June 6, 20210CommentsInside Bitcoin 2021 in Miami, the first major in-person crypto conference since the pandemic started (Erin Griffith/New York Times)
June 6, 20210CommentsWhat to expect from WWDC 2021: iOS 15 with updated notifications and iMessage, revamp of iPadOS home screen, new Apple Silicon chips and MacBook Pro, and more (Jay Peters/The Verge)
June 6, 20210CommentsAnalysis: eighteen, or nearly 2% of the 1,000 highest grossing apps on the App Store are scams; according to Appfigures data, they may have cost users $48M (Washington Post)
June 6, 20210CommentsThough cybersecurity experts have warned of ransomware for years, it’s now having a very visible impact on the lives of everyday people (Heather Kelly/Washington Post)
June 6, 20210CommentsA brief history of cryptocurrency mining in China as authorities crack down on mining operations and miners in other countries cut into China’s dominance (James T. Areddy/Wall Street Journal)
June 6, 20210CommentsGoogle Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says parts of YouTube are moving from Google’s internal infrastructure to Google Cloud (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
June 6, 20210CommentsDeFi, which accounted for an estimated 40% of ether moved on the Ethereum network in the year ended April, is helping fuel the crypto boom and recent volatility (Paul Vigna/Wall Street Journal)
June 6, 20210CommentsUS DOJ has charged a Latvian woman who it says was a programmer in a gang that helped develop TrickBot malware; the woman was arrested in Miami on February 6 (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)
June 6, 20210CommentsIn 2019, the number of foreign-born entrepreneurs in the US declined by 4,400, the only yearly drop since 2000, thanks to US’ convoluted immigration policies (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
June 6, 20210CommentsEl Salvador’s president unveils a bill to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, partnering with payments startup Strike, in a bid to become the first nation to do so (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
June 5, 20210CommentsIn macOS 11.4 update Apple has fixed the excessive M1 Mac SSD wear reporting issue noticed in February (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)