Tornado Cash cofounder Roman Storm was released on bail on Thursday, Aug. 24, a day after the software developer was charged with money laundering and sanctions violations in the United States, according to his lawyer Brian Klein. Storm was arrested
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will address a political rally in the metaverse, as part of a virtual protest against the guerrilla publisher’s extradition to the U.S., where he is wanted on charges of espionage. Organized by the ‘Don’t Extradite Assange
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Tornado Cash developers Roman Storm and Roman Semenov with laundering over $1 billion in criminal proceeds, including hundreds of millions of dollars for stated-backed North Korean hacking group Lazarus. Tornado Cash is an
Meta Platforms Inc. announced an AI model that can transcribe and translate up to 100 languages. SeamlessM4T supports translations between speech and text, making it easier for people to interact regardless of their native language. In a blog post published
Bitcoin Ordinals non-fungible tokens (NFTs) may be losing style as trading and sales volume crashed over 99% since May, according to a new report from DappRadar. The crypto tracking platform described the decline as “alarming.” Published Aug. 17, the report
Elon Musk announced that Twitter, now known as X, is removing the ability for users to block unwanted followers on the social media platform. However, the X owner said people will still be able to prevent other users from contacting
Kenya’s data protection agency filed a lawsuit with the High Court of Kenya, asking the court to force Worldcoin to safeguard and store the data it collected from Kenyan individuals until investigations are complete, according to local media reports. The
A new AI-powered camera system captured nearly 300 drivers breaking the law just three days after the technology was first used in the British counties of Devon and Cornwall, the BBC reported on Wednesday, August 16. Police said the most
Discord.io said it “shut down all operations” on Aug. 15 after attackers stole the data of around 760,000 users and put it up for sale on the illegal hacking platform Breached Forums. Discord.io is a third-party service that allows people
Researchers from the University of California found that AI bots can now successfully beat CAPTCHAs – security measures used to separate humans from bots online – and are even better and much faster at it than people, according to a
Amazon launched a generative AI tool on its e-commerce marketplace that helps shoppers make better buying decisions. The feature can read product reviews and create a summary of the most important points, according to a blog post published on Aug.
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was jailed on Friday, August 11, after a New York judge revoked the FTX founder’s $250 million bail on allegations he tampered with witnesses in his upcoming fraud trial. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan made the decision
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