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How a Crypto Compliance Officer Ended Up in a Nigerian Prison
Tigran Gambaryan, an American compliance official for the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance, flew to Nigeria in February for a planned two-day business trip. He hasn’t returned.
Countdown Is On for the Bitcoin ‘Halving’
Bitcoin aficionados are hoping that a scheduled reduction in the number of new coins going into circulation will cause the price of the cryptocurrency to skyrocket.
Kaspersky Study: Devices Infected With Data-Stealing Malware Increased by 7 Times Since 2020
Nearly 10 million devices were infected with data-stealing malware in 2023, with criminals stealing an average of 50.9 credentials per device.
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How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone
Apple finally updated its App Store guidelines to allow global developers to host retro game emulators on iOS. Now, you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone or download any sketchy software — you can get a sophisticated emulator right in … Continue reading
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Cape dials up $61M from A16Z + more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data
AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts impacted — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. Today, a startup called Cape — based out … Continue reading
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TikTok’s Origin Story: Court Files Show Role of GOP Megadonor Jeff Yass
Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance, its bumpy road to success and the role of the Republican megadonor Jeff Yass’s firm.
Truth Social Has an Edge as Rival Right-Wing Apps Falter
Donald Trump’s social media platform has outdistanced similar conservative sites such as Parler and Gettr, even as it lags far behind X and others.
Google Fires 28 Employees Who Protested an Israeli Cloud Contract
The dismissals escalated longstanding tensions between company leaders and activist employees opposed to supplying technology to Israel’s government.
Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash
Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the New York stock exchange Thursday, making it the latest startup to choose going public via a reverse merger as an alternative path to capital needed to … Continue reading
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Building owners are often in the dark about their carbon pollution. A new algorithm could shed light on it
Nzero developed a new algorithm that helps building owners estimate their carbon pollution down to the hour. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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