China is fine-tuning its censorship machine, this time proposing changes in how to regulate the billions of online comments posted in the country every day. On June 17, the internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published a draft update on the responsibilities of platforms and content creators in managing […]
Apple employees at a store in Towson, Maryland, vote 65-33 to unionize, making it the company’s first unionized store in the US (New York Times)
New York Times:Apple employees at a store in Towson, Maryland, vote 65-33 to unionize, making it the company’s first unionized store in the US — Roughly two-thirds of employees at the store in Towson, Md., voted to join the union. — Give this article- – – Read in app
Police linked to hacking campaign to frame Indian activists
Details connect police in India to a plot to plant evidence on victims’ computers.
Homophobic misinformation is making it harder to contain the spread of monkeypox
Homophobic misinformation circulating about monkeypox on social media is hampering efforts to curb the disease’s spread, research conducted on behalf of MIT Technology Review has found. There have been 2,093 confirmed cases of the virus reported worldwide as of June 17. So far cases have mainly been identified among men […]
How eBay, launched in 1995 as AuctionWeb, anticipated many of the key features that would define a “platform” and unlocked the profit potential of the internet (Ben Tarnoff/The Guardian)
Ben Tarnoff / The Guardian:How eBay, launched in 1995 as AuctionWeb, anticipated many of the key features that would define a “platform” and unlocked the profit potential of the internet — The story of the modern web is often told through the stories of Google, Facebook, Amazon. But eBay was […]
The Download: Trouble for a CO2 removal startup, and a US spy spyware bid
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Running Tide is facing scientist departures and growing concerns over seaweed sinking for carbon removal Running Tide, an aquaculture company based in Portland, Maine, has said it expected […]
Canadian telecom Telus plans to acquire Toronto-based digital health care and wellness services provider LifeWorks for ~$1.8B (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:Canadian telecom Telus plans to acquire Toronto-based digital health care and wellness services provider LifeWorks for ~$1.8B — Canadian telecommunications company Telus Corp. said it will acquire digital-health provider LifeWorks Inc. for about C$2.3 billion ($1.8 billion) …
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Tsunami of junk traffic that broke DDoS records delivered by tiniest of botnets
The DDoS arms race shows no signs of slowing down.