Section 230 is the last line of defense for online abortion speech, without which platforms could face legal liability for distributing abortion information — Dobbs should be a wake-up call for anyone seeking to undercut the immunity protections afforded by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
MarkSight: as crypto tumbles, the average price of Nvidia's GeForce 3080 on eBay dropped from $1,140 on April 30 to $710 on June 27 — The turmoil in the cryptocurrency industry has ravaged portfolios and left large and small investors struggling to adapt.
Chinese AI startup SenseTime's shares dropped over 50% to HK$2.90 ($0.37), their lowest-ever level and well below IPO price, after a lock-up period expired — China's most valuable AI company has been blacklisted by Washington over its facial recognition technology
Report: Iranian #MeToo activists on Instagram are being targeted by 1M+ bots in a coordinated harassment campaign using social media marketing firms in Pakistan — A new report suggests the attacks are part of a coordinated campaign using Pakistani social media marketing firms.
An in-depth look at the 2016 Bitfinex hack and US government's case against Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, aka Razzlekhan, over alleged money laundering — The hackers had been inside the Bitfinex servers for weeks before attempting the heist. They'd watched users on the cryptocurrency exchange buy and sell Bitcoins.
After providing $750M in credit lines, Sam Bankman-Fried says some crypto companies are “too far gone” to save, “bearish views on Tether are wrong”, and more — After throwing lifelines to troubled digital currency platforms BlockFi and Voyager Digital, Sam Bankman-Fried …
Internal Celsius documents from 2021 show the crypto lender issued large loans backed by little collateral while pitching itself as less risky than banks — The lender had little cushion in the event of a downturn or mass withdrawals, investor documents show
Source: a British Virgin Islands court ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital on June 27; Teneo Restructuring will handle the process — A court in the British Virgin Islands has ordered the liquidation of Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital, underlining …
Some VR developers express frustrations with Meta's Quest Store fees, set at 30% for purchases and 15%-30% for subscriptions, given Meta's criticism of Apple — Facebook parent faces backlash from developers and accusations of ‘hypocrisy’ over virtual reality store terms
After announcing plans to acquire Blinkit, Zomato's stock dropped 6.6% on Monday and 8.4% on Tuesday, cutting $1.1B from its market value — Zomato Ltd. lost about $1.1 billion of market value in two days after the food-delivery platform announced the acquisition of loss-making quick-commerce …
Airbnb makes its ban on parties at rented properties, introduced in 2020, permanent, saying the ban “became much more than a public health measure” — But a 16-person cap on rentals has been removed — In 2020, Airbnb introduced a temporary ban on house parties and events …
Privacy advocates say the SmartLINK app, an alternative to ankle monitors, helped ICE increase the number of people it tracks from 6K to 230K within three years — ICE says the phone-based app is not meant to conduct “surveillance”—and a quick test didn't raise red flags.
After Twitter gives Elon Musk access to its firehose and historical tweet data, experts doubt the data will provide conclusive answers on spam and bots — Billionaire has access to the company's fire hose of tweets, but data specialists say analyzing it isn't easy
An interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas on the company's plans to pursue M&A deals and expand hiring following its IPO, after Arm China transitioned its leadership — Chief executive Rene Haas lays out ambitious course of expansion for the UK chip designer despite tech downturn
Indian startup Solv, a B2B marketplace for SMBs, raised a $40M Series A led by Japan-based SBI Holdings, bringing its total funding to nearly $80M — Solv, a B2B digital marketplace for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, has raised $40 million in its Series A funding round led …
Naspers subsidiary Prosus sold 131.8M shares in JD.com, a ~4% stake worth $4B+, saying the e-commerce company “does not form part of [its] core strategic focus” — An arm of South African internet giant Naspers Ltd. sold almost $4 billion worth of stock in JD.com Inc. that it got …
Data centers, typically located in suburbs and rural zones, are increasingly being built in urban areas to further reduce internet lag for locals — Companies are pushing more server farms into the hearts of population centers. — In 1930, the telegraph giant Western Union put …
SSD benchmarks show the 256GB 13" MacBook Pro with M2 has ~50% slower read and ~30% slower write speeds than the previous gen 256GB MacBook Pro with M1 — Following the launch of Apple's new 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M2 chip, it has been discovered that the $1,299 base model with 256GB …
Hundreds of documents detail the software bought by China to sift through its vast troves of surveillance data to “predict” who will become troublemakers — The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere …
In the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade, tech companies give “no comment” in response to questions about users' data that can be used in prosecutions — Tech companies have created employee reimbursement programs, but they have been silent on whether they'll protect users' data …
A deep dive: how Apple uses iOS WebKit monopoly to strip-mine and sabotage the web, hurting all browser engine projects and draining the web of future potential — Gentle reader, I made a terrible mistake. Yes, that's right: I read the comments on a MacRumors article. At my age, one knows better.
Sources: Apple about to embark on one of the most ambitious periods of new products in its history, with the deluge coming between the fall of 2022 and H1 2023 — Apple's latest software from WWDC sets the stage for a busy fall 2022 and first half of 2023.
How Bungie identified a mass sender of fake DMCA notices to YouTube targeting Destiny content creators and Bungie's own channels, leading to its $7.65M lawsuit — In response to persons unknown sending large numbers of fake DMCA notices to YouTube while impersonating its anti-piracy partner …
An interview with AMD's SVP Sam Naffziger on challenges facing the company, its coming RDNA 3 chiplet design, GPU performance and power efficiency, and more — A look into the future RDNA 3 architecture — We recently had a chance to speak with Sam Naffziger, AMD's Senior Vice President …
A look at the rise of Nigeria's BNPL services as some doubt the success of local startups amid weak ID verification systems and scant consumer credit records — BNPL startups in Nigeria are gambling millions of venture dollars on solving a problem of weak ID verification and scant consumer credit records.
Bloomberg : A look at Abu Dhabi-based AI startup G42, as sources say US intelligence officials fixated on CEO Xiao Peng ahead of its Chin...
