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Hacker makes off with $5.7m after ransacking social token platform
16.3.2021
“The attacker has sold all the tokens,” announced social token platform Roll after a hacker accessed private keys to its hot wallet
Report: Alienware Ends League Of Legends Sponsorship Over Riot CEO’s Sexual Assault Investigation
15.3.2021
According to a report in Dot Esports, Alienware, the high-performance gaming PC brand owned by Dell, has severed ties with Riot Games over Riot CEO Nicolo Laurent’s ongoing sexual harassment investigation and other public relations concerns.Read more
Austin Parents Call for Firing of a Teacher Who Read An Anodyne Picture Book About a Trans Kid to Her Class
15.3.2021
Conservatives who rant about cancel culture actually love canceling children’s books that include content that makes them personally uncomfortable. Read more
Fund Manager Warns Bitcoin Is Pointless and ‘a Particularly Vile Asset Class’
15.3.2021
Tim Bond, a portfolio manager at Odey Asset Management, has warned that bitcoin is pointless, calling the cryptocurrency “a particularly vile asset class.” He claims that bitcoin has no real social utility other than as a tool for speculation and a means to launder the proceeds...
How Plague Inc Evolved Once A Real Global Pandemic Came Along
13.3.2021
Somehow, horrifyingly, it has been nearly a full year since most of us went into lockdown to wait out covid-19. And while there is a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a slowly, confusingly distributed vaccine, we’re still in the thick of it. On this week’s episode of the Splitscreen...
Funny money: Brooklyn 99 star launches own social currency
12.3.2021
Brooklyn 99 star Terry Crews is launching his own cryptocurrency, $POWER, where people can own a piece of him and spend it at the local grocery store
Enough With The Social Hubs In Video Games
11.3.2021
Here’s a radical idea: Turn every social space in a video game into a menu.Read more
Don't Click On Those Resident Evil Village Early Access Emails
11.3.2021
Lotta people want to play the game with the big lady! And scammers know this, so fake emails have been circulating inviting players to an early access beta which doesn’t actually exist. Enough emails that Capcom has sent out a warning email of its own.Read more
Former Overwatch League MVP Jay 'Sinatraa' Won Suspended Over Sexual Assault Allegations
10.3.2021
Former Overwatch League MVP and current Valorant pro Jay “Sinatraa” Won was suspended from his team Sentinels today after being accused of sexual assault by a former girlfriend. In a Google Doc posted late last night to Twitter, Cleo Hernandez detailed emotional and sexual abuse allegations...
We Did It, Joe!
10.3.2021
It’s happening, y’all—the Democrats in Congress, with no Republican support whatsoever, have passed the $1.9 trillion covid-19 relief package, and President Joe Biden is expected to sign it on Friday. I am literally crying right now, thinking of all of the people this ambitious legislation will...
Crypto influencers scramble to recover Twitter accounts after suspensions
10.3.2021
Twitter suspended a number of major cryptocurrency-related accounts, including some of the industry’s biggest influencers
Portuguese Authorities Contemplate Launching an Investigation on Local Crypto Social Media Influencers
10.3.2021
Portuguese authorities are reportedly planning to take action against social media influencers who provide advice on crypto-related investments. The plans are being discussed in the wake of an online petition signed by thousands of Portuguese. A Crypto Youtuber Already in the Authorities Loop...
Heartbreaking Stories of People Who Got Scammed on Tinder During the Pandemic
9.3.2021
Every social media site has scammers, but there’s something extra depressing about people getting scammed on dating sites like Tinder. Unfortunately, it happens all the time, and that hasn’t stopped with more people turning to dating apps during the pandemic.Read more
Selling Social Media Posts for $1.5 Million? Blockchain-Certified Tweet Sales Spark NFT Controversy
6.3.2021
The cryptocurrency community is in a tizzy this weekend after the founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, tweeted about a new application that allows people to purchase tweets with ethereum. The application is called Valuables and it allows individuals to purchase a digital certificate of the tweet, which...
Man Charged, Banned From FIFA After Sending Racist DMs To Actual, Legendary Player
4.3.2021
Last May Irish teenager Patrick O’Brien was playing a game of FIFA, and one of the players he was controlling was Arsenal and England legend Ian Wright. O’Brien lost that match, and so decided to jump into Wright’s DMs and send a succession of disgustingly racist attacks.Read more
Dan Larimer’s newest project is another attempt at decentralized social media
3.3.2021
The former founder of Steemit and Block.one is tackling social media once more
Ex-Block.One CTO Larimer Makes a Comeback With Social Network Project
3.3.2021
Dan Larimer. Well-known blockchain developer Daniel Larimer is back with plans for a new, "logically decentralized" communication platform dubbed Clarion, being showered with both praise and criticism for it.
In a Tuesday GitHub post, Larimer introduced the new project, stating that it's...
Hyperbitcoinization’s Small Minority: Economist Says Bitcoin’s Growing Success Will Lead to Perverse Consequences
1.3.2021
Last Sunday, the price of bitcoin touched an all-time price high at $58,354 per unit and surpassed a $1 trillion market capitalization. Bitcoin’s value has dipped since then, but the decentralized crypto asset’s market still captures a large $900 billion valuation. On February 26,...
Bots Reportedly Helped Fuel GameStonks Hype on Facebook, Twitter, and Other Platforms
28.2.2021
The s0-called GameStonks saga had some help from automated bots hyping up “meme” stocks on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, according to an analysis by the cybersecurity firm PiiQ Media reviewed by Reuters.Read more
Twitter Passes Stimulus Package for the Very Online
25.2.2021
Twitter is finally rolling out a way to get paid for tweeting that doesn’t involve putting a Venmo link in your bio, promoting a Patreon, or using the app to hunt for a rich spouse.Read more