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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.1 Big Tech wants to kill the leap second The extra time has triggered internet outages and disturbances, they claim. (CNET)2 QAnon ideology is thriving in the primariesBut savvy Republicans are avoiding explicitly outing themselves as believers. (NYT $)+ Donald Trump refused to read lines condemning the Capitol rioters during a speech. (Reuters)+ Pennsylvania's Democratic candidate’s social media game is…

After meeting probable-cause and burden-of-proof requirements, law enforcement can get seizure warrants for any illicit funds that eventually land on compliant exchanges—and many funds eventually do. Law enforcement will then work with the crypto business to move the funds to a government-controlled wallet or freeze them. “Another method is that the adversary or a member of their conspiracy cooperates and provides private keys to the government as part of a plea negotiation or cooperation to benefit them in some way,”…

Cops in India are slowly catching up with social media and are utilising it to track criminals and traffic rules violations on the road. Recently cops arrested the owner of a Honda City sedan and a Bajaj Pulsar 160 for not having proper number plates installed on them. In place of the registration number, caste names were present on the seized vehicles. The incident happened in Yamunanagar. Images and videos of a car and a bike with ‘Prajapati’ written on the number plate instead of actual numbers had gone viral on…

In India, autorickshaws are part of public transport and in most metro cities there are shared auto services which offers last mile connectivity. If you have ever been to a Uttar Pradesh, Delhi or even Tamil Nadu, it is quite common to see these autorickshaws fully packed with passengers in it. Policemen in Uttar Pradesh were left stunned after they stopped an autorickshaw in Fatehpur. A small autorickshaw which has a maximum capacity of 4 people had 27 passengers in it. The video of the autorickshaw and the passengers…

The incidents of road rage involving impatient people arguing and fighting with each other have become a lot more common than ever before. However, the Deoli Road Area in New Delhi witnessed a rather unusual incident of a woman engaging in an unfortunate and unwanted fight with a traffic police constable. The issue got so serious that it ended up with a small mob beating the traffic police constable, who was just doing his job to penalize the woman who broke the traffic rules. The said incident happened in the Deoli…

China's government has an intense craving to take control of TSMC, reveals a report shared by Bloomberg today. The financial news organization has published some alarming quotes from Chen Wenling, chief economist at the government-run China Center for International Economic Exchanges. In brief, Chen called on Chinese authorities to "seize TSMC" if the US and the West begin to implement Russia-war style sanctions on China. She was speaking at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University at the end of…

Laura DuHot wants prospective homebuyers to discover The Enclave, Denver’s best-kept secret. What: A friendly gated-street community with only six homesites left. The luxury single-family homes sit on the award-winning Green Valley Ranch Golf Course and are surrounded by acres of open space, trails and recreational areas. Where: 20968 Beekman Place in Denver. From Green Valley Ranch Blvd., take Orleans to 49th Place, which becomes Beekman Place. Price: From the mid-$700s When: 2-6 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.…

The Supreme Court handed down a brief order on Tuesday blocking a Texas law that would have effectively seized control over the entire content moderation process at major social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The Texas law imposed such burdensome requirements on these sites, including disclosure requirements that may literally be impossible to comply with, that it presented an existential threat to the entire social media industry. Facebook, for example, removes billions of pieces of content from…