Yes, I’ll take it. …read more Source:: CNet

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GRU hackers used bitcoin to fund US computer network infrastructure supporting and hiding the operation. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Chinese authorities have arrested six suspects behind a World Cup gambling ring that was hosting more than 10 billion yuan — or $1.5 billion USD — worth of cryptocurrency bets, according to a statement released yesterday by the police department in Guangdong province. The gambling syndicate…

Smartphones are still dominating, but Windows, Mac and Linux are hanging on. …read more Source:: CNet

Redmond backtracks on using the technology to help ICE Microsoft has urged the US government to regulate the use of facial recognition, just weeks after it faced scrutiny over contracts it had signed with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department that appears to use the controversial system.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

According to Anchorage Daily News, the two remaining Blockbuster stores in Alaska are set to close, leaving just one location left in the United States. The last one standing in the U.S. is in Bend, Oregon. From the report: The stores, one on DeBarr Road in Anchorage and the other in Fairbanks, will close Monday…

Oh, and vaccines.news? Yep, anti-vaxxers. The same guys In what may be the perfect combination of everything wrong with 2018, the operator of the .news dot-word has sold a batch of premium .news domains to a purveyor of what can be best described as conspiratorial content for cretins.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

“Get your butt on a plane,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren added. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader shares a report: A hacker gained access to a developer’s npm account earlier this week and injected malicious code into a popular JavaScript library, code that was designed to steal the npm credentials of users who utilize the poisoned package inside their projects. The JavaScript (npm) package that got compromised is called…