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Chinese gamers bid sad farewell to 'World of Warcraft'
Jan 23, 2023 (AFP)
Massively popular worldwide, particularly in the 2000s, "World of Warcraft" -- often abbreviated as WoW -- is an online multiplayer role playing game set in a f...
Eavesdropping on the Earth itself
Jan 17, 2023 (SPX)
Now the researchers want to eavesdrop on an even larger beast - the Earth itself. Combining the world's fibre-optic network with existing remote-sensing systems...
Ericsson books $220 million for US fines on Iraq claims
Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)
The company acknowledged in February that some employees may have bribed IS members for road transport through areas controlled by the jihadists in Iraq between...
China moves to regulate deepfake technology
Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)
Deepfake technology allows users to replace one person's face with another in a video, or to put words into a speaker's mouth, with at times disconcerting reali...
Second coming of once-banned conspiracy theorists after Twitter amnesty
Jan 09, 2023 (AFP)
Twitter has turned into what campaigners call a cesspool of misinformation, hate-filled conspiracies and racial slurs amid what appears to be reduced content mo...
Jack Ma: tycoon who soared on China's tech dreams grounded by regulators
Jan 07, 2023 (AFP)
The most recognisable face in Asian business, Ma has seen his fortune fall by around half to an estimated $25 billion after authorities pulled what would then h...
Wikimedia disputes activist claims of Saudi 'infiltration'
Jan 06, 2023 (AFP)
The claim was made by Beirut-based digital rights group SMEX and Washington-based Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) founded by Saudi journalist Jamal Khas...
War-themed video game fuels wave of misinformation
Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)
Footage from the war-themed Arma 3 video game, often marked "live" or "breaking news" to make it appear genuine, has been used repeatedly in recent months in fa...
Sanctions-hit Huawei says back to 'business as usual'
Dec 30, 2022 (AFP)
A leading supplier of telecom gear, smartphones and other advanced equipment, Huawei was hammered during a crackdown by the administration of previous US presid...
China's ByteDance admits using TikTok data to track journalists
Dec 23, 2022 (AFP)
TikTok has gone to great lengths to convince customers and governments of major markets like the United States that users' data privacy is protected and that it...
France seeks to protect hospitals after series of cyberattacks
Dec 21, 2022 (AFP)
"The target is that 100 percent of the most important health facilities have undergone these new exercises by May 2023," the interior, health and digital servic...
Moscow says 100,000 IT specialists have left Russia this year
Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)
Young Russians fled the country in droves, especially those working in the IT sector and able to work remotely, sparking fears of a brain drain. Some months lat...
Veteran US spokesman back to fight disinformation
Dec 16, 2022 (AFP)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken named Rubin as special envoy and coordinator of the State Department's Global Engagement Center, which is tasked with analyzin...
China tightens regulation of online comments
Dec 15, 2022 (AFP)
The Asian giant is home to a dynamic and vibrant tech sector but internet censorship is pervasive, with many major foreign websites and apps blocked. Social med...
Charges dropped against French company over Egypt spyware
Dec 14, 2022 (AFP)
Nexa Technologies and four executives were charged in 2021 over the sale of the Cerebro software to Egypt enabling President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's regime to sp...
Sam Bankman-Fried: crypto rock star facing life in jail
Dec 13, 2022 (AFP)
The 30-year-old billionaire founder of the FTX crypto exchange once partnered with celebrities and rubbed shoulders with politicians as he tried to legitimize c...
Canada raises concern over police radio deal linked to China
Dec 07, 2022 (AFP)
The half-million dollar contract for a radio frequency filtering system to prevent eavesdropping went to Canada's Sinclair Technologies, which is controlled by ...
Amnesty Canada blames China for 'sophisticated' hack
Dec 06, 2022 (AFP)
Strained relations between Canada and China have become even more tense in recent weeks, with Ottawa accusing Beijing of interfering with its democratic institu...
Putin ally joins tech giant Yandex
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
The announcement from the former finance minister comes after months of instability at the internet company, with employees fleeing due to the military offensiv...
Kremlin ally joins tech giant Yandex as senior adviser
Dec 05, 2022 (AFP)
The former finance minister's appointment comes after months of instability at the once-promising internet giant, with employees fleeing due to the conflict in ...
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