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Worldcoin Price Tumbles After $52.5M Funding Deal—Here’s What Happened
Worldcoin price tumbled nearly 10% after the World Foundation closed a $52.5 million institutional funding round, shifting investor attention from long-term expansion to near-term token supply. While the Pantera Capital led-investment is set to accelerate the rollout of the project’s AI-powered World ID ecosystem, traders reacted to the accompanying WLD token sale and renewed supply
$9.7M Drained Across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON in Triple-A Exploit
Triple-A, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, has become the latest victim of a multimillion-dollar hack. Blockchain security firm Peckshield reports that more than $9.7 million was drained after attackers drained its hot wallets across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON. Here’s how the attack happened. Triple-A Hot Wallets Drained Across Multiple Networks Peckshield reported that the
Bitcoin’s Nine Biggest Institutional Holders Unite to Fund Network Security
Nine major Bitcoin institutions have now joined forces to protect the infrastructure behind the asset they collectively depend on. Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy and Strategy have launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with combined funding commitments of $15 million over the next three years. The initiative is being
What each streaming service has up its sleeve in 2023
Major streaming services have upped their game in 2022 with the launch of ad-supported tiers, new live sports deals, hugely successful original series and more. As the streaming wars continue to heat up, media companies have no choice but to raise the stakes. From the HBO Max/Discovery+ merged streaming service to Netflix’s password-sharing offering, here’s what
Senator Mark Warner on cybersecurity, Musk’s Twitter and legislating killer robots
This wasn’t Mark Warner’s first CES rodeo. The senior senator from Virginia was on board with this whole tech thing well before being elected the state’s governor back in 2002. His time at Columbia Capital found him knee-deep in the mobile world during its formative years, including his early support of one-time telecom giant, Nextel.
Learn a new language and more with this massive online learning bundle
Image: StackCommerce Why say New Year, New Me when you’re already perfectly fine the way you are? Instead, we’re saying Same You, New Skills in the PCWorld Shop as we’ve lowered prices on all kinds of cool things to help you learn something new in 2023. For instance, if you want to learn a new
InWin’s radical Mod Free PC case can shrink and grow with your build
Image: Adam Patrick Murray/IDG One of the core concepts of modern PC building is modularity. As long as you do a little research, you can be fairly certain that you can swap out compatible parts more or less forever. Case maker InWin is extending that idea to the design of the PC case itself, right
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 vs. RTX 3080: Which should you buy?
Skip to content Image: Thiago Trevisan When the Nvidia RTX 3080 10GB was released, there was tremendous excitement for this $699 powerhouse. When it was “reborn” as the RTX 3080 12GB, with a huge jump in price, the enthusiasm was dampened. The $1,499 RTX 3090 had many questioning whether its price was “worth it,” but
This Gigabyte gaming laptop is fast, sleek, and $260 off
Image: Gigabyte If you’re looking to save some moolah on a midrange gaming machine, then we’ve got an awesome deal for you today. Amazon’s currently selling the Gigabyte G5 KE gaming laptop for $938.93, which is a savings of $260.07. Not only is the aesthetic subtle and sophisticated, but it’s also packing some powerful hardware.
Twitter leaks data from 200 million users. Here’s how to check if you’re affected
Image: Twitter According to reports this week, Twitter lost user email addresses, phone numbers, and other identifying data though a leak—an earlier, private exploit of a now-patched API vulnerability that allowed info of over 200 million users to be scraped. Affected users face the risk of hostile takeovers of accounts (both on Twitter and other
Marketers forge ahead with metaverse experiments despite murky economy
This article is part of a limited editorial series, called The 2023 Notebook, and is designed to be a guide to marketing and media buying in the new year. More from the series →Since computer scientist Gavin Wood coined the term “Web 3.0” nearly a decade ago, the concept has become a blanket reference for
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Worldcoin Price Tumbles After $52.5M Funding Deal—Here’s What Happened
Worldcoin price tumbled nearly 10% after the World Foundation closed a $52.5 million institutional funding round, shifting investor attention from long-term expansion to near-term token supply. While the Pantera Capital led-investment is set to accelerate the rollout of the project’s AI-powered World ID ecosystem, traders reacted to the accompanying WLD token sale and renewed supply
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$9.7M Drained Across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON in Triple-A Exploit
Triple-A, a global fiat-to-crypto payment gateway, has become the latest victim of a multimillion-dollar hack. Blockchain security firm Peckshield reports that more than $9.7 million was drained after attackers drained its hot wallets across Ethereum, Solana, TRON, and TON. Here’s how the attack happened. Triple-A Hot Wallets Drained Across Multiple Networks Peckshield reported that the
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Bitcoin’s Nine Biggest Institutional Holders Unite to Fund Network Security
Nine major Bitcoin institutions have now joined forces to protect the infrastructure behind the asset they collectively depend on. Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy and Strategy have launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium with combined funding commitments of $15 million over the next three years. The initiative is being
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The Secret Service is investigating a member of JD Vance’s detail over a suspected news leak
A member of Vice President JD Vance ’s security detail is being investigated over allegations tied to a suspected news leak, the U.S. Secret Service said Thursday. Anthony Guglielmi, a Secret Service spokesperson, said the security-team member faces an internal investigation and potential criminal inquiry over allegations involving compromised “operational and information security.” “While we will not
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Police Union Endorses Clarity Act as Three Crypto Backers Lobby Hits Senate
America’s largest police union, the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), and a trio of crypto organizations have openly supported the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. In a July 24 letter, the FOP’s National President Patrick Yoes attributed the organization’s new stance to the revision of Section 10604 of the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act (BRCA).