The developers of the open source secure messaging app Threema have come under fire over their public response to a security analysis conducted by researchers at the Swiss university ETH Zurich.
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French education minister presents plan to tackle drastic school level slump
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Senior Australian politician embroiled in Nazi uniform scandal
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Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
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Sam Bankman-Fried publishes a Substack post offering his account of how FTX collapsed, sticking to his claims of innocence, even as ex-executives plead guilty — Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on Thursd…