February, 2025

February, 2025

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Backdoors And Backsteps
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket...

Prominent Cryptocurrency Investor Faces Senate Tax Inquiry
The Finance Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter last month to Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital, about the investigation....

With Trump’s Help, Intel Could Hand Control of Chip Plants to TSMC
The Silicon Valley giant is trying to cut a deal it hopes would help it pull out of a yearslong slump....

569,012 Americans Exposed As Massive Data Breach Reveals Names, Financial Account Numbers, Credit and Debit Card Numbers, Security Codes, PINs and More
A major cybersecurity incident has exposed sensitive personal, medical and financial records of more than half a million Americans. In a data breach notification, the Office of the Maine Attorney Gene...

Wells Fargo Refuses To Return Woman’s Life Savings After Bank Account Gutted by Fraudsters – Here’s How She Reportedly Broke Through the Bank’s Denials
Wells Fargo has reportedly refused to reimburse a woman who lost her life savings to an impostor who claimed to work at the banking giant. Houston resident Heather Sanders says she received a call bea...

Top US Crypto Exchange Coinbase Launches Support for New Asset Tied to Intellectual Property-Focused Blockchain
Coinbase has rolled out trading support for the brand-new native token of a layer-1 blockchain focused on intellectual property (IP). The scalable intellectual property solution Story launched its pub...

Treasury IG and GAO Investigate DOGE Access to Federal Payment Systems
The Treasury Inspector General and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) are investigating the reported decision by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to allow the Elon Musk-led Department of G...

Report: Former CFPB Chief Technology Alleges Agency Data Set for Deletion
Former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Chief Technologist Erie Meyer reportedly alleged in a legal filing that Trump administration officials are set to delete databases holding the age...

Report: Figure Aims to Raise $1.5 Billion for Humanoid Robots
Figure is reportedly in talks with investors to raise $1.5 billion for its work in developing humanoid robots. The startup aims for a valuation of $39.5 billion, though the talks are ongoing and th...

Regulatory Roundup: CFPB on the Chopping Block, Stablecoins in Focus
It was an earth-shaking week for regulatory agencies, and a groundbreaking week for stablecoins. For those seeking to keep up with the dizzying pace of job cuts, court rulings, orders to “stop all w...

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