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0.01% of Bitcoin holders control 27% of all circulating coins: Study
20.12.2021
Bitcoin’s “one percent” reportedly controls a greater share of BTC than the richest U.S. households control in dollars
Genshin Impact Condoms Are Real And Fans Want Them
14.12.2021
Ever since Genshin Impact’s developers legally sanctioned the commercial production of fan merchandise, I’ve been seeing all sorts of unusual Genshin products pop up on the internet. I thought I’d seen it all after the Zhongli titty mousepad. I had not. I nearly burst a gut laughing when a friend...
Vulcan Forged Platform Suffers Security Breach, 96 Wallets Compromised
14.12.2021
Vulcan Forged, a gaming and NFT platform, suffered a security breach that allowed attackers to gain control of some cryptocurrency wallets of the service. The hackers got hold of 96 user wallets and managed to steal more than 4.5 million PYR, the native token of the project, among other assets....
Bitcoin and Ethereum Bears Remain In Control, OHM and SUSHI Rally
13.12.2021
Bitcoin price settled below the USD 50,000 pivot level. BTC could extend losses below USD 47,200 if it stays below USD 50,000. It is currently (11:54 UTC) showing bearish signs below USD 48,900, and only a close above USD 52,000 might start a steady increase.
Similarly, most major altcoins...
UK Intelligence Chief Raises Concerns About Use of Digital Renminbi to Control Global Transactions
13.12.2021
The chief of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), one of the big three intelligence agencies in the U.K., has raised concerns regarding China and its digital renminbi. Sir Jeremy Fleming stated that the already existent Chinese CBDC could be used to collect information from users...
Ascendex Hacked — Exchange Loses $77 Million in ERC20, BSC, Polygon Tokens
12.12.2021
Ascendex, a cryptocurrency exchange, suffered a security breach that allowed hackers to take control of some of the wallets of the exchange. The attack focused on hot wallets, where funds are kept as a buffer to tend to customers’ withdrawals. The company announced that it would reimburse...
Bank for International Settlements States True Decentralized Finance Is an ‘Illusion’
8.12.2021
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), a finance organization comprised of several central banks, has stated that while the objective of decentralized finance is to move control of financial tools away from current financial institutions, it just provides an ‘illusion’ of doing...
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond And Shining Pearl Duplication Glitches Are Out Of Control
29.11.2021
Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has been a glitch-fest so far. While some of the bugs have been annoying or just plain weird, others, like duplication glitches, have effectively broken the game. First, players found a way to clone one Pokémon at a time. Then they found a way...
Control Layout in a Multi-Directional Website
23.11.2021
Many business websites need a multilingual setup. As with anything development-related, implementing one in an easy, efficient, and maintainable way is desirable. Designing and developing to be ready for multiple languages, whether it happens right at launch or is expected …
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Activision's Damage Control Reaches Sad New Low
23.11.2021
Faced with internal unrest, plummeting share prices and a growing public relations disaster, the men and women at the very top of Activision Blizzard—the senior executives and board of directors—should all be resigning. Instead, they’ve put out a desperate press release in the middle of the night...
We Know Better Than to Allow Facebook to Control the Metaverse
21.11.2021
Bree McEwan, Associate Professor, Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology, University of Toronto._______
In the midst of the scandals of the Facebook papers, Facebook rebranded the company as Meta. The new name was designed to reflect a focus beyond the Facebook social...
15 Years Later, Call of Duty Fan Gets Credit For Game-Changing Control Scheme
15.11.2021
In 2006, quadriplegic video game tester and streamer Randy Fitzgerald helped create “NOM4D,” a button layout for Call of Duty designed for disabled players. At the time, he says, he was told he’d be credited by name in the game, but that didn’t happen. All CoD titles since then have omitted...
US Treasury Sanctions 2nd Cryptocurrency Exchange, DOJ Seizes $6.1 Million
9.11.2021
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned a second cryptocurrency exchange “for facilitating financial transactions for ransomware actors.” Two ransomware operators have also been sanctioned and $6.1 million in funds were seized. US Treasury Sanctions Another Cryptocurrency Exchange...
EOS community ramps up battle for organization control against former developer Block.one
3.11.2021
It appears EOS holders are extremely dissatisfied with the direction the network has headed
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Warns Governments Will Never Allow Crypto to Be Out of Their Control
31.10.2021
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sees bitcoin as mathematical purity, praising its fixed supply. However, he said that governments will never allow it to be out of their control. “If it got to the point where everything is being done in crypto and didn’t pass through governments...
Matt Damon Stars in Global Crypto Ad ‘Fortune Favours the Brave’ to Air in 20 Countries
29.10.2021
Famous actor Matt Damon is starring in an ad for cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com. The ad, called “Fortune Favours the Brave,” is directed by Oscar-winner Wally Pfister and will be aired in more than 20 countries. The crypto platform “shares my commitment to empowering people...
On Browser-Specific URL Schemes
26.10.2021
We’ve covered URL schemes:
A URL Scheme is like “http://…” or “ftp://…”. Those seem like a very low-level concept that you don’t have much control over, but actually, you do!
I’d call it non-trivial, but developers can register new …
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Aussie cyber spies to control critical infrastructure during ransomware attacks
20.10.2021
The new bill, if passed, will allow cyber warfare operatives to take over control of critical infrastructure under attack
Ethereum price hits $3,800, boosting bulls' control in Friday's ETH options expiry
14.10.2021
ETH price recaptured the $3,800 level and derivatives data signals bulls are well-positioned for Friday's $385 million options expiry
Someone Fixed Guilty Gear Strive’s Godawful Loading Times
9.10.2021
The incredibly long Guilty Gear Strive loading times that have persisted since its launch four months ago have finally been fixed, but not by the developers at Arc System Works. As is often the case, the job instead fell to an independent engineer, whose custom executable reduces the PC version’s...