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A rights group announced on Monday, March 20 that Facebook content moderators in Kenya are suing Facebook’s parent corporation Meta and two outsourcing businesses for wrongful redundancy. The 43 petitioners claim that Sama, a Kenyan company contracted to regulate Facebook content, fired them for creating a union. They also claim that once Facebook moved contractors, they were barred from applying …

The fourth version of the popular dungeon crawler series, Diablo 4, will be released in June, but players will have the opportunity to test out a portion of the game in beta before it is made available in its entirety. On Friday, both the open beta and the early access beta for Diablo 4 were made available. The game’s developer, …

Friday, March 17, police in Vietnam arrested a Facebook user who was accused of “attempting to destroy the state” by uploading content that defamed leaders of the ruling Communist Party, according to the country’s security ministry. The police-run Ministry of Public Security stated in a statement that Phan Thi Thanh Nha, 39, was accused of uploading and sharing 25 articles …

According to the status page maintained by the firm and the reports of users who have attempted to load the platform, the social media network Reddit is now undergoing an outage that is impacting both its website and its mobile application. At the very least, Reddit has been inaccessible since 12:18 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. The firm has found a …

Adobo is the first Filipino dish to be featured on the Google Doodle platform. “Adobo is an integral component of Filipino history. It is a growing, well-liked comfort food or culinary style that transcends all economic barriers. For adobo, the original Filipino food, to be featured as a Google Doodle is a Pinoy Pride moment,” said Mervin Wenke, Head of …

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the United Arab Emirates, has initiated the “Smart Mission” project, which is the first forward-thinking project of its sort anywhere in the world. In accordance with the “We the UAE 2031” vision, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs intends to provide customers with an easy and …

Picture this: you open TikTok to observe a woman in her kitchen racing toward you. “My parents are coming over,” she says, opening and closing her mouth like a stork gulping a fish. “Can you help me clean?” Two dialogue options are presented. Before selecting “Of course, sweetie,” the mouse cursor hovers over “No thanks.” The remainder of the 30-second …

Wednesday, March 8, the Czech cyber security authority issued a warning against using the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, joining a growing number of Western authorities claiming the program posed a security risk. The NUKIB agency suggested that TikTok not be installed on smartphones whose users have access to vital infrastructure or other key infrastructure. “The Agency is worried about …

In February of last year, Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) mail systems, taking a trove of data that may have contained crucial information about the economies and politics of member nations. According to a vulnerability alert acquired by WIRED, hackers took over 30GB of data, including over 10,000 emails exchanged by member countries, by …

When we “spring forward,” Daylight Saving Time 2023 will start this Sunday, March 12, at 2 a.m. Indeed, you still need to move your clocks up an entire hour. For the majority of people, this means that you should make plans to do so on March 11 at midnight. (Prepare for this: you’ll “lose” an hour of sleep.) The clocks …