NEW YORK—TikTok’s Chief Operating Officer, V Pappas, is leaving the social media platform after nearly five years at the company. In a note sent to employees Thursday morning and later shared on Twitter, Pappas said she felt it was the right time to move on and focus on “entrepreneurial passions.” TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew…
TikTok’s Chief Operating Officer to Step Down After Nearly 5 Years
TikTok’s Chief Operating Officer, V. Pappas, is leaving the social media platform amid an organizational shakeup at the company. Pappas, one of the company’s most public faces, said in a note sent to employees Thursday morning and later shared on Twitter that she felt it was the right time to move on and focus on…
Tech Startup Gan Jing World Unveils New Building Ahead of 1st Anniversary
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.— Gan Jing World launched with fewer than 20 engineers in July 2022. Now the number has grown to over 100, according to the company’s executive vice president of technology James Qiu, adding that Gan Jing has built a solid infrastructure with its own data center and cloud server to facilitate a censorship-free experience….
Censorship ‘Unhealthy for Public Discourse,’ Big Tech Manipulating Elections ‘For Some Time’: Musk
Billionaire Elon Musk expressed his concern about threats to freedom of speech online and warned that big tech firms like Facebook and Google have been manipulating elections globally for some time. One of the main factors that motivated Musk to buy Twitter was that he was becoming “increasingly concerned” about the lack of freedom of…
iPhone Users Urged to Update Their Devices as Soon as Possible
Apple on Wednesday released an update to devices using the latest version of iOS that fixes two serious security flaws that are reportedly being used in hacks that are currently targeting iPhones and iPads. According to a support page released by Apple, iOS 16.5.1 fixes an issue in the kernel, tracked with the code CVE-2023-32434,…
Australia’s Banks Caught up in Russian Cyber Attack
The recent Russian cyberattack on law firm EWL Ebsworth has claimed another set of victims—this time, Australia’s four major banks. This comes as over 40 Australian government agencies are feared to have been impacted by the database hacking of HWL Ebsworth by the Russian cybercriminal group AlphV. While the four banks—ANZ, the Commonwealth Bank of…
Musk’s Twitter Threatened With $700,000 Daily Fine Unless It Tackles ‘Hate Speech’
June 21, 2023
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Australia’s eSafety commissioner has issued Elon Musk’s Twitter with a legal notice to explain what it is doing to tackle hate speech on its platform. The commissioner says it has received “more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past 12 months” than any other platform and alleges an “increasing number” of reports of…
Russian Hacking Group Claims Execution of Reddit Attack, Threatens Leaking Censorship Data
Social media site Reddit reported a hacking incident for which the ALPHV Russian ransomware group has now claimed to be the perpetrator. The group threatens to leak censorship and other sensitive, stolen information in relation to Reddit if the company does not pay $4.5 million. Reddit had reported the data breach on February after an…
Intel to Build $33-Billion Chip Plant in Germany After Government Pledges to Cover 1/3rd of Cost
BERLIN—Intel and the German government signed a deal Monday that will see the U.S. company spend more than 30 billion euros ($32.8 billion) to build a chip manufacturing site in the eastern city of Magdeburg, after Germany pledged to cover a third of the investment required. Word of the agreement came as German Chancellor Olaf…
Artificial Intelligence to Replace Editors in Radical German Media Shakeup
June 19, 2023
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Artificial intelligence will step in for a swathe of editorial roles as part of an overhaul of Germany’s largest newspaper title, Bild. The tabloid publication is undergoing a significant shakeup of its operations following a pledge from the publisher, Mathias Döpfner, to make the brand “digital only.” On June 19, the German publishing company that owns…
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