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A London court has convicted five people in what prosecutors called a cryptocurrency kidnapping and torture scheme targeting wealthy digital asset holders. Two of the five also face blackmail charges. Notably, police secured all convictions without either victim ever taking the stand — a striking result that speaks to how thoroughly investigators built their case through other means.
Shifting to a story six years in the making, Wired has published a deep look at the two thousand eighteen Google walkout, when more than twenty thousand employees left their desks to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment allegations. The piece reveals how organizers coordinated that effort entirely from inside Google — using company tools, on company time — raising enduring questions about power, accountability, and what workers can actually change.
And on the security front, researchers are warning that Google's synced passkeys carry a significant vulnerability. Malware on a device can potentially steal those passkeys before they're encrypted for sync, meaning the very convenience that makes passkeys appealing may also be their weakness. It's a reminder that moving authentication to the cloud solves some problems while quietly introducing others.
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