Enlarge / The IRS detailed the winding and tangled routes the couple allegedly took to launder a portion of the nearly 120,000 bitcoins stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016. William Whitehurst | Getty Images reader comments 181 with 108 posters participating Share this story On Tuesday, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested ..
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Enlarge / AirTag box at an Apple Store on April 30, 2021, in Sydney, Australia. Getty Images | James D. Morgan reader comments 78 with 53 posters participating Share this story Apple yesterday announced upcoming AirTag updates designed to combat stalking and other unwanted tracking. “AirTag was designed to help people locate their personal belongings, ..
SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images reader comments 96 with 67 posters participating Share this story Two US senators have asked the Central Intelligence Agency to release the details of a secret bulk data collection program that has apparently ensnared Americans. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) wrote the director of national intelligence and the CIA (PDF), ..
Enlarge / A US Bradley Fighting Vehicle drives during a joint military exercise between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, in the countryside of Deir Ezzor in northeastern Syria on December 7, 2021. The US Army is currently testing a version of the Bradley with ..
Enlarge / Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. reader comments 111 with 66 posters participating Share this story The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued Tesla on Wednesday, alleging systemic racial segregation in the workplace. “After receiving hundreds of complaints from workers, DFEH found evidence that Tesla’s Fremont factory is a racially segregated ..
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. reader comments 101 with 61 posters participating, including story author Share this story NASA has warned that SpaceX’s plan for 30,000 more Starlink satellites could cause problems for science missions, human spaceflight, the Hubble telescope, and ground-based telescopes that look ..
reader comments 54 with 37 posters participating Share this story Many of Intel’s current woes can be traced to the fact that the company was left out of the iPhone. Whether Intel passed on the opportunity or couldn’t meet the spec is by now a moot point, but missing out on the smartphone revolution—and its ..
reader comments 121 with 85 posters participating Share this story SoftBank’s $66 billion sale of UK-based chip business Arm to Nvidia collapsed on Monday after regulators in the US, UK, and EU raised serious concerns about its effects on competition in the global semiconductor industry, according to three people with direct knowledge of the transaction. ..
reader comments 91 with 73 posters participating Share this story The Internal Revenue Service is dropping a controversial facial recognition system that requires people to upload video selfies when creating new IRS online accounts. “The IRS announced it will transition away from using a third-party service for facial recognition to help authenticate people creating new ..
Getty Images | Cindy Ord reader comments 510 with 222 posters participating Share this story Spotify on Friday removed 70 Joe Rogan Experience episodes from 2020 and previous years. Meanwhile, Rogan issued an apology after video showed him saying the n-word on various podcast episodes. The new episode removals weren’t related to the COVID misinformation that ..
