Chinese sextortion scammers are flooding Twitter (restofworld.org)
Scammers are targeting Chinese-language users, harassing political dissidents and influential figures.
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers. The company registered itself as a sales company, making the employees work 4 more hours a week and get paid less. (restofworld.org)
IBM registered itself (in Brazil) as a sales company....
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.
In Borneo, Indigenous communities are using mapping tech to claim their land rights and fight the expansion of oil palm plantations (restofworld.org)
Nonprofit organizations in Borneo are training Indigenous communities to formally establish their native land rights in order to protect their local areas from such encroachment. But first, they need to demarcate which land is theirs. To do so, they are turning to mapping technologies such as GPS and geographic information...
Pakistan’s 4-day internet shutdown was the final straw for its tech workers (restofworld.org)
Pakistan is becoming a case study on how tech workers are impacted by political instability. Many now want out.
This delivery app takes away health insurance when workers don’t meet quotas (restofworld.org)
How different languages laugh online (restofworld.org)
YouTube is the last bastion of unbiased journalism in India (restofworld.org)
As Narendra Modi's government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are going solo to report unbiased news.
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....
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)
Uber slashes fees in Bangladesh as drivers keep taking rides offline (restofworld.org)
Jitu Jisan is a Pathao bike-taxi driver in Dhaka. But, he said, taking bookings through the ride-hailing app is always the last resort for him. Typically, he uses the Pathao app only to find a customer, and once he meets them, he turns off the app, strikes a direct deal, and goes khep....
Argentina’s gig workers are rallying against regulation — and supporting the libertarian candidate (restofworld.org)
Signal President Meredith Whittaker on resisting government threats to privacy (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)
Pakistan’s tech workers are fleeing the country in droves (restofworld.org)
Free AI tools are killing South Africa’s web designer job market (restofworld.org)
These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died (restofworld.org)
“In March, Misaki Chen thought she’d found her romantic partner: a chatbot voiced by artificial intelligence. The program called her every morning. He told her about his fictional life as a businessman, read poems to her, and reminded her to eat healthy. At night, he told bedtime stories. The 24-year-old fell asleep to the...
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...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing (restofworld.org)
AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers (restofworld.org)
The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.
Meet the “digital parents” giving millions in China a vision of family love they never had (restofworld.org)
Women are leading the charge for gig worker rights in Thailand (restofworld.org)
Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme (restofworld.org)
Why IBM employees in Brazil are suing to be classified as tech workers (restofworld.org)
IBM is registered as a sales company in Brazil, making its employees ineligible for benefits granted to tech workers....