Joe Tidy
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Der Ruhm des Zambezi-Rivers ist schrecklich. Aber es gibt auch noch einen Ruhm auf den Bergen hier in Nordwest-Zambien. Das unmissvolle Wurren einer Bitcoin-Mine. 24 Stunden am Tag, dieser Container voller kraftvollen Computern, krümmt durch komplexe mathematische Probleme, um Bitcoins als Teil des globalen Volunteer-Mining-Netzwerks zu verdienen.
Global News Podcast
Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Das ist Philip Walton, der amerikanische Kenia-Ko-Founder von Gridless, der Firma, die die Mine betreibt, die 120 Maschinen besitzt. Es ist ein seltsamer Ort für eine High-Tech-Krypto-Operation, aber es macht Sinn, weil die Elektrizität hier so günstig ist, dass sie direkt vom Hydro-Elektrik-Power-Plant kommt. Zengamina Hydro hat 17 Jahre lang Energie für die lokale Gemeinschaft verbraucht.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Der CEO des Sites, Daniel Ray, und seine Missionärfamilie waren involviert in der Konstruktion. 3 Millionen Pound wurde erholt, meistens von britischen Kirchen. Aber die Bitcoin-Mine hat seit 2023 eine große Erhöhung, weil sie die Exzess-Elektrizität verwendet.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Die Mission, Elektrizität in isolierte Gemeinschaften zu bekommen, ist eine monumentale Aufgabe in Afrika. Ein 2022-Zugang von der Internationalen Energieagentur zeigt, dass 600 Millionen Menschen auf dem Kontinent ohne Kraft sind. But because of Bitcoin's reputation, some companies and authorities remain uncomfortable with including it in electrification projects.
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Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Globally, the industry is estimated to use as much energy as a small country like Poland. The environmental impact has long been a concern too. But according to analysts, there are signs that could be improving, with more of the mining giants moving to sustainable energy mixes. But setups like Zengamina have none of these problems.
Global News Podcast
Trump and intelligence chiefs play down Signal app group chat leak
Yes, they're a tiny part of the overall mining picture, but they're also a rare example of a controversial industry creating much more than just digital coins.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
George Brewster died 150 years ago after he became stuck in a chimney here at the former asylum. The building has since been turned into offices. A short ceremony was held in his honour. The blue plaque was awarded by Cambridge Past, Present and Future. and this application was the first the charity has received for a child.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
The local amateur historian who researched George Brewster's story, Joanna Hudson, believes the 11-year-old was the last so-called climbing boy to die in England. His death in 1875 was discussed in Parliament and brought about a momentous turning point. changing child labour laws in Britain.
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Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Miss Hudson says she wants to remind people of the sacrifice and extreme working conditions Victorian children endured.
Global News Podcast
Israel says Gaza ceasefire will end unless Hamas frees hostages by Saturday
Miss Hudson's six-year campaign has been supported by various organisations, including the Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps. She says George Brewster died not knowing he would change the lives of thousands of children and that his story would have huge significance, not only for Cambridgeshire, but for the whole country. Joe Black.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
We know now that these accusations that have been thrown around social media for the last six months to a year about shadow banning, there may be some truth behind it because, of course, as you say, we looked at the engagement, the metrics that we can count across 20 different news organisations based in Palestinian territories versus 20 in Israeli and 20 in Arabic-speaking and surrounding areas.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
And we found a big disparity between the engagement that each one got. On the Palestinian pages, there was a 77% drop in engagement. So that's likes, comments, shares, reactions. after October 7th, compared to 37% increase for Israeli pages and 100% increase for Arabic.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
Well, it's this idea that you can still post things, you can still say what you want on social media, but you're not getting the views, you're not getting the clicks on your videos, that kind of thing. And that's been the accusation against Meta for the last year or so. And it looks like this is another data point potentially pointing that way.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
But Meta has said very strongly that they have not done this deliberately to silence any particular voice.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
Exactly that. That's what they've been saying, that we had to bring in what they're calling emergency policy changes to stop a spike in graphic or hateful content. We didn't find any that was particularly different on those 20 Palestinian organisations compared to others.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
They also said that it's very difficult for them to balance safety on the platform when you've got Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organisation by US, UK and their own policies. But again, we didn't find any overt praising of Hamas on those Palestinian pages.
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Syria's de facto leader says the country is not a threat to its neighbours or the west
Interestingly, though, one of the things they did say is that if a page posted most about the war or only about the war, they will be demoted in the algorithms of the platform. Because, of course, Facebook doesn't want too much bad news or even news on their platform.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Sir Keir Starmer didn't just wait at the step of No. 10, as some prime ministers do, for President Zelensky to get out of his range rover and walk up the street. Instead, he walked down to him and the two leaders embraced. I think the UK prime minister certainly wanted to demonstrate his...
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
The warmth that he feels towards President Zelensky and his country, projecting the UK's unstinting support, as he said, for Ukraine. Of course, journalists here from across the world are throwing questions at largely President Zelensky, not Sir Keir Starmer, including, you know, can your relationship be better? repaired with Donald Trump and is a deal possible in Ukrainian peace?
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Now, President Zelensky did not answer that. The two men went inside and we've seen a little bit and heard a little bit of the start of their meeting, which was filmed by broadcasters. Interesting that they both talked about... Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer talking about his and the UK's support for Ukraine, and Vladimir Zelensky being very appreciative of that.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
But no one, of course, in the room mentioned somebody who, of course, isn't here, and that's Donald Trump. In the public part of that meeting, of course, they're going into a private discussion, and I suppose try and game what the next steps should be, especially with this all-important summit of European leaders taking place in central London, hosted by Sir Keir Starmer, will also attend.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
They haven't set it out, but speaking to sources within Downing Street, they argue Zakir Starmer wants action. Talking to this source in the last couple of hours, they said that the UK and other nations have spent billions supporting Ukraine, but now is the time for...
Global News Podcast
Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
nations to step up my interpretation is that means that they want commitments from other european nations of support in a security guarantee either financial support i suppose or logistics or troops on the ground as the uk has committed to so i think the uk government certainly want
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
progress to be made and not just to be you know some summit for the cameras and for european leaders to feel like they're achieving something the other point which i think is fascinating is that there is a very real concern within number 10 that tomorrow's summit is interpreted in the US in a way that it shouldn't be. They do not want this to look like the UK and the EU are ganging up on the US.
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
That is not what is happening, they argue. This isn't about choosing between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky. This is about supporting Ukraine and different countries across the world uniting to support
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Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
support ukraine but the fact they're worried about that isn't that fascinating and telling because we know who'll be watching all of this president trump and one thing he may also be watching is the meeting we're expecting between the king king charles and president zelensky and the fact that The King is meeting President Zelensky, I suppose, is another sign of support for the Ukrainians.
Global News Podcast
Warm welcome for President Zelensky in London
Two key questions that remain unanswered. One being, can the relations between President Zelensky and Trump be rebuilt? And is there any chance of a peace deal now?
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that don't have any backing of financial institutions or banks. They are decentralized, peer-to-peer money. So the whole idea of Bitcoin, which was the first cryptocurrency, was that it could be like sending an email. It's between me and you. No interference by any of these pesky financial institutions.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
So, of course, the industry has developed a great deal since Bitcoin developed. And now there are thousands of different cryptocurrency coins. And if there's enough buzz about it, the value goes from absolutely worth zero per coin to worth something per coin.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
And in the last few days, the incoming president, Donald Trump, and now his wife, First Lady Melania, they've launched their own meme coins, they call them. So these are coins that are marketed for the fun of it. There's no intrinsic value at all. But both those people have been posting on the internet. And of course, many people have gone and spent lots of money on them.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
I'm looking at the Melania coin, and it's shot into the top 100 cryptocurrency coins out there, closing in. on number 59, which is Fartcoin. So that kind of gives you an idea of the kind of industry that we're operating in here.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
In his previous term as president, Donald Trump said that cryptocurrency seems like a scam to me. He has since come round to the idea of cryptocurrencies. During the campaign, he became the first campaigning potential president to offer cryptocurrency as a potential donation method. And he got lots of money from crypto people.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
And he went to a crypto conference and said that he wanted to make America... a crypto hub. He wants to buy a reserve of Bitcoin for the American purse. And he wants to decrease the regulation to encourage industry. So I suppose releasing a coin is just the next step in that, in a sense. And let's be honest as well, a way to potentially make a quick buck.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
He's not president yet. And also he has kind of rewritten the rules on what is able to be done in office. So when he was in charge of his businesses, obviously giant hotel chain with Trump, golf courses, all that kind of thing. He did the presidency and he kept that business running, taking a step back and letting his family do it.
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Washington gears up for Trump inauguration
And now he's got this cryptocurrency company, which will obviously benefit from policies he puts in place. Now he's got a crypto coin, which will obviously benefit from him pumping it and making the value go up and up. But he hasn't taken the oath yet. So if he wants to release a coin, I imagine that that's perfectly legitimate thing to do. Celebrities do it all the time.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Are we live? This is Ben Zhao, CEO and founder of the Bybit cryptocurrency exchange. He's about to make an announcement that every CEO dreads.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
In fact, it's probably the biggest single theft in any industry ever. $1.5 billion gone in seconds. And even in the early hours after the hack, fingers began immediately pointing in one direction. North Korea. The impoverished country has one of the most advanced cyber teams in the world and is blamed for a growing list of massive, lucrative cyber attacks.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Cyber security experts like Dr Dorit Dor from Checkpoint have been tracking them for years.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Dr Beverly McCann from Darktrace says North Korea has made billions from hacks.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
But the Bybit heist dwarfs all previous financial hacks. So how was it pulled off? Like all crypto exchanges, Bybit has a float of crypto coins ready to be sold and swapped in so-called hot wallets. When the hot wallets are running low, more crypto coins are taken out of huge reserve pots called cold wallets that are kept super secure and offline, therefore safe from hackers.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
But the cybercriminals targeted a company called SafeWallet that Bybit uses to transfer coins from its reserve cold wallets to its hot wallets. Everything looked normal for Bybit as they set up the mega-transfer of Ethereum coins to the usual place, but the hackers had secretly changed the address that the coins were being sent to.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
By the time they realised the coins had been sent to the criminals, it was too late. Bybit insisted that no customers would lose money. They've now replenished their reserves. But the company is, in its words, waging war on the hackers. They're offering bounties to anyone who can help track the stolen money as the hackers try and cash it out through crypto exchanges.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
So far, 20 volunteers have been awarded a share of $4 million in rewards, but they're up against a skilled adversary.
Global News Podcast
Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
Crypto investigators Elliptic are experts at charting the movements of criminal crypto funds. Every transaction is published on a public blockchain. Dr Tom Robinson and his team have enormous, ever-changing graphs showing the web of transactions made by the hackers.
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Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
It's just an explosion of crypto in different directions.
Global News Podcast
Syrian government says operation against Assad loyalists over
For years now, the US and allies have accused the country of orchestrating cybercrime. Names and photos of alleged North Korean hackers have been added to a cyber most wanted list. But unless they leave the country, the chances of them being arrested are very slim.
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
This year, they found nearly 250 images. If you count all the web pages they found with this illegal abuse material, that's 250,000 web pages. So it is a very, very small amount. But it was only 51 last year. So there's the trend they're seeing. And they did warn of this. I went to
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Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
visit them last year and they said that this is going to be a big problem and it's going to come fast because it's just so easy to make these images and that's certainly what we're seeing.
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
The problem is, of course, the law hasn't caught up with just how easy it is to create these images and how fast they are and also how realistic they are because the issue the RDOF are having, and this is the same with
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
other charities around the world like netmec in the us as well for example they're tasked with not only taking these images offline but sometimes you know safeguarding some of these children in the images and if they're chasing their tails looking for children that don't exist that adds a whole another layer of complexity to the law and to the authorities because when they're finding these images they have to work out is this real is this is this child actually in a situation where we need to protect them is the child real
Global News Podcast
Nato steps up efforts to protect cables in Baltic Sea
So the difficulty is very, very complex for these organisations.