Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin’s “Orb” iris scanner. (credit: Worldcoin) More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates. Worldcoin has distributed about 30 iris-scanning hardware devices, which they call “orbs,” to early...
Enlarge (credit: Future Publishing | Getty Images) Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account. Now, Google has detailed the technique that hackers-for-hire used to compromise thousands of YouTube creators in just the past couple of years. Cryptocurrency...
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