Contrary to previous reports, it has now emerged that Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to the DarkSide ransomware gang in their choice of cryptocurrency. The DarkSide ransomware gang attacked the Colonial Pipeline late last week, making away with 100GB of data while encrypting Colonial’s […]
Day: May 15, 2021
Daily Crunch: Stripe buys Y Combinator alum Bouncer for undisclosed sum
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Wrapping the week here at Daily Crunch with a big thanks to Henry for taking over yesterday and a fist bump to […]
In Defense of Snow Days
Even if we intuitively know that virtual school isn’t the same as real school, in a culture where representations are mistaken for the original, remote learning becomes accepted. Perhaps Korzybski’s adage should be updated to say, “The computer is not the classroom.” In 2014 New […]
Why Bitcoin Eats Altcoins For Lunch
Bitcoin remains the most valuable cryptocurrency because of three essential factors: elegant design, the · Culture · Why Bitcoin Is The Only … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Main Street Duncan holding Chisholm Trail Poker Run Saturday
The event will begin at noon and run until 5 p.m. and first and final stops will be in downtown Duncan. You can purchase your first card to play for $10 …
The rise of esports: Why the next big thing isn’t on the field, it’s online
Kyle lander is team captain for “DarkZero Esports,” based in Las Vegas, with a team specializing in “Rainbow Six Siege” — a popular tactical shooter …
Elon Musk’s mother Maye poses in one-piece for body-positive Summersalt swimwear campaign
Tom Shillue, host of Fox Nation's 'Happy Hour,' argues Tesla CEO Elon Musk used his 'awkwardness to his advantage.' Elon Musk's mother, Maye Musk … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Solana, a blockchain platform followed by top crypto investors, says it’s a lot faster than Ethereum
Solana isn’t known yet outside of the crypto community. But insiders think the blockchain platform is interesting for a wide variety of reasons, beginning with its amiable founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, who spent more than a dozen years as an engineer working on wireless protocols at […]
Brave and Unstoppable Domains join forces to allow users to access the decentralized web Brave Decentralized Web
Brave users will now be able to access the decentralized web on desktop and Android as the company behind the privacy-oriented browser has joined forced with the blockchain domain name provider Unstoppable Domains. After updating to the latest version, the browser’s users will have access […]
“Uber regina dell’elusione”: miliardi di ricavi, zero tasse
… di perdite operative. Con questo schema, rodato sin dalla primavera 2013, la multinazionale della gig economy è riuscita a eludere le tasse su […] … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit