Underneath the gaming platform worth $68 billion and used by over half of all children in America is a ballooning and highly profitable ecosystem of hackers and traders. Motherboard spoke to 11 people connected to Roblox beaming (Roblox slang for getting hacked and your items stolen), including victims, the people Read more…
A top official of India’s central bank has compared cryptocurrency to a “Ponzi scheme” and suggested an outright ban in its sharpest criticism just weeks after the government proposed taxation of the virtual digital asset and paved way to recognize it as legal tender in the world’s second-largest internet market. Read more…
The newest entrant in the fight for EV market share is going back to the future with an all-electric DeLorean. The infamous gull-winged car is being resurrected in Texas by a group of executives who most recently spent time at China-backed EV startup Karma Automotive. They’re working with Stephen Wynne, Read more…
Google has announced a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex, which is designed to run on old PCs and Macs. The operating system can be installed “within minutes,” according to Google’s blog post. Google told me that Chrome OS Flex will look and feel identical to Chrome Read more…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense website suffered from what appeared to be a distributed denial of service attack Tuesday, according to the government’s Facebook account. The military’s website remained unavailable as of 12 p.m. PT Tuesday, with the Ukrainian military’s Facebook account saying work is currently underway to restore regular functioning Read more…
In an AWS blog post, Amazon announced that its Elastic File Systems (Amazon EFS) “now provide average latency as low as 600 microseconds for the majority of read operations on data and metadata. “We seem to be approaching the speed of light, even when taking into account IOPS, throughput, and Read more…
A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday. The case of a middle-aged woman Read more…