Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese says release of stolen medical records is ‘reprehensible’ Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The hackers allegedly behind the Medibank data theft have released another file of apparently stolen medical records despite being …
Prof Hannah Fry is a joy, and will make you deeply excited about the weirdest things – like the magnetic strip on the back of your bank card Prof Hannah Fry brings her irresistible enthusiasm to the BBC for The Secret Genius of Modern Life (BBC Two), a documentary series about the seemingly simple everyday …
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Social media has been crucial to pro-democracy protests across the region, from Myanmar to the Milk Tea Alliance in Thailand and Hong Kong When Thai journalist and free speech defender Pravit Rojanaphruk joined Twitter in 2011, the social media platform was for him just a home for a few academics and politicos arguing among themselves. …
The behemoths of Silicon Valley face some serious shrinkage and a reckoning with the societies they work in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon: these behemoths have shaped our world. This winter, however, the world is shaping them. Faced with a global downturn, a US economy that appears headed for recession and interest rates shooting up across …
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International exchange for crypto assets is effectively unregulated – and may have been built on sand Cryptocurrency exchange FTX now worthless, says key investor FTX, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, is in a crisis and has pitched the digital asset market into another crash. Here we look at what has happened to FTX, why, …
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Firm once valued at $25bn in 2021 suffered bank run-style crisis as investors rushed to withdraw money FTX, once the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, is now worthless, according to one of the company’s early investors. In a note to partners, venture capital firm Sequoia announced it had written down its investment in FTX, …
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Northern Ireland secretary calls on platform’s owner to eliminate fake news after false resignation email The battle to curb fake news and fake accounts has swerved into a linguistic debate over the meaning of tosh. “What does a tosh look like?” Elon Musk tweeted on Thursday in reply to a British government minister who appealed …
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New owner emails staff to say he will personally vet any circumstances that require remote working Elon Musk has scrapped Twitter’s working from home policy and ordered its staff back to the office just days after firing 3,700 employees. The social media platform’s new owner told staff in an email, seen by the Guardian, that …
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Theatre503, LondonMatthew Gabrielli’s play about abusive online culture cleverly uses puppets as trolls but feels didactic Everyone knows you should never respond to trolls. In Zombiegate, an engaging but didactic new play by Matthew Gabrielli, two friends forget that and dive headfirst into the backlash of an online scandal. With creepy puppets and a slide …
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