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iPhone, Android, PC; Second Dinner/NuverseYour favourite childhood heroes step up to help you conquer territory in this beautifully designed, strategic deck-builder for smartphones • Game designer Ben Brode talks about what’s behind the sudden success of Marvel Snap Eight years ago, Blizzard Entertainment launched Hearthstone, a free-to-play smartphone game that took elements of physical card …

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Founder Sam Bankman-Fried races to find funds to fill multibillion-dollar hole in exchange The Bahamas securities regulator has frozen the assets of the Bahamas subsidiary of FTX, as the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange struggles for survival. The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday it had frozen the assets of FTX Digital Markets …

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Departures of top figures handling safety, security, privacy and compliance come amid warnings from Federal Trade Commission As Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter entered its third week, and following mass layoffs, the billionaire laid bare a delicate financial future for the social media platform, amid an exodus of top privacy and security executives. Yoel Roth, …

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The blow comes soon after rival Binance backed out of a merger deal earlier this week after due diligence of the exchange’s books The swift collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX sent more shockwaves through the crypto world on Thursday, with authorities now investigating the firm for potential securities violations and analysts bracing for a further …

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The service now allows users to pay $8 to appear ‘verified’. Celebrity impersonators are having a field day George W Bush “misses killing Iraqis”, and Tony Blair agrees. OJ Simpson says he did it. And Elon Musk is offering “free nightly dinners” and family vacations to anyone whose name happens to be that of his …

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Prof Hannah Fry is a joy, and will make you deeply excited about the weirdest things – like the magnetic strip on the back of your bank card Prof Hannah Fry brings her irresistible enthusiasm to the BBC for The Secret Genius of Modern Life (BBC Two), a documentary series about the seemingly simple everyday …

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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese says release of stolen medical records is ‘reprehensible’ Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The hackers allegedly behind the Medibank data theft have released another file of apparently stolen medical records despite being …

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Social media has been crucial to pro-democracy protests across the region, from Myanmar to the Milk Tea Alliance in Thailand and Hong Kong When Thai journalist and free speech defender Pravit Rojanaphruk joined Twitter in 2011, the social media platform was for him just a home for a few academics and politicos arguing among themselves. …

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The behemoths of Silicon Valley face some serious shrinkage and a reckoning with the societies they work in Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Amazon: these behemoths have shaped our world. This winter, however, the world is shaping them. Faced with a global downturn, a US economy that appears headed for recession and interest rates shooting up across …

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International exchange for crypto assets is effectively unregulated – and may have been built on sand Cryptocurrency exchange FTX now worthless, says key investor FTX, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange, is in a crisis and has pitched the digital asset market into another crash. Here we look at what has happened to FTX, why, …

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