Web3 devs, gamers, investors thrive despite India’s crypto policy hurdles

India’s contribution to the global Web3 ecosystem — primarily in software development, gaming, investments and startup funding — increased year-on-year despite an absence of locally tailored crypto regulations. India’s share of global Web3 developers grew from 5% to 12% in the last 10 years, second only to the United States as of 2024, according to … Read more

Pomp: Trump deliberately crashed markets to get interest rates down

The Trump administration may be intentionally creating uncertainty in the stock markets to corner Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates, according to a market commentator.  Doing so increases the likelihood that the US won’t need to refinance around $7 trillion in debt it owes over the next few months, Bitcoin commentator Anthony … Read more

SEC looking to abandon effort requiring crypto firms to register as exchanges

A proposed rule change pushing for some crypto firms to register as exchanges could be abandoned under a new directive from the acting chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission.  During a March 10 speech at the Washington Conference of the Institute of International Bankers, acting SEC Chairman Mark Uyeda said he had “asked … Read more

Crypto scam reporting needs to move ‘under one umbrella’ — Coinbase CSO

The reporting of crypto scams in the United States is currently handled by a patchwork of agencies that should be streamlined to better protect consumers, says Coinbase chief security officer Philip Martin. “It’s a very fragmented ecosystem. Where do you report these things? Well, you go here, you go there, you go somewhere else,” Martin … Read more

Is Our Technique Effective in Finding Bugs for XPath Expression Processors? An Investigation

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Approach and 3.1 Differential Testing for XML Processors 3.2 XPath Expression Generation 3.3 XML Generation 4 Evaluation 4.1 Effectiveness 4.2 Efficiency 4.3 Comparison to the State of the Art 4.4 Analysis of BaseX Historical Bug Reports 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgments, and References 4 … Read more

How We Generated XML Documents: Tree Creation and Node Generation

Table of Links Abstract and 1 Introduction 2 Background 3 Approach and 3.1 Differential Testing for XML Processors 3.2 XPath Expression Generation 3.3 XML Generation 4 Evaluation 4.1 Effectiveness 4.2 Efficiency 4.3 Comparison to the State of the Art 4.4 Analysis of BaseX Historical Bug Reports 5 Related Work 6 Conclusion, Acknowledgments, and References 3.3 … Read more

California financial regulator warns of 7 new types of crypto, AI scams

A California financial regulator says users reported seven new types of crypto and AI scams that it hadn’t seen before through thousands of complaints in 2024.  The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) said in a March 10 statement that it received 2,668 complaints in 2024 and found seven types of scams they … Read more

Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz is retiring

Dustin Moskovitz is retiring from Asana, the software company he founded in 2008. Asana, a task management platform, announced his retirement as part of the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, CNBC reported. Moskovitz informed the board he intends to move into a chair role when a new CEO starts. The company has raised more than … Read more