Chainalysis: Analysis: in 2022, illicit crypto transaction volume rose to an all-time high of $20.1B, of which 44% came from activity associated with sanctioned entities — Every year, we publish our estimates of illicit cryptocurrency activity to demonstrate the power of blockchains’ transparency …
Read MoreElectroplating is a great way to add strength or shine to a 3D print. However, we don’t see too many people trying it with gold. [HEN3DRIK] isn’t afraid to experiment, though, and pulled off some amazing, high-quality jewelry-grade plating! The design for the project was the so-called Ring of Power from Lord of the Rings.
Read MoreMark Gurman / Bloomberg: SEC proxy filing: Apple plans to reduce Tim Cook’s compensation by 40%+ to $49M in 2023, from $99.4M in 2022, citing investor guidance and a request from Cook — Apple Inc. is cutting Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook’s compensation by more than 40% to $49 million in 2023 …
Read MoreJohn D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: Google argues that gutting Section 230 would “upend the internet” in a brief filed with the US Supreme Court ahead of a YouTube case involving terrorist content — Tech giant files brief in YouTube case brought by family of woman killed in Paris terrorist attacks
Read MoreMy tool. My friend. My electric air duster. | Photo by Christopher Person / The Verge I have always had a complicated relationship with canned compressed air. For a neat freak, it’s a vital tool. It keeps your keyboards clean, it blasts dust out of your gaming PC, and it gets gunk out of those
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Pixel owners are reporting that their devices never received January’s monthly update. The problem seems to only be affecting Pixel owners on T-Mobile. Some users claim their devices are still stuck on November’s update. There’s a lot of confusion going on among Pixel owners right now. Specifically among Pixel
Read MoreHe’s still set to make a lot of money, though. | Photo by Kevin Mazur / Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook is taking a big pay cut — at his own recommendation. Cook’s target compensation will be decreasing by $35 million, according to a new regulatory filing, dropping from $84 million in 2022 to
Read MoreUS politicians are battling over banning the appliance. Around the globe, gas stoves are emitting chemicals that harm the environment and people’s health.
Read MoreThe Guardian: Meta sues to ban Voyager Labs from using Facebook and Instagram, alleging the investigative software firm created 38K+ fake accounts to scrape 600K+ users’ data — The social media giant launched an investigation into Voyager’s use of fake accounts after a Guardian investigation
Read MoreMaps are an important tool in Minecraft. That’s especially true once you start moving away from your initial spawn spot. Of course, we don’t need to preach the importance of a map. You’re here because you want to make one. As luck would have it, we know how it’s done, and we’ll show you how
Read MoreSarah Wynn / The Block: The SEC charges Genesis and Gemini with the unregistered offering and sale of securities to retail investors through a Gemini crypto lending program — – The SEC charged both Gemini and Genesis with unregistered offering and sale of securities to retail investors, some of who were in the U.S.
Read MoreA soldier wearing an IVAS headset. | Image: US Army Congress has denied the Army’s request to buy up to 6,900 headsets based on Microsoft’s HoloLens technology, according to a report from Bloomberg. The military was apparently asking for around $400 million — instead, it’s getting around a tenth of that to go toward improving
Read MoreImage: Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images Well, that was quick. After just a few years on the market, Mercedes-Benz’s “EQ” brand for electric vehicles — which currently includes the EQS, EQE, and a host of others coming soon — may be on the way out. The news was first reported by Germany’s Handelsblatt daily newspaper
Read MoreThe Wear OS 3 update is rolling out to Skagen Gen 6 owners. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Fossil has started rolling out the Wear OS 3 update to its Skagen Falster Gen 6 smartwatches. The only catch is that doing so removes many watchfaces that were previously available — yet another
Read MoreKotlin 1.8.0, an upgrade to the JetBrains-developed, statically typed language for multiplatform mobile, web, and native development, is now available as a production release. The new version introduces experimental functions for recursively copying or deleting directory content on the JVM. The standard library in Kotlin 1.8.0 adds new experimental functions for java.nio.file.path that can recursively
Read MoreA listener of the podcast recently wrote in to tell us that, in the process of trying to purchase a legitimate Hackaday t-shirt, they discovered this 2012 Instructable from [yeltrow] that covers how you can cheaply crank out your own Wrencher shirts via screen printing. Now historically, as long as you’re not trying to make
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority The Skagen Falster Gen 6 is getting Wear OS 3. The update will require a factory reset. It will be getting a stock version of Wear OS 3 with no exclusive features. Another smartwatch appears to be joining the Wear OS 3 party. The latest watch to get the
Read MoreBloomberg: Sources: Google and Nvidia told the FTC that the Activision Blizzard deal could give Microsoft an unfair advantage in cloud, subscription, and mobile gaming — Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Nvidia Corp. have expressed concerns to the Federal Trade Commission about Microsoft Corp.’s acquisition …
Read MoreLast year was one of the warmest measured, say NASA and NOAA. It would have been even more sweltering if not for La Niña, which will soon fade away.
Read MoreImage: Second Dinner After weeks of playtesting, theorycrafting, ladder-climbing, and a bunch of shit-talking, I am ready to face my friends in Marvel Snap’s PvP mode. In a new blog on the Unity developer tools website, Marvel Snap associate design director Kent-Erik Hagman wrote about what players can expect when Battle Mode is planned to
Read MoreKenrick Cai / Forbes: Sources: low-code app development tools maker OutSystems raised $228.4M in October 2022 at a $4.3B valuation, 55% lower than the $9.5B valuation from Feb. 2021 — OutSystems, a software firm which sells low-code app development tools, quietly raised a new financing round last October at less …
Read MoreWell, this is awkward: AMD seems to be stuck in limbo regarding the upcoming launch of its highly-anticipated X3D line of CPUs. If you recall at the paper launch it said they’d arrive in February, and it conspicuously left out pricing information. This week the company revealed the actual launch date — Valentine’s Day, Feb.
Read MoreKenrick Cai / Forbes: Butter Payments, which uses AI to help companies catch accidental subscription churn, raised a $21.5M Series A from Norwest, sources say at a ~$100M valuation — A decade ago, Microsoft, Dropbox and Scribd were all leaking money. They were losing millions a year to subscriptions that were being …
Read MoreIdris Elba in Luther: The Fallen Sun. | Image: Netflix Idris Elba is jumping back into one of his most iconic roles for the upcoming Netflix film Luther: The Fallen Sun. Today, the company revealed that the movie will start streaming on March 10th but will also be available in select theaters starting February 24th.
Read MoreJoe Burrow in Madden NFL 23. | Image: EA Madden NFL 23’s newest title update briefly locked players out of the game on Thursday, EA confirmed on Twitter. It’s the latest in a string of issues to plague the popular football title over the past few weeks. At 11:43AM ET Thursday, EA’s Madden NFL Direct
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