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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Cryptocurrency analytics firm Chainalysis said on Thursday that it helped the US government seize $ 30 million worth of digital coins that North Korean-backed hackers stole earlier this year from the developer of the non-fungible token-based game Axie Infinite. When accounting for the more than 50 percent fall in cryptocurrency prices […]
Spencer Platt/Getty Images US stocks opened mixed on Wednesday with the Nasdaq up after seven consecutive declines. The Federal Reserve will release its beige book report in the afternoon, ahead of the next FOMC meeting later this month. A Wednesday Wall Street Journal article suggested that another 75-basis-point rate hike could hit in September. US stocks […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Andrew Burton/Getty Images US stocks fell Tuesday, turning lower in the post-Labor Day session. Stocks gave up earlier gains after a stronger-than-expected ISM services report. That bolstered views that the Fed sees the economy as strong enough to take on more rate hikes. US […]
Julian Assange, at center. (credit: acidpolly) Federal prosecutors have accidentally revealed that criminal charges have been filed against “Assange”—an apparent reference to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The feds filed the revealing document back in August, but the slip-up wasn’t noticed until it was flagged in a Thursday evening tweet. The filing was in an unrelated […]
Enlarge / An international air traveler is cleared by a US Customs and Border Protection Officer (L) and is approved to enter the United States inside the US Customs and Immigration area at Dulles International Airport (IAD) , December 21, 2011 in Sterling, Virgina, near Washington, DC. (credit: PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images) An American Muslim […]
Prosecutors in California have filed 46 new counts against Tyler Barriss for bomb threats, fraud, and swatting incidents nationwide. He’s angling to get the case transferred to Kansas and intends to plead guilty. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bd1f096dc9f582b9e25a8eb/master/pass/Back-Channel_Tyler-Barriss_2.jpg
Enlarge (credit: Transdev) The Trump administration has taken a hands-off approach to regulating self-driving cars, but on Friday federal regulators decided that one self-driving car project had gone too far. In a sharply-worded statement, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has ordered the French transportation company Transdev to stop transporting schoolchildren in a […]
Enlarge / Aerial view of vehicles lining up to cross to the United States at San Ysidro Port of Entry as seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on August 10, 2018. (credit: GUILLERMO ARIAS / AFP / Getty Images) A top Homeland Security Investigations official has told a federal court that it remains the […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Emissions,Fuel Efficiency Compromise to Trump freeze would raise standards 2 percent annually. Continue reading Automakers, feds, even retired generals hash out fuel economy goals Automakers, feds, even retired generals hash out fuel economy goals originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:30:00 EDT. Please see our […]
Federal prosecutors have charged three men in connection with an alleged $ 364 million Ponzi scheme that could have more than 400 victims nationwide. The men were indicted on charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. The indictment alleges that the three men took $ 73 million of investors’ funds “to purchase […]
