Four years after the collapse in the market for NFTs, the crypto world is still reckoning with the fallout. The latest example came on Wednesday when the Department of Justice indicted a man on securities and wire fraud charges for allegedly orchestrating a $10 million cryptocurrency scheme through his crypto startup, Few and Far. The
On Sunday night, John Oliver returned to the “Last Week Tonight” table after his summer hiatus and, naturally, there were plenty to discuss. The HBO host, whose contract expires at the end of 2026, and whose parent company is facing a likely acquisition by Paramount Skydance, putting the left-handed comedian directly in the crosshairs of
More than two A dozen new suspected scam complexes have been built or significantly expanded in war-torn Myanmar over the past six months, according to satellite images and analysis of the area reviewed by WIRED. The apparent growth in criminal operations indicates how an alleged crackdown on the sites last year did little to stop
US prosecutors have accused a Florida man of uploading fake video games containing malware to Steam, the popular PC gaming platform. Once victims downloaded and installed the games, the malware was designed to infect their computers, steal their passwords and other data, and empty their crypto wallets, according to a criminal complaint. On Tuesday, the
A month after US regulators filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency exchange Kraken in 2023, the exchange’s auditors have resigned, according to court records. Now Kraken’s parent company is suing its former Mazars USA auditors for $22 million. The lawsuit follows a confidential arbitration in which the arbitrator, a retired judge, awarded Kraken $22 million, according
In 2025, Bitcoin’s foremost booster pitched financial alchemy. At a conference in Prague, Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of the Bitcoin hoarder Strategy, touted his company’s newest stock offering. “I give you the upside, you have no downside, and I pay you a dividend while you wait to get rich,” he said. Saylor was extolling