Meta can be sued in Kenya by ex-content moderator, the country's court rules

The lawsuit was filed by one person on behalf of a group and was also filed against Meta's local outsourcing company Sama. It seeks financial compensation, an order that outsourced moderators have the same healthcare and pay scale as Meta employees, that unionisation rights be protected and an independent human rights audit of the office. https://ift.tt/tDjca3I

New look CBDCs and cryptomarket to emerge from turmoil, top BIS official says

Dubbed the central bank to the world's central bank, the BIS has long been critical of cryptocurrencies, likening bitcoin to both a ponzi scheme and a market bubble in the past. https://ift.tt/wBcs2gP

Samsung's password manager now supports Windows 11, 10

At present, the application only supports Windows 11 and Windows 10, and the older versions of Windows will not be compatible. Samsung Pass is a password manager designed to keep track of all of the users' login information for several websites and accounts at once. https://ift.tt/2nuytb4

A profile of Sam Bankman-Fried's psychiatrist Dr. George Lerner, hired as a coach at FTX in early 2022, as prosecutors seek his communications with executives (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of Sam Bankman-Fried's psychiatrist Dr. George Lerner, hired as a coach at FTX in early 2022, as prosecutors seek his communications with executives  —  Hired as a coach at the Bahamas-based company, George Lerner was there for its dramatic downfall

A profile of blockchain gaming pioneer Yat Siu, who founded Animoca Brands, valued at $5.9B in September 2022, as he copes with the crypto winter and regulators (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
A profile of blockchain gaming pioneer Yat Siu, who founded Animoca Brands, valued at $5.9B in September 2022, as he copes with the crypto winter and regulators  —  Yat Siu is no stranger to controversy.  Over the years, the serial technology entrepreneur has been kicked off the App Store …

Binance launches a free tool to help users calculate their tax obligations, supporting up to 100,000 transactions, available initially in Canada and France (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk:
Binance launches a free tool to help users calculate their tax obligations, supporting up to 100,000 transactions, available initially in Canada and France  —  The tool, initially available to users in Canada and France, supports reporting of up to 100,000 transactions.

Q&A with former Oculus CTO John Carmack about his AGI startup Keen, ways to "solve" AGI, how it can impact the economy, "groupthink" of AI companies, and more (Dallas Innovates)

Dallas Innovates:
Q&A with former Oculus CTO John Carmack about his AGI startup Keen, ways to “solve” AGI, how it can impact the economy, “groupthink” of AI companies, and more  —  The iconic Dallas game developer, rocket engineer, and VR visionary has pivoted to an audacious new challenge …

Elon Musk says Twitter "will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free", days after Twitter said free API access would end (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Twitter “will enable a light, write-only API for bots providing good content that is free”, days after Twitter said free API access would end  —  Last week, Twitter said it is shutting down free access to its APIs starting February 9.

A look at the Guillemot family's attempts to retain control of Ubisoft, which has hit setbacks that led to a stock plunge and made the company a takeover target (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg:
A look at the Guillemot family's attempts to retain control of Ubisoft, which has hit setbacks that led to a stock plunge and made the company a takeover target  —  Every second Monday of the month for over three decades, the five Guillemot brothers — whose company gave the world …

Microsoft's Activision deal is the biggest test yet of the new alignment on antitrust enforcement between the US FTC, the European Commission, and the UK's CMA (New York Times)

New York Times:
Microsoft's Activision deal is the biggest test yet of the new alignment on antitrust enforcement between the US FTC, the European Commission, and the UK's CMA  —  Until recently, antitrust regulators in Europe and the United States took different approaches.

Sources: Apple has discussed adding a higher end "Ultra" model to its lineup in 2024, in addition to iPhone Pro and Pro Max models (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has discussed adding a higher end “Ultra” model to its lineup in 2024, in addition to iPhone Pro and Pro Max models  —  Apple's Tim Cook told investors that consumers are willing to pay up for the best iPhone they can get, signaling that even more ritzy models may be on the way.

How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country's high maternal mortality rates (Sanket Jain/MIT Technology Review)

Sanket Jain / MIT Technology Review:
How 1M female health care workers in India are using WhatsApp to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country's high maternal mortality rates  —  Female volunteers are using messages, statuses, and hyperlocal groups to fight dangerous medical misinformation and combat the country's high maternal mortality rate.

A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why  —  Even ChatGPT's creators can't figure out why it won't answer certain questions — including queries about former U.S. President Donald Trump …

A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a "2007 Twitter" vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired:
A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a “2007 Twitter” vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies  —  Cofounder Gabor Cselle says his upstart social network can offer a “2007 Twitter” community vibe that Elon Musk's platform no longer supplies.

Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
Interviews detail the Conti ransomware group's 2021 attack on Ireland's public health system; Conti seemingly called off the hack without receiving a ransom  —  At first the attack on Ireland's public-health system fell into a depressingly familiar pattern.