Chainalysis Study Shows ‘Criminal Whales’ Hold $25B in Digital Assets, Entities Represent 3.7% of All Crypto Whales
According to research published by Chainalysis, criminal entities hold more than $25 billion in cryptocurrencies. The blockchain intelligence firm’s study shows that there was a significant increase in crypto balances held by criminals in 2021 as the metric jumped by 266% since the year before. Chainalysis Studies Crypto Whales Holding Balances Tied to Illicit Addresses The blockchain surveillance company Chainalysis published a study...
ResearchGate Wins (& Loses) Scientific Publishers’ Copyright Lawsuit
ResearchGate is a social networking site aimed at the academic community. Its users, which currently number around 20 million, are able to upload content to the platform, which at times includes published research papers. In September 2017 the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM) wrote to ResearchGate on behalf of 140 publishers. The group said that in its opinion, the platform had a...
Iconic Game Cracking Group CODEX Shuts Down
From the day the first computer and video games were published, people have been able to pirate them. In the early days that involved copying cassettes and floppy disks and today most unauthorized copying takes place over the Internet. Over the past decades, a subset of gaming fans have united in Scene groups to ensure a steady stream of cracked games, i.e those that have had their protections removed. Dozens of these groups have come...
How to screen share with the Linux KDE Plasma Desktop
If you’ve ever done remote support professionally or out of familial obligation, then you’ve been on a call where solving problems are only secondary to the impossible task of visualizing what’s actually on your user’s screen. How many times have you described complex desktop tasks only to later realize that your user hasn’t even turned their computer on yet? Support is important, but the frustration is...
