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| Tom Mitchelhill / Cointelegraph: |
Optimism fixes a critical bug that would have allowed creation of unlimited ETH tokens in the Ethereum layer-2 scaling project's accounts, awards a $2M bounty — Ethereum scaling startup Optimism disclosed a “critical bug” fix in the project's Geth fork that would have allowed malicious hackers to create infinite ETH
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| Tom Hegel / SentinelOne: |
Research: ModifiedElephant APT has targeted activists, journalists, lawyers, and others in India to spy on or plant digital evidence since at least 2012 — Executive Summary — Our research attributes a decade of activity to a threat actor we call ModifiedElephant.
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| Elizabeth Howcroft / Reuters: |
NFT marketplace Cent halts most transactions, citing users minting NFTs of content they don't own, selling unauthorized NFT copies, and more — The platform which sold an NFT of Jack Dorsey's first tweet for $2.9 million has halted transactions because people were selling tokens of content …
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| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Twitch has updated its policy to ban usernames that include references “to sexual acts, arousal, fluids, or genitalia” and hard drugs from March 1 — Cannabis and alcohol are still allowed — Video streaming website Twitch has updated its policy to ban usernames that have explicit references to sex or hard drugs.
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| Gian M. Volpicelli / Wired UK: |
A profile of OpenSea, whose Web3 credentials have been called into question by crypto hardliners, as it tries to deal with security incidents and copycat NFTs — Security issues and endless copycat listings are rife, but the platform's attempt to stop them is angering everyone. — What is a real ape?
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Tweets: @davidiwanow, @tunguz, @gadgetlab, @wired, @gregwilliams718, and @wired
| Grid News: |
A review of 80K+ Freedom Convoy 2022 donations reveals a Bangladeshi digital marketing firm was behind two of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the events — As American politicians call for stateside convoys, a Grid investigation finds signs that foreign actors, QAnon and hate pervade the movement's support.
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| Samuel Osborne / Sky News: |
UK's largest insurer Aviva says VR headset-related damage claims increased by 31% in 2021, with an average claim of ~£650 and TVs being the most damaged item — Aviva has said home contents claims involving the gaming headsets rose by 31% last year and have increased by 68% in five years.
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Tweets: @skynews, @trevorcroker, @klillington, @cmrlee, and @truthseeker1985
| Bjarke Smith-Meyer / Politico: |
European Commission says it is planning to propose a bill for a digital euro in early 2023; the ECB expects to start working on a prototype at the end of 2023 — The European Commission announced Wednesday it's planning to propose a bill for a digital euro early next year.
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Cointelegraph, The Block, Decrypt, Forkast, CryptoSlate, and Coinspeaker
Tweets: @politicoeurope and @paddi_hansen
| Tim Marchman / VICE: |
A profile of the couple charged with laundering ~$5B in stolen bitcoin, compiled from sources, filings, databases, documents, and an extensive online record — Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein wanted to be famous. Now, after being accused of laundering billions of dollars of crypto, they are.
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New York Times, New York Magazine, On my Om, Intelibilia, Ars Technica, The Verge, Financial Times, Insider, 1-900-CRY-BABY, New York Post, and New York Post
Tweets: @deardara, @rklau, @jonathanweisman, @arnkil, @petchmo, @kantrowitz, @mollyjongfast, @econ_marshall, @sstirling, @juancpedreira, @epicureandeal, @kkruesi, @ricmac, @aliwatkins, @nytimesmusic, @seikatsu, @nickconfessore, @dodaistewart, @bigblackjacobin, @josephfcox, @jason_koebler, @anthony, @aaschapiro, @albertburneko, @josephfcox, @babiejenks, @thisisbenmurphy, @shaneferro, @lorenzofb, @timmarchman, @sarahnemerson, @annamerlan, and @katienotopoulos
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How warehouse automation startups like Accelerate360 and Attabotics, grocery services like Misfits, and delivery firms like Veho are transforming supply chains — Startups are developing better ways to move products around, from snapping up goods stranded by logistics snafus to automating warehouse work
Tweets: @martijnrasser, @tunguz, @wsj, @benjaminhgordon, and @doug_schweitzer
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Bored Ape Yacht Club members, who have full IP rights for the ape character they own, are pursuing licensing deals to put ape characters on cannabis packaging — When Richard Lee first brought his business proposal to Backpack Boyz, he could sense skepticism from the California-based cannabis company.
Tweets: @harryalford3, @jdotcolombo, and @alexcas_io
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Cisco recently made a takeover offer worth $20B+ for big data analytics software maker Splunk; the companies aren't currently in active talks — Offer was made recently though it isn't clear where things currently stand, according to people familiar with the matter
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iTnews, Reuters, WRAL TechWire, Silicon Valley Business …, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, New York Times, CNBC, MarketWatch, Protocol, CRN, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, and Slashdot
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