#restofworld — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #restofworld, aggregated by home.social.
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The global cybersecurity gap deepens as AI-powered attacks surge - Restricted access to powerful defensive #AI tools like Anthropic's Mythos leaves some companies, central banks, and nations more vulnerable than others https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-cybersecurity-anthropic-mythos/ #restofworld
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[🗞️Veille] Is AI replacing jobs? Chinese tech giants layoff workforce - Rest of World https://restofworld.org/2026/china-tech-layoffs-alibaba-baidu-ai-pivot/
China’s Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD are slashing staff, mirroring Meta, Amazon, and Oracle layoffs. While firms blame AI, experts point to economic stagnation and government-mandated “social responsibility.” #IA #restofworld
📑Note commentée https://veille.louisderrac.com/shaare/kZuOaA
🗃️Toute ma veille https://veille.louisderrac.com -
Hold onto your sombreros, folks! 🤠 A Mexican surveillance company is now peeping over the US border, and apparently, it's a big deal because nobody's heard of them. 🌍 Rest of World's cutting-edge journalism: discovering the obvious and marketing it as groundbreaking news! 🤦♂️
https://restofworld.org/2026/mexico-seguritech-government-surveillance-profile/ #MexicanSurveillance #USBorder #PrivacyConcerns #GroundbreakingJournalism #RestOfWorld #HackerNews #ngated -
Eine sehr interessante Studie, wenn überhaupt die 1. die mir zu diesem Thema untergekommen ist. Befragt wurden Arbeiter in 60 Ländern zu den Chancen und Risiken der kommenden oder besser gesagt bereits rollenden AI Welle.
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"If your experience of computing has been one of serial upgrades, with little thought to the source or destination of the device, it may be hard to appreciate the breadth of opportunity that the same set of components can present to people living in different economic contexts. Taken further, an anthropological approach to design helps us see that belief systems less centered on the Western individual embrace the notion of afterlives in ways that are far more common in daily life."
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Inside India's billion-dollar e-waste empire - The informal recycling economy is turning global e-waste into profit at a steep human and environmental cost https://restofworld.org/2025/india-e-waste-recycling-electronics/ #restofworld
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#restOfWorld , the #globalSouth #technology magazine has published the winners of last year's #photography contest!
https://restofworld.org/2025/tech-photography-contest-winners/
Pictured: Two young people play basketball under the towering blades of the windmills in Bangui. The windmills lie along a 9-kilometer (5-mile) shoreline of Bangui Bay, facing the South China Sea. Renewable energy has transformed this community, cutting household expenses and powering opportunities once thought to be out of reach.
#solarpunk inspiration?
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Why Amazon is struggling to crack Argentina
The company, which recently launched free shipping to Argentina, faces major challenges from regional rival MercadoLibre and a network of smugglershttps://restofworld.org/2025/amazon-argentina-shipping-mercado-libre/
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iPhone assembly lines in India have been disrupted. Sources said the Chinese government prevented Foxconn's key Chinese staff from traveling to India.
"Maybe China is surprised...by how quickly Apple was able to actually move some of its iPhone production to India."
China is losing its manufacturing advantage. Production can be recreated elsewhere like India, and in less time.
#Asian #India #RestOfWorld #iPhones #Manufacturing #Taiwan #FoxConn
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@molly0xfff with all due respect, I don't think it's ever a good idea to ONLY follow RSS.
For one thing, RSS is generally not used by #RestOfWorld #independent #journalist s.
And second, it disincentivizes discovering new sources.
The only time I think it is worth using RSS for me is if I have someone I like following that I would like to always hear amidst the current chaotic online discourse.
But I will contest the idea that RSS is 'fair' in 2024. Different times, different rhymes.
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#RestOfWorld has been doing an amazing job covering the #GigEconomy around the world, producing journalism that reads like #dystopian #SciFi fiction.
"Iqbal is a self-employed gig worker who works across multiple ride-hailing apps, including Careem, Bykea, and inDrive. As he set off for his first job that day, the city was covered in a thick, poisonous smog. He drove through visible specks of reddish dust and other particulate matter, breathing through his muffler and trying to ignore the metallic, almost sulfurous stench permeating his nostrils."
restofworld.org/2024/riders-in-the-smog-gig-workers-pollution/
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“Garbage in, garbage out” is a well-known phrase in computing. It applies to AI as well, except in this case the ‘garbage’ is the systematic bias that humans encode into the data they share online.
The way around this isn’t to throw our hands in the air and say it’s inevitable, nor is it to blame the users of AI […] -
CW: Article on Generative AI
Nothing exceptionally new here, but the image overviews in this article from #RestOfWorld emphasize the typical look of #midjourney images, that I am already sick of.
“How AI reduces the world to stereotypes”
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> #Startup ecosystems outside the West have been churning out billion-dollar #tech companies and radically innovative products for years. But their achievements are rarely celebrated or known here in the U.S. Today, not only are entrepreneurs in Buenos Aires, Lagos, and Jakarta building businesses that create huge economic opportunity and value, they’re also competing directly with Silicon Valley for users and growth in these markets. And they’re winning.
#RestOfWorld
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#Cuba’s underground #Apple technicians are thriving | @restofworld
In the land of the U.S. #embargo, Cuba’s Apple technicians are kings.
“We Cubans are used to doing more with less,” Pupo Hondal told #RestOfWorld. “Each #Mac we successfully fix is a Mac we rescue from being discarded as #waste — and even those we can’t fix, find new purpose in saving others. There’s a magic in fixing what others would have otherwise discarded.”
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Clickworkers are turning against each other | @[email protected]
Brazil’s online gig workers, who power features like social media moderation and AI #Training, are increasingly wary of newcomers.
"Brazilian clickworkers make a living doing small online tasks but pay has dwindled in recent years.
Many now hope that training #GenerativeAI will create a renewed demand for their work. They have become hostile to newer workers, who they feel encroach on these gigs.
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“Remuneration on these platforms has progressively fallen in the past years, especially after the pandemic,” Braz told #RestOfWorld Projects that used to pay $10 an hour a decade ago are now offered for $3.50, she said.
Even though there is no hard evidence proving that an excess of labor is the reason rates have gone down, seasoned turkers are not taking any chances and are increasingly excluding novices from microwork forums."
#Clickwork #Amazon #MechanicalTurk #Alexa #ArtificalIntelligence #Brazil
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Good morning, #Eugene! And #RestOfWorld.
Today is a good day to end #HouseHoarding. And to do anything else needed to end the #LandlordCrisis. Because the speculation, the empty AirBnB housing, the subsidies for non-affordable housing, aren't making things better. The #Rent is too dang high for most people, and too many owners and even renters seem to have forgotten an important truth:
#Housing is a human right.
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Oh, I love how idiots and social media ruins everything for the rest of us. I hope these guys get the maximum time.
#RestOfWorld #Japan #Sushi #SoMe #SocialMedia
https://restofworld.org/2023/japan-sushi-pranks-lead-to-arrest/
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CW: Investigation: How is the Ukraine war redefining future conflict?
@stux Another use of the "War in Europe is a shock reminder of the terrible cost" trope. #RestOfWorld been paying terrible costs all along!
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Da studenti del secondo anno di college a #TechWorkers, i ricercatori #OSINT amatoriali sono diventati virali dissezionando la guerra in #Ucraina e ricostruendo gli eventi sul campo.
Di Leo #Schwartz su #Restofworld
https://restofworld.org/2022/osint-viral-ukraine/