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Ledger Extends Regional Retail Freeze Across SEA and Hong Kong as Teardowns Find Spy Implants Beyond CryptoBilis

Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has formally requested all authorized resellers and distributors across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to pull all Ledger products off store shelves and suspend sales immediately while an investigation into physical…

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An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe as a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national…

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South Korea Blocks 27 Crypto Exchange Websites, Including KuCoin and MEXC

KuCoin, MEXC, and 25 other overseas crypto platforms face website restrictions in South Korea for operating without required local registration. South Korea is expanding its crackdown on unregistered exchanges. Financial authorities have ordered blocks on 27 overseas cryptocurrency exchange websites operating without registration in the country. The list includes major platforms such as KuCoin,…

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Science Corporation implants its vision-restoring chip in its first Stargardt disease patient

Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced that the company has implanted its vision-restoring chip, PRIMA, into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited eye disease that gradually destroys central vision. Hodak, the former president and co-founder of Neuralink, the brain implant company, explained on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt how the company’s work with PRIMA…

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