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Rabobank is the second major bank to cancel its cryptocurrency wallet

May23
by on May 23, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


After exploring the opportunity last year, major Dutch bank Rabobank has decided it’s not going to take its plans for a cryptocurrency wallet any further. In February last year, news surfaced that Rabobank was working on a cryptocurrency service – called Rabobit – which promised to bridge the gap between bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets. But the bank has now confirmed it’s canned the project. However, “After careful consideration with our customers in mind we recently decided that now is not the time to develop the idea further and bring it to the next phase of innovation,” a Rabobank spokesperson…

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As Bitcoin surges, hackers rush to spread cryptocurrency malware on Google Play

May23
by on May 23, 2019 at 10:25 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


An unfortunate consequence of Bitcoin’s price revival in recent weeks is the resurgence of cryptocurrency malware on Google Play. ESET security researchers, have verified that there were at least two apps on Google Play specifically designed to steal users’ coins. One such app, called Trezor Mobile Wallet, was masquerading as an app version of the popular hardware wallet, Trezor. After analyzing the app, researchers found that it can’t actually do any harm to Trezor users. But it is connected to another fake wallet called “Coin Wallet,” which does have the potential to scam unsuspecting users out of money. The fake…

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Google and Facebook are gonna hate Apple’s new privacy-preserving online ads

May23
by on May 23, 2019 at 9:50 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Apple has outlined a new plan to make online ads private. A new Safari feature, called Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, aims to stop ads from tracking you across the web. The company says the proposed solution will allow advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their ad campaigns on the web without compromising on your privacy. This effectively means an advertiser can know that you bought an item by clicking an ad — called ad conversion — but won’t posses any identifiable information about you. How online tracking works today It’s no secret that today’s modern web largely runs on…

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Samsung’s new AI can create talking avatars with a single photo

May23
by on May 23, 2019 at 9:03 am
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


Samsung’s research center at Moscow has developed a new AI that can create talking avatars of photos and paintings without using any 3D modeling. A paper posted by the research team suggests that while traditionally researchers have used a large number of images to create a talking head model, a new technique can achieve it by few, or potentially even one image. In a video, engineer Egor Zakharov, explains that although it’s possible to create a model through a single image, training it through multiple images “leads to higher realism and better identity preservation.” Samsung said that the model creates…

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$200M cryptocurrency mixing operation dismantled by Eurocops

May23
by on May 23, 2019 at 8:50 am
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A cryptocurrency mixing service that turned over $200 million worth of Bitcoin has been shut down following an investigation led by authorities from a number of European nations. The Dutch anti-fraud agency (FIOD) and Public Prosecution Service announced yesterday they have shut down Bestmixer.io and taken its servers offline. “Six operational servers have been dismantled and seized in the Netherlands and Luxembourg,” the announcement reads. The investigation was undertaken by the Dutch Digital Intrusion Team (DIGIT), Europol, and authorities from Luxembourg, France, and Latvia. Investigations began in back in June 2018 after the cybersecurity firm McAfee notified FIOD that Bestmixer.io…

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