All Things Internet: The Big Players & The Issues
The world has grown increasingly connected over the past few decades and a huge chunk of our lives are online. We cover the companies you care about: YouTube, Google, Amazon, and the issues you care about: NBN, IoT, social media, privacy and security.
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Coinbase Hit With $AU145 Million in Penalties for Lacklustre Background Checks
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reached a $US100 ($AU145) million settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services after the department’s investigation revealed that Coinbase failed to properly vet users before opening an account, leading to criminal activity on the exchange.
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Man Who Survived 76.20 m Cliff Plunge in Tesla Was Trying to Kill His Family, Police Say
A 41-year-old man from California, was arrested on Tuesday on charges of attempted murder and child endangerment after police concluded that he had intentionally driven a Tesla with his family inside over a 76.20 m cliff. Although the car was left mangled, all four people in it — the driver, his wife, and their two…
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The Year Ahead in TV
Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe will see more major story arcs that started on the Disney+ slate of shows. First, in the upcoming cinematic release Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, we’ll see Jonathan Majors return as Kang the Conqueror; we first saw him as He Who Remains (a Kang variant) in Loki season…
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The Year Ahead in Encryption
Concern about the powers of quantum computers (which haven’t actually been invented yet) has spurred one of the biggest cryptographic breakthroughs of the era: post-quantum encryption algorithms. Last year the National Institute of Standards and Technology concluded a nearly decade-long competition to develop new algorithms to protect from quantum attacks. The algorithms are expected to…