Tether Freezes Millions of Dollars USDT in 40 Addresses Amid Regulatory Pressure
Stablecoin issuer Tether has blacklisted 40 Ethereum addresses holding millions of dollars of the tether cryptocurrency, 24 of which were banned this year. This finding follows the Centre Consortium taking a similar action due to a request by law enforcement. Tether Frozen in 40 Addresses Tether has banned 40 Ethereum addresses holding millions of dollars of the stablecoin USDT, according to an analysis by Ethereum researcher Philippe...
Trump’s Meme Post Survives on Facebook Despite New York Times Complaint
A few days ago, the mainstream media jumped all over the news that the New York Times had removed a Trump ‘meme’, posted by President Trump, on Twitter. The NYT owns the right to the underlying photo that was taken by photographer Damon Winter and used in a 2015 feature on the President. While the newspaper admitted that there are fair-use considerations with these type of memes, it saw Trump’s post as copyright...
ISP Cox Hands Six Month Internet Ban to Alleged Repeat Infringer
In 2019, ISP Cox Communications was hit with an unprecedented $1 billion verdict after a jury found it liable for infringements carried out by its customers. More than 50 music companies including Capitol Records, Warner Bros, and Sony Music, successfully argued that Cox failed to terminate repeat copyright infringers and profited from their piracy. The ISP was found to be both contributorily and vicariously liable and ordered to pay...
4 Mac terminal customizations even a curmudgeon can love
A decade ago, I started my first job that required me to use Linux as my laptop’s operating system. I was offered a range of variants, including Gentoo, if I was so inclined, but since I had used Ubuntu briefly in the past, I opted for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04. My terminal, Konsole, was themed in Zenburn and had a Bash prompt that looked like this: read...
My feature-rich and minimal Linux terminal
Everyone likes to set up their workspaces in a specific way; it helps your productivity and makes life easier to have things organized in a way that feels organic and to have an environment that feels good to you. That definitely applies to terminals too; that’s probably why there are so many terminal options available. When starting on a new computer, the very first thing I do is set up my terminal to make it my own. read...
