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Mozilla launches Firefox Monitor, its ‘Have I Been Pwned’ clone

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 1:57 pm
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Mozilla today announced the launch of Firefox Monitor. This free service, which Mozilla has been testing since this summer, informs individuals when their details have been part of a data breach. Firefox Monitor is the product of a partnership with Troy Hunt, creator of ‘Have I Been Pwned,’ and relies heavily on the site’s API endpoints to work. The way it works should be familiar to anyone who has used Hunt’s site. Users provide their email addresses which Firefox Monitor then compares against a list of existing data breaches, informing them if their data has already been exposed. Much like…

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One third of ICOs launched in the past two years aren’t listed anywhere

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 1:52 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Despite investors dropping a whopping $12 billion into Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in the past year, 70 percent of cryptocurrencies outside of the top 100 are now valued less than the amount initially raised. In fact, blockchain research unit Diar calculated that the bulk of the ICOs conducted in the past year are now just worth $2.2 billion. This represents an “eye watering” $6 billion loss across just a small part of the token ecosystem. For many projects, most of the value that remains sits with foundations, which control how assets are used to fund development. ICOs are mainly used as a fundraising…

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Fairies and deepfakes: a brief history of visual trickery

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 1:13 pm
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“Deepfake” is the name being given to videos created through artificially intelligent deep learning techniques. Also referred to as “face-swapping”, the process involves inputting a source video of a person into a computer, and then inputting multiple images and videos of another person. The neural network then learns the movements and expressions of the person in the source video in order to map the other’s image onto it to look as if they are carrying out the speech or act. This practice was first used extensively in the production of fake pornography in late 2017 – where the faces of…

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Mt. Gox’s largest trustee unloads $230M worth of Bitcoin, and nobody knows why

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 1:09 pm
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The Mt. Gox saga keeps dragging on. The now defunct cryptocurrency exchange’s largest trustee, Nobuaki Kobayashi, has sold off $230 million (26 billion yen) worth of Bitcoin. Kobayahsi – who is known as the “Tokyo Whale” in cryptocurrency circles – has been selling off the cryptocurrency since early March following the 10th creditors meeting, Bloomberg reports. It would appear that the Tokyo Whale received an average of $8,100 per Bitcoin. Even if the money does go straight to those affected by Mt. Gox’s collapse, the exchange still has to pay back nearly $1 billion based on current market rates. There’s…

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Meet the folks making Bitcoin the butt of their jokes

Sep25
by on September 25, 2018 at 12:15 pm
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Bitcoin has been brilliant material for comedians all over the world. Since its explosion into the mainstream media we have seen some exceptional social commentary, satirical sketches, and rap videos simultaneously explaining and mocking the rise of Bitcoin. Comedians have played an interesting role in educating people about cryptocurrencies – with anything from jokes about the market volatility to mining puns. Australian production company Cameralla produced a Bitcoin Explained sketch which goes back into time to demonstrate how our ancestors must have reacted when gold first became a store of value. Another comedian, Remy Munasifi, produced a satirical sketch – called Bitcoin Billionaire –…

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