Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney (Andreo Calonzo/Bloomberg)

Andreo Calonzo / Bloomberg:
Philippine President Marcos Jr. signs a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers, including Netflix, HBO, and Disney  —  Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Wednesday signed a law imposing a 12% value-added tax on non-resident digital service providers including Netflix, HBO and Disney.

A profile of Denise Coates, the UK’s richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion (Rob Davies/The Guardian)

Rob Davies / The Guardian:
A profile of Denise Coates, the UK’s richest woman, who founded online gambling company Bet365, which had £3B+ in 2023 revenue, as she focuses on a US expansion  —  She is the mastermind behind Bet365, the company that made it possible to gamble online any hour of the day or night.

In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are standout features (Sebastiaan de With/Lux)

Sebastiaan de With / Lux:
In-depth iPhone 16 Pro camera review: overall image and quality of life improvements, but Camera Control and advanced Photographic Styles are standout features  —  For the first “Desert Titanium” iPhone, we took over 1000 photos and videos in the desert.  Take a deep dive into what’s new — and why it’s close to the last of its kind.

Raspberry Pi, a FTSE 250 company that defied the trend of UK-based tech companies that have listed in the US, has revived Cambridge’s history of making hardware (John Gapper/Financial Times)

John Gapper / Financial Times:
Raspberry Pi, a FTSE 250 company that defied the trend of UK-based tech companies that have listed in the US, has revived Cambridge’s history of making hardware  —  The Cambridge company conceived to enable technology education is now an industrial force  —  Raspberry Pi is a quirky enterprise.

London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robots for warehouses, raised a $80M Series B led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/Sifted)

Kai Nicol-Schwarz / Sifted:
London-based Dexory, which builds autonomous robots for warehouses, raised a $80M Series B led by DTCP, taking its total equity funding to $120M  —  Generative AI has changed the game for autonomous technology, says founder and CEO Andrei Danescu  —  Dexory, a UK-based startup building autonomous robots …

How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii’s death registration system to fake his own death (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch:
How the FBI and Mandiant caught hacker Jesse Kipf, who sold access to systems he broke into and hacked Hawaii’s death registration system to fake his own death  —  Jesse Kipf was a prolific hacker who sold access to systems he hacked, had contacts with a notorious cybercrime gang …