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The owner of the dark web marketplace Incognito Market has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for running what prosecutors describe as one of the world’s largest online narcotics platforms.
Rui-Siang Lin, who operated under the alias “Pharaoh,” pleaded guilty in late 2024 to conspiring to distribute drugs, money laundering and selling adulterated and misbranded medication.
U.S. District...
A US lender is warning more than 100,000 users that their personal information is at risk after a third-party data breach.
New filings with Maine’s Attorney General show members of Illinois-based MidAmerica Credit Union (MACU) are affected by a cyberattack that hit Marquis Software Solutions, a vendor of MACU.
In total, 131,070 people are impacted.
“On or about August 14, 2025, MACU was informed...
Google is preparing to pay $135 million to end a lawsuit claiming its Android software transferred users’ data without permission.
The class action lawsuit alleges the Android operating system quietly initiated data transfers over cell networks even when devices were not in use.
Plaintiffs say the transfers violated consumer privacy rights and forced users to unwittingly use cell data that they...
A US bank is preparing to hand thousands of dollars to customers after a network breach placed their sensitive data at risk.
American National Bank...
February 6th, 2026 – Palo Alto, CA
ZenO opens access to egocentric audio, video, and image data captured from smart glasses and smartphones to support the next generation of physical AI systems.
ZenO today announced the launch of its public beta, opening access to a new platform designed to collect, anonymize, and structure real-world, first-person data for training physical AI systems...
BRICS nation China is pouring paper money into gold at a relentless rate, according to a new report.
China added one ton of gold to its reserves in December, worth approximately $178.98 million at current prices, reports the World Gold Council.
Gold is trading at $5,074 an ounce at time of writing.
China’s gold purchases in December amounted to about 5% of the total gold acquired by all the world...
Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz says Bitcoin (BTC) may be approaching a market bottom.
Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Novogratz says Bitcoin’s drop to around $76,000 reflects selling pressure at the margin rather than a collapse in institutional interest.
He says that while new institutions continue to enter the market, prices are still set by incremental buyers and sellers.
“I...
The billionaire founder of hedge fund giant Citadel, Ken Griffin, is issuing a warning on America’s financial health as the US national debt approaches $39 trillion.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Debt to the Penny dataset, the US national debt just reached $38.56 trillion, an increase of around $2.3 trillion in just one year.
Amid the ballooning national debt, Griffin tells the Wall...
An elderly Wells Fargo customer suffering from multiple health issues says he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars after falling victim to a bank fraud scheme.
Ninety-year-old Irving Rosenberg says he lost $814,000 to scammers who forged his signature on checks to drain his savings account, reports ABC7 Los Angeles.
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But Rosenberg says he never wrote a single check and...
Bitcoin’s price is in free fall as a cascade of liquidations hammer leveraged traders.
BTC has dropped from $74,300 to a low of $66,800 in the last 24 hours, triggering a whopping $1.42 billion in liquidations, according to CoinGlass.
Traders going long are suffering the most, recording $1.24 billion in liquidations.
Most of the liquidations hit Bitcoin traders, with $655 million in longs...