OpenSea has revealed just how much of the NFT activity on its platform is defined by fakery and theft, and it’s a lot. In fact, according to the company, nearly all of the NFTs created for free on its platform are either spam or plagiarized. The revelation began with some Read more…
The City of Austin released a memo saying that Samsung released as much as 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid waste into a Northeast Austin creek over a period as long as 106 days. They confirmed the leak has stopped, but no fish or macro invertebrates survived in the impacted area. Read more…
Astronomers said this week that a piece of a Falcon 9 rocket that was launched in February 2015 is currently on a trajectory to collide with the moon in just a few weeks. The rocket left from Florida’s Cape Canaveral and launched NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory, a project that Read more…
Last week America’s Internal Revenue Service announced a live-video-feed verification of taxpayer’s faces would be required by this summer access online tax service. But now the Washington Post reports that “complaints of confusing instructions and long wait times to complete the sign-up have caused an unknown number to abandon the Read more…
Microsoft’s Azure DDoS Protection team said that in November, it fended off what industry experts say is likely the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack ever: a torrent of junk data with a throughput of 3.47 terabits per second. The record DDoS came from more than 10,000 sources located in at least Read more…
China Unicom has become the latest Chinese telecoms giant to be banned from the US over “significant” national security and espionage concerns. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it had voted unanimously to revoke authorization for the company’s American unit to operate in the US. The firm must stop providing Read more…
At least 26 public corporations are holding bitcoin on their balance sheets, according to data compiled by cryptocurrency analytics firm CoinGecko. Since the price of cryptocurrencies began to plummet in November, they’ve collectively lost nearly $7 billion. Quartz reports: The price of Bitcoin peaked above $67,000 on Nov. 8, but Read more…