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Coinbase Files Legal Challenge Against SEC for Crypto Regulation Clarity
12.3.2024
In a significant legal confrontation, Coinbase has filed a challenge against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Third Circuit, contesting the SEC’s refusal to establish clear rulemaking for digital assets. San Francisco Crypto Exchange Coinbase Initiates Legal Action Against...
Mike Tyson Is Gonna Beat The Snot Out Of Jake Paul On Netflix
7.3.2024
Today in “What the fuck is going on” news, Netflix has announced that the provocative YouTuber and cocky boxer Jake Paul is stepping into the ring with the pugilism GOAT himself, Mike Tyson. Yep, you read that right and nope, I can’t believe it either, but here we are. The match will air live...
Square Enix’s Horror Classic Should Be Adapted To The Silver Screen
6.3.2024
On a snowy Christmas Eve, rookie cop Aya Brea attends the opera at Carnegie Hall. In the middle of the performance, while the star performs a haunting aria, the theater and people within it burst into flames. Screams and crackling wood form a symphony with the still-singing star. This is...
Bummer: We May Never See Dune 2's Deleted Scenes
6.3.2024
While the experience of seeing Dune: Part Two in theaters has been compared to the release of The Two Towers or even TheReturn Of The King, Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic differs from its predecessors in a major way. (It’s not just all that sand.) Don’t expect your post-home-release, five-hour Part...
Spyro/Crash Bandicoot Developer Ditches Activision, Goes Indie
29.2.2024
This year has been filled with bad video game industry news. Layoffs every week. Thousands of jobs cut. Studios closing. It’s awful stuff. So I’m here to share some good news. Toys For Bob, the studio behind Crash Bandicoot 4 and the remastered Spyro collection, is leaving Activision and becoming...
Avatar: The Last Airbender Falls Short Of The Animated Series
22.2.2024
Hollywood loves nothing more than gnawing on the bones of preexisting IPs. Whether a reboot is good or not, it will almost certainly be lucrative. When it comes to Avatar: The Last Airbender, the industry powers that be should’ve learned their lesson the first time. In 2010, Michael Dante DiMartino...
Dune: Part Two Somehow Exceeds Sky-High Expectations
21.2.2024
Dune: Part Two is more than a mere sequel. It’s a continuation, culmination, and ultimately a fantastic elevation of everything you already loved about director Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 film Dune: Part One. That film ended with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) embracing a new way of life after...
Helldivers 2's Success Is Making Everyone Watch This Misunderstood Movie
19.2.2024
It’s fair to say that Helldivers 2 is having a good week. Beating GTA V’s concurrent Steam players records, the extraction shooter is outdoing everyone’s expectations, including its own, and it seems this success is spilling over. Because if there’s one source that Helldivers owes the most to, it’s...
We Know Who Anya Taylor-Joy Is Playing in Dune: Part Two (Probably)
15.2.2024
Dune: Part Two, the upcoming sequel to Denis Villeneuve’s 2021 sci-fi epic based on the Frank Herbert novels, is releasing in just two weeks, but somehow the team behind it kept one major star’s involvement a total secret. During the February 15 world premiere in London, The Queen’s Gambit actor...
'Absolute Essentials of Ethereum' by Paul Dylan-Ennis: An Excerpt
7.2.2024
Dune 2 Director Loves The Ornithopter Lego Set As Much As We Do
7.2.2024
Denis Villeneuve got deadly serious when io9 mentioned the Dune Lego set to him. “I’ll be honest with you,” the director of Dune: Part Two said. “Probably I’m making movies because first I was a hardcore Lego player. I’m from that first generation where it was just bricks, right? I went to a...
PSA: Effigies Seem To Decrease Your Capture Rate In Palworld
5.2.2024
On paper, Lifmunk Effigies, those green glowy statues you can find around Palworld’s map, are supposed to increase your odds of capturing a Pal. The problem, however, is that multiple users are reporting not only that these don’t seem to be working as advertised, but they actually seem to be making...
Congressman Rand Paul Reintroduces ‘Audit the Fed’ Bill
29.1.2024
Congressman Rand Paul reintroduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, also known as the “Audit the Fed” Bill, as a standalone piece of regulation into the U.S. Senate. The bill seeks to take the lid off what Paul considers to be the “entirely unknown inner workings”...
US Senator Elizabeth Warren Comments Digital Assets Are Used to Evade Economic Sanctions
23.1.2024
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren criticized the illegal use of cryptocurrency assets by bad actors. Commenting on a report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Warren declared that “rogue nations are using crypto to dodge sanctions and undermine our national...
Coinbase CLO Warns Pokémon Might Be Key in Rejecting SEC’s Expanded Security Definition
22.1.2024
Paul Grewal, CLO of Coinbase, believes collectibles, like Pokémon cards, might be essential in rejecting the expanded definition of what the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims to be a security. To Grewal, these cards are also part of an ecosystem fueling their value,...
Coinbase’s CLO Criticizes U.S. GAO for Lack of Analysis on Crypto Sanctions Risk
22.1.2024
Coinbase‘s chief legal officer Paul Grewal has criticized the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) following its recent report describing crypto as a tool for foreign entities to evade sanctions. In a series of posts on X (formerly Twitter), the Coinbase executive expressed...
Let’s Clear Up Those Halo Battle Royale Rumors
16.1.2024
Over the January 13-15 holiday weekend, a rumor spread about the cancellation of an untitled and unannounced Halo battle royale, codenamed Project Tatanka. It all started with a few off-hand comments on a January 13 stream of the XboxEra podcast, in which the three hosts (Jon Clarke, Nick Baker...
EU Banking Watchdog Seeks to ‘Harmonize’ AML Measures With Extension to Crypto Firms
16.1.2024
Source: AdobeStock/Grecaud Paul Europe’s leading banking entity, the European Banking Authority (EBA), has extended its regulatory reach to cover the cryptocurrency space. In a blog post dated January 16, the EU banking watchdog announced the release of new guidelines focusing on money...
Telcoin Fully Restores User Balance Two Weeks After $1.2 Million Exploit
12.1.2024
Source: Pixabay Financial app developer Telcoin has restored all user balances two weeks after an exploit led to $1.2 million worth of funds being drained from users’ accounts. In an email to CryptoNews, Telcoin noted that it had restored all user balances, fixed the vulnerability,...
The Last Of Us Show Casts Beef Actor As Key Character
10.1.2024
A day after announcing that Kaitlyn Dever will play Abby in The Last of Us series’ second season, Max (formerly HBO Max) has announced that Beef actor Young Mazino will play Ellie’s friend Jesse.Read more