Month: June 2022

Kim Kardashian and Floyd Mayweather among those being sued, but prosecuting fraud in the crypto arena is notoriously difficult With investors worldwide looking at a collective $1.5tn in recent cryptocurrency losses, a blizzard of class-action lawsuits are being prepared. One big question is: who, if anyone, is to blame – and who could be held …

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Privacy campaign group warns against government’s proposals to move to an ‘opt-out’ model Proposals to scrap pop-up cookie consent boxes on websites will make it easier to spy on web users, a privacy campaign group has warned. Cookie banners are a common feature for web users, who are asked to give their consent for websites …

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A trip to the dump resulted in a chance encounter with a dramatic herd of animals Jeremy Piloquet doesn’t like shooting people. Cows, he says, will always be more honest. “When I started out three years ago, I tried street photography, but I was so much more drawn to people’s shadows or silhouettes, their outline …

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The company has said that Oracle will store all private information and is limiting the number of employees with those privileges TikTok has said that Oracle will store all the data from its US users, in a bid to allay fears about its safety in the hands of a platform owned by the Chinese company …

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Letter called for SpaceX to make its work culture more inclusive and ‘define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior’ At least five employees were fired by private rocket company SpaceX after drafting and circulating an open letter criticizing founder Elon Musk and calling on executives at the start-up to make the company’s …

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The hip-hop mogul loves to rap about his roots in Brooklyn’s Marcy housing projects. But classes in cryptocurrency show the billionaire is out of touch, residents say Marcy Houses, the 28-acre public housing development in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, is best-known as a pillar of rapper-turned-mogul Jay-Z’s New York persona. Built in 1949 as part of …

Jay-Z’s bitcoin school met with skepticism in his former housing project: ‘I don’t have money to be losing’ Read More »

Chinese cyberspace is filled with videos showing violence against women and activists say only real social change will stop the abuse Tang Ping, 31, a mother-of-two in the southern Chinese city of Nanning, says in 2014 when her first child was six months old, her husband – an academic – began routinely beating her. She …

‘This is another pandemic’: a female survivor of domestic abuse in China speaks out Read More »

Ukrainian president attends Paris trade show as electronic apparition, urging tech companies to aid ‘digital revolution’ on lend-lease terms See all our Ukraine coverage Volodymyr Zelenskiy referenced Star Wars and the second world war as the Ukrainian president appeared as a hologram at a conference in Paris to seek aid from big tech firms. He …

Hologram Zelenskiy promises Ukraine will defeat ‘the empire’ Read More »

Ron Wyden says White House right to raise doubts about possible deal for contractor L3Harris to take over surveillance technology An influential Democratic lawmaker has said any deal by a US company to acquire NSO Group’s surveillance technology would pose a serious national security risk, and suggested that any intercepts obtained with the software by …

Key Democrat warns of major security risk if US firm acquires NSO hacking code Read More »

Workers were able to submit questions to the Tesla CEO who has been critical of the company he proposed to buy in a $44bn deal Elon Musk met directly with employees at Twitter on Thursday for the first time since he reached a deal to acquire the company in April, focusing on “freedom of speech” …

In rare move, Elon Musk meets Twitter employees to give ‘freedom of speech’ address Read More »