Elliptic Warns of Industrial-Scale Pig Butchering Scams Laundering Through Crypto

Pig butchering, a form of romance fraud in which victims are groomed into sending money to fake crypto investment schemes, has grown into a multibillion-dollar industry, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic’s 2025 Typologies Report. The study points to increasingly organized methods of laundering stolen funds using practices that resemble professional financial operations. Elliptic’s investigators … Read more

The UK announces mandatory digital ID plans

The UK currently has no citizen ID or legal requirements to carry identification. The United Kingdom is introducing a national digital ID scheme in an effort to crack down on illegal migrant workers. A government press release on Friday announced that the digital ID will be stored on mobile devices through the GOV.UK wallet app … Read more

Google Workload Identity Federation, OIDC, Dex and TypeScript: Connect your B2B to Gemini and Vertex

This guide will be thorough and skimmable so you can access the pieces you want directly. There will be an accompanying GitHub repo (Coming soon) that you can use to go through this. Index: About Errata What This Guide Covers and Does Not. What about LLMs and tools? (Gemini, Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) Definitions … Read more

Crypto Adoption in Emerging Markets Poses Risks to Financial Resilience: Moody’s

Cryptocurrency adoption in emerging markets poses risks to monetary sovereignty and financial resilience, credit ratings giant Moody’s Ratings said in a report on Thursday. The risks are most acute in areas where crypto’s use extends beyond investment into savings and remittances, according to the report. Moody’s suggests that higher penetration of stablecoins pegged to the … Read more

Instagram’s ‘pay or consent’ approach to ads is coming to UK after being rejected in EU

Meta is bringing its “pay or consent” ad model to the UK after months of wrangling with regulators over the controversial policy. The update will force Instagram and Facebook users to pick between being served up personalized ads or shelling out for monthly subscriptions to ad-free versions.  Subscriptions start at £2.99 a month, around $4, … Read more

Master AI-Driven Cloud Data Lake Migration with BigQuery Embeddings

Problem Statement “Moving from one proven platform to another is less about change and more about aligning with the future direction of the organization.“ Cloud data lake migration comprises a wide scope, such as lifting and shifting tables, migrating workloads, setting up the network, evaluating Data Ingestion strategies, reviewing the Data Consumption strategies, analyzing Analytics … Read more

A New Era for Digital Advertising – Redefined by Klink Finance

Klink Finance is building a Web3-powered ad ecosystem where users get paid directly for engagement through cash, crypto, or tokens while brands gain higher-quality leads at lower costs. Co-founders Philip Jonitz and Chris James Murphy share how they’re bridging Web2 ads with Web3 rewards, tackling challenges like privacy, ad fatigue, and user acquisition inefficiency.

Building LetterLens: An OCR-Powered Android App With Kotlin + ML Kit, and Ktor

The first time I saw my family struggle to interpret the NHS and council letters, I decided to create an application that explains these letters in plain English. Government letters are unstructured data full of dates, instructions, codes, and jargon, but mostly people only need to know three things: what it’s about, when it’s happening, … Read more

Curve Finance Founder Michael Egorov Launches Bitcoin Yield Protocol

Michael Egorov, founder of Curve Finance, has launched Yield Basis, a decentralized protocol built to provide sustainable bitcoin (BTC) yield while eliminating impermanent loss (IL), one of decentralized finance’s longest-running challenges. Bitcoin holders have long faced limited opportunities for on-chain returns. Lending markets rarely offer more than a fraction of a percent, while automated market … Read more