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Researchers say Meta is failing to moderate dangerous content in Kenya on Facebook, citing failures in AI, as well as linguistic and cultural expertise gaps (Neha Wadekar/Washington Post)

As the US passes its CHIPS+ Act, China plans to invest ~$150B+ through 2030 on chips, South Korea eyes $260B in chip investments by 2027, and the EU plans $40B (Jiyoung Sohn/Wall Street Journal)

An analysis of music NFT secondary sales and trading activity from late 2021 to mid-2022, to provide a more in-depth and nuanced understanding of NFT markets (Water & Music)

An interview with Kate Edwards, a geographer and consultant who helps video game companies better reflect international cultures and geopolitics in their games (Shannon Liao/Washington Post)

In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Investigation: 32 US brokers are selling overlapping datasets with ~2.9B profiles of people pegged as "actively pregnant" or "shopping for maternity products" (Gizmodo)

Inside China's $16B virtual influencer industry, as motion capture actors complain of hard working conditions powering their avatars four to five hours per day (Rest of World)

Cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing information on 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling sensitive info on millions of school children (Natasha Singer/New York Times)

How Tor is fighting Russia's efforts since December 2021 to block the anonymous browser, such as by using Telegram to share details of volunteer-run Tor bridges (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Rollerdrome is Doom Eternal on roller skates – and it’s as good as it sounds

A look at the GOP's escalating pressure campaign against Google over Gmail's filters allegedly marking fundraising emails from right-wing candidates as spam (Washington Post)

A look at the supply chain resilience myth, as efforts to replicate the chipmaking process inside single countries or regions reveal and exacerbate bottlenecks (Nikkei Asia)

Chasing TikTok's success and leaving behind the protection of hard-to-replicate, large social graphs could end the lengthy dominance of platforms like Facebook (Cal Newport/New Yorker)

The US and Japan plan to open an R&D center for 2nm chips in 2022 and start mass production in 2025, to establish secure supply chains amid tensions over Taiwan (Rieko Miki/Nikkei Asia)

A look at the rise and fall of Bird, now a penny stock with a public market cap under $140M, as valuations in its sector collapse (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)

Brazilian prosecutors ask WhatsApp to delay its Communities feature launch in Brazil until January to avoid spreading misinformation around the October election (Anthony Boadle/Reuters)

Crypto network Helium claimed for years that Lime is a client, which Lime calls "a false claim"; source: Lime is preparing to send a cease and desist to Helium (Matt Binder/Mashable)

An interview with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the company's post-IPO stock plunge, catering to its most active users, job cuts, reining in expenses, and more (Annie Massa/Bloomberg)

Apple expands App Store ads from the Search tab and Search results to the App Store's Today homepage and individual app pages (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

SEC adds Alibaba to a list of Chinese companies facing delisting in three years if they fail to comply with US auditing standards; Alibaba stock is down 9%+ (Bloomberg)

TikTok says it started testing HTML5 minigames with new partners such as Vodoo, Nitro Games, FRVR, Aim Lab, and Lotem, after a test with Zynga in November 2021 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Hours before Sky Mavis told users it was hacked, CEO Trung Nguyen moved about $3M worth of Axie Infinity's main token AXS; Sky Mavis says it was to help users (Joshua Brustein/Bloomberg)

Adam Mosseri says Instagram will roll back some recent changes after a week of mounting criticism, including temporarily reducing the number of recommendations (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Variant, an early stage crypto-focused fund, has raised $450M for a third fund focused on the "user-owned web", after previously raising $22.5M and $110M (Taylor Locke/Fortune)

Sources: Ashraf Ismail, who Ubisoft fired in mid-2020 amid misconduct allegations, was hired by Tencent in 2021 to develop a game at its TiMi Studio Group (Stephen Totilo/Axios)