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Yahoo
4 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
Utah man accused of buying child porn used cryptocurrency. Authorities say it's the first known case
The office of the Utah Attorney General at the Capitol in Salt Lake City is pictured on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch) A Utah man has been arrested in what the attorney general's office says is the state's first known case where cryptocurrency was used to purchase child sex abuse material. Christopher Merritt, 39, was charged in Salt Lake County's 3rd District Court last week with 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, all felonies. The case was investigated by the Utah Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, stemming from a tip from the electronic trading platform Robinhood. According to Robinhood, cryptocurrency — specifically Bitcoin and Ethereum — had been transferred to a wallet linked to child sexual abuse material, commonly known as child pornography. A wallet is how cryptocurrency investors store their keys, which are essentially passwords giving the owner access to their investments, and allowing them to send and receive cryptocurrency. The attorney general's office said the transaction took place on the dark web, a corner of the internet that is not indexed by search engines, like Chrome or Safari, and can be accessed through specialized software. Though not illegal, the dark web is often associated with criminal activities, since it's easier to remain anonymous. An agent with the task force traced Merritt's cryptocurrency transactions and found that his cryptocurrency wallet had sent funds to another wallet that the Internet Watch Foundation had associated with child pornography, according to court documents. According to a probable cause statement, Merritt sent $321 to sites associated with child pornography. When officers served a warrant on Merritt's home, they searched his phone and found 'hundreds of videos and images of children' being sexually assaulted, according to court documents. Officers also found a Tor browser on his phone and computer, which is used to access the dark web. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
MGID Partners with Digiseg to Enhance Privacy-First Audience Targeting Across Global Markets
Strategic partnership introduces household-based, cookie-free targeting to MGID's native advertising supply LOS ANGELES, May 28, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MGID, the global advertising platform, has announced a new partnership with Digiseg, a privacy-focused data provider, to integrate household-based targeting into MGID's platform. The collaboration enables advertisers in the US, India, and several European markets—including Germany, Greece, Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine—to activate Digiseg's privacy-first audience segments across MGID's native ad inventory. This strategic partnership brings a powerful solution to advertisers navigating increasing privacy regulations and tracking limitations. Digiseg's technology allows marketers to target real-world household characteristics without relying on cookies, personal data, or tracking, ensuring compatibility across all media environments, including signal-poor platforms such as iOS, Safari, CTV, and audio. The integration of Digiseg into MGID's offering includes: Privacy-first audience targeting: Advertisers can reach audiences based on household-level characteristics, without tracking or cookies, ensuring compliance and scalability in a privacy-first ecosystem. Full-platform compatibility: Digiseg's cohort-based data works across all devices, browsers, and operating systems—including environments where conventional targeting methods are ineffective. Expanded reach with performance focus: Marketers gain access to scalable, high-performing audiences within MGID's native supply, unlocking additional reach while maintaining campaign effectiveness and brand safety. "Our collaboration with MGID makes it easier for advertisers to tap into privacy-first targeting at scale on native supply," said Andrew Furst, Chief Commercial Officer at Digiseg. "MGID's focus on performance and respect for user privacy aligns perfectly with our approach, and we're excited to help their partners unlock the value of household-based audience data across MGID's markets." "This partnership underscores our continued commitment to privacy-first innovation," said Oleksii Borysov, Vice President of Product at MGID. "Integrating Digiseg's technology into our platform enables advertisers to reach audiences effectively, even in environments where traditional identifiers are no longer viable. It's a forward-thinking solution to a pressing industry need." Privacy-first performance at scale With the addition of Digiseg, MGID further strengthens its position as a performance-focused, privacy-compliant advertising platform. This partnership supports advertisers in future-proofing their targeting strategies across key global regions, including markets where consumer privacy expectations and regulatory demands are rapidly evolving. About MGID MGID is a global advertising platform that helps brands and publishers succeed on the open web with performance-driven AI-powered native advertising solutions. With its suite of privacy-first technology, MGID delivers high-quality ads in brand-safe environments, reaching over 1 billion unique monthly visitors. By focusing on performance and user experience, MGID's diverse ad formats - including native, display, and video - help advertisers achieve measurable results while enabling publishers to effectively monetize their audiences. Headquartered in Santa Monica and with a global presence spanning 18 offices, MGID's investment in technology, talent, and strategic partnerships continues to fuel its five-year streak of double-digit year-on-year growth. As MGID expands its reach across North and South America, Europe, and Asia, it remains committed to sustainable, profitable growth, continuously evolving its products to help both ends of the supply chain overcome the ever-changing challenges of the digital advertising ecosystem. Learn more at: About Digiseg Digiseg connects digital advertising to real-world households — without cookies or tracking. Built with privacy at its core, Digiseg's cohort-based data enables marketers to target and measure audiences based on real-world household characteristics, not personal data. It works across all devices, media types, and operating systems — including signal-poor environments like iOS, Safari, CTV, and audio — where other solutions fall short. Digiseg helps advertisers plan smarter, reach more people, and stay compliant in a privacy-first world. View source version on Contacts hello@ Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
15 hours ago
- Business
- Business Wire
MGID Partners with Digiseg to Enhance Privacy-First Audience Targeting Across Global Markets
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MGID, the global advertising platform, has announced a new partnership with Digiseg, a privacy-focused data provider, to integrate household-based targeting into MGID's platform. The collaboration enables advertisers in the US, India, and several European markets—including Germany, Greece, Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine—to activate Digiseg's privacy-first audience segments across MGID's native ad inventory. This strategic partnership brings a powerful solution to advertisers navigating increasing privacy regulations and tracking limitations. Digiseg's technology allows marketers to target real-world household characteristics without relying on cookies, personal data, or tracking, ensuring compatibility across all media environments, including signal-poor platforms such as iOS, Safari, CTV, and audio. The integration of Digiseg into MGID's offering includes: Privacy-first audience targeting: Advertisers can reach audiences based on household-level characteristics, without tracking or cookies, ensuring compliance and scalability in a privacy-first ecosystem. Full-platform compatibility: Digiseg's cohort-based data works across all devices, browsers, and operating systems—including environments where conventional targeting methods are ineffective. Expanded reach with performance focus: Marketers gain access to scalable, high-performing audiences within MGID's native supply, unlocking additional reach while maintaining campaign effectiveness and brand safety. 'Our collaboration with MGID makes it easier for advertisers to tap into privacy-first targeting at scale on native supply,' said Andrew Furst, Chief Commercial Officer at Digiseg. 'MGID's focus on performance and respect for user privacy aligns perfectly with our approach, and we're excited to help their partners unlock the value of household-based audience data across MGID's markets.' 'This partnership underscores our continued commitment to privacy-first innovation,' said Oleksii Borysov, Vice President of Product at MGID. 'Integrating Digiseg's technology into our platform enables advertisers to reach audiences effectively, even in environments where traditional identifiers are no longer viable. It's a forward-thinking solution to a pressing industry need.' Privacy-first performance at scale With the addition of Digiseg, MGID further strengthens its position as a performance-focused, privacy-compliant advertising platform. This partnership supports advertisers in future-proofing their targeting strategies across key global regions, including markets where consumer privacy expectations and regulatory demands are rapidly evolving. About MGID MGID is a global advertising platform that helps brands and publishers succeed on the open web with performance-driven AI-powered native advertising solutions. With its suite of privacy-first technology, MGID delivers high-quality ads in brand-safe environments, reaching over 1 billion unique monthly visitors. By focusing on performance and user experience, MGID's diverse ad formats - including native, display, and video - help advertisers achieve measurable results while enabling publishers to effectively monetize their audiences. Headquartered in Santa Monica and with a global presence spanning 18 offices, MGID's investment in technology, talent, and strategic partnerships continues to fuel its five-year streak of double-digit year-on-year growth. As MGID expands its reach across North and South America, Europe, and Asia, it remains committed to sustainable, profitable growth, continuously evolving its products to help both ends of the supply chain overcome the ever-changing challenges of the digital advertising ecosystem. Learn more at: About Digiseg Digiseg connects digital advertising to real-world households — without cookies or tracking. Built with privacy at its core, Digiseg's cohort-based data enables marketers to target and measure audiences based on real-world household characteristics, not personal data. It works across all devices, media types, and operating systems — including signal-poor environments like iOS, Safari, CTV, and audio — where other solutions fall short. Digiseg helps advertisers plan smarter, reach more people, and stay compliant in a privacy-first world.
NDTV
21 hours ago
- Automotive
- NDTV
Tata Motors To Equip Harrier, Safari With More Powerful FAM B 2.0-Litre Diesel Engine
Tata Motors is now planning to give the Harrier and Safari a new engine, while not much change is expected, the tuned engine will give more power to the SUVs. The stricter BS6 norms pushed Tata to get a tuned 2.2-liter diesel engine for its commercial vehicle lineup. Tata then took assistance from Stellantis to get the FAM B 2.0-liter engine for the Harrier and the Safari. However, now the homegrown auto major has acquired the license to work on the engines for development. While Tata Motors has acquired the license for the development of the engine, it must be noted that the FAM B 2 engine will be produced by Fiat India Automobile Pvt. Ltd., a joint venture of Tata Motors and Stellantis. The FIATPL facility is located at Ranjangaon, Pune (Maharashtra). According to Autocar, after receiving the development rights for the engines, Tata will get a huge benefit as it can now upgrade engines on different levels, and that too in a cost-effective deal. Earlier, a minor change and upgrade in the engine would cost Tata Motors around 10 million Euros, which converts to about Rs 96.9 crore, to be paid to Stellantis. Tata Motors India has now partially ditched the high-cost associates and is now independent to develop, tune, and upgrade its engine and bring down the cost of the components. As per reports, the new 2.0-liter diesel engine might be tuned for different power outputs. Tata is likely to develop the FAM B 2.0-l diesel engine to give out around 180 bhp, and another version tuned to deliver 150 bhp, for the top trim and the lower trim models, respectively. While the exact timeline of this engine project undertaken by Tata has not been announced yet, we expect the brand to lay down the plans and development by the year-end.
New European
a day ago
- Business
- New European
Can Europe unplug from Trump's America?
All of that may be fairly obvious to the casual internet user. But when you go to the news website of your daily newspaper, although it may be published thousands of miles from the US, its website is still hosted on a US platform like Azure, which is Microsoft's cloud. An ad catches your eye for something local, but that ad is hosted on Amazon Web Services. You decide to make a purchase using a saved Visa credit card. The email confirmation lands in your Gmail inbox. All American. There's no escaping the fact that almost every business you interact with online relies on the services of a US tech giant. It may not feel this way, but for millions of people, the online world is a purely American experience. Your iPhone, for example, was of course designed in California. When you tap the browser, you probably use Apple's Safari to get online, and when you type a search term you use the default search engine, which is Google. America's technological reach doesn't end with the consumer. From your child's school, to your place of work, to council-run local services and even to the inner workings of the national government, the systems on which they rely are powered by just three companies: Amazon (30% global share of all money spent on cloud services), Microsoft (21%) and Google (12%). You may think you know these companies – but they have changed into cloud-computing 'hyperscalers'. They have built massive infrastructure businesses, offering on-demand computing power and the ready-to-use software tools that underpin our digital economies, and our lives. To say we're in bed with these tech giants is an understatement: over 80% of spending on cloud services and software by large European enterprises goes to US providers. But does it matter? If the tech is slick, quick and convenient, where's the catch? The answer to that question is currently sitting in the Oval Office. 'Since the election of Donald Trump, who is supported by tech CEOs and has killed the transatlantic relationship, this is now a matter of urgent national security concern,' says Marietje Schaake, a Dutch politician and former MEP. 'People see the clear risk of US tech being weaponised.' The solution, she says, is to make 'the EU digitally sovereign.' How might that work? 'We've been infantilised by decades of American support,' says the economist Cristina Caffarra, who is co-author of EuroStack, a plan to shrink Europe's dependence on foreign technology by supporting homegrown alternatives. 'In the space of 20 years, all of the underlying supply chain that supports all of the services and apps that we use every day has become mostly American.' 'Digital sovereignty is not about ripping off every bit of American kit from every bit of the land – that is not realistic and feasible,' Caffarra says. 'But we need Europe to regain some ability to have some autonomy, to have some resilience, some fallback.' Those are necessary, she says, 'in case of catastrophic incidents' or 'disputes'. 'Microsoft is absolutely owning the entire infrastructure in Denmark,' she says. 'Suppose Trump wants to walk into Greenland and he wants Microsoft to assist in this operation. Microsoft could be told to disable certain services and could be put under an executive order to do so.' Political kill switches for mainstream services may sound dramatic – but then Trump recently ordered the US firm Maxar Technologies to cut off commercial satellite data to Ukraine, to pressure it in negotiations with Russia. US technology provision is already being weaponised – why should Trump limit his leverage to Ukraine? Caffarra is not the only one raising the alarm over Europe's predicament. More than 200 industry interests put their name to an open letter urging the EU to support a sovereign digital infrastructure plan. The European Commission responded that it has plans including a review of public procurement rules, but supporters of the EuroStack plan say none of this goes far enough. In the meantime, any European governments putting their email into the US cloud should be in 'no doubt' that their messages are being read, warns Bert Hubert, a Dutch entrepreneur and digital infrastructure expert who has written extensively about Europe's digital sovereignty problem. Regardless of whether or not Trump actively threatens Europe with disconnection, what troubles Hubert is 'the mere thought that you have to be careful… that 'I should not antagonise the US.'' The problem, he says, is that a government's functions are not entirely under its own control. In other words, Europe is a digital colony of the US, and is now waking up to the consequences of that fact. The digital sovereignty issue also raised its head during the Covid crisis, when governments wanted to use contact-tracing apps as a public health measure. It then became clear that they could only do so with the consent of Apple and Google. One possible piece of the solution is presented by Element, a European developer that provides encrypted communication systems that are self-hosted, meaning that no large tech firm is underpinning your system and gathering up your data. Element is now supplying parts of Germany's armed forces and the French government. 'Traditional centralised technology firms can no longer be trusted to provide services to their customers,' says its COO, Amandine Le Pape. The gravest danger was demonstrated, she says, by Starlink, the satellite internet service owned by Elon Musk and used by, among others, the Ukrainian military. At one point earlier this year Musk raised the possibility of shutting Ukrainian forces out of Starlink. That service has become 'subject to political whim,' Le Pape says. And so here we are, Hubert says, in a 'quite absurd situation' in which policymakers lack the technical nous to actually understand the predicament they are in. 'The people that make these decisions are not just bad with technology,' he says. 'They are technically illiterate.' Which means that for most governments, the question of digital infrastructure sits in the 'too difficult to resolve' pile. But how much longer can this go on? Perhaps recognising the shifts in opinion, in April, Microsoft announced a set of crisis PR-sounding 'new European digital commitments' – including a pledge to 'uphold Europe's digital resilience even when there is geopolitical volatility'. 'The shorthand is, total market enforcement failure of competition rules and data protection rules allowed a bunch of [technology] oligarchs to exist – and then the country where those oligarchs are based elected a king,' says Johnny Ryan, a director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties that's focused on Big Tech. While there's certainly a cost involved in rewiring Europe's digital foundations, Ryan contends that this is 'almost zero' when set alongside the risks of doing nothing, and remaining strategically compromised by Trump. Caffarra also downplays the cost of the proposals set out in the EuroStack plan, suggesting a lot could be done with mandates encouraging governments and businesses to 'buy European'. However, one upper estimate of the cost of achieving digital sovereignty for Europe is around €300bn over a decade. Hubert is under no illusions about how difficult switching away from the hyper-convenient US cloud will be, even as he supports the goal. 'The main issue with any European plan is who is going to do it?' he says. Existing European cloud players are not well suited to becoming 24/7 software service behemoths, which means this switch certainly can't happen overnight. And it will be 'very hard work'. 'The question for the EuroStack is really how deep it can go,' says Michael Veale, an associate professor of Digital Rights and Regulation at UCL, sounding sceptical about whether Europe is really up to taking control of its digital fortunes against such 'entrenched and resilient' competition. 'The introduction of credible and properly funded alternatives alone creates a possibility for change, but the incumbents have a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and deep infrastructures under their control, which will pose barriers to real change.' But perhaps the biggest problem of all when confronting the American hyperscalers is that none of these tech giants is actually in control. Ultimately, digital sovereignty isn't a technology lever – it's a political hinge. You only have to think back to the line-up of Silicon Valley CEOs at Trump's inauguration for a snapshot of where the real power lies. And no amount of European legislation can do anything about that. Natasha Lomas is a writer on technology who is based in Barcelona
