Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole (restofworld.org)
The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....
The man leading Kenyan content moderators’ battle against Meta (restofworld.org)
Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India (restofworld.org)
When Chinese engineer Li Hai left the wintry cold of northern China and flew into the humid heat of Tamil Nadu in southern India, he had little idea what to expect....
Sri Lanka tech workers demand pay in dollars or euros after rupee crashes (restofworld.org)
Entrepreneurs say local talent is too expensive and are outsourcing to countries like Peru....
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media (restofworld.org)
Forced to use real names on platforms like Weibo, Chinese influencers quit social media instead.
Argentina’s gig workers are rallying against regulation — and supporting the libertarian candidate (restofworld.org)
Although speculative crypto-coin startups are disappearing, some wonder if they've tarnished the underlying blockchain tech concepts so much, that they are not being used to solve problems they could. (restofworld.org)
Why Chinese EV battery manufacturers are flocking to Hungary (restofworld.org)
Pakistan’s tech workers are fleeing the country in droves (restofworld.org)
We tested ChatGPT in Bengali, Kurdish, and Tamil. It failed. (restofworld.org)
Outside of English, ChatGPT makes up words, fails logic tests, and can’t do basic information retrieval.
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users on Twitter, harassing political dissidents and influential figures (restofworld.org)
Chinese sextortion scammer accounts have flooded X (previously Twitter) since April after the platform introduced a new blue-check policy allowing users to buy verified badges. They target the Chinese community’s most prominent voices, alienating many users who had turned to the platform as a crucial news source outside the...
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
Clickworkers in Brazil are turning on each other (restofworld.org)
The World’s Last Internet Cafes (restofworld.org)
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
Reporters visited booths of Worldcoin, a global blockchain project championed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Hong Kong to get a better sense of who was signing up for the service and why. In all three cities, the surge of interest for registering their biometrics to the blockchain was driven primarily by...
Why are people lining up for Worldcoin eyeball scans? “Easy $50” (restofworld.org)
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"A ticking time bomb that can explode at any time", as EVs surge, so does nickel mining’s death toll (restofworld.org)
Chinese demand for nickel, an important ingredient in EV batteries, has triggered a mining boom in the remote regions of Indonesia. The country has signed over a dozen deals worth more than $15 billion with suppliers for EV giants like Tesla and Hyundai Motor, but deaths and injuries from industrial accidents have been racking...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing (restofworld.org)
India’s sex workers turn to WhatsApp, Instagram to find clients safely (restofworld.org)
The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution (restofworld.org)
The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.
