How Kontigo, a crypto startup from YC S24 that raised $20M+, helped move money in and out of Venezuela and now faces bank and payment network service cutoffs
Cryptocurrency fintech Kontigo, which recently raised $20 million from Coinbase and others, is under fire for its role in helping Venezuelans avoid sanctions
Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips
Investigation: as US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick pushes AI data centers, including by pressuring US allies, his companies and sons are profiting from them
Howard Lutnick is helping push data center projects. His family companies are profiting from them. X: @forsythjenn , @glcarlstrom , and @jonathancohn Bluesky: @ivanthek and @carlq...
How purchasing Trump's memecoin, of which he reportedly holds $50B+ at January 19 prices, could be used to buy favors without actually transferring him funds
Crypto is, in fact, about sending people money. — Financial disclosure: I hold a modest amount of BTC and ETH.
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a ~$7.5B market cap, is around the 28th most valuable cryptocurrency; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Survey Bloomberg : What Are Memecoins and Why Did Trump Launch One? Callum Jones / The Guardian : Experts alarmed by Trumps' crypto meme coins: ‘America voted for corruption’ Micha...
CoinGecko: Trump's memecoin, with a $9B+ market cap, is still in the top 25 most valuable cryptocurrencies; some in crypto call Official Trump a “horrible look”
Trump's memecoin has taken off since debuting late Friday night. Not everyone in crypto is thrilled.
Filing: Elon Musk creates X.AI Corp., a privately held AI company incorporated in Nevada, and authorizes the sale of 100M shares
Name of new Nevada-incorporated organization suggests link to billionaire's interest in everything app — Elon Musk has created a new artificial intelligence …
WhatsApp says it has fixed an issue that caused a major outage worldwide, lasting from around 3AM to 5AM ET
WhatsApp went down in a major outage affecting the communications app for two hours today. The service started experiencing issues at around 3AM ET, with users greeted with a “con...
Despite Elon Musk offering Iranians access to Starlink, experts say quickly building the infrastructure and evading government censorship will prove difficult
Elon Musk said the satellite-internet system was activated in the country last month — Watch: Iranians Clash With Police During Violent Wave of Protests
A jury finds former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over Saudi dissidents' account data in exchange for bribes
A former Twitter Inc. employee was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of platform users …
Influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are documenting trips to Syria, helping burnish the regime's image, often sponsored by brands, such as Surfshark
Sophie Fullerton is a political scientist and human rights researcher based in New York. — Last November, around the same … Tweets: @florida_sophia , @philklay , @neilcybart , @d...
Sources: defense contractor L3Harris scuttled plans to buy NSO Group despite alleged US intel officials' support, after the Biden admin's outrage over the talks
The American contractor L3 Harris is said to have cited support from intelligence officials for its effort to acquire NSO …
Sources: NSO Group is considering shuttering its Pegasus unit and selling the company, among other options, as it struggles to repay $450M in debt
- Moelis tapped to advise on talks with investment funds — One plan would repurpose product for strictly defensive use
Ex-Israeli soldiers say the country built a “Facebook for Palestinians” over the last two years to monitor Palestinians through facial recognition tech
HEBRON, West Bank — The Israeli military has been conducting a broad surveillance effort in the occupied West Bank …
Investigation: Israel-based NSO Group's malware infected 23 phones belonging to government officials, reporters, execs, and activists, out of 67 checked
Dana Priest, a reporter at The Washington Post for 30 years, covers national security issues. Recently, she has investigated Russian …
As Trump searches for a new social network after his Twitter ban, a shift from mainstream platforms would mark a retreat to insular conservative communities
Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among …
Twitter says it has permanently suspended Trump's @realDonaldTrump account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”
The president's preferred megaphone is gone — Twitter permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday days after a pro-Trump mob stormed the US Capitol leaving four dead.
Supercuts of violent police behavior during widespread protests have been going viral on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, with one racking up over 45M views
which people have watched tens of millions of times — to reframe the public conversation about the common element in so many protests: police violence https://www.nytimes.com/... H...
In open letter on racism, Tim Cook speaks out on George Floyd's “senseless killing” and says we must commit to creating a better, more just world for everyone
Right now, there is a pain deeply etched in the soul of our nation and in the hearts of millions.