Crypto criminals had little to fear from prosecutor Erin West a year ago. Now, she teaches law enforcement how to hunt for stolen crypto

Mario Nawfal is a citizen journalist who started out as the founder of Froothie, a surprisingly controversial kitchen appliance company. In 2015, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commissioner ordered Froothie Australia to pay a $10,800 false or misleading pricing penalty for wrongly claiming that its Optimum 9400 blender had been marked down on sale. In 2017, the ill-fated Silicon Valley startup Juicero launched proceedings against Froothie’s American arm for its role in importing an allegedly patent-infringing blender (the lawsuit never eventuated as Juicero went bust). Nawfal left the company but told Crikey he’s still the company’s 100% shareholder. Since then, he’s gone on to launch a handful of other companies, including his most recent venture, International Blockchain Consulting.

Disgraced NRL star Jarryd Hayne has reportedly been conned out of $780,000 in Bitcoin by one of his jail inmates. Ishan Seenar Sappideen allegedly told convicted rapist Hayne that he’d made millions of dollars investing with Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brooke. The conman convinced Hayne and other inmates that he could deliver big returns if they invested with him, according to The Daily Telegraph. Sappideen is serving a maximum 12-year sentence after being found guilty of stealing $4.6m from his friends and family in a Ponzi scheme. The former Sydney Grammar student allegedly received more than $2 million from Hayne and at least six other inmates in Cooma jail between 2020 and 2022. Sappideen was moved to a different prison due to fears for his safety following complaints over his behaviour which led to Corrective Services NSW’s investigations. “Earlier this year, CSNSW intelligence officers became aware of allegations an inmate at Cooma Correctional Centre was attempting to coerce and advise fellow inmates to make transactions on the financial markets,” a CSNSW spokeswoman told The Daily Telegraph. “The accused inmate … has since had his security classification reviewed to enable a higher level of supervision and less freedom. CSNSW refers suspected criminal activity to the Police Corrections Intelligence Unit who share intelligence with relevant state and federal police.” The reports claimed Hayne’s money was transferred by people outside jail who had access to his bank accounts. Hayne was in Cooma jail after being found guilty of raping a woman at her home in October 2019 and sentenced to five years and nine months jail. He won an appeal in February 2022 and was granted a retrial only to be found guilty again and jailed for at least three years on May 12.

The law’s passage has enraged workers’ advocates, who warn that it will result in even more heat-related deaths and illnesses in a state that already tallies the highest number of worker deaths due to high temperatures.

A Florida man and his stepson died Friday while hiking at the Big Bend National Park in Texas, according to officials.

Vanguard units of the Wagner mercenary company have reached the outskirts of Borisoglebsk in Russia’s Voronezh Oblast, where a warehouse with nuclear weapons is located, possibly aiming to seize the facility.

The scam by an unnamed company promised up to 150% returns on investment in 100 days, raising about about $127 million.

An Uber driver died days after a passenger was accused of shooting him, believing she was being kidnapped, Texas cops say. Phoebe Copas, 48, is now charged with murder following the June 16 shooting, the El Paso Police Department said in a June 22 news release. She is being held in the El Paso jail on a $1.5 million bond. Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, was taken off life support Wednesday, his niece said in a Facebook post. Police said Copas, of Tompkinsville, Kentucky, was visiting her boyfriend in El Paso and took an Uber to meet him at a casino after he got off work, according to KFOX. When Copas saw signs during the drive for Juarez, Mexico, she believed Piedra was kidnapping her, KTSM reported. “At some point during the drive, Copas thought she was being taken into Mexico and shot Piedra,” police said. “The investigation does not support that a kidnapping took place or that Piedra was veering from Copas’ destination.” Police said Piedra was shot “in the back of the head and wrist” while driving on U.S. 54, KVIA reported.

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Three of the railcars that derailed into the Yellowstone River were carrying hot asphalt and four were carrying molten sulfur, a county official said.

The elite members-only sex club Snctm said it has issued a ban on its founder, Damon Lawner, for violating its code of conduct. His transgression: naming Hunter Biden as a former member.

For many years, the bet was mostly forgotten. That is, until a few years ago, when it was resurfaced by Per Snaprud, a science journalist based in Stockholm who had interviewed Chalmers back in 1998. His recording of the chat reminded the pair of the terms they had set in the wager and the case of wine that was at stake.

Deep inside the Port of Baltimore, past stacks of shipping containers and a plant that makes wallboard, sits the world's first, and only, nuclear-powered cruise ship – the NS Savannah.

Year is 2023. The whole Internet is under the control of the GAFAM empire. All? No. Because a few small villages are resisting the oppression. And some of those villages started to agregate, forming the "Fediverse". With debates around Twitter and Reddit, the Fediverse started to gain fame and attention. People started to use it for real. The empire started to notice.

Last year, the CEO of messaging app IRL repeatedly said it had 20 million monthly active users, who chatted about shared interests and planned real-world events together. Today, a spokesperson for the startup said an investigation by the board of directors concluded 95% of those users were “automated or from bots.” As a result of the probe, the spokesperson said the company would shut down and return capital to shareholders, two months after it suspended the founder and CEO, Abraham Shahi, for alleged misconduct. IRL raised $200 million from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, Founders Fund and others, before coming under scrutiny in a series of articles in The Information, which questioned its user number claims.

Before the Federal Trade Commission chair got there, the agency was brimming with conflicts of interest, including from her loudest critics. A federal lawsuit out this week alleges that Amazon relied on more than just good features to build subscriptions in Prime. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) argues that Amazon used dark patterns and other online tricks to dupe people into signing up for Prime, and then made it next to impossible to get out. The company called their cancellation program “Iliad,” after the Greek epic depicting the ten-year siege of the city-state of Troy, which involved navigating “a four-page, six-click, fifteen-option” gauntlet just to get out of the $139 annual membership. (A classics scholar might grumble that “Odyssey” would be a more appropriate Greek epic, but perhaps Amazon was saving that for an even worse process.) The FTC is asking for a permanent injunction and civil penalties. It’s the first suit against Amazon since Lina Khan became FTC chair, and we can surely expect loud howls from the industry lobby about conflicts of interest. Khan rose to prominence after publishing a law review article in 2017 about the need for new efforts to mitigate Amazon’s market power.

The Super PAC is just one example of the nominally Democratic candidate running a campaign that’s awash in support from backers of Donald Trump

The social media giant Meta has confirmed that it will end access to news on its social media sites for all Canadian users before Bill C-18, the Online News Act, comes into force.

While there are many good uses for plastic, its major drawback has been the same since Day One: It can take anywhere from 20 to 500 years to decompose. Timeplast is an innovative company that has created an innovative plastic that can dissolve in water, then that water is completely drinkable after only about 60 hours.

Things got a bit awkward at the latest meeting of Nintendo’s shareholders when a Japanese man took the spotlight and used his allotted question time to complain about a perceived lack of cool poses for the male characters in Splatoon 3 in a lengthy manner. He explained that from his point of view, female characters got preferential treatment in comparison to male characters. “The company has blatantly given the boys in Splatoon the cold shoulder and I would like to see some improvement,” the man said. He explained that Splatoon 1 and 2, where customization options were a lot more limited, paid a similar amount of attention to both character types, but “in Splatoon 3, there is a lot more customization, and there is clear favoritism towards girl characters over boys.” This is evident, he argued, in the available hairstyles for both characters as the styles for male characters aren't as elaborate or diverse as those of their counterparts. The same goes for profile icons and emotes, which he said are designed to look better with the female characters.