Tripadvisor continues fight against fraudulent reviews as incidences increase
Tripadvisor rejected or removed more than 2.7 million fraudulent reviews in 2024, up from two million in 2023. The company revealed the findings in its 2025 Transparency Report, noting that moderators reviewed approximately 4.2 million reviews before or after they were posted. Get a dose of digital travel in your inbox
Seagate’s fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms
A Heise investigation of used Seagate data center-grade hard drives that are being sold as new has suggested that the drives originated from Chinese cryptocurrency mining farms that used them to mine Chia several years ago. Notably, this finding does not disprove Seagate’s assertion that the fraudulent HDDs were obtained
