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Popular genetic testing services can be misleading, inaccurate, and ethically questionable

Genetic testing used to be something that happened in a specialist clinic for those few families that had serious inherited conditions, like Huntington’s Disease or rare cancers. Now, new genetic tests called “polygenic risk scores” have increased access to genetic risk information for a wide range of conditions. дальше »

2019-7-27 10:00


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Venezuela is buying Bitcoin with airport taxes to smuggle in US dollars, report

Venezuela appears to be leveraging cryptocurrencies as part of a larger effort to bypass US sanctions. According to an investigation by Spanish newspaper ABC, President Nicolas Maduro and his administration are using a digital wallet app called Jetman Pay to convert tax revenue from one of the country’s main airports into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. дальше »

2019-7-26 14:02


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Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting ‘logic bomb’ in spreadsheet software

A contract programmer has pleaded guilty to planting “logic bombs” inside a client’s spreadsheets in an attempt to receive extra work from the company every time the software crashed. David Tinley — the Pennsylvania-based 62-year-old contract programmer in question — now faces a fine of up to $250,000, up to 10 years in prison, or both. дальше »

2019-7-25 12:25


OMG! Japanese Finance Giant Nomura Invests In Omise

Omise Holdings, the parent company of OmiseGo (OMG) and GO. Exchange, has announced an investment from Nomura Holdings, a massive Japanese investment group with global reach. The size of the investment is undisclosed, but will be used to scale Omise’s operations across a number of verticals including payments, blockchain technology, and digital asset exchanges. дальше »

2019-7-24 04:00


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Vicious malware threatens to turn search engine into crypto-mining zombie botnet

Enterprise search engine Elasticsearch is under threat of being turned into a sophisticated cryptocurrency mining botnet to be used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro describes a new malware strain that launches multi-stage attacks on publicly accessible databases and servers that run old versions of Elasticsearch software. дальше »

2019-7-23 17:54