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South Korean e-commerce company Coupang (CPNG.N), opens new tab announced on Monday a compensation deal worth 1.69 trillion won ($1.18 billion) to holders of 33.7 million accounts for a massive data leak that triggered a backlash from users and lawmakers.

Coupang said customers will get company vouchers of 50,000 won (35 usd) each.

Last year, Meta had to reckon with an ugly conclusion about its Chinese advertising customers: They were defrauding Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users worldwide.

Though China’s authoritarian government bans use of Meta social media by its citizens, Beijing lets Chinese companies advertise to foreign consumers on the globe-spanning platforms. As a result, Meta’s advertising business was thriving in China, ultimately reaching over $18 billion in annual sales in 2024, more than a tenth of the company’s global revenue.

But Meta calculated that about 19% of that money – more than $3 billion – was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content, according to internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters.

Updated Games Layoff Forecast - July 22, 2025

Based on all available data, I estimate 6,709 games industry layoffs have occurred globally between January 1 and July 22, 2025. My forecast for the remainder of the year (July 23 to December 31) projects an additional 4,715 layoffs.

If both actuals and forecast hold, 2025 would see a total of 11,424 layoffs in games, surpassing the 2023 total.

Combined with the 34,631 layoffs from 2022-2024, this brings the cumulative total from 2022 through 2025 Full Year, to 46,055.

This late-July forecast is modestly higher than our original projection made in the second week of January 2025.

As always, I hope actuals come in well below what I am seeing, hearing about, and forecasting.

Ron Conway stepped down from the board of Salesforce’s philanthropic arm after the company’s chief executive, Marc Benioff, said he supported President Trump and wanted the National Guard to come to San Francisco.

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted.

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WhatsApp has patched a critical zero-click vulnerability in its iOS and Mac apps that enabled sophisticated spyware attacks targeting specific users over the past three months. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55177, was exploited in combination with an Apple operating system vulnerability to compromise devices and steal sensitive data including private messages.

Meta confirmed it detected and patched the vulnerability "a few weeks ago" and sent notifications to "less than 200" affected WhatsApp users. The company described the attacks as targeting "specific targeted users" through a zero-click exploit that required no interaction from victims to compromise their devices.

The vulnerability involved incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages in WhatsApp, allowing attackers to trigger processing of content from arbitrary URLs on targeted devices. Security researchers noted that the flaw was used in conjunction with Apple's CVE-2025-43300, an ImageIO framework vulnerability that Apple patched on August 20.

MIT researchers have developed a self-assembling battery material that rapidly disintegrates when exposed to organic solvents, potentially transforming electric vehicle battery recycling and addressing the growing challenge of electronic waste from the expanding EV market.

The breakthrough, published Tuesday in Nature Chemistry, introduces an electrolyte material composed of aramid amphiphiles that self-assemble into mechanically stable nanoribbons when exposed to water, yet completely dissolve within minutes when immersed in organic liquids. This allows entire battery packs to fall apart naturally, enabling separate recycling of individual components without the harsh chemicals and high temperatures typically required.

"So far in the battery industry, we've focused on high-performing materials and designs, and only later tried to figure out how to recycle batteries made with complex structures and hard-to-recycle materials," said lead author Yukio Cho, a recent MIT PhD graduate now at Stanford University. "Our approach is to start with easily recyclable materials and figure out how to make them battery-compatible."

Samsung announced on Monday evening that it will host a livestreamed Galaxy Unpacked event on September 4, strategically positioning itself just five days ahead of Apple's highly anticipated iPhone 17 event on September 9.

The virtual event, scheduled for 5:30 a.m. ET (2:30 a.m. PT), will stream live on Samsung.com and the company's YouTube channel, according to an official Samsung announcement. The timing appears deliberate, as Samsung seeks to capture attention before Apple's traditional fall product launch window

Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.

Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section.

Google’s top stories hub appears when you search for something related to a current event, and displays a bunch of relevant articles from around the web. Along with prominently featuring articles from your preferred outlets in the top stories list, Google may also include them in a new “from your sources” section. Google first started testing the preferred sources feature in June, and now it’s rolling out to users in the US and India.

South Korean researchers have achieved a major milestone in space manufacturing by successfully testing the world's first 3D-printed titanium fuel tank to pass extreme cryogenic pressure conditions, marking a breakthrough that could transform how spacecraft components are produced.

The 640mm diameter tank, manufactured using Ti64 titanium alloy through Directed Energy Deposition (DED) 3D printing, withstood pressures of 330 bar while cooled to -196°C with liquid nitrogen during testing at the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The pressure test exposed the tank to forces 165 times greater than standard tire pressure, demonstrating its reliability under the extreme conditions of space missions.