IRS Says It Exposed Confidential Taxpayer Data for 120K Individuals on Website
disclosures included names, contact information and financial information about income :
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Zeus v0.6.6 Released: Reproducible Builds for Android
New Features: Reproducible builds #1055 Enhancements: Android: Update mascot splash images #1057 Bug Fixes: Google Play: Don’t require users to have NFC to install #1047Fix display of Mortal sponsors #1058 iOS TestFlightAndroid APKAndroid APK SignatureAndroid APK Clearsign SignaturePGP Key
Hosted VPN Providers Shut Down in India Over Anti-privacy Law: India Will Soon Require Operators to Collect Names, Emails, and IP Addresses
The Indian agency overseeing computer security will soon require VPN operators in India to collect information such as customer’s names, email addresses and the IP addresses they use to connect to the internet. Providers must maintain the data for at…
Arcane Research: How Bitcoin Mining Can Transform The Energy Industry
Bitcoin mining possesses a combination of properties that makes it a uniquelyflexible energy consumer. This flexibility allows bitcoin miners to provide positive externalities to various energy systems globally, including strengthening vulnerable electricity grids, improving the economics of renewable energy, mitigating…
Local US Law Enforcement Agencies Have Been Using an Obscure Cellphone Tracking Tool to Follow People’s Movements Months Back in Time Without a Warrant
Police have used “Fog Reveal” to search hundreds of billions of records from 250 million mobile devices, and harnessed the data to create location analyses known among law enforcement as “patterns of life.”Sold by Virginia-based Fog Data Science LLC, Fog…
Block 752151: Weekly Digest
No Bullshit Bitcoin is funded by our audience through bitcoin donations. Thank you for your support. New York Digital Investment Group Announces Lightning Accelerator Project Called “In Wolf’s Clothing”Joinmarket v0.9.7 ReleasedZoltan Pozsar: Credit Suisse Economics: War and Industrial PolicySelf Sovereign…
DC Attorney General Announces Tax Fraud Suit Against Michael Saylor and Microstrategy
Today, we’re suing Michael Saylor – a billionaire tech executive who has lived in the District for more than a decade but has never paid any DC income taxes – for tax fraud.We’re also suing his company, MicroStrategy, for conspiring…
Mempool Project Launches Lightning Explorer
Can be accessed via the hosted mempool.space instance or self hosted using your own node.
Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Jumps 9.26%: Largest Hash Rate Increase Since January
Bitcoin Optech #215
Wallet label export format: Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposed BIP to standardize the format wallets use to export labels for their addresses and transactions. A standardized export format could in theory allow two pieces of…