Cybercriminals are exploiting Google’s advertising platform to target users of the decentralized OTC trading platform Whales Market, according to a recent BleepingComputer report. By creating a legitimate-looking Google Search advertisement, threat actors are redirecting unsuspecting visitors to a malicious phishing site designed to drain their wallets of all assets. Hey, @WhalesMarket Someone just bought a phishing domain trying to scam your users They're using Google Adwords to promote it pic.twitter.com/DKum52apTW — DegenDesk (@Degen_Desk) April 18, 2024 The sponsored ad appears at the t ..read more

The past week brought a downturn for both Bitcoin and altcoins, possibly triggered by the macroeconomic implications of the escalating tensions between Iran and Israel over the weekend. As a result, Bitcoin’s value dipped below $60,000, causing concern among investors. However, amid the uncertainty, large Bitcoin holders known as “whales” seized the opportunity to strengthen their positions. Whales on a Buying Spree Recent data reveals that whale wallets, holding over 0.1% of the total Bitcoin supply, significantly increased their buying activity during the market dip. On April 18th, these wa ..read more

Early access or not No Rest for the Wicked can be a brutal game at times. In the initial stages, the game’s attribute points that can be assigned to your eight stat categories are hard to come by, meaning that you definitely need to spend them wisely and not throw them away on things you won’t need in the early part of the game. Here we will take a look at the eight stat categories and then go into a little more depth about where we think you should be buffing first in order to make the first forays into the game a bit more palatable. No Rest for the Wicked Stat Categories As we say, there ar ..read more

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has indicated it will increase the cost of chips made outside of Taiwan as the company reacts to pressures on its profitability. The world’s largest maker of advanced chips for customers like Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., has sounded its price warning as government and big tech firms are cognizant of the geopolitical risks of having more than 90% of the world’s chips made in the country. Moves are already underway to spread the production of the most advanced semiconductors to other locations, especially as China claims Taiwan as part of i ..read more

Apple has, on orders from China’s government, removed the social networking apps WhatsApp and Threads from the App Store serving that country. Both applications are owned and administered by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. The two applications had already been blocked by Chinese authorities, but still they saw heavy use, mainly from those who accessed them with a virtual private network that masked their internet protocol address and allowed users to sign in as if they were in another country. “We are obligated to follow the laws in the countries where we operate, even whe ..read more

TikTok is still on the brink of being banned in the United States after House Republicans included the proposed legislation in a package of bills which would secure foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine. The threat from US lawmakers to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app unless owners ByteDance divest majority control of the company, elsewhere. Back in March, the TikTok legislation passed the House and it has significant support in both chambers, whilst President Biden has indicated he will approve it if the bill lands on his desk. The latest development sees this action included in a House ..read more

Gamblers in North Carolina staked a total bet value of $659.3 million (£528.7m) during the first month of legal sports betting in the state. As of 11 March, the regulated sports betting market was opened in the Tar Heel State with the disclosed figures from the North Carolina State Lottery Commission covering the period up to the end of the month. Promotional wagers from sportsbook operators are said to have accounted for $202.6m of the overall total revenue figure, with gamblers earning back around $590.8m in wins. $66.5m in stakes was lost but the state taxes this amount, known as gross wag ..read more

Meta is making a significant stride in the AI space this week, expanding the reach of its AI assistant across all of Metaverse’s social media platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, Messenger, and WhatsApp. The company’s site heralded the announcement alongside the development of the flagship artificial intelligence model Meta Llama 3. Meta’s new AI assistant At the heart of the Meta AI assistant is the powerful Meta Llama 3, a large language model (LLM). This cutting-edge technology is the engine that drives the prompts users ask of the assistant across the Meta social channels. “With our ..read more

It should be no surprise that with Fortnite being as big as it is it seems to be the most ‘leaked-about’ games currently doing the rounds. Barely a week goes by without data miners fishing around in the code to tell everybody what skins and events are coming next. The game, which has recently seen some players fall into V-Bucks debt continues to be one of the most popular games on the planet and leaks are now seen as par for the course. Today’s Fortnite roadmap leak seems a little more than that however as potentially the game’s roadmap for the rest of 2024 has surfaced on the internet and hi ..read more

The Fallout video game franchise is enjoying a massive boom in sales thanks to the new (and popular) Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime, which has made Fallout 4 the number-one game in Europe. Data from GamesIndustry.biz found the 2015 open-world RPG set in the post-apocalyptic Fallout universe has taken the top spot in the European game sales chart with a whopping 7,500% increase in sales week-on-week. The surge in sales is not just down to the TV show, although that’s the main driving force, but also significant discounts on Fallout games across all platforms in a coordinated marketing push fr ..read more