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Once upon a time, December was an incredibly dead month for games---an opportunity to catch up on your backlog, since all of the year's big games had already come and gone.
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If you've ever tried reading Chaucer in the original Middle English, then you know the feeling. The words look almost familiar, but your brain can't quite piece the puzzle together.
Now try actual Old English from the

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The UK government's Budget for the coming fiscal year has confirmed that UK-registered trading platforms will have to record personal details of their customers.
Info to be collected includes cryptocurrency transactions and tax numbers, with the government expecting to raise an

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Mixpanel said an attacker accessed part of its systems and exported customer-identifiable metadata.
OpenAI said no prompts, API keys, payment information, or authentication tokens were involved.
Both companies reviewed the incident, notified affected users, and outlined new security st

Tether is ending its Bitcoin mining operations in Uruguay due to high energy costs, leaving 30 out of 38 employees unemployed. Despite this setback, Tether aims to become the world's largest Bitcoin miner and continues to expand in Latin America.

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Two South Korean police officers were indicted for allegedly taking bribes from operators of illegal crypto exchanges tied to a $186 million voice-phishing laundering operation.
Prosecutors say the officers provided investigative information, helped unfreeze accounts, and facilitated le

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Balancer outlined a plan to return roughly $8 million in rescued assets to affected liquidity providers following a $128 million exploit.
The proposal details pool-specific reimbursements, snapshot-based distributions, and 10% whitehat bounties capped at $1 million. 0 About $28 million

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Interpol says scam centers span dozens of countries and rely on coerced labor.
Crypto flows tied to compounds have surpassed $11 billion since first reported in July last year.
Global coordination is finally catching up with the scam networks, Decrypt was told.
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Chrome extension Crypto Copilot secretly adds a hidden SOL transfer to every Raydium swap, siphoning fees to an attacker's wallet.
Security platform Socket found the extension uses obfuscated code and a misspelled, inactive backend domain to mask its activity.
On-chain theft remains

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U.S. committees are reportedly seeking details on how Anthropic's Claude Code was used in a state-linked cyberattack.
Anthropic disclosed earlier this month that the threat group automated reconnaissance, exploits, and data extraction.
The same AI capabilities could accelerate crypto h

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With the holiday season just around the corner, it's time to start piling presents under the tree. Here's our pick of the best options for the crypto fan in your