Thailand urged to stop feeding power to Myawaddy’s online scam, casino district
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND IS STRONGLY ADVISED to literally cut off power lines and internet signals feeding “grey Chinese capitalists” in a certain area of Myanmar’s Myawaddy township riddled with online scams and gambling dens. House Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategies & Reforms Chair Rangsiman Rome urged the Thai authorities, […]
Read MoreFilipina wins transgender pageant in Pattaya
By Reuters and published by US News & World Report FILIPINA Fuschia Anne Ravena was crowned Miss International Queen 2022 on Saturday at a contest in Pattaya billed as the world’s largest and most popular transgender pageant. The 27-year-old business owner beat 22 other contestants for the crown, with the second and third place going […]
Read MoreForget tweeting and selfies: What the Internet really wants is to watch you eat
Published by Channel NewsAsia VIDEOS with the hashtag “whatieatinaday” have been viewed more than 7 billion times on TikTok. The Financial Times’ Elaine Moore digs into the global phenomenon. MUKBANG videos always start with the food. Heaps of bright red crab legs or bowls of glistening noodles sit close to the camera. Behind them, the […]
Read MoreMultiple global websites down amid widespread Internet outage
By Channel NewsAsia and agencies SEVERAL international websites were down today (June 8), including Amazon, Reddit, CNN, The Guardian and The New York Times. Error messages appeared on the websites at around 1000 GMT (5pm Thai time). Some reports pointed to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas […]
Read MoreWall Street will never be the same again
(New York) – This week, the biggest story in the financial markets is the absurdist, (pretty-sure-I-hallucinated-it) drama involving GameStop, a struggling video game retailer that became the rope in a high-stakes tug of war between Wall Street suits and a crusading internet mob. The simplest explanation for what happened is that a bunch of hyper-online […]
Read MoreA massive database of 8 billion Thai internet records leaks
By Zack Whittaker, Techcrunch.com THAILAND’S largest cell network AIS has pulled a database offline that was spilling billions of real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users. Security researcher Justin Paine said in a blog post that he found the database, containing DNS queries and Netflow data, on the internet without a password. With […]
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