Temu Is Losing Millions of Dollars to Send You Cheap Socks
PDD’s push into the US with Temu is costing it a lot, and angering some of its suppliers, but it’s born of necessity. As Chinese customers...
Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections
On the evening of Turkey’s most significant elections of the past two decades, Can Semercioğlu went to bed early. For the past seven years, Semercioğlu has...
Humanoid Robots Are Coming of Age
Eight years ago, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform a series of...
Internal Report Suggests Security Lapses at Hacked Crypto Exchange Bitfinex
The Ledger Labs document said the tokens accessed by the hacker were associated with a generic “admin” email address and another linked to “giancarlo,” belonging to...
AI Is Steeped in Big Tech’s ‘Digital Colonialism’
These problems come from the top. Machine learning research is overwhelmingly male and white, a demographic world away from the diverse communities it purports to help....
Pegasus Spyware Is Detected in a War Zone for the First Time
“Most of the people targeted were those working on topics related to human rights violations,” says Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab. While...
The Comedian Taking on India’s New Censorship Law
But he adds that his legal challenge isn’t about him. “This is bigger than any one profession. It will affect everyone,” he says. He points to...
Bipartisan Senate group reintroduces a revised Kids Online Safety Act
US Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) reintroduced a bill today that would put the onus on social media companies to add online safeguards...
Twitter restores free API access for emergency, weather and transportation alerts
Twitter’s decision to shut off its free API caused more than a few problems for public institutions that depend on the functionality, and the company is...