“A newly published report by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), reveals details of ‘Project Ubin’ its blockchain effort ‘which places a tokenized form of the Singapore Dollar (SGD) on a distributed ledger’ platform.”
Read more: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/singapores-central-bank-tokenizes-dollar-via-ethereum-blockchain/
“It’s official: not only has bitcoin officially made its way to Wall Street, but confirming rumors that emerged over the weekend, ‘hedge’ funds – starved of volatility in virtually all other asset classes – are now not only actively trading the volatile digital currency, but as clients of the vampire squid, have petitioned Goldman’s chief technician, Sheba Jafari to start covering it.”
Read more: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-12/due-popular-demand-goldman-starts-covering-bitcoin
“Ideally, America would stop giving out all foreign aid, but a good place to start would be nixing aid to countries with horrible human rights records.”
“The Prime Minister said introducing new rules for cyberspace would ‘deprive the extremists of their safe spaces online’ and that technology firms were not currently doing enough. The intervention comes after the introduction of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – dubbed the ‘Snooper’s Charter‘ – which expands the powers of spying agencies and the Government over the internet.”
“Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online. The government intends to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online. The plans will allow Britain to become ‘the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet’, the manifesto claims. It comes just soon after the Investigatory Powers Act came into law. That legislation allowed the government to force internet companies to keep records on their customers’ browsing histories, as well as giving ministers the power to break apps like WhatsApp so that messages can be read.”
“Increasingly, people are being asked to turn over and unlock their phones at the border, and doing that can expose a huge amount of data. Add in an app like 1Password — a central repository for a ton of private data — and it’s easy to see why someone would be worried about having to hand over their phone.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681990/1password-travel-mode-feature-added-security
“Thanks to intrepid journalists, whistleblowers, hacktivists, and leakers, the human race continues to tear down the wall of lies erected by the corporatocracy.”
Read more: http://theantimedia.org/10-conspiracy-theories-2/
“The Republicans’ concerns echo those of Coinbase and its customers, who argue the IRS does not need every single Coinbase account to carry out its audit, and that the investigation sweeps in people who have clearly done nothing wrong. The IRS investigation also comes at a time when the price of bitcoin has been on an incredible tear, climbing from $13 in 2013 to a new high of over $2,000 last week. Some Coinbase customers, however, have not sold any bitcoin at all while many others hold only a minimal amount, raising questions of why the IRS demanded information about every account.”
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/05/21/irs-bitcoin-congress/
“The Supreme Court on Monday delivered a major blow to so-called patent trolls—shell companies whose business revolves around acquiring patents and then suing others for infringing on them—by making it much harder to bring lawsuits in friendly venues like East Texas. In a unanimous ruling written by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court overturned a lower court’s interpretation of federal venue rules and said that patent owners must sue companies in the districts where they are incorporated.”
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/05/22/texas-patent-supreme-court/
“Microsoft references the WannaCry ransomware’s source as an vulnerability known by the NSA, noting that similar security holes were revealed on WikiLeaks in documents stolen from the CIA. It says that the governments of the world should treat the WannaCry attack as ‘a wake-up call,’ to consider the ‘damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits,’ and to adopt the ‘Digital Geneva Convention’ the company first suggested in February. That Convention would have a new stipulation, too: ‘a new requirement for governments to report vulnerabilities to vendors, rather than stockpile, sell, or exploit them.'”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/15/15639890/microsoft-wannacry-security-vulnerabilities-ransomware