Local media: South Korea's Fair Trade Commission raided Apple's Seoul offices over allegations the App Store is charging 33% IAP fees rather than the stated 30%
Officials from Korea's Fair Trade Commission conducted a dawn raid on Apple's offices in Gangnam-gu, Seoul …
Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image
Security researchers have discovered a malicious campaign by the ‘Witchetty’ hacking group, which uses steganography to hide a backdoor malware in a Windows logo.
The UN Food Programme and the WHO say a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray region is hampering aid delivery and health monitoring
As fighting rages on in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region, one of the world's longest telecommunications shutdowns is hampering aid deliveries …
Stadia was doomed from the start because Google knows next to nothing about gaming and no one wants to invest in services they don't trust Google to keep around
There's a lot of chatter right now about the “surprise” shutdown of Stadia, Google's game-streaming service.
JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a US lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped her in 2018
Chinese billionaire and JD.com founder Richard Liu agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a former University of Minnesota student who alleged he raped …
A profile of David Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in the 1980s, as about two dozen Internet Engineering Task Force contributors work toward NTPv5
An obscure software system synchronizes the network's clocks. Who will keep it running? — In 1977, David Mills … Tweets: @hkanji , @nicolasnova , @yminsky , @hannahseidlitz , @uhoelzle , and @rlove...
Sources: Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy, seeking to own majority, or even controlling, stakes in overseas targets, mainly in European gaming companies
Tencent is resetting its M&A strategy to put more focus on buying majority stakes mainly in overseas gaming companies …
Bruce Willis refutes a report that he sold his digital likeness rights to Deepcake, which confirms and says the company created his “digital twin” for 2021 ads
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A look at the fake online traffic business, as some ad exchanges look the other way and advertisers are embarrassed to admit they purchased fraudulent inventory
Botmasters have created a Kafkaesque system where companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots. And everyone is fine with this. Tweets: @rralstonagile Tweets: RR Edmonds / @rralstonagile ...
At Tesla AI Day, Musk shows an Optimus humanoid robot prototype that he claims shares AI software and sensors with Autopilot and will “probably” cost under $20K
and it walks on its own Andrew Tarantola / Engadget : Tesla debuts an actual, mechanical prototype of its Optimus robot Argam Artashyan / Gizchina : Elon Musk Showed Optimus Humanoid Robot Walking Wit...
SoftBank, which bought a 10% stake in Twilio competitor Sinch in November 2020, sells its remaining 5% stake; Sinch's stock has fallen 93% since September 2021
Japanese investor SoftBank Group Corp has sold its entire stake in Sinch AB following a share price collapse of more than 90% in the Swedish cloud-based platform provider.
Bengaluru-based Juno, which works with US payroll services to offer checking accounts that give users their paychecks in digital tokens, raised an $18M Series A
Snapshot on Sep 30, 2022. — Juno provides a checking account … Yogita Khatri / The Block : Crypto checking account provider Juno raises $18 million and launches token Jamie Redman / Bitcoin News : W...
Instagram food photography is becoming more realistic, driven by generational changes, more diverse food creators, and a frustration with the curation culture
The food blogger aesthetic has given way to something more realistic and DIY: Laissez-faire Instagram food is here Tweets: @tejalrao , @natathescribe , @hariharanannie , @nicolaharvey , @bettyannquiri...
At this weekend's F1 Grand Prix, Singapore will not allow crypto ads at the track or in the local areas, underscoring a changing regulatory stance toward crypto
how to watch race free and online Formula 1 : McLaren reveal special livery for Singapore and Japan as F1 returns to Asia Bloomberg : Singapore Regulator Warns Crypto Firms to Curb Their Enthusiasm Sh...
SEC filing: Intel's self-driving car unit Mobileye files for a US IPO and reports $854M revenue in H1 2022, up 21% YoY; Mobileye posted $1.4B revenue in 2021
Tencent is no longer China's most valuable company after its shares dropped 64% since Jan. 2021, wiping $623B in market value, more than any other firm globally
Tencent Holdings Ltd. has lost its title as China's biggest company to liquor giant Kweichow Moutai Co., the latest sign … Tweets: @doomlaser , @jojjeols , and @chinabeigebook Tweets: @doomlaser : @Te...
Sources: TikTok plans to launch live shopping in the US with LA-based partner TalkShopLive; TikTok's in-house e-commerce experiments in the UK didn't take off
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
Meta says Facebook for Android will soon use its own Chromium-based in-app browser engine, citing security and stability as reasons for its WebView alternative
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
As car makers cede control of their auto-operating systems to Apple and Google, the limited choice in the duopoly of smartphone OSes may soon extend to cars
In the future, your choice of smartphone ecosystem—Android or iPhone—could determine which make and model of car you choose Tweets: @plowair , @mattk , @dagnum_pi , @polemictmm , @mims , @dsilverman ,...
Tech companies working with AI are shielding themselves from accountability by outsourcing data collection and model training to academic and nonprofit groups
from big names like Google and Meta to upstarts like Stability AI — are outsourcing data collection to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liabil...
A research project is trying to stop suicides by using AI to analyze at-risk people's smartphone and Fitbit wearable data and identify periods of high danger
drawn from electronic medical records as well as scores of other factors — are used to assign patients a risk score, so that individuals at exceptionally high risk can be provided with extra attention...
Surveys of ~16,000 US adults per brand: 86% of Gen Z aged 18 to 25 have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable opinion of YouTube, 73% of Instagram, and 69% of TikTok
Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios : Tweets: @jstrauss Tweets: @jstrauss : I feel attacked by this @Techmeme headline referring to Gen Z as “adults.” https://twitter.com/...
Web novel apps backed by ByteDance and Tencent are running hundreds of Facebook and Instagram ads showing sexual assault, violent erotica, and acts of self-harm
Emily Baker-White / Forbes : Tweets: @violazhouyi , @ebakerwhite , @mashaborak , @katienotopoulos , @iblametom , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , @ebakerwhite , and @cfarivar See also Mediagazer Tweets:...
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