Binance and Crypto.com Publish Proof-of-Reserve Audits Conducted by Global Auditor Mazars Group
This week two cryptocurrency exchanges provided proof-of-reserves in order to highlight that the trading platforms are backing customer assets 1:1. Binance published its report on Dec. 7, 2022, and detailed the global auditor Mazars Group conducted the audit. On Dec. 9, 2022, the exchange Crypto.com published proof-of-reserves records and the verification was also conducted by Mazars. Binance and Crypto.com Reveal POR Audits Two very...
Google Reveals Surge in Questionable Removal Requests From Russian Government
Google processes millions of takedown notices every day, most of them filed by copyright holders. A separate stream of removal demands contains requests by government entities. These are not as common as copyright complaints, but across all Google platforms the numbers quickly add up. Government Takedown Transparency A few days ago Google quietly published its latest Government takedown transparency report. A closer look at the data...
Advanced Pirate IPTV Blocks Proposed By Football Club-Owning Politician
With much of the legal groundwork completed in Europe, blocking pirate sites and services is often a case of rightsholders following established procedures and waiting for the rubber stamp of approval. The problem for rightsholders is that waiting for weeks or even days can introduce new complications. And for live sporting events, especially football matches, a 90 minute wait is effectively useless. Rightsholders in the UK have...
How to use the Linux file manager for GNOME 2
How to use the Linux file manager for GNOME 2 Seth Kenlon Sat, 12/10/2022 – 03:00 Before GNOME 3 there was (unsurprisingly) GNOME 2, which had gained an ardent fanbase during its reign as one of the common default Linux desktops. The Mate project (named after the yerba mate plant) began as an effort to continue the GNOME 2 desktop, at first using GTK 2 (the toolkit GNOME 2 was based upon) and later incorporating GTK 3. Today,...
