Meta cracks down on scams
Closes two million pig butchering accounts
Meta said it has removed more than two million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that have allegedly forced hundreds of thousands of people into scamming roles and cost victims billions of dollars worldwide.
Apple helps China in anti-Covid crackdown
Restricted file sharing to help its government chums
Fruity cargo-cult Apple has decided that it is much better to be on the side of the Chinese government, than it is on the side of its users.
Workers too terrified to make iPhones after Covid scare
Foxconn locked them in for two weeks
Workers are fleeing the Foxconn in China’s Zhengzhou and swearing that they will never return after being locked in for two weeks under China’s tough zero Covid policy.
Cisco slashes earnings forecast
Blames Covid and Putin
Cisco cut its full-year earnings forecast on Wednesday after COVID lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine dragged sales below estimates in the third quarter, sending shares down 13 per cent in extended trading.
Foxconn claims to have shunted production away from Kunshan
Avoiding Corona crisis
Foxconn says that it has managed to avoid the worse of China’s draconian Covid crackdown in Kunshan city by moving production elsewhere.
Chinese semi-conductor production Shanghaied
Covid-triggered lockdowns to blame
China’s quarterly production of semiconductors shrunk for the first time since early 2019 as consumer electronics demand softened and Covid-triggered lockdowns in regions, including Shanghai, disrupted output.
CDC programming “killed” 72,000
Fortunately, they were not real
A cock-up in the programming department of the CDC resulted in more than 72,000 being reported dead of Covid.
Brits move to porn sites during COVID
A half of British adults visited
More than half of British adults visited a pornographic website or app in 2020 according to the media regulator Ofcom said.
UK COVID-19 exposure app forgets to warn people
You only had one job
The COVID-19 exposure notification app used in England and Wales failed to warn users if they were in close contact with potentially infectious COVID-19 patients.
Government COVID-19 apps skimp on the privacy
Council of Europe warns
A report published today by the Council of Europe identifies a number of shortcomings in the protection of privacy and personal data in some of the legal and technical measures adopted by governments to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.