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• Overstock's blockchain mad CEO resigns after disclosing romantic relationship with suspected Russian spy

  The blockchain-mad CEO of online retailer Overstock has stepped down amid a confession that he was romantically involved ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Russia wants to boost transparency with blockchain – are you kidding me?

  Russia, ruled by Vladimir Putin's arguably authoritarian regime, wants to leverage blockchain technology to host Moscow's ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Russia seizes 2,500 Bitmain cryptocurrency miners for dodging $1.2M in import fees

  Authorities seized a trove of over 2,000 illegally imported Bitmain ASIC cryptocurrency miners from a Russian mining operation ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Senate Intelligence Committee: Russia targeted all 50 US states ahead of 2016 elections

  In a heavily redacted report released by the Senate Intelligence Committee today says Russians targeted election systems ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• BBC: Russia is working on a Tor de-anonymization project

  Hackers have stolen a massive trove of sensitive data and defaced the website of SyTech, a major contractor working for Russian ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• State-sponsored cybercriminals attacked 10,000 Microsoft customers in 2018

  Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they've been the target of ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Nuking asteroids could save the Earth — but we need to make it legal first

  The schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of that year. The blockbuster saw a master ...

  • The Conversation

• Only 9% of Russians actually know anything about Bitcoin

  A survey by state-owned Russian public Opinion Research Center has found the country is well acquainted with the term Bitcoin, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Why the world is unhappy with India's anti-satellite missile test

  India successfully launched an anti-satellite missile last month. What does this spell for its reputation as a major space ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• New Android malware targets 32 cryptocurrency apps and 100 international banks

  Meet "Gustuff," the new Trojan horse virus that's out to steal your cryptocurrency (and your fiat!) from your online accounts. ...

  • David Canellis

• Russia quietly removes mentions of cryptocurrency from delayed digital asset bill

  Bitcoin enthusiasts in Russia will have to endure yet another setback as the government has a postponed bill seeking to recognize ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Alleged Russian boss of Bitcoin 'money-laundering scheme' wants to go home

  Alexander Vinnik, the alleged operator of troubled cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e has lodged an appeal for extradition to ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Metro Exodus brings the series into the open (world)

  Exodus takes the Metro series into the open air, and infuses some much-needed hope into this grim, challenging first-person ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Project A119: Inside the United States' secret plan to blow up the Moon

  It was the height of the Cold War. At odds were the United States and the former Soviet Union, both attempting to posture ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Ryuk ransomware earns hackers $3.7M in Bitcoin over 5 months

  A squad of cybersecurity firms have tracked a ransomware threat known as Ryuk, which has collected over 705 BTC in just ...

  • David Canellis

• Facebook ousts hundreds of fake news accounts tied to Russia

  Facebook today removed multiple accounts, Pages, groups, and Instagram profiles that were related to Russian networks. The ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• Senate report: Moscow directed 'troll farm' in efforts to elect Trump

  The damning conclusion of the Senate intel committee's report concurs with previous intelligence community reports indicating ...

  • Tristan Greene