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View More NewsIn brief A reported breach of France’s tax authority exposed data tied to 678,437 people and businesses. The records allegedly include income figures, addresses, tax identifiers, and family information. The data could help criminals craft targeted scams against wealthy taxpayers and Bitcoin holders. A hacker is selling a trove of French tax records that could expose more than 678,000 people and businesses, including Bitcoin holders, to phishing, identity theft, and targeted attacks.According to a report by French cybersecurity outlet FrenchBreaches, a hacker is selling records allegedly stolen from France’s tax authority, the DGFiP, during a June breach for several thousand…
Dakar, August 14, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Cameroonian authorities to release George Atabong Lekeaka, who has been held incommunicado since Monday for publishing a photo of security officers on patrol during clashes with separatist fighters. “George Atabong Lekeaka should not have been arrested for attempting to provide the public with security information, let alone secretly detained without access to a lawyer or his family, in violation of his rights,” said Moussa Ngom, CPJ’s Francophone Africa representative. “Cameroonian authorities should immediately disclose Lekeaka’s whereabouts, release him, and refrain from targeting journalists for covering the Anglophone crisis.” George Atabong…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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In brief Ireland published its first National Anti-Money Laundering Strategy on Thursday, with crypto-asset rules among the reforms it sets out. The final elements…
Scan the news and there are plenty of reasons for worry: continued U.S.-Iran escalation risks, mounting sovereign debt and rising bond yields among them.…
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In brief The SEC has canceled Friday’s meeting, at which commissioners were to vote on proposing a tailored offering regime for crypto assets. A…
Copper Markets US will offer qualified custody, staking, financing and OTC services after securing its regulated US presence. Read the full article here
In brief Twitch has begun letting Amazon use streamer content to train generative AI models, with the setting switched on by default. Chief product…
from the ╭∩╮(-•̀_•́-)╭∩╮ dept As expected, this didn’t take very long. Earlier this week we pointed out that Donald Trump supplanted RFK Jr. as…
Bitcoin (BTC) recent buyers are the latest hurdle to a breakout from a stubborn trading range in place since June.Key points:Bitcoin short-term holders are…
In brief A breach at ShipMonk, one of Trezor’s fulfillment partners, exposed personal data belonging to 13,689 Trezor customers. Full names, phone numbers, email…
Bitcoin (BTC), by any measure, still remains stuck in a tight trading range, but there has been some movement of note on Thursday.Sadly for…
Figure Technology Solutions reported $4.3 billion in consumer loan marketplace volume for the second quarter, up 132% from a year earlier, as its quarterly…
In brief Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich said the company did not sell Bitcoin. Gerovich said a 5,014 BTC transfer was a routine move between…