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United States crypto exchange Kraken has provided a novel method for flagging nefarious wallets — building a fake crypto account on the exchange to “scam bait” bad actors.Tweeting on May 10, popular streamer Kitboga — whose content revolves around annoying scammers— revealed that Kraken had built him a “custom environment”
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A suspect identified only as “Hong” was detained by local authorities and arrested in the Gansu district of China after allegedly using ChatGPT to generate fake news stories. According to a report from the South China Morning Post, Hong was detained after an investigation into an unsubstantiated article relating to a train
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Throughout history, people have sought to leave their mark on the world. Machiavelli’s “The Prince,” written more than 500 years ago, is today a cornerstone of modern political philosophy, and Cervantes’ “Don Quixote,” written in 1605, conveys what chivalry was like during that era. These and other works of literature
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BNB Chain, the blockchain developed by crypto exchange Binance, updated its red alarm list to include 191 high-risk projects and decentralized applications (DApps) currently hosted on the blockchain.BNB Chain’s red alarm list — updated every Friday — includes projects and DApps deemed risky investments purely based on smart contract assessment.
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A widely shared video of European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde admitting that a Digital Euro will be used in a "limited" way to control the payments people can make was taken from the three week old prank video.The video was highlighted by breaking news account Watcher Guru on
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Shanxi police in China have arrested a criminal gang involved in manufacturing and distributing fake cryptocurrency wallets. The gang had been distributing fake wallet Android Package kit (APK) installation packages through popular messaging apps. The gang distributed counterfeit wallet APK installation packages through well-known messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram and bought
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Worldcoin, in a recent announcement, said it is adopting Proof of Personhood to help advance its systems for better services. With the introduction of methods that may enhance fairness, social interaction, and trust, Worldcoin’s implementation of Proof of Personhood (PoP) is a significant advance with the potential to revolutionize the online
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Beyond all the good a permissionless internet promises, it also makes it convenient for anyone to freely mint pirated nonfungible tokens (NFTs). There are in fact over 90 million fake copies of NFTs. Because in a permissionless system, what’s to stop bad actors from creating copymints to scam unsuspecting users
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Digital identities can help in fake product detection by providing a unique and verifiable identity to each product, making it easier to track its movements through the supply chain and verify its authenticity, thereby preventing the circulation of fake products. In the modern era of e-commerce, the problem of
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Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution Arbitrum's upcoming "ARB" token Airdrop appears to have become a popular target for scammers, with the community warning of hundreds of phishing scams aimed at tricking crypto users.Announced in a March 16 post by the Arbitrum Foundation, the airdrop will send out 10 billion governance tokens via
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