Month: November 2020

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for CIO’s/CISO’s success. Now, for the first time, the Ultimate Security Budget Plan and Track Excel template (download here) provide security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that security needs are addressed while maintaining the budgetary frame. The
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Binance has filed a lawsuit in the state of New Jersey against Forbes Media and two of its journalists, Michael del Castillo and Jason Brett, alleging that an article published under the title Leaked ‘Tai Chi’ Document Reveals Binance’s Elaborate Scheme To Evade Bitcoin Regulators was defamatory. Binance is demanding both compensatory and punitive damages.
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Major players in U.S. crypto lobbying are coming out in defense of non-custodial wallets. On Tuesday, the Blockchain Association released a new report presenting policy options for self-hosted wallets to regulators. On Wednesday, Coin Center published an expert view by Jai Ramaswamy, also defending such wallets. The Blockchain Association is a trade organization for the
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Opera is integrating a Player feature on its desktop browser that will give users quick access to music streaming platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube Music. The new Player feature can be accessed in the browser’s sidebar, below the Messengers section. Playback can be controlled with standard playback buttons on the keyboard or by
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Ruth Porat, Alphabet CFO Adam Galica | CNBC Alphabet Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said the company is seeing pre-pandemic productivity levels from employees again — thanks to leadership coaching and employee surveys. “What we saw in the early days of Covid we saw a bit of productivity dip, in particular at junior levels.” Porat
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Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) celebrated its first halving event on Nov. 18. The occasion was marked by the implementation of the Canopy upgrade, which establishes a development fund for the platform and removes the controversial “Founders Reward.” The halving and upgrade occurred at block 1,046,400, just over four years after Zcash was first mined in
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Ethereum-powered decentralized applications, or DApps, have attracted more than one million active users over the last 30 days according to analytics platform DappRadar.  This milestone comes as interest in decentralized finance, commonly referred to as DeFi, received a second wind, with the number of users growing by 11% in the first 11 days of November.
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