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Big Brother billionaire suing Facebook over Bitcoin ads says agreement ‘is impossible’

Sep10
by on September 10, 2019 at 11:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


The Dutch billionaire who sued Facebook for hosting fraudulent Bitcoin advertisements that featured his name and image has claimed it impossible to reach an agreement, Reuters reports. John de Mol, one of the brains behind entertainment giant Endemol and the Big Brother television format, filed his suit with an Amsterdam court three months ago. Since then, Facebook and de Mol have reportedly negotiated to no avail. De Mol claims Facebook failed to set measures to stop such scams from advertising on its platform. “While the company seemed to be cooperating, it was merely a smokescreen that concealed its reluctance to put…

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Google Docs now shows word count as you type (thank god)

Sep10
by on September 10, 2019 at 11:01 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google


I dig Google Docs a lot. It’s free, lightweight, great for teamwork, and directly available in any browser. There’s still one thing I passionately despise about it, though: it has the crappiest word count UI of all time. But fortunately, things are about to change. In a new blog post, the Big G announced Docs will soon display the word count as you type in a dedicated section at the bottom of the interface – without any need to resort to shortcuts or annoying menu settings to see how many words you’ve jotted down. Fabulous. Previously, the only way to check…

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Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin explodes to $12,750 in Argentina after foreign currency purchases restricted’

Sep10
by on September 10, 2019 at 8:56 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Nietzsche used to say: To infinity, and beyond! Bitcoin Price We closed the day, September 09 2019, at a price of $10,334. That’s a minor 1.03 percent decline in 24 hours, or -$108.26. It was the lowest closing price in seven days. We’re still 48 percent below Bitcoin‘s all-time high of $20,089 (December 17 2017). Bitcoin market cap Bitcoin’s market cap ended the day…

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Google purges 24 malware-ridden apps that were downloaded 500,000 times

Sep10
by on September 10, 2019 at 7:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Android just can’t seem to shake off its malware issues. A new malware campaign targeting Android has been found to engage in ad fraud at least since early June 2019. The findings, disclosed by cybersecurity firm CSIS Security Group, reveal that the malware — called Joker — is designed to surreptitiously sign users up for premium service subscriptions, in addition to stealing the victim’s SMS messages, the contact list, and device information. In total, CSIS found 24 Android apps on Google Play (listed below) containing the trojan, racking up more than 472,000 downloads by unsuspecting Android users before Google eventually purged the…

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