watch Pro and new AirPods on tap.
Cloudflare reverses course and drops Kiwi Farms, citing “an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life” after a rise in targeted threats
Reversing course under growing public pressure, major tech security company Cloudflare Inc. announced Saturday …
LG launches LG Art Lab, letting US users buy, sell, and trade NFTs on its smart TVs, and partners with Hedera to enable purchases via LG's Wallypto wallet
LG Electronics said today it has released its non-fungible token (NFT) platform LG Art Lab, which lets users discover, buy, sell and trade NFTs on LG's smart TVs.
Amazon quietly introduces a 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime Video to determine whether the review is genuine or created by a bot or a troll
Amazon has introduced a new weapon in the battle against internet trolls: delays. — Starting around the time of the launch …
A profile of Kiwi Farms, a forum owned and operated by former 8chan admin Josh Moon, which has become synonymous with doxxing, swatting, and harassment
and how they're chasing political enemies around the world. Morten Rand-Hendriksen / @mor10 : When your speech takes away the rights of other people to speak, it is no longer enough to claim your righ...
Q&A with Vitalik Buterin on proof of work vs. proof of stake, the recent crypto crash, crypto security, decentralized governance, “startup societies”, and more
In which we talk about the big shifts in crypto. — Vitalik Buterin is one of the most well-known …
US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack
National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding — WASHINGTON—A simple digital …
Apple appears to be expanding its ad platform team, currently around 250 strong, per LinkedIn; Apple's career page lists 216 roles, up from 56 in late 2020
Move adds to industry concerns after tech giant launched privacy rules that make it hard to tailor ads to iPhone users
Binance and Nigeria are in talks to establish a digital economic zone in the country, “similar to the Dubai virtual free zone”, to help blockchain developers
Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter — Nigerian authorities …
The UK Treasury expands its guidance on sanctions to mandate that crypto exchanges report suspected sanctions breaches immediately or face penalties
New rules in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine cover all notionally valuable digital assets — Crypto exchanges must report …
Amazon says The Rings of Power's first two episodes drew 25M viewers globally in their first day, sharing viewership for a Prime Video series for the first time
the bed in the fashion dumb fanboys were absolutely certain it would 🙄 https://variety.com/... J. Dianne Dotson / @jdiannedotson : It's almost as if...gasp! All the negative Twitter discourse didn't m...
The Iranian government plans to use facial recognition on public transport to identify women who are not complying with its strict new hijab laws
Government says it will use technology on public transport in crackdown on women's dress — The Iranian government is planning …
How the North Atlantic Fellas Organization, or NAFO, a group of national security experts and ordinary Twitter users, is using memes to fight Russian propaganda
Ivana Stradner opened her iPhone and typed a simple call-to-arms: Unleash the hounds. — A Washington think-tanker and an expert … Tweets: @780thc and @jmichaelwaller Tweets: @780thc : NAFO (North At...
Ireland's DPC fines Instagram €405M for violating children's privacy under GDPR, the second highest fine under the law and the third for a Meta-owned company
The Irish Data Protection Commission has fined Meta-owned social media platform Instagram €405 million for violations of the General Data Protection Regulation.
US parents are increasingly buying Apple Watches as a stopgap cellphone to reach and track their children as young as five while mitigating internet addiction
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Peiter Zatko's allegations offer details on Twitter's misinformation policies and failures, including accepting a QAnon proponent into its Birdwatch program
A document from whistleblower Peiter Zatko that details the company's failings in policing misinformation shows what happens when a business model fails Tweets: @markseibel , @baldingsworld , @lizzadw...
A developer who ran a DDoS-for-hire “empire” criticizes Cloudflare for protecting the DDoS industry while selling services to mitigate such attacks
Today CloudFlare is in the spotlight for their decision to revoke access to a website behind their network …
A look at India's $10B incentive scheme for chip makers, as some experts warn about its lack of hardware expertise and erratic transport and public utilities
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A former Snap R&D manager says the company shut down its Web3 team as part of its layoffs; Snap says Web3 didn't contribute to its “continued investment in AR”
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Swiss Life, EDF, Northleaf, Ardian, and other investors pay $1.5B for a 35% stake in DataBank, which owns 65+ data centers and 20 interconnection hubs in the US
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A look at Saudi Arabia's Kollona Amn app, launched in 2017 to let its citizens inform on activists, as the country expands the use of surveillance technology
eying off a neighbour's lovely farmland? Report them to the Inquisition and grab the land. #news https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Leticia Rodríguez / @letirgar : Saudi snitching app turns citizens...
US officials say large ships are increasingly manipulating their GPS-based automatic identification systems, or AIS, to evade international laws and sanctions
A look at the privacy concerns raised by OpenAI's GPT-3, Google's LaMDA, Meta's OPT-175B, and other large language models trained on troves of personal data
Melissa Heikkilä / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @garymarcus , @eileenguo , @zcobb , and @hypervisible Tweets: Gary Marcus / @garymarcus : LLMs are an incorrigible mix of misinformation and privacy...
In August 2022, Beijing's municipal government unveiled plans to regulate the “Digital Human Industry”, which covers digital assistants and virtual influencers
and in the metaverse — that perform a human-like function.” In this, they're looking to set standards in a sector that few other governments have even acknowledged. https://restofworld.org/...
China says automakers now require licenses for “smart cars” collecting mapping data, which could further complicate the local operations of companies like Tesla
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI.
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.