Month: June 2022

OpenSea tells customers and subscribers not to open emails and files ‘sent by strangers’ after revealing breach The world’s biggest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has warned its users to be on the alert for email phishing attacks following a massive data leak. OpenSea, where traders exchange the crypto assets, told customers and newsletter subscribers …

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In this week’s newsletter: As the revolutionary company celebrates a half-century, we look back at everything video games owe to Atari Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian’s gaming newsletter. If you’d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email …

Pushing Buttons: Happy 50th birthday to Atari, whose simple games gave us so much Read More »

PlayStation 4/5, Xbox, PC; Codemasters/EA SportsSupreme playability is sidetracked by a new mode designed to let players live the gilded life of an F1 driver – and start paying for it In the real world, Formula One is enjoying one of its highest profile seasons ever. A change in regulations has made cars more raceable …

F1 22 review – a stunning racing game sullied by money-grubbing Read More »

Despite the growing adoption of security tools in US schools, mass shootings have remained constant throughout the past 30 years After the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas , an all-too-familiar question emerged: how do we prevent such horror from happening again? A handful of companies have said they have tech solutions …

After Uvalde shooting, tech companies tout their solutions. But do they work? Read More »

In this week’s newsletter: The singer reflects on the legacy of Terrence Higgins and life-changing advances in treatment in A Positive Life. Plus: five of the best TV show companion podcasts Don’t get Hear Here delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here A Positive Life: HIV from Terrence Higgins to TodayBBC …

Best podcasts of the week: Sam Smith charts 40 years of progress on HIV and Aids Read More »

Andy Beverley is worried for those who are excluded by cashless systems, and Jane Ghosh says counter services are essential Thank you for highlighting the issue of digital exclusion (Editorial, 23 June). A similar problem is developing with digital payments. For what to many is innocent and inevitable progress, the millions of people in the …

Digitalisation of services and money is creating a two-tier society | Letters Read More »

Tech giant imposes restrictions on goods such as books and rainbow-coloured flags after threats of penalties Amazon has bowed to pressure from the United Arab Emirates and restricted search results for LGBT-related products such as books and rainbow-coloured flags on its website in the country. The company decided to restrict the searches after being threatened …

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Savers talk of devastating losses as assets such as bitcoin and ‘stablecoins’ like terra fell sharply Yuri Popovich had watched his neighbours’ houses burn down to the ground in Kyiv and he needed a safe place to put his money. So he did what millions of amateur investors have done in recent years: he turned …

Crypto crisis: how digital currencies went from boom to collapse Read More »

The musician shares her favourite TikToks and videos, including a DIY Dobby costume, a grandma’s feminist dating advice and a deeply specific Melbourne meme Never in my life have I felt more unfunny than I did while compiling this list. There is nothing that’ll give you the ick faster than someone whipping out their phone …

Kira Puru: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) Read More »

Crypto hedge fund facing collapse after claims of $650 default on loan to Voyager bank The crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has been lined up for liquidation just days after it was accused of defaulting on a multimillion dollar loan to the crypto bank Voyager. The consultancy firm Teneo confirmed that two individuals from …

Three Arrows Capital to become latest casualty of crypto crash Read More »