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Feds seize Sinbad crypto mixer allegedly used by North Korean hackers

TechCrunch

As part of an international law enforcement investigation, the FBI and the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service have seized the websites of a crypto mixer that was allegedly used by North Korean hackers and several cybercriminals to launder stolen funds and obfuscate transactions. On Wednesday, the U.S.

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Mission Possible: Tell Us Your Symantec Story and Win Prizes!

Tech Soup

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal? Let's not get too brazen, here. What should I look for in a VPN?

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Adobe Creative Cloud Giveaway for Nonprofits at 17NTC!

Tech Soup

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Report: Conflict Has 114 Million People Displaced

The NonProfit Times

Russia continues to wage war on Ukraine now with the help of North Korea, civilians suffer as military fights militia in Sudan and a bloody conflict has set in three years on from a military coup in Myanmar. Long-established tenets of international human rights and humanitarian laws are being flouted.

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through March 1)

Singularity Hub

The new model seems to prove that longstanding rumors ofdiminishing returnsin training unsupervised-learning LLMs were correct and that the so-called ‘scaling laws’ cited by many for years have possibly met their natural end.” Computing How North Korea Pulled Off a $1.5

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

law needs to change to comply with the treaty (the hope is that these changes are minimal). She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. The Marrakesh Treaty. That’s all of the legal work-up on a treaty and how U.S.

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