The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has effectively constrained the reach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) by ruling that AI agents function as tools rather than independent actors. In Amazon.com Services, LLC v. Perplexity AI, Inc., Judge Smith Jr. vacated a preliminary injunction that had blocked Perplexity’s Comet Browser AI assistant from…
How APIs work APIs follow a request-response model. A client application sends a request to an API endpoint (a specific URL), and the server processes the request and returns a response—typically in JSON or XML format. A typical API call: Client sends request: GET https://api.example.com/users/123 Server processes: Looks up user 123 in the database Server…
Amazon v. Perplexity is the first federal appeals court test of whether autonomous AI agents violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act when they act on a user’s behalf. The ruling will shape agent-web interaction law for years.
Tokenization is on the rise not only in the private sector. In Asia, governments are leading the charge to use this technology for the greater public good.
Colossal failures in online age verification have opened the floodgates for kids to access harmful content and become ‘friends’ with adult strangers. Can encrypted decentralized IDs put a stop to all that?
Coins.ph, a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Philippines with millions of users, appeared to have lost 12.2 million XRP tokens, The Block reported on Friday.
The Hong Kong police warned on Monday that 11 Hong Kong-based Binance users lost over US$446,000 (HK$3.5 million) in cryptocurrencies to phishing text messages in the last two weeks. See related article: Gitcoin error sends US$460,000 to digital void Fast Facts See related article: CMCC Global raises US$100 mln to launch Hong Kong Web3 fund
At the Token 2049 crypto conference in Singapore held Sept. 13 to 14, Google Cloud’s James Tromans spoke to Forkast about a possible marriage between Webs 2 and 3.