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CEO of ride-hailing giant Gojek departs $10B startup to join Indonesian government
Gojek founder and CEO Nadiem Makarim is stepping down from his chief executive role to take up a cabinet post in the newly ...
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China’s social credit system isn’t about scoring citizens — it’s a massive API
China’s emerging social credit system (SCS): rarely has a topic been more hotly discussed, and more poorly understood. When most people think about the SCS, they imagine it primarily as a scoring mechanism, a way for the central government to rank China’s citizens and companies ...
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Advanced Israeli spyware is targeting Moroccan human rights activists
Two prominent Moroccan human rights activists have been targeted with sophisticated spyware built by NSO Group at least since ...
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Riot's message to esports pros: We want no part of Hong Kong controversy
Earlier this week the bottom fell out at Blizzard when it banned an esports pro from competing after he spoke out in support ...
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Google banned a game about the Hong Kong protests
Tech companies' involvement with the Hong Kong protests just keeps getting more and more tangled. Now Google has banned a game about the protests, joining Apple and Blizzard in allegedly suppressing anything that might offend the Chinese government. The game is called The Revolution ...
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What on earth is Kim Kardashian West doing at a tech conference in Armenia?
Kim Kardashian West was on stage at WCIT 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia, for 1.5 hours. Pity she didn't have anything of value ...
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US puts Chinese surveillance tech firms on economic blacklist over Uyghur abuse
The US government has blacklisted 28 Chinese organizations for their alleged involvement in perpetrating systematic abuses ...
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State-sponsored Chinese hackers have been targeting Southeast Asia since 2013
PKPLUG, a previously undocumented threat actor of Chinese origin, is behind at least six different cyber espionage campaigns ...
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Chinese hacking group targets Southeast Asian governments with data-stealing malware
A threat group responsible for a series of malware-based espionage attacks has been increasingly targeting the Southeast ...
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China's new 500-megapixel 'super camera' can instantly recognize you in a crowd
Chinese researchers develop a new 500 megapixel facial recognition camera capable of capturing "thousands of faces at a stadium ...
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Indonesia's ride-hailing giant Gojek enters the streaming fray with GoPlay
Indonesian ride-hailing operator Gojek launches GoPlay, a video on-demand service to transform its single purpose app into ...
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Surveillance campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims affected not just iOS, but Android too
The Uyghur community has been targeted as part of a large-scale surveillance operation via "strategically compromised websites" ...
