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The FBI, working alongside Google and Lumen Technologies, has dismantled a China-based phishing operation called Outsider Enterprise. The service sold AI-generated scam sites for as little as eighty-eight dollars, and investigators linked it to one point nine billion dollars in losses and nearly three point eight seven million stolen payment cards. A significant takedown.
Shifting to Southeast Asia, the Philippines central bank has tightened its grip on cryptocurrency exchanges, introducing stricter rules around how digital assets are listed and monitored. Notably, privacy coins are now banned outright. It's part of a broader global pattern of regulators deciding that anonymity in crypto has its limits.
And for the millions of Windows eleven users who've grown weary of constant update cycles and the reboots that come with them, Microsoft says relief is on the way. The company is redesigning its monthly update process to eliminate the need for multiple restarts, a quality-of-life change that sounds small but for anyone managing a fleet of machines, it genuinely isn't.
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