Real estate lawyers met with a litigation firm on Tuesday to explore a potential class-action lawsuit against Dye & Durham Ltd. DND-T in response to the legal software provider announcing price hikes on Monday, a year after raising them 400 per cent and guaranteeing the price would not increase for three years.The real estate practitioners…...
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Businesses no longer have to worry about the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) asking questions about employee vaccinations.The Labor Department announced on Tuesday that President Biden is withdrawing its requirement that employers with 100 or more employees mandate vaccines or submit to weekly testing. The initiative, which was originally announced in September, was shot down by the…...
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The International Monetary Fund has urged the country to end Bitcoin's status as legal tender. Key Takeaways The International Monetary Fund has urged El Salvador to discontinue Bitcoin's status as legal tender. Directors at the IMF expressed concerns around financial stability, integrity, consumer protection, and other risks. El Salvador first adopted Bitcoin in September 2021…...
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The International Monetary Fund is urging El Salvador to stop using Bitcoin as legal tender citing financial stability risks. In a statement on Jan 25, the IMF acknowledged that El Salvador is “rebounding quickly” from the pandemic-induced economic contractions but warned about the risks of adopting Bitcoin. “The adoption of a cryptocurrency as legal tender,…...
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Source: @EricTrump/TwitterEric Trump, son of the former US president Donald Trump, wants you to know that the new crypto using the family name, TrumpCoin (TRUMP), is not connected to the New York dynasty -- and is threatening the altcoin’s founders with legal recourse.“This has NOTHING to do with our family, we do not authorize the…...
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It's a change that will undoubtedly be appreciated by cryptocurrency neophytes.Ethereum, considered the second-generation blockchain, has decided to rebrand the Ethereum 1.0 (ETH 1.0) and Ethereum 2.0 (ETH 2.0) terminology.From now on, Ethereum 1.0 (ETH 1.) will be referred as as Ethereum's "execution layer", and Ethereum 2.0 as "consensus layer," according to a blog post of…...
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WEBSITE OF THE YEARAPP OF THE YEARWorld25 Jan, 2022 05:29 PM3 minutes to readNew mask mandates, schools prepare for teaching under red and Russia massing troops on the Ukraine border in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ HeraldAuthorities have warned of QR code scams targeting the public.The barcode-style tech has offered a…...
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With “Partygate” still dominating the headlines it was always going to be a tough start of the working week for Boris Johnson. The prime minister’s Monday, however, got even worse when his counter-fraud minister quit over the government’s decision to write off £4.3bn in fraudulent Covid loans.At the dispatch box in the House of Lords…...
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Data theft from the Red Cross, a US Labor Department scam and a new firmware bootkit found.Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, January 19th. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com.The International Committee of the Red Cross is the latest victim of a supply chain cyber attack. The humanitarian agency…...
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National "I knew he was a real scammer. I just knew he wasn't going to scam me." By Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post January 24, 2022 Jean, a 73-year-old grandmother, was at her Long Island home Thursday morning when she received a phone call from a man claiming to be her grandson. He was in jail…...
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