Judge ends man’s 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in bitcoin
A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11…
A British judge ruled against a man who wants to excavate a landfill where he says a hard drive with access to thousands of bitcoins was mistakenly dumped over 11…
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau seeks to hold crypto wallet providers liable for on-chain fraud and erroneous transactions—a major shift in existing policy. Source
To counter fan harassment of its employees, from voice actors to developers, Square Enix has implemented a new Group Customer Harassment Policy. The new policy states and defines "customer harassment"…
A group of authors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Sarah Silverman, alleged in a court filing that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved "Meta's torrenting and processing of pirated copyrighted works" to…
Square Enix has shared a new policy that allows them to take action against people who harass their employees in person or on social media. They can also legally block…
At the end of 2024, a US court authorized the Department of Justice to sell 69,370 bitcoins from "the largest cryptocurrency seizure in history." At bitcoin's current price, just under…
A federal judge this week rejected Google's motion to throw out a class-action lawsuit alleging that it invaded the privacy of users who opted out of functionality that records a…
When X CEO Linda Yaccarino took the stage as a keynote speaker at CES 2025, she revealed that "90 percent of the advertisers" who boycotted X over brand safety concerns…
Photo by Apu Gomes / Getty Images As fires rage across Los Angeles and tens of thousands flee their homes, the usual suspects have decided to blame the blazes on…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Google and Microsoft are the latest tech companies to donate to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Each company contributed $1 million to the…
In a move users are calling "embarrassing" and lacking "courage," Instagram and Threads head Adam Mosseri announced that the platforms will be recommending political content to users once again. "As…
Apple has affirmed its Siri privacy policies following a lawsuit settlement that revived rumors that the voice assistant was spying on users. "Apple has never used Siri data to build marketing profiles, never made…
NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang says he'll be more than delighted to visit Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Trump's presidential victory, but unfortunately, he hasn't been invited yet. NVIDIA's CEO Says That Team…
Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will…
Chinese software considered “vetted partner solutions” in Microsoft policy updateISVs from China can now sell their software via the commercial marketplaceSellers will get access to millions of customers and partner…
With Meta's new content moderation policies, the company is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women, who are already disproportionately targeted by online vitriol — even as it plans…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Meta’s overhaul of its content moderation and fact-checking policies in the US is bringing into focus a key geopolitical tension likely to…
After going through its biggest policy change since 2016, scaling back fact-checking partnerships and automated content removal, Meta aims to fight EU censorship. However, while Mark Zuckerberg claims that the…
Meta is pushing forward with its overhaul of moderation and content policies, making big moves on how political content is handled. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, announced that both Instagram…
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