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India's National Crime Records Bureau is inviting bids to create a national automated facial recognition system, raising concerns among privacy activists (Pranav Dixit/BuzzFeed News)

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: India’s National Crime Records Bureau is inviting bids to create a national automated facial recognition system, raising concerns among privacy activists  —  Siddhant T. is a lawyer who is so concerned about his privacy that he wanted his name changed for this story. India's National Crime Records Bureau is inviting

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UNICEF's Office of Innovation launches crypto fund for bitcoin and ether donations, becoming the first UN agency to hold and make transactions in cryptocurrency (Michael del Castillo/Forbes)

Michael del Castillo / Forbes: UNICEF’s Office of Innovation launches crypto fund for bitcoin and ether donations, becoming the first UN agency to hold and make transactions in cryptocurrency  —  When Christina Lomazzo was a teenager, she used to hop back and forth across the U.S. Canada border for fun. UNICEF's Office of Innovation launches

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Alleged $5M cryptocurrency fraud made this guy one of AWS’ biggest clients

A Singaporean man faces over 30 years in prison for masquerading as a Californian games developer to illicitly obtain cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrency, an FBI investigation has revealed. US authorities indicted Matthew Ho, 29, with 14 counts related to his long-running scam, which allegedly involved stealing identities and credit cards to purchase services

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How Random is Random?

Many languages feature a random number generator library for help with tasks like rolling a die or flipping a coin. Why, you may ask, is this necessary when humans are perfectly capable of randomly coming up with values? [ex-punctis] was curious about the same quandary and decided to code up an experiment to test the

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