How India’s gig workers, tired of algorithms dictating their lives, are using Telegram to exchange cheap hacks on how to game the platforms to their advantage (Varsha Bansal/Rest of World)

November 16, 2022

Varsha Bansal / Rest of World:
How India’s gig workers, tired of algorithms dictating their lives, are using Telegram to exchange cheap hacks on how to game the platforms to their advantage — Tired of the obscurity around black box algorithms that dictate their lives, India’s gig workers are coming up with jugaads to game the system.

Categories: Uncategorized

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Telegram Premium passed 1M subscribers since its June 2022 launch; the monthly subscription costs $5 in the US and £5 in the UK (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Telegram Premium passed 1M subscribers since its June 2022 launch; the monthly subscription costs $5 in the US and £5 in the UK — Telegram Premium has amassed over 1 million subscribers, less than six months after the popular instant messaging app launched …

December 6, 2022

A survey of ~4,000 Indian gig workers on Swiggy, Zomato, Uber, Amazon, and others: 42% say their income is flat, 47% have no insurance, and 51% can’t save money (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times:
A survey of ~4,000 Indian gig workers on Swiggy, Zomato, Uber, Amazon, and others: 42% say their income is flat, 47% have no insurance, and 51% can’t save money — Gig workers in India are young, financially stressed, and largely uninsured, according to a new report.

September 8, 2022

UK police arrest and charge a 17-year-old with computer misuse and breaches of bail, believed to be related to the recent Uber and Rockstar hacks (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
UK police arrest and charge a 17-year-old with computer misuse and breaches of bail, believed to be related to the recent Uber and Rockstar hacks — The City of London police announced on Twitter today the arrest of a British 17-year-old teen suspected of being involved in recent cyberattacks.

September 26, 2022

Telegram will launch auctions for its usernames via TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+ (Callan Quinn/The Block)

Callan Quinn / The Block:
Telegram will launch auctions for its usernames via TON blockchain, following a TON auction for wallet usernames, some of which sold for $200K+ — – The Telegram messaging app is soon to launch a username auction platform. — Other elements of the Telegram ecosystem, including channels …

October 21, 2022

The Labor Department releases a nonbinding proposal to classify US gig workers as employees and not independent contractors (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
The Labor Department releases a nonbinding proposal to classify US gig workers as employees and not independent contractors — A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.

October 11, 2022

Arizona-based Qwick, an on-demand staffing service that matches gig workers with hospitality jobs, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $69.1M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Arizona-based Qwick, an on-demand staffing service that matches gig workers with hospitality jobs, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $69.1M — Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry. About 1 million left the workforce in November 2021 alone …

November 2, 2022

Related Articles