August 7, 20230CommentsWSO2 launches a new program to help startups build better apps faster and cheaper
August 7, 20230CommentsSamsung Galaxy Z Flip 5 review: useful cover screen and widgets, IPX8, and five years of patches, but so-so battery, tricky cover apps, and unknown durability (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
August 7, 20230CommentsPayPal announces PYUSD, a stablecoin issued by Paxos and fully backed by USD, short-term Treasuries, and cash equivalents, rolling out to US customers gradually (Anna Irrera/Bloomberg)
August 7, 20230CommentsResearchers: North Korean hackers installed backdoors at Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya for five months in 2022 to read emails and more (Reuters)
August 7, 20230CommentsHow Black users are searching for a replacement to Black Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover, from Mastodon to Threads to Fanbase, becoming a “digital diaspora” (Elizabeth Dwoskin/Washington Post)
August 7, 20230CommentsHow a false facial recognition match led to a Black woman being wrongfully arrested for carjacking and robbery in Detroit, the first such known case for a woman (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
August 7, 20230CommentsThe Download: Worldcoin under investigation, and food’s complex climate future
August 7, 20230CommentsToshiba announces a $14B tender offer to take the company private at $32/share led by Japan Industrial Partners, a buyout fund of Japanese banks and companies (Yuri Kageyama/Associated Press)
August 7, 20230CommentsIndia’s lower house of parliament passes a revised Digital Personal Data Protection Bill despite pushback from critics, who worry over granting Modi more power (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
August 7, 20230CommentsGermany’s “Silicon Saxony”, set to become the home of TSMC’s European fab, may be undermined by a lack of local workers and rising anti-immigrant sentiment (Guy Chazan/Financial Times)
August 7, 20230CommentsAfter social media upended the fashion and beauty magazine industries, some women turn to Facebook Groups and Substack to find curated recommendations (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)