Inside the binance black box

The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba

Stablecoins – principally tether and circle – are digital tokens run on public blockchains (digital ledgers) whose value is determined not by supply and demand, as with bitcoin, but are backed by a sp

I’ve been tracking the financial technology (fintech) sector for a decade now. It strikes me that three significant changes are under way. The first is the rise of cryptocurrency and all the digital a

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Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

The dust is finally settling on the cyberattack that downed Marks & Spencer’s online store for more than six weeks this spring. The ransomware attack, carried out by a hacker group calling itself Drag