US SEC Charges Man With Defrauding Crypto Investors in Two Digital Asset Securities Offerings
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a citizen of Latvia with defrauding investors in two crypto offerings. The fraudster “used fake names, fictitious entities, and fraudulent profiles to perpetrate his schemes, and misappropriated nearly all of the investor funds that were raised.” Two Fraudulent Crypto Schemes The SEC announced Thursday that it has “charged a Latvian citizen with defrauding hundreds of...
Virtual Land Adjacent to Snoop Dogg’s Sandbox Estate Sells for $450K in Ethereum
The popular American rapper Snoop Dogg revealed at the end of September that he acquired land in the blockchain-based virtual metaverse The Sandbox and had plans to recreate his mansion. On December 2, The Sandbox held a “Snoopverse Land Sale,” which allowed participants to purchase land adjacent to the famous hip hop star’s virtual estate. Plot of Land Next to Snoop’s Virtual Mansion in The Sandbox Metaverse Sells for Six-Digits Two...
PropellerAds Rebuts MPA’s ‘Libelous’ Piracy Allegations
With a reach of a billion users and 10,000 new advertising campaigns per week, PropellerAds is a major player in the online advertising industry. The Cyprus-based company works with advertisers and publishers from all over the world. Many of these are legitimate companies, but there are likely some bad apples in the bunch too. MPA’s List of Notorious Markets A few weeks ago Hollywood’s MPA listed the company as a potential candidate...
Open source mind mapping with Draw.io
There’s something special about maps. I remember opening the front book cover of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit when I was younger, staring at the hand-drawn map of Middle Earth, and feeling the wealth of possibility contained in the simple drawing. Aside from their obvious purpose of actually describing where things are in relation to other things, I think maps do a great job of expressing potential. You could step outside and...
NSO Group Spyware Hits at Least 9 US State Department Phones
The incident lays bare how hollow the surveillance company’s reassurances about the limits of its hacking tools have always been. Powered by WPeMatico