Month: August 2022

Cryptocurrency fraud scheme busted by US securities agency

The Forsage pyramid scheme cheated investors out of $300m worldwide over more than two years US authorities have busted a huge cryptocurrency pyramid scheme, charging 11 people for their role in defrauding retail investors for more than $300m worldwide. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the charges Monday, which relate to a Ponzi …

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‘I’m doing puzzles that may take 10 years to solve’: Animal Well, a mysterious video game time capsule

In an industry notorious for neglecting its past, one developer is trying to make a game that will be playable (and enigmatic) long into the future In January 2020, players of Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time stumbled on a buried spaceship: a fully functional “Arwing” fighter from another classic Nintendo game, Star …

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Landlords evicting tenants for Airbnb and holiday lets, report finds

Rachael Maskell, the York Central MP, has proposed a bill to tackle shortage of private rental housing Landlords are evicting tenants and switching to Airbnbs and holiday lets because the money is better and they “do not have to worry about bad tenants”. Research has found a boom in rental properties being used for short-term …

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