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The Bahamian authorities have disclosed that they're holding on to $3.5 billion worth of FTX's assets. It took control of them following the company's bankruptcy so they don't go missing.

Paul Hill · Dec 30, 2022 with 6 comments

Valve has awarded a bounty of $7,500 to a person who identified a bug through which they could artificially inflate their wallets funds on Steam by changing the POST request via certain email IDs.

Usama Jawad · Aug 15, 2021 with 8 comments

Apple is expanding its partnership with (RED). Until next week, $1 for every purchase with Apple Pay on various platforms will be contributed to the funds set up to combat AIDS and COVID-19.

Usama Jawad · Dec 2, 2020 with 5 comments

Proton Technologies AG, the firm behind the encrypted email service, ProtonMail, has won €2 million from the European Union. The funds will help start the development of ProtonDrive.

Paul Hill · Mar 9, 2019 · Hot! with 8 comments

After taking a hard line against BitTorrent and file-sharing sites, PayPal has moved onto Usenet service providers, freezing funds and stopping them accepting payments to their accounts.

Andrew Stevenson · Nov 22, 2012 · Hot! with 34 comments

A school in Madison, Wisconsin has purchased 800 iPads with funds received from a Microsoft settlement over a consumer lawsuit over software.

Brad Sams · Jan 28, 2012 · Hot! with 96 comments

Representative Ric Keller feels that colleges in America are places where students learn to steal "billions of dollars in intellectual property from hardworking people whose jobs hang in the balance" and his new bill (HR...

· Apr 2, 2007 · Hot! with 15 comments

The popular website Something Awful.com took matters into their own hands following the path of destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, by setting up a relief fund using PayPal as the middle-man. What happened next was...

· Sep 6, 2005 · Hot! with 3 comments

Remedy, makers of the stylish Max Payne franchise, send word confirming that it will be showing off their next game at E3 next month from ATI's booth, plus announced that they are self funding the...

· Apr 24, 2005 · Hot! with -1 comments

The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a consortium of InfiniBand advocates to build Linux software support for the high-speed networking technology. The three-year project will support programmers at chipmaker Intel and InfiniBand...

· Nov 11, 2004 with -1 comments

According to kitchenutensils, ZDNet reported that Nokia has been quietly funding Mozilla's development of mobile device web browser project called Minimo. The Minimo (Mini Mozilla) project is focused on developing an elegant web...

· Jun 18, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Bruce Perens has found what every open-source activist needs: a sugar daddy. A sponsor has provided Perens with a $50,000 annuity to support his advocacy for open-source organizations and his opposition...

· Apr 9, 2003 with -1 comments

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