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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure South Korean authorities have come under scrutiny after a large stash of seized Bitcoin went missing during a routine check. The loss was discovered when officials found that some of the wallets that had been held as criminal evidence were empty. According to multiple reports, the value of the missing Bitcoin is about 70 billion won — roughly $47.7–$48 million. How Officials Found The Theft Reports say the gap showed up during a routine audit of confiscated digital assets at the Gwangju District Prosecutors’ Office. An internal…

A new Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf’s ability to scan the local networks of compromised systems for other IoT devices to infect makes it a sobering threat to organizations, and new research reveals Kimwolf is surprisingly prevalent in government and corporate networks. Image: Shutterstock, @Elzicon. Kimwolf grew rapidly in the waning months of 2025 by tricking various “residential proxy” services into relaying malicious commands to devices on the local networks of…

Jana Duggar and Stephen Wissmann stepped into parenthood, officially becoming a family of three.The media personality, best known for starring on her family’s hit TLC series “19 Kids and Counting,” welcomed her first child with Wissmann just a year after the couple tied the knot.While the Duggar family celebrates this joyful milestone, the moment is bittersweet, as they also extend condolences to Jana’s sister, Jill Duggar, who previously lost her own first daughter to stillbirth.Article continues below advertisementJana Duggar And Stephen Wissmann Announce Birth Of First ChildWeeks after the birth of their child, Jana shared the heartwarming news in a…

Scarlett Johansson and Cate Blanchett are among hundreds of actors, musicians and writers backing a new campaign accusing artificial intelligence companies of unlawfully exploiting creative work to train their systems. The campaign, titled “Stealing Isn’t Innovation”, launched on Thursday with the support of around 800 creative professionals, including the band R.E.M. and bestselling author Jodi Picoult. In a joint statement, the signatories accuse technology companies of using copyrighted material “without authorisation or regard for copyright law” to build commercial AI platforms. “Artists, writers and creators of all kinds are banding together with a simple message,” the statement said. “Stealing our…

Nannie and her cohorts aren’t pleased to hear it: Tam has to flee on horseback with a crowd of screeching witches in hot pursuit, “Wi’ mony an eldritch skriech and hollo”. Luckily for him, witches can’t cross running water, and the River Doon is nearby. Tam manages to race over the bridge to safety, but Maggie the horse isn’t quite so fortunate. Nannie grabs hold of her tail just as she steps on to the Brig O’ Doon, and – spoiler alert – she is left with “scarce a stump”.Rude jokes and chilling imageryCarruthers calls it a “fairly hackneyed ghost…

Tammy MacDonald is a director at Blue Hills Adult Education in Dedham, Mass. When she needed a new primary care doctor, she was turned away by 10 practices. A few told her she could get an appointment after waiting a year and a half, or even two years. Jesse Costa/WBUR hide caption toggle caption Jesse Costa/WBUR When her doctor died suddenly in August, Tammy MacDonald found herself among the roughly 17% of adults in America without a primary care physician.  MacDonald wanted to find a new doctor right away. She needed refills for her blood pressure medications, and wanted to…

Hi! I’m Dylan Brouwer, a Dutch digital designer and Webflow developer working at the intersection of brand design, UX, and motion. I help brands and creative teams craft expressive websites that feel bold, intuitive, and built to stand out. While I work mostly in no-code (Webflow is my playground), I’ve always been excited by the overlap between design and development. What really lights me up is how today’s tools let designers like me bring interactive experiences to life, without needing to write everything from scratch. A few years ago, I never imagined I’d be able to build the kind of…

An unusual ratio of potassium isotopes, found in samples of basaltic rock brought back to Earth from the moon’s South Pole–Aitken Basin by China’s Chang’e 6 sample-return mission, has provided further evidence for how the impact that formed this gigantic basin is responsible for the asymmetry between the moon’s near and far sides.The moon’s near side is familiar to us through the pattern of the ‘Man in the Moon’ that is made from the dark shapes of the lunar maria, which are vast volcanic plains. In contrast, the far side, visible only to spacecraft that go around the back side…

Last summer, as he and his new Exeter team-mates took part in a brutal pre-season fitness session on Exmouth Beach, Springbok international hooker Joseph Dweba stared out to sea.Hands on haunches, desperately trying to suck in fresh oxygen, the new Chiefs hooker had been left shocked at the demands placed on him, to such an extent that he joked about immediately returning to South Africa. ‘The interview process we have with new players is pretty blunt in terms of what we expect from them,’ says Exeter director of rugby Rob Baxter. ‘If you tell them we’re going to have a big…

The president of Somaliland has held separate talks with his Israeli counterpart, as well as the second son of the US leader, as the breakaway region continues to seek international recognition and foreign investment.Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi met Isaac Herzog and businessman Eric Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.”Our discussions focused on strengthening and advancing bilateral relations between the Republic of Somaliland and the State of Israel,” Abdullahi said in a post on X about the meeting with Herzog.Last month, Israel became the first country to recognise Somaliland – 35 years after it declared independence from…