Fri. 02/14 - Is It Time For a $500 PlayStation?

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🗓️ 14 February 2020

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The DOJ charges a bitcoin mixing service. A judge has blocked Microsoft’s JEDI contract. What happens if the PlayStation 5 is $500? Google takes down some malicious browser extensions. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Sponsors: DoubleUp.agency Netgear.com/bestwifi Links: Ohio man arrested for running Bitcoin mixing service that laundered $300 million (ZDNet) Judge temporarily blocks Microsoft Pentagon cloud contract after Amazon suit (CNBC) Sony Is Struggling With PlayStation 5 Price Due to Costly Parts (Bloomberg) Google removes 500+ malicious Chrome extensions from the Web Store (ZDNet) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Lost Notebook (Wired) THE HIGH COST OF A FREE CODING BOOTCAMP (The Verge) Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Living Hell (Vice) Are Algorithmically-Generated Term Papers the Next Big Challenge to Academic Integrity? (EdSurge) SoftBank’s $375 Million Bet on Pizza Went Really Bad Really Fast (Bloomberg BusinessWeek) How a Space Engineer Made Her Own Rotary Cell Phone (Wired) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Friday, February 14th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough. Today
0:09.2	the DOJ charges a Bitcoin mixing service. A judge has blocked Microsoft's Jedi contract, what happens
0:16.2	if the PlayStation 5 is $500, Google takes down some malicious browser extensions and of course
0:21.8	the weekend long raid suggestions.
0:24.1	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:26.3	The feds have really been busy lately. The Department of Justice has charged the
0:37.9	owner of Helix, a dark web Bitcoin mixing service operating from 2014 to 2017 with allegedly laundering
0:46.6	Bitcoin's worth more than $300 million at the time. Now a mixer service is specifically designed to disguise the origin of
0:56.0	Bitcoin transactions so yeah crypto laundering if you will quoting z-dienet
1:01.8	Larry Harmon 36 of Akron, Ohio, stands accused in a three-count indictment for operating
1:08.2	helix, an online website located on the dark web.
1:12.0	The Bitcoin blockchain is a public database. In many
1:14.4	cases, purchases of new Bitcoin funds acquired by a user can sometimes be linked to a
1:19.0	credit card, bank account, or PayPal account. Helix functioned as a Bitcoin mixer or
1:24.7	Bitcoin Tumblr, a type of service that takes funds from a user, splits the sums into
1:30.2	small parts, and using thousands of transactions sends and reassembles the
1:35.0	original funds at a new Bitcoin address in an effort to hide the original funds
1:39.0	under a cloud of microtransactions.
1:41.0	Quote, the sole purpose of Harmon's operation was to conceal criminal transactions
1:45.2	from law enforcement on the Darknet, and because of our growing expertise in this area,
1:49.8	he could not make good on that promise.
1:51.9	Don Fort, chief IRS criminal investigation officer said today
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