Lisbon, Portugal | AFP | One of the world’s biggest tech conferences will get going in Lisbon on Wednesday, after Ukraine’s first lady formally opened the event by urging participants to use their skills to save lives rather than end them. Olena Zelenska told an audience of several thousand at the Web Summit’s opening ceremony late on Tuesday not to put “technology at the service of terror” — unlike some in Russia. “Some IT […]
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Cryptocurrency sceptics look to bend the ear of regulators
by Joseph SOTINEL Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Cryptocurrency critics, including economists and researchers, will gather in London and online this week to get their message across to regulators about the booming but volatile sector. A number of governments have expressed concerns over cryptocurrencies, but those behind the first Crypto Policy Symposium say they hope the event will prompt much more “critical discourse” of the sector. “There are so many crypto conferences […]
More than 300 experts gather at Europol to address cryptocurrency-facilitated crimes
(Eagle News) – More than 300 cryptocurrency experts from both law enforcement and the private sector attended the sixth Cryptocurrency Conference hosted at Europol’s headquarters which sought to detect cryptocurrency-facilitated crimes, among others. The event, which ran from June 12 to 14, is the largest cyptocurrency event in Europe. Organized by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the experts who participated in the conference “shared best practices and law enforcement techniques using examples such as […]
Dangerous complacency’ looms over world AIDS meeting
by Mariëtte Le Roux Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Thousands of experts and activists descend on Amsterdam Monday to bolster the battle against AIDS amid warnings that “dangerous complacency” may cause a resurgence of the epidemic that has already killed 35 million people. Rather than closing in on the goal of “ending” AIDS, new HIV infections have surged in parts of the world as global attention has dwindled and funding levelled off, […]





