US spy agency probes sabotage of satellite internet during Russian invasion: Sources

Western intelligence agencies are investigating a cyberattack by unidentified hackers that disrupted broadband satellite internet access in Ukraine coinciding with Russia's invasion, according to three people with direct knowledge of the incident. https://ift.tt/jrmIwVL

Research: 23 of the top 30 search results for the numbers 11, 12, 13 on Facebook were groups targeting children of those ages, including with sexual references (Lara Putnam/Wired)

Lara Putnam / Wired:
Research: 23 of the top 30 search results for the numbers 11, 12, 13 on Facebook were groups targeting children of those ages, including with sexual references  —  The platform can be quicker at recommending groups built around child predation than it is to remove them.

Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro models will get the A16 chip and 6GB of LPDDR 5 RAM, the standard iPhone 14 models will remain on A15 Bionic chip and get 6GB of LPDDR 4X RAM (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Kuo: iPhone 14 Pro models will get the A16 chip and 6GB of LPDDR 5 RAM, the standard iPhone 14 models will remain on A15 Bionic chip and get 6GB of LPDDR 4X RAM  —  Only the iPhone 14 Pro models will have the “A16” chip, while the standard iPhone 14 models will retain the A15 Bionic chip from the iPhone 13 …

Behind the rise of Kuaishou's short-form video app Kwai in Brazil, where it has amassed 45M+ monthly active users by appealing to people with blue collar jobs (Rest of World)

Rest of World:
Behind the rise of Kuaishou's short-form video app Kwai in Brazil, where it has amassed 45M+ monthly active users by appealing to people with blue collar jobs  —  Kuaishou is chasing novela creators and working-class users in Latin America to keep up with the competition.

US Treasury Department stresses that Russia sanctions extend to cryptocurrency

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued new guidance on Friday clarifying that U.S. citizens and digital asset firms are required to comply with sanctions against Russia, even when facilitating transactions in cryptocurrency. https://ift.tt/cECUb6s

Q&A with John Reed Stark, the SEC's former Head of Internet Enforcement, on Biden's crypto EO, how regulation may be a "death knell" for crypto firms, and more (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)

Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Q&A with John Reed Stark, the SEC's former Head of Internet Enforcement, on Biden's crypto EO, how regulation may be a “death knell” for crypto firms, and more  —  We talked to one of the most credentialed critics of cryptocurrencies and NFTs about fraud and potential “cataclysmic events” in the industry.