Binance Australia is working with local authorities on meeting compliance requirements amid reports alleging that the company’s offices were searched on July 4. “We are cooperating with local authorities and Binance is focused on meeting local regulatory standards in order to serve our users in Australia in a fully compliant manner,” a spokesperson for Binance Australia told Cointelegraph. The Australian…
Month: July 2023
Crypto Twitter will see less exposure on Google due to rate limit slash
Twitter’s new rate limits are severely affecting the indexing and display of tweets on Google’s search engine, limiting the reach of the information shared on the microblogging site. According to web search industry outlet SearchEngineLand, Google Search has dropped over half of the indexed URLs from Twitter over the past few days. On July 3, the outlet noted the number…
Darknet bad actors work together to steal your crypto, here’s how — Binance CSO
Lurking in the shadiest corners of the dark web is a “well-established” ecosystem of hackers that target cryptocurrency users with poor “security hygiene,” according to Binance’s chief security officer. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Binance CSO Jimmy Su said in recent years, hackers have shifted their gaze toward crypto end-users. Su noted when Binance first opened in July 2017, the team saw…
Mark Cuban, John Reed Stark clash over the cause of FTX’s collapse
Mark Cuban thinks the SEC could have saved U.S. customers from FTX had it adopted Japan’s approach to crypto regulation, but John Reed Stark disagrees. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/mark-cuban-john-reed-stark-debate-sec-and-ftx-collapse
Meta’s Twitter rival Threads to launch July 6, but will the crypto community budge?
Meta’s microblogging platform is set for launch, with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pointing out the apps centralization and data harvesting. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/will-crypto-community-move-to-meta-twitter-rival-threads
Meta’s Twitter rival Threads to launch July 6, but will the crypto community budge?
Meta is planning to launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, on July 6, only days after Twitter’s “rate limit” debacle which has temporarily capped how many posts users can read per day. The platform, which is heavily tied to the photo and video-sharing social network Instagram, is expected to be released on Thursday according to a Meta-launched countdown site. Threads…
Mark Cuban, John Reed Stark clash over the cause of FTX’s collapse
Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban has again locked horns with former securities chief John Reed Stark, this time over who was ultimately to blame for FTX’s collapse and the impact on creditors. During a heated back-and-forth exchange, Cuban argued had the United States Securities and Exchange Commission set “clear regulations,” no one would have lost money from its collapse. Stark earlier…
Account abstraction will drive a billion users from Asia to Web3: ConsenSys exec
Account abstraction, also known as “smart accounts” could eventually onboard a billion users from the Asia region to Web3, according to an executive at Ethereum software solutions provider ConsenSys. Speaking to Cointelegraph, the director of strategic initiatives at ConsenSys, Laura Shi, noted that the Ethereum and Web3 ecosystem has seen a strong expansion in Asia this year. “More dApps are…
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT’s Bing feature as users were jumping paywalls
OpenAI found a bug in its Browse plugin that inadvertently allowed users to read paywalled articles in some cases. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/chatgpt-bing-integration-paused-for-helping-bypass-paywalls
OpenAI pauses ChatGPT’s Bing feature as users were jumping paywalls
ChatGPT’s Browse, a Bing-based search engine feature, has been temporarily disabled by OpenAI after a loophole enabled users to bypass paywalled content. In a July 4 tweet, OpenAI notified users of the temporary halt so it could patch the issue and “do right by content owners.” “We’ve learned that ChatGPT’s ‘Browse’ beta can occasionally display content in ways we don’t…