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Moonday Morning: South Korea lost $2.3 billion to cryptocurrency crimes over last 2 years

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 8:04 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Welcome to Monday, and welcome to another Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines. Let’s take a look. 1. Damage from cryptocurrency-related crimes in South Korea over the last two years is estimated to be $2.3 billion (2.7 trillion Won), according to government data, The Korea Herald reports. 2. In an interview with CNBC, eBay‘s CEO, Devin Wening, said that the company is involved in the Libra Association because “crypto and blockchain have great promise… [Libra] is promising and it’s worth a try… and could do immense good.” Well, here’s to hoping. 3. Iran‘s…

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How to watch India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission launch live

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 7:16 am
Posted In: Around the Web, India, Space


Events celebrating the 50th year of Apollo 11 Moon landing are underway, but India is gearing up for its own second mission to the moon. Dubbed Chandrayaan-2, the lunar mission was originally scheduled for last Monday, but a technical snag resulted in it being aborted an hour before take-off. Less than five hours for the launch !!! Filling of Liquid Oxygen for the Cryogenic Stage(C25) of #GSLVMkIII-M1 commenced#Chandrayaan2 #ISRO — ISRO (@isro) July 22, 2019 It’s the first Indian expedition to attempt a soft landing on the Moon’s south polar region with home-grown technology, and to explore the lunar terrain…

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Who’s responsible for domestic abuse witnessed by online tutors?

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


In a piece co-published by Wired and EdSurge last week, Emily Tate detailed a troubling facet of the burgeoning online video teaching industry. According to US-based English tutors she spoke with, some of their young students in China were being beaten and scolded by their parents for making mistakes during these lessons – on camera. Hundreds of thousands of children in China currently use online tutoring services to learn English, from platforms like QKids, Magic Ears, DaDa, Gogokid, and VIPKid (which has raised more than $800 million in funding since it was founded in 2014). Tate noted that of the two dozen…

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Who’s responsible for domestic abuse witnessed by online tutors?

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 6:30 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia


In a piece co-published by Wired and EdSurge last week, Emily Tate detailed a troubling facet of the burgeoning online video teaching industry. According to US-based English tutors she spoke with, some of their young students in China were being beaten and scolded by their parents for making mistakes during these lessons – on camera. Hundreds of thousands of children in China currently use online tutoring services to learn English, from platforms like QKids, Magic Ears, DaDa, Gogokid, and VIPKid (which has raised more than $800 million in funding since it was founded in 2014). Tate noted that of the two dozen…

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BBC: Russia is working on a Tor de-anonymization project

Jul22
by on July 22, 2019 at 5:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian intelligence agency FSB (Federal Security Service). BBC Russia, which reported the breach, said “it’s possible that this is the largest data leak in the history of the work of Russian special services on the Internet.” The documents included descriptions of dozens of internal projects the company was working on, including ones on de-anonymization of users of the Tor browser and researching the vulnerability of torrents. A Tor network routes internet traffic through random relays across the world, allowing users to…

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