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Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as “actively pregnant” or “shopping for maternity products” — Gizmodo identified 32 brokers selling data on 2.9 billion profiles of U.S. residents pegged as …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges — Russia has been trying to block the anonymous browser since December—with mixed results. — For years, the anonymity service Tor …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act — Not just Safari — Apple Pay could finally be compatible with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox in iOS 16.
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| Joanna Glasner / Crunchbase News: |
A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $160M, as valuations in the scooter and bike rental sector collapse — Almost exactly five years ago, the scooters came. That's when Bird, the first unicorn in this once sizzling startup sector, launched its inaugural scooter-sharing service.
Tweets: @trengriffin, @carnage4life, @maxwellstrachan, @parismarx, and @gerritd
| Jiyoung Sohn / Wall Street Journal: |
As the US passes its CHIPS+ Act, China plans to invest ~$150B+ through 2030 on chips, South Korea eyes $260B in chip investments by 2027, and the EU plans $40B — The question is whether semiconductor giants choose America over other locations that have offered incentives and lower costs for years
Tweets: @jonhusted and @jchengwsj
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children's sensitive information — At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down.
Tweets: @seangraf, @imeluny, @alexanderrusso, @csoleil, @funnymonkey, @leoniehaimson, @nytmetro, @mindingprivacy, and @balbonipaolo
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Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day — Hidden behind the perfect faces of China's $16 billion virtual celebrity industry is an angry, overworked labor force.| Cal Newport / New Yorker: |
Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook — Facebook is trying to copy TikTok, but this strategy may well signal the end of these legacy platforms.
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Human rights groups say Facebook approved English and Swahili ads instigating ethnic violence in Kenya, after claiming to “ensure a safe and secure” election — Kenya's national cohesion watchdog has threatened to suspend the social network from the country in a week if it doesn't mitigate hate speech.
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| Water & Music: |
An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets — tl;dr: This article presents an analysis of secondary sales and trading activity across several notable, multi-edition music NFT drops from late 2021 to mid-2022.
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| Neha Wadekar / Washington Post: |
Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps — NAIROBI — The shooter approaches from behind, raising a pistol to his victim's head. He pulls the trigger and “pop,” a lifeless body slumps forward.| Shannon Liao / Washington Post: |
An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games — Kate Edwards works to foresee blind spots — and help companies steer clear. — In “Stray,” the adorable cat video game that's become …
Tweets: @shannon_liao, @launcherwp, @shannon_liao, and @tarja_pk
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