Experts blame a compromised engineer’s laptop for the Binance breach, but warn that AI is raising the risk for everyone.
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South Africa’s biggest telecoms operators say they cannot endorse Icasa’s biometric Sim rules as drafted.
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New York’s chief financial regulator has ordered Paxos, the company behind the stablecoin of major crypto exchange Binance, to stop issuing the token.
SpaceX’s towering Super Heavy booster, one half of the company’s Starship rocket system, briefly roared to life for the first time on Thursday.
Decentralised finance apps may benefit from the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on crypto staking services — if they avoid a similar clampdown.
I’m willing to pay twice what I’m paying today to a streaming service that does its best to get every artist’s latest album immediately after its release.
In the next 10 years, it remains possible that the technology underlying bitcoin will transform global money.

































