The Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s long-time interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara on Wednesday, amid allegations of Mizuhara engaging in a “massive theft” of Ohtani’s funds to place bets with a bookmaker who is the subject of a federal investigation. Mizuhara was let go by the franchise on the same day The Los Angeles Times dropped a bombshell […]
Google fakes an AI demo, Grand Theft Auto VI goes viral and Spotify cuts jobs
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. AI stole the headlines once again, with tech giants from Google to X (formerly Twitter) heading off against OpenAI for chatbot supremacy. But plenty happened besides. In this edition of WiR, we cover Google faking a […]
$540 Million Worth of ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2014 Move — BTC Possibly Linked to Cryptsy Theft
On March 29, blockchain parsers caught a sequence of 11 transactions totaling 11,325 bitcoin moving from unknown wallets created in 2014, to a great number of recipient addresses. Furthermore, the stash of bitcoin worth $ 540 million today is possibly linked to the Cryptsy theft, according to onchain analytics. 11,325 Bitcoins Move From Dormant 2014 […]
Legalized Theft: Police Seize $87,000 From Former Marine but Don’t Charge Him With a Crime
A recently published report that went viral across social media details how a former U.S. Marine, Stephen Lara, was pulled over by police and was suspected of being a drug trafficker. Police then searched Lara’s vehicle and subsequently took $ 87,000 in cash from a bag kept in Lara’s trunk. Lara, who also had a […]