south china morning post
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Deepfake Video Call Scams Finance Bro Out of $25 Million
A finance worker in Hong Kong hopped on a video call with, what appeared to be, multiple coworkers and his company’s Chief Financial Officer. Everyone looked and sounded real, but it turns out everyone on the call was a deepfake. The employee was scammed into paying out over $US25 million to unknown fraudsters, according to…
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Hong Kong to Test All 7.5 Million Residents for COVID-19 as Cases Skyrocket
Government officials in Hong Kong are going ahead with a plan to test all of the city’s 7.5 million people for COVID-19, according to a new report from Bloomberg News. And anyone who refuses to get tested could face a fine of over $US1,000 ($1,388).
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U.S. Secretary of State Deletes Tweet in Support of Hong Kong for Some Reason
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken deleted a tweet he sent out on Wednesday in support of Hong Kong, replacing it with a much more mild criticism of Beijing’s crackdown on the semi-autonomous region the following day.
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Tesla Opens Data Centre in China to Obey Cybersecurity Law for Foreign Companies
Electric car company Tesla will open a data centre in Shanghai, China in order to store data collected from its customers’ cars in the country and stay on the right side of Beijing’s cybersecurity laws, according to a new report from the South China Morning Post. All data that foreign companies collect in China about…