Football clubs have potentially made hundreds of millions of dollars selling controversial crypto “fan tokens.” From a report: Analysis commissioned by BBC News estimates more than $350m has been spent on the virtual currencies. Some of the tokens are …
The European Commission is Making its Software Open Source To Benefit Society
The European Commission has announced that it’s adopting new rules around open source software which will see it release software under open source licenses. From a report: The decision follows a Commission study that found investment in open source so…
Over 200 Papers Quietly Sue Big Tech
Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year, alleging the two firms monopolized the digital ad market for revenue that would otherwise go to local news. From a report: What s…
Biden’s Cyber Leaders Go To Silicon Valley for More Help Fighting Hackers
Senior Biden administration officials met in Silicon Valley on Monday with key technology and cybersecurity companies as part of a push for more help from the private sector in fending off increasingly aggressive hackers working for adversarial regimes…
Google Sues Two Russians for Alleged Organized Crime Scheme
Alphabet’s Google is suing two Russian nationals it claims are part of a criminal enterprise that has silently infiltrated more than a million computers and devices around the world, creating “a modern technological and borderless incarnation of organi…
Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them
Interviews and internal Apple documents provide a behind-the-scenes look at how the company made concessions to Beijing and won key legal exemptions. CEO Tim Cook personally lobbied officials over threats that would have hobbled its devices and service…
Even in the Metaverse, Not All Identities Are Created Equal
An anonymous reader shares a report: The complexities of the real world are starting to bleed into the Metaverse — the virtual arena where identity functions as both a reflection on and determinant of social capital. Differences in prices for digital …
More Than a Third of World’s Population Have Never Used Internet, Says UN
Nearly 3 billion people — or 37% of the world’s population — have never used the internet, according to the United Nations, despite the Covid-19 pandemic driving people online. From a report: The UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estim…
Stripe is On a Hiring Spree. But It’s Also Rescinding Job Offers and Angering Engineers.
The prevailing narrative about tech workers assumes that they have more power than ever before. This even has a term — the Great Resignation. But at the booming, much-revered payments company Stripe, some applicants have found themselves accepting job…
Twitch Unleashes AI Tool To Spot Banned Users
Twitch has launched a tool that uses machine learning to detect users trying to rejoin chat channels from which they have been banned for abusive behaviour. The gaming-focused livestreaming website said “bad actors” often created new accounts to contin…