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Erdős primitive set conjecture is now resolved
General news
Erdős primitive set conjecture is now resolved in the affirmative: Video, Paper.
I am very excited about this result. This is one of my favourite math problems.
Fed hikes its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage point, the biggest increase since 1994. Did the Fed's rate hike go too far, or not far enough?
Bank of England raises interest rates by 25 basis points to 1.25%, the highest level in 13 years. Inflation in the country heads to 10%, a 40-year high.
Cryptocurrency market value slumps under $1 trillion. Bitcoin drops more than 65% from all-time high.
Crypto news
Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX Hit With $258 Billion Dogecoin Lawsuit The lawsuit aims to represent a class of people who’ve lost money trading Dogecoin.
Coinbase sued in relation to promotion of TerraUSD cryptocurrency
India’s largest-ever crypto Ponzi scam wipes $12.8 billion from victims
Scientists claim to have designed a fully decentralized stablecoin pegged to electricity. More information.
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows fails to meet lender margin calls
SEC launches insider trading inquiry into crypto exchanges
Coin Center Sues US Treasury Over 'Unconstitutional' Tax Reporting Rule
Circle Announces a Fully-reserved, Euro-backed Stablecoin, Euro Coin (EUROC)
Three Arrows Faces Possible Insolvency After Unforeseen Liquidations: Report
Crypto lender Celsius is 'risking insolvency' after it pauses withdrawals
How Crypto Lender Celsius Overheated
Days after Celsius paused withdrawals, another crypto lender Babel Finance followed suit
Coinbase lays off 18% of workforce as executives prepare for recession and ‘crypto winter’
BitMEX Co-Founder Benjamin Delo Avoids Prison Time, Receives 30 Months Probation
AI news
Pfizer Used AI to Design Paxlovid. Is Schrondinger Next? Biotech may be one of the biggest beneficiaries of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Spotify buys an AI startup that turns text into 'realistic' speech
Microsoft Teams now uses AI to improve echo, interruptions, and acoustics
Google, Facebook, Twitter to tackle deepfakes or risk EU fines
Five Things the Google AI Bot Said That Made an Engineer Think It Has Real Feelings
Privacy
Meta is getting data about you from some surprising places There doesn’t seem to be a corner of the internet Meta isn’t tracking.
Apple CEO Tim Cook Pushes Senate For Privacy Legislation
Security
A hacked Kaiser Permanente employee’s emails led to breach of 70,000 patient records
US Army to double cyber corps strength as focus shifts from counterinsurgency
Over Three-Quarters of UK Adults Hit by Online Scams
New Zimbra Email Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Your Login Credentials
PyPI package 'keep' mistakenly included a password stealer
INTERPOL raids hundreds of scammy call centers in sweep
Thousands of GitHub, AWS, Docker tokens exposed in Travis CI logs
Cisco Secure Email bug can let attackers bypass authentication
Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second
The Phish Goes On - 5 Million Stolen Credentials and Counting
Police Linked to Hacking Campaign to Frame Indian Activists
Chinese Hackers Exploited Sophos Firewall Zero-Day Flaw to Target South Asian Entity
MetaMask, Phantom and Other Browser Wallets Patch Security Vulnerability There is no evidence the vulnerability was ever exploited by attackers, meaning no user funds are believed to have been impacted.
Educational articles & videos
Huobi Research has published deep-dive on consequences of stETH Depegging
Sri Lanka Is Facing a Hyper-Inflationary Collapse
Tech Monopolies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Health: What Happens After 2 Weeks of Poor Sleep
This newsletter is my collection of the most important latest news, educational articles, videos in Crypto, Blockchain, AI, health, lifestyle, tech in general and funny memes. Nothing in this newsletter is a financial or health advice. This newsletter is for educational and entertainment purposes only.