Ad blocking basically doesn’t exist on mobile • The Register

Ad blocking may prompt fearful publishers to seek help from consultancies, but it isn’t actually interfering with the delivery of ads on mobile devices.According to Augustine Fou – a cybersecurity and ad fraud researcher who runs Marketing Science, an ad consultancy – the actual rate of ad blocking on mobile devices in the US and Canada is 0 per cent.Basically, there’s not enough ad blocking on mobile devices to measure.It’s a different story in Asia, where Alibaba’s UC Browser, whoch supports built-in ad blocking, is widely used. But in the US and Canada, mobile ad blocking is statistically irrelevant.

The iOS 11 beta and HomePod firmware have both been ample sources of iPhone 8 leaks thus far. Now, iHelp is back with some details on additional new features soon coming to the Apple Watch, including a handful of new Workouts.Spigen TEKA RA200 Airpods Earhooks CoverHidden in the latest iOS 11 beta are a variety of icons that are seemingly included for the sake of the Apple Watch companion app, though the wearable currently doesn’t support any of the features. The icons each represent new Workouts under the Fitness UI framework.Among the new Workouts hinted at by the iOS 11 beta are American football, baseball, bowling, dancing, skiing and other modalities in the snow, skipping rope, various types of fights, and surfing

En man i Göteborg har dömts för hets mot folkgrupp efter att ha skrivit nedsättande kommentarer om muslimer i en Facebookgrupp.En man i 70-årsåldern hemmahörande i Göteborg dömdes i förra veckan för hets mot folkgrupp.Enligt åklagaren har mannen: skriftligen uttalat sig nedsättande med syftning på trosbekännelse.Mannen hade i en sluten Facebookgrupp skrivit ”Unga muslim apor” och ”En bra muslim är en död muslim”.

The government is seeking to negotiate a deal over data sharing with Europe in whoch there are no substantial regulatory changes as a result of Brexit.The ambitious strategy emerged on Thursday in the last of a series of summer policy papers published by the Department for Exiting the European Union ahead of the next round of talks in Brussels on Monday.In it, the government argues that its “unique” status as a leading player in the world of electronic commerce means that it should be able to demand special treatment from the EU when agreeing future standards.

Närmare var femte svensk handlar varje månad från utländska webbutiker. Bergen av paket från utlandet växer på PostNords terminaler, framför allt på Arlanda, som är navet för import och export till Sverige.Paketen transporteras i passagerarplan i reguljär trafik och personalen hos PostNord får dålig information om hur mycket som är på väg in till Sverige.– Det kommer stötvis och det kommer väldigt mycket på en gång och vi vet knappt om att de här paketen kommer, säger Arne Andersson, e-handelsexpert hos PostNord.

In the summer of 2016, as WikiLeaks was publishing documents from Democratic operatives allegedly obtained by Kremlin-directed hackers, Julian Assange turned down a large cache of documents related to the Russian government, according to chat messages and a source who provided the records. WikiLeaks declined to publish a wide-ranging trove of documents — at least 68 gigabytes of data — that came from inside the Russian Interior Ministry, according to partial chat logs reviewed by Foreign Policy.