According to Reuters, an official familiar with the matter said that Israel and Hamas have formally reached a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, which will take effect on January 19. The agreement outlines an initial six-week ceasefire phase that includes the gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops from central Gaza and arrangements for the return of displaced Palestinians to northern Gaza. The stage...
On November 22nd, Sui officially stated, "On November 21, 2024, between 1:15 and 3:45 Pacific Time, the Sui mainnet was down. All validators were caught in a crash loop, resulting in the inability to process any transactions. The Sui network experienced its first network failure due to a bug in the congestion control code. The bug stemmed from a recent upgrade to the congestion control code in order to make better use of shared objects. Contributors to Sui quickly deployed the fix and resumed no...
The US Secret Service will begin protecting the immediate family of President-elect Donald Trump in the coming days as the Biden and Trump administrations go through a transition period in the coming months, according to a law enforcement official. Mr. Trump's near-assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania, this summer and a second alleged assassination attempt against him in Florida in September prompted the Secret Service to step up its efforts to protect him. Agents have been pulled from investig...
A U.S. federal judge has said she will not prevent the Department of Justice from deploying surveillance personnel at polling stations in St. Louis, dismissing a lawsuit filed by Republican officials in Missouri who said the department could send observers to election sites in St. Louis and Texas.
A British judge said USDT has property rights because it can be the subject of tracing and can constitute trust property like any other property. The day after the UK government began legislating on the status of cryptocurrencies, the High Court of England and Wales ruled that Tether's USDT stablecoin could be considered property. High Court Associate Justice Richard Farnhill said in court papers filed on Thursday: "The USDT has property rights under English law.
NEAR official posted on X that around 2:25 this morning, the official X account of NEAR Protocol was hijacked, and hackers published a series of posts criticizing the Crypto ecosystem (after investigation, some of the content has not been deleted). NEAR added that while the identity of the hacker remains unknown, there is reason to believe it may have been carried out by the notorious hacker "Four Chan", although this is still only speculation. A security team led by security expert Mike Rotch c...
French prosecutors say Durov, the founder of social platform Telegram, has been arrested and detained in connection with a cybercrime investigation.
South Korean prosecutors said on June 27 that virtual assets worth about 50 billion won (about $36 million) have been successfully seized from digital asset management platform Haru Invest in a fraud trial at the Southern District Court in Seoul. Previously, Haru Invest revealed in court that its client cryptocurrency custodian B & S suffered losses of up to 400 billion won in November 2022 due to the FTX crash. Last June, executives at Haru Invest were charged with allegedly defrauding investor...
Israeli defense officials said their military had struck Iran, according to the New York Times, which earlier reported that Iranian officials confirmed that Israel had struck an air base near the city of Isfahan.