The $2.3 Billion Tornado Cash Case Is a Pivotal Moment for Crypto Privacy

Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance.

Generative AI Doesn’t Make Hardware Less Hard

Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT.

Time Is Running Out in the Hunt for Rare Bitcoin

A small band of collectors is finding and collecting rare fragments of bitcoin worth many times the face value. But their window of opportunity is closing.

It’s Time For Buyers To Ditch Vanity Metrics And Start Collaborating With The Sell Side

Andrea Kwiatek will be presenting at Programmatic IO, taking place May 20-22 in Las Vegas. Get your tickets here.  If marketers weren’t so obsessed with vanity metrics like viewability and click-through rate (CTR), the open internet would have less of a media quality problem. Buyers could solve many of the issues they have with the […]

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A Pragmatic Approach To Banishing MFA From The Supply Chain

The open web stands as a testament to freedom of communication, innovation and the collective pursuit of knowledge. However, lurking within our dynamic ecosystem is a growing threat: the proliferation of made-for-advertising (MFA) publishers.  These entities are simply not publishers. They’re better described as master traffic arbitragers that exploit the system for profit without contributing […]

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