All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Tech News: 5 Things to Know in Australia Today
From another thing happening in the Microsoft/Activision deal to the removal of headlines in Tweets, here are five things headlining tech news in Australia.
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U.S. Feds Asked TikTok for Lots of Domestic Spying Features
US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app. That’s according to a draft of a deal between TikTok and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) obtained by Forbes, a contract…
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Godfather NFTs Weren’t Enough to Prevent Recur From Sleeping With the Fishes
Even with the inclusion of collectibles from the Nickelodeon, Paramount, and Hello Kitty back catalogues, the NFT platform Recur is calling it quits after several years of pumping the internet full of monetized images of The Godfather’s similarly ineffective Fredo. Recur declared it was winding down operations in a Twitter post last Friday. The company…
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Elon Musk Tests Verification With a Government ID and a Selfie
X (the social media site formerly known as Twitter) is in the process of launching a new identity verification feature that could prove controversial. The feature, which is currently only offered to/forced on premium “Blue” subscribers, asks users to fork over a selfie and a picture of a government-issued ID to verify that they are…