The Tornado Cash developer was found guilty of operating an unlicensed transmitter business in August and could still be retried on two counts on which a jury deadlocked....
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin publicly backed convicted Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm, calling privacy tools a human right....
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The personal computer has remained surprisingly resilient to change over the past 15 years. Apple promised a "post-PC" era with the iPad in 2010 and failed to deliver one. Smartphones even overtook la...
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More than 40 million are on alert as the next winter storm is forecast to bring inclement weather from the Dakotas into northern New England over the coming days....
📋 Key Facts ✓ Eira Tansey announced her divorce on Instagram. ✓ An AI impersonated her following the announcement. ✓ ...
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The Trust Wallet update includes a feature to help victims of the $7 million Christmas hack submit reimbursement claims for lost funds....
Megan Lewis was astonished to discover that her pen pal from over 30 years ago was her OB/GYN that delivered her two children....
GOG is splitting from CD Projekt, the game company that launched the preservation-focused PC gaming marketplace in 2008. In an update on Monday , GOG announced that its co-founder, Michał Kici...
2025 saw the US-China rivalry weaponize every layer of the technology stack—from minerals to models to military doctrine....
In early December, Joshua Aaron, the developer behind the ICEBlock app - designed to let people alert others about the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents - filed a federal la...
The tech moguls in happier times (at Trump’s inauguration.) Since X's users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inev...
As usual, 2025 was a year of deep congressional dysfunction in the US. But state legislatures were passing laws that govern everything from AI to social media to the right to repair. Many of these law...
Yesterday, Ubisoft confirmed that Rainbow Six Siege had been compromised and that it had shut down the game's servers and marketplace while it resolved the issue. The hackers managed to gain control o...
In just the past couple years, the art TV category that's been dominated by Samsung's The Frame has seen growth, with additions from both TCL and Hisense. Now LG has announced its own entry, the LG Ga...