Investigation suggests that Austrian programmer Toby Hoenisch, who founded TenX, was likely behind a 2016 hack of The DAO, diverting 3.6M ETH, now worth $11B (Laura Shin/Forbes)
Investigation suggests that Austrian programmer Toby Hoenisch, who founded TenX, was likely behind a 2016 hack of The DAO, diverting 3.6M ETH, now worth $11B— Who hacked The DAO in…
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Mastercard starts testing facial recognition payments in Brazil, letting users who opt-in pay with a smile or wave, using tech from NEC, Payface, PopID, others (Siddharth Venkataramakrishnan/Financial …)
Mastercard starts testing facial recognition payments in Brazil, letting users who opt-in pay with a smile or wave, using tech from NEC, Payface, PopID, others — Biometrics payments have struggled…
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How a teenager Edwin Robbe pulled off a daring hack into the Netherlands’ largest telecommunications company, costing him € 3m, before being found dead in South Korea (Huib Modderkolk / The Guardian)
How teenage Edwin Robbe pulled off a daring hack into the Netherlands’ largest telecommunications company, costing him € 3m, before being found dead in South Korea– Edwin Robbe has had…
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A look at the bitter privacy debate in a Colorado neighborhood over the use of license plate scanners made by Flock, whose customer base has quadrupled since 2019 (Drew Harwell / Washington Post)
A look at the bitter privacy debate in a Colorado neighborhood over the use of license plate scanners made by Flock, whose customer base has grown four-fold since 2019– Homeowner…
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How peer pressure to be part of the iMessage Blue Bubble Text Groups keeps American teens locked in the Apple ecosystem (Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal)
How Peer Pressure to Join iMessage Blue Bubble Text Groups Keeps American Teens Locked Into Apple’s Ecosystem– iPhone maker made iMessage a must have texting tool for teens. Android users…
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A group of 46 state, Guam and DC AGs are asking a U.S. federal appeals court to reinstate the antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that was dismissed in 2021 (Reuters)
A group of 46 state, Guam and DC AGs asks a US federal appeals court to reinstate antitrust lawsuit against Facebook that was dismissed in 2021– A group of states…
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Fortnite returns to iOS and iPadOS via a closed beta of Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service, designed to work in Safari and other browsers (Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge)
Fortnite returns to iOS and iPadOS via closed beta of Nvidia’s GeForce Now game streaming service, designed to work in Safari and other browsers– Nvidia’s GeForce Now is finally bringing…
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Stripe partners with OpenNode to let businesses convert fiat payments into bitcoin via OpenNode’s Stripe app; Stripe suspended bitcoin support in 2018 (Shawn Amick/Bitcoin Magazine)
Stripe partners with OpenNode to let businesses convert fiat payments into bitcoin via OpenNode’s Stripe app; Stripe suspended bitcoin support in 2018 — Stripe, a global payment processor, is working…
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New York-based customer data infrastructure firm mParticle Raises $ 150 Million Series E, Bringing Total Raised to $ 272 Million (AlleyWatch)
New York-based customer data infrastructure firm mParticle raises $ 150 million in Series E, bringing total raised to $ 272 million– The market size of Customer Data Platforms is expected…
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Apple Music says it will use Shazam’s technology to properly identify and remunerate all of the individual creators involved in creating a DJ mix (Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch)
Apple Music Says It Will Use Shazam’s Technology To Properly Identify And Pay All Individual Creators Involved In Creating A DJ Mix– Apple Music announced today that it has created…
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