Sources: Meta is talking to crypto firms about introducing stablecoins for managing payouts, and in January 2025 hired a VP of product with crypto experience
Three Years After Diem Rony Roy / crypto.news : Meta may be eyeing stablecoin payments for Instagram creators Samuel Edyme / Bitcoinist.com : Stripe Expands Crypto Offerings With S...
Google researchers say DPRK's IT workers are fraudulently securing remote roles at companies in Germany, Portugal, and the UK, after facing sanctions in the US
North Korea's IT workers have expanded operations beyond the United States and are now increasingly targeting organizations across Europe.
Kaspersky researchers found apps in Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store that use OCR to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases from images on users' devices
Android and iOS apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store contain a malicious software development kit (SDK) …
Justin Sun's BiT Global, which recently became a key stakeholder in the wBTC ecosystem, sues Coinbase for planning to delist wBTC after launching rival cbBTC
as set out plainly in the text you yourself cite. I look forward to your deposition under oath in California. No need to bring your banana. H.E. Justin Sun / @justinsuntron : It se...
An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini's crypto exchange
The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August …
Blockchain platform Polkadot faces criticism from users after spending $87M in H1 2024, doubling its H2 2023 spend, including $36M+ on marketing and outreach
The blockchain spent $87 million in the first six months this year, with marketing activities accounting for the majority of expenses.
Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico
unless it's your smartphone Ann Resuma / International Business Times : Google Lays Off 200 ‘Core’ Employees; Eyes Shifting Some Roles To India, Mexico Alice Nunwick / Verdict : Go...
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
Emails released as part of US vs. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money
This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. — The story begins on February 5th 2019 …
Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple ~€500M in March for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify
Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
Japan is leading the race to regulate stablecoins, starting with a law that took effect in June 2023 and has terms to protect the assets underlying stablecoins
Japan's new law tries to address one of the biggest fears about major stablecoins: Do issuers really have the assets to back them?
Researchers reveal an attack forcing iOS and macOS WebKit browsers to divulge secrets, like passwords and email content, of users who visit a malicious website
iLeakage is practical and requires minimal resources. A patch isn't (yet) available. — Researchers have devised an attack …
As the UK FCA widens its financial promotions rules for crypto, Coinbase, OKX, Binance, and others partner with UK companies to try to keep serving UK customers
penalties range from web/app takedowns to fines & prison https://www.bloomberg.com/... LinkedIn: Oliver Scherenberg : 🚨 The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s new regulation ...
Crypto bridging protocol Multichain ceases operations after confirming Chinese police detained its CEO, Zhaojun, and his sister, who held ~$220M of user assets
Tim Copeland / The Block :
Multichain ceases operations after the crypto bridging protocol's CEO Zhaojun and his sister, who held ~$220M of user assets, were detained by Chinese police
- Multichain confirmed its CEO has been detained in China. — It said the CEO's sister moved $220 million of funds …
How the US is increasingly reshaping the spyware market to favor companies selling cyberweapons to the US and its allies, like Israeli startup Paragon Solutions
Contrasting fates of Israeli spyware-makers Paragon and NSO reveal how American support is crucial in $12bn industry
[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company's control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage
Document #1242, Attachment #1 Mark Timmis / Coinmonks : Curious Cryptos' Commentary 10th April 2023 — FTX FTX : FTX Debtors Release Report on FTX Group's Control Failures Martin Yo...
[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company's control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage
The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related businesses. It's 43 pages long, let's go through...
How sound boxes, or tiny, cheap speakers that read out payment confirmations, have become a lucrative revenue stream for Paytm and other fintechs in India
Adnan Bhat / Rest of World : LinkedIn: Shaji Sethu . Tweets: @adnanmbhat , @jasuja , @sammcallister , @anupkaphle , @hkanji , and @moo9000 LinkedIn: Shaji Sethu : How tiny, cheap ...