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In July 2016, someone said they accidentally sent their crypto life savings of 1,493ETH, now worth about $1.25 million, to that address. And thanks to the magic of the blockchain, one can confirm that they were telling the truth.

From Why the Ethereum genesis address holds over $500m worth of tokens | finder.com.au

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In November DBS unveiled a technology platform in Singapore to which about 70 partners have connected over 150 applications. DBS customers eyeing a home on PropertyGuru, an online estate-agency, can check their eligibility for a loan and start applying. At Homage, which provides care for the old, you can redeem DBS credit-card reward points for an assessment of needs. Neal Cross, DBS’s chief innovation officer, calls this a “standard tech-company model”, following the examples of Amazon, Alibaba and the rest.

From How digitisation is paying for DBS – Notes from a small island

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Indeed, revealing my full personal identity to services, applications and devices is against the fundamental privacy principle of ‘data minimisation’.

Identity – in the formal/usual sense of identifying the full individual – may thus, in most cases, be a massive overshoot to requirements and quite illegal under

and ePrivacy.

From Rethinking digital identity | European Payments Council

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It is anticipated age verification will be enforceable by the end of the year.

From £25m for 5G projects on the anniversary of the UK’s Digital Strategy – GOV.UK

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Mr. Lyles secured credit cards often using fictional names and numbers the Social Security Administration hadn’t yet assigned.

From The New ID Theft: Millions of Credit Applicants Who Don’t Exist – WSJ

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“The easy access to a repository of people’s personal data has in turn spawned a burgeoning subeconomy of data miners and traders and opened up multiple avenues for illegal and unethical trading of identities.”

From “Aadhaar: India’s Flawed Biometric Database | The Diplomat”.

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We observe that banks are overwhelmed by API designs and specifications. Numerous API standardisation initiatives emerged for PSD2 (Berlin Group, STET, UK/CMA, Polish API, Slovak API) requiring banks to make a strategic decision on participation in said initiatives.

From Banks should open-up beyond PSD2 to deliver on the innovation promise

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Las Vegas strip club accepts cryptocurrency

From I-Team: Las Vegas strip club accepts cryptocurrency – YouTube

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A video game company, Ubisoft, is leveraging a new AI tool called Commit Assistant, which flags mistakes in a game’s code before programmers even make them.

From AI Predicts Coding Mistakes Before Developers Make Them

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The last major failure of a Scottish bank before the twin collapses of the Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland was 1879 bankruptcy of the City of Glasgow bank, and within months of that event all of the directors were in jail.

From Ten years after the nationalisation of Northern Rock | British Academy

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