Enlarge / The Citibank logo on a bank in New York City in January 2024. Citibank has illegally refused to reimburse scam victims who lost money due partly to Citibank’s poor online security practices, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged in a lawsuit filed today in US District Court for the Southern District of […]
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Enlarge / A CAD render of the Poem/1 sitting on a bookshelf. On Tuesday, product developer Matt Webb launched a Kickstarter funding project for a whimsical e-paper clock called the “Poem/1” that tells the current time using AI and rhyming poetry. It’s powered by the ChatGPT API, and Webb says that sometimes ChatGPT will lie
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Enlarge / Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! Andrew Cunningham The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should the IPO happen,
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CorgiAI has recently overtaken PEPE to become the fourth-largest meme coin, with the token’s value surging by approximately 11% within a week. The rise comes amid a broader increase in the meme coin market capitalization, which has grown by 3% today, outpacing the overall cryptocurrency market’s growth of 1%. CorgiAI is a meme coin that
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The US may have uncovered the nation’s largest “SIM swap” scheme yet, charging a Chicago man and co-conspirators with allegedly stealing $400 million in cryptocurrency by targeting over 50 victims in more than a dozen states, including one company. A recent indictment alleged that Robert Powell—using online monikers “R,” “R$,” and “ElSwapo1″—was the “head of
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The Japanese government is finally letting go of floppy disks and CD-ROMs. It recently announced amendments to laws requiring the use of the physical media formats for submissions to the government for things like alcohol business, mining, and aircraft regulation. Japan’s minister for Digital Transformation, Taro Kono, announced the “war on floppy discs” in August
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We are hungry for evidence of what lies beneath the canonical re-telling of histories. Hungry Is My Favourite Word at the Július Koller Society in Bratislava, Slovakia, invites viewers to fantasize about the past, future, and present by asking the question: How can we relate to obscured pasts in which marginalized existences have been neglected?
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Cardano price has made a swift recovery to $0.54 after hitting a 50-day low of $0.43 on Jan. 23, speculative traders are betting big on further gains. After two weeks of active Bitcoin ETFs trading, the dreaded sell-the-news cycle that saw the global crypto market capitalization shrink by more than $270 billion between Jan. 11
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Geoffrey Kendrick of Standard Chartered Bank predicts the SEC’s approval of U.S. Ethereum ETFs by May 23. Starting with initial rejections before granting approval, Standard Chartered foresees parallels for the Ethereum ETF with the SEC’s approach to Bitcoin ETFs. Geoffrey Kendrick, who leads the bank’s forex and digital assets research, believes Ethereum ETFs in the
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Nearly $50 million was stolen from web3 platforms in the year’s first month as crypto remains engaged in a cyber war with hackers and scammers. Quantstamp, a defi security startup, reported five smart contract protocols with the highest losses from exploits and hackers in January. A total of $38.9 million was lost to a basket
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