Rebecca Rettig Contributor Rebecca Rettig is the chief legal and policy officer at Polygon Labs, where she oversees all global policy matters and regularly meets with policymakers and […]
Crypto valuations ‘came back to earth’ in 2023, but VCs expect them to rise again in 2024
The past couple of years have proved to be a turbulent time for the crypto industry. As if a spate of big crypto institutions failing or going under […]
X-Men Games To Be Sony Exclusives Until 2035, Leak Reveals
If you haven’t heard, over 1.3 million internal documents from Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games were leaked after Sony didn’t meet ransomware group Rhysida’s demands for $2 million worth of Bitcoin. The documents include early footage of the team’s Wolverine game, the studio’s roadmap for the…
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Why these 30 web3 founders are optimistic about 2024
The crypto winter may or may not thaw, but not everyone is going into the new year without hope: A majority of founders are optimistic about the opportunities […]
Crypto hacks and chaos aren’t halting this holiday season
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Bitcoin ATM company Coin Cloud got hacked. Even its new owners don’t know how
In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming to have breached Coin Cloud, a bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company. According to […]
Spider-Man And Wolverine Devs Hit By Alleged Ransomware Attack
Insomniac Games, the PlayStation-owned developer behind Marvel’s Spider-Man and the upcoming Wolverine, was reportedly breached by a ransomware gang that claims to have stolen employees’ personal data and unreleased information about its upcoming X-Men game.
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Google fakes an AI demo, Grand Theft Auto VI goes viral and Spotify cuts jobs
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. AI stole the headlines once again, with tech giants […]
Bitcoin continues climbing, Block releases hardware wallet, Robinhood expands to EU and VCs may see some relief soon
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Block releases Bitkey hardware wallet to 95 countries… kinda
Jack Dorsey’s Block (the company formerly known as Square) announced today that it is releasing its hardware Bitcoin wallet, Bitkey, in 95 countries. However, users can only pre-order […]