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Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022 (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: Google says Barcelona-based spyware vendor Variston planted spyware by exploiting zero-day flaws in Chrome, Firefox, and Windows between 2018 and 2022  —  A Barcelona-based company that bills itself as a custom security solutions provider exploited several zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows …

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As annual inflation nears 100% in Argentina, a look at locals’ use of Mercado Pago and other digital wallets to protect their pesos, amid scam and theft issues (Lucía Cholakian Herrera/Rest of World)

Lucía Cholakian Herrera / Rest of World: As annual inflation nears 100% in Argentina, a look at locals’ use of Mercado Pago and other digital wallets to protect their pesos, amid scam and theft issues  —  Payment apps cushion users from a falling peso but won’t protect them from theft.  —  • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

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5 Practical Examples Of How AI Is Transforming Digital Marketing For Businesses

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has immensely impacted digital marketing, allowing businesses and marketers to control and analyze vast sets of consumer data without the need for direct human interventions. As consumer market trends change due to social influence, digital marketers are left leveraging the digital capabilities of AI to attract, retain and engage with customers in a

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Building Your Own Consensus

With billions of computers talking to each other daily, how do they decide anything? Even in a database or server deployment, how do the different computers that make up the database decide what values have been committed? How do they agree on what time it is? How do they come to a consensus? But first,

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As crypto miners default on loans, lenders could receive mining equipment as collateral, a popular financing tool, increasing losses as the rigs’ value plunges (David Pan/Bloomberg)

David Pan / Bloomberg: As crypto miners default on loans, lenders could receive mining equipment as collateral, a popular financing tool, increasing losses as the rigs’ value plunges  —  Beleaguered crypto lenders are being dealt another blow from Bitcoin miners as they weather the aftermath of the FTX collapse.

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OpenSea says NFT creators collectively earned $1.1B in royalties in 2022 so far, of which 80% were to collections outside the top 10 (Lucy Harley-McKeown/The Block)

Lucy Harley-McKeown / The Block: OpenSea says NFT creators collectively earned $1.1B in royalties in 2022 so far, of which 80% were to collections outside the top 10  —  – OpenSea said that up to Nov. 23 this year, NFT creators had earned more than $1 billion through royalty payments on its platform in 2022.

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