I went on a date with Gilgo Beach serial killer – I was lucky to escape but what he told me chilled me to the bone

IT was a date with death and only a hunch saved Nikkie Brass from being the next victim on a serial killer’s list. When Nikkie met architect Rex Heuermann at a seafood restaurant she refused to go home with him when he started talking about a  series o…

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Quarter of a million people could lose job by middle of 2027 as UK ‘flirts with recession’, analysis says

Twin reports from top accounting firms underline scale of economic threat as Iran war shatters business confidenceA quarter of a million people could lose their jobs by the middle of next year as Britain “flirts with recession”, analysis suggests, afte…

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Missing woman cruelly trolled after her ‘heavily filtered social media pics hampered desperate four-day search for her’

A DESPERATE search for a missing woman was hindered because no-one could recognise her from her heavily filtered social media photos. Cops launched a major missing person investigation to find Grecia Guadalupe Mendoza Orantes, 30, by plastering he…

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AI platform ATHR makes voice phishing a one-person job

For $4,000 and a cut of the take, a lone criminal can now run a fully automated voice-phishing operation via ATHR, a plaform that spoofs emails alerts from Google, Microsoft, and Coinbase, buries a phone number in each message, and when the victim call…

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Is “Satoshi Nakamoto” Really Adam Back?

The New York Times has a long article where the author lays out an impressive array of circumstantial evidence that the inventor of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk Adam Back.

I don’t know. The article is convincing, but it’s written to be convincing.

I can’t remember if I ever met Adam. I was a member of the Cypherpunks mailing list for a while, but I was never really an active participant. I spent more time on the Usenet newsgroup sci.crypt. I knew a bunch of the Cypherpunks, though, from various conferences around the world at the time. I really have no opinion about who Satoshi Nakamoto really is…

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