Sierra Mitchell
- Feb- 2023 -4 FebruaryTech
A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania licenses, and questions about staff ties to scammers (Donal Griffin/Bloomberg)
Donal Griffin / Bloomberg: A look at little-known UK-based fintech Transactive, which processes €1B+ monthly and has UK and Lithuania…
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New York AG fines a stalkerware developer $410K and forces him to alert his customers' victims that they are being secretly monitored using one of his apps (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: New York AG fines a stalkerware developer $410K and forces him to alert his customers’ victims…
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Sources: the US is weighing sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales to Iran in 2022 as protests swept the country (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: Sources: the US is weighing sanctions on Tiandy, Uniview, and other Chinese surveillance tech makers over sales…
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3 things I learned about the 40K hobby by building a scale model airplane
Over the summer last year I took my daughters out to Bong State Recreation Area in Wisconsin. The massive park…
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Knock at the Cabin’s original ending was much darker
M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin fits neatly into the pattern of his past movies, particularly his religious-themed alien-invasion…
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A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of Trump but writes one about Biden; sources: OpenAI doesn't know why (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Reed Albergotti / Semafor: A viral tweet alleges bias as ChatGPT refuses to write a poem about positive attributes of…
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The new DC movies will do what Marvel can’t anymore: adapt
We’ve been here before: A film studio, eyeing Marvel Studios’ ridiculous track record of success, announces a similarly ambitious plan…
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Background check services TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate confirm a data breach after hackers leak a 2019 database allegedly containing the info of 20M users (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Background check services TruthFinder and Instant Checkmate confirm a data breach after hackers leak a 2019…
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A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google's Area 120 to offer a "2007 Twitter" vibe that Musk's platform no longer supplies (Steven Levy/Wired)
Steven Levy / Wired: A look at T2, a Twitter alternative founded by a former employee of Google’s Area 120…
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Why is Hogwarts Legacy, a Harry Potter video game, so controversial?
Hogwarts Legacy, on the face of it, should have been pure wish fulfillment for millions of fans who have been…
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