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A Cryptocurrency investor has alleged that two ‘weird extensions’ have drained $800,000 from multiple of his wallet apps.
The trading and crypto user, who goes by the name ‘sell9000’ on X, has taken to the social media platform to speculate about how this happened.
He says “I suspect this was a Google Chrome compromise containing a possible keylogger targeting specific wallet extension apps…”

Just realized I got $500k drained from multiple wallet apps 46 hours ago
Think I got extension attacked, with two suspicious extensions that appeared on my chrome browser
does not feel good fam
still investigating
— Sell When Over | 9000.sei (@sell9000) April 8, 2024

A keylogger is a malicious application used by cyber criminals to record every action of a keystroke made by another user. That data can then be retrieved by the person operating the logging program.
The user explained how he did a Google Chrome update a few weeks ago, but said that unusually “all my tabs were gone and extension logins had reset” when the browser relaunched. This included his wallets which were now logged out of and required details to be re-added.
He alleges that “Chrome was compromised in that unusual reboot event” and said he found two extensions titled ‘Sync test beta’ and ‘Simple Game.’
The hackers have reportedly sent the funds to two exchanges, the Singapore-based MEXC exchange and the Cayman Islands-headquartered Gate.io.
“A $800k costly mistake”
In one of the latest updates, Sell9000 asks for further assistance and reports it’s an ongoing issue.
While the X user isn’t yet sure how the extensions got onto Chrome and what the attack vector is, they say they can confirm that ‘Sync test BETA (colorful)’ is a keylogger. The other one ‘Simple Game’ is described as checking if tabs are updated, open, closed, and refreshed.
Sell9000 chalks up the incident as being “a $800k costly mistake” and says “The lesson is if anything seems off such as that it prompts you to input a seed, then wipe the whole PC first.
“My guard went down because the updated happened to be when Chrome made a significant update (where now you have to select a user and the[n] sign in with Google UI changed) so I thought that was what caused the extensions to reset and me to lose all my tabs.”
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Your favorite takeaway could soon be delivered by self-driving cars as testing is rolled out in Phoenix on Uber Eats for fully autonomous food delivery.
Over a year ago, Waymo and Uber formed a multi-year strategy partnership to make the Waymo Driver available to more people via the Uber platform.
As of April 3, this has now been made into a possibility with the fully autonomous car being able to deliver within a 225+ square mile radius in the Metro Phoenix area.
The car company, which was formerly known as the Google Self-Driving Car Project, describes itself as having created ‘the world’s most experienced driver.’ One that ‘never gets drunk, tired, or distracted.’
This new form of delivery won’t be as easy as simply opening the door to your burrito in the hand of a delivery worker though, as you’ll have to go outside when the car arrives and follow the instructions to collect your order.
While it’s pot-luck who sees a human and who doesn’t, you can opt out of the use of an autonomous vehicle if you’d prefer – instead selecting the option for delivery by a human courier.
This comes just seven months after the partnership rolled out ride-hailing capabilities through Uber. Residents in Phoenix have been able to request a self-driving lift, with no human driver behind the wheel.
At the time of the formal announcement, more than 10,000 rides were completed each week using this method.
Are other companies focusing on driverless cars?
In the modern world, new technology seems to be coming out every other month which has left many companies feeling the heat and the need to advance in the technological race.
While Waymo and Uber are cooking up advancements in their partnership, Apple’s plans for self-driving cars have been scrapped.
Just this month, it was found that more than 600 jobs will be axed following the abandonment of these plans.
The cuts will mostly impact workers at the iPhone maker’s site in California where it was discreetly working on ambitions to build electric vehicles. 614 members of staff are expected to be laid off in May.
Others are turning their attention to flying abilities, with a SpaceX-backed firm, named Alef Aeronautics, seeing nearly 3,000 pre-orders for its two-seater ‘car’ back in March. The plan is for the production of the first vehicle to be completed by the end of 2025.
Featured Image: Via the Waymo press release
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Spotify has announced AI playlists for its Premium users, allowing listeners to create playlists via a prompt. The feature will first be available to Android and iOS device users in the U.K. and Australia, with plans for ongoing upgrades in the coming months.
The music streaming company also shared a few examples of prompts, including “relaxing music to tide me over during allergy season” and “a playlist that makes me feel like the main character.”
The service mentioned that users can create prompts based on various themes such as locations, animals, activities, colors, emojis, and even film characters. It added that the most effective prompts blend moods, artists, genres, and eras, but these selections can be further customized with additional prompts.
Spotify also highlighted that it has “measures in place,” to address any inappropriate prompts.
The company explains that it uses large language models (LLMs) to understand the user’s intent. After this, the platform leverages its personalization technology, which includes data on the listener’s history and preferences, to respond to the prompt and create a customized, AI-generated playlist for the user.
It also incorporates a variety of third-party tools to enhance its AI and machine learning capabilities.
There were reports of the AI Playlist feature in December after several TikTok users stumbled upon it in the Spotify Library App.
In 2023, Spotify also released its Personal DJ feature. This allowed users to access a virtual DJ that the company heralded as a “Dynamic AI voice Platform.”
How to create an AI Spotify playlist
To create an AI Playlist, start by opening the Spotify mobile app and navigating to “Your Library,” located in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Next, locate the “+” button within “Your Library” at the top-right corner of the app and select “AI Playlist.” Users can then either choose from a set of suggested prompts or unleash their creativity by typing in their own. Spotify offers recommendations such as “sad music for painting dying flowers” or “tracks for horse riding into the sunset.”
After submitting a prompt, Spotify takes the reins, sifting through its library to curate tracks that resonate with the mood or activity envisioned. Listeners can personalize their playlist by previewing songs, removing those that don’t fit, and communicating with AI Playlist to fine-tune their creations if something is amiss. Finally, by tapping “Create,” the playlist will be saved to the “Your Library” section of the app.
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Meme coin crypto is on fire and a wallet that bought 12.7 million Tongue Cat ($LUIS) tokens on April 4 has turned a $221 investment into $197,961 in a day.
Cat meme coins are all over the trending leaderboards right now. There’s $MEW, $POPCAT, $BOMEOW to choose from, and of course $LUIS, which is trending in the number one slot on DexTools, up 110% at the start of the European session on $0.0166.

😅 Just from $67, this smart money 9e3Lf turn his investment into $54.7k (~x816).
7 hours ago, he accumulated 12.7M $LUIS with $67 and then sold 6.2M tokens for $23.6k.Just now, he still has 6.5M $LUIS (~$27.1k).
His address:https://t.co/RL8a6kisc0 pic.twitter.com/fBEulAuu2P
— The Data Nerd (@OnchainDataNerd) April 4, 2024

To cut to the chase, this meme coin whale wallet – 9e3LfSt1BvbACZcZVJpwhkKo4414eryjHKJcJ5saR5r6 – got in early on $LUIS at a purchase price of $0.00001744, buying in three transactions within the first 45 minutes of the listing on 4 April.

Then in 16 trades over the subsequent hours, the wallet owner offloaded his furry friend, with the last trade filled at 22:25 as he rang up the profits. For instance, in the second sell trade, measured at today’s $SOL prices, there was a realized profit of $141,188.
Adding up the profits on the 16 trades brings the return on investment to $197,961, which is not bad for a day’s work.

Solana is the new home of meme coins, but Base is making waves too
Tongue Cat is built on Solana, a Layer 1 blockchain that has superseded Ethereum as the favored launchpad for meme coins because of its low transaction fees and better throughput than Ethereum.
As bitcoin surges back to within touching distance of its recently printed all-time high of $73,738, the search for the next meme coin to pop remains at frenzied levels.
$LUIS is pulling back a little today during the writing of this article, but that could well be a case of the calm before the storm that serves to attract more degens.
Having said that, intermittent congestion is rearing its ugly head, although there have been no outages like those seen last year and in 2022. Solana does appear to be growing-up fast, but crypto doesn’t stand still for very long.
With innovation the watchword of nascent technologies like blockchain, there is always competition to watch out for.  An emerging new contender is Base, the optimistic rollup Ethereum Layer 2 solution from Coinbase.
This segues nicely to $BRETT, the meme coin that is leading the way on Base with a market cap of $792 million and liquidity of nearly $10 million. Maybe not Ape in, but it could be worth building a modest outpost for the incoming altcoin bull run explosion.
Some might sneer at meme coins, yet they are playing a key role in identifying the blockchains that can take the strain and in popularizing adoption. As such, it makes sense for degens and more staid investors to keep a watching brief on Base meme coin developments.

Do you realize that $BRETT has doubled in holders over the last 13 days? The @BasedBrett army soon crossing 60K holders and the #1 #memecoin on @base is looking undeniably bullish.🚀https://t.co/yS2qyCi5bp$PEPE $WIF $BONK $DOGE $SHIB https://t.co/sYCMPEw0jb pic.twitter.com/3sIFQlMXt4
— Dōgen (@realdogen) April 7, 2024

All the president’s meme coins – $TRUMP or $BODEN
Other meme coins worth a look include those centered around the US presidential election meta trend, where $TRUMP and $BODEN are the star turns.
This ERC20 wallet – 0xdb22ca143f6396ad289c79cdfa5cc47f65884162 – made more than $5 million after putting down a few thousand to trade the $TRUMP meme coin :
Delving a little deeper into the trader’s deal history, on August 13 2023 he bought 89,280 $TRUMP tokens at $0.0207, when 1 ETH was worth $1,849.
On that transaction alone the trader made $567,764 – that’s a profit of $567,764.
Head over to Debank and search for the wallet address and you can quickly see which other tokens the wallet is holding. Top holding of the portfolio is $TRUMP token with half a million still held worth $3,223,325. All told the $TRUMP whale has made in excess of $5 million, including unrealized profits.
But what else is this savvy trader hanging onto for another life-changing payday?
While there is a small stake in $MILEI token to confirm this crypto enthusiast’s penchant for populist politicians in the MAGA mould, it is BarbieCrashBandicootRFK888Inu (SOLANA) that shows more substantial intent. This meme coin uses the Solana name as its ticker but has no connection to the Solana ecosystem – in fact it runs on Ethereum.
 

Why it pays off big to be early with meme coin crypto
Meme coin valuations are based on their virality and not much else, which means they are very high risk, even by crypto standards. However, you can mitigate risk by not betting the bank on a coin and making sure to do your own research.
Finding a YouTuber with a good track record of picking hits is a good starting point. Jacob Crypto Bury is just such a fellow, where his latest analysis can now be found on the venerable and respected crypto site 99Bitcoins‘ YouTube channel.
He is cultivating a reputation for hitting the mark with his expert take on the presales market, where the best early-stage profit-making opportunities are to be found. He has a liking for Dogecoin20 – this coin launches on Doge Day in 11 days’ time – and Slothana:

The moral of this tale is the importance of getting in early on meme coins, and there is no better way of doing that than presales. And when a trend emerges, ride it. That’s what the folks behind Slothana look to be doing with the $SLERF sloth coin.
It looks like a lot of crypto degens think there is plenty of room for another sloth to slither onto the scene as Slothana has raised more than $10 million from contributors in a fortnight. The token is on sale at a fixed price too, so today’s are still as early as you can possibly be.
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Disclaimer: Crypto is a high-risk asset class. This article is provided for informational purposes and does not constitute investment advice. You could lose all of your capital.
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A journalist has found himself targeted by a fake AI law firm over a copyright-free photo published on his website, but all is not quite what it first appeared as the law firm has been outed as a fake.
Ernie Smith, the writer behind online publisher and newsletter Tedium, took to Mastodon at the end of March to share the first email from the law firm ‘Commonwealth Legal Services’ and the following conversations.
A DMCA Copyright Infringement Notice was first received, with the trademark attorney ‘Will Thomas’ saying “We need you to add a credit to our client immediately,” for the use of an image.
A visible and clickable link to Tech4Gods was said to be ‘required’ and should be done so within the next five business days.
The email says removing the image ‘does not conclude the matter’ and if “appropriate action within the given timeframe” isn’t carried out, they’ll need to “activate the case No.86342 and take action as outlined in DMCA Section 512(c).”
The image in question is one from the website Unsplash that gives downloaders the right to ‘copy, modify, distribute and use the photos for free, including commercial purposes, without asking permission from or providing attribution to the photographer or Unsplash.’
Law firm is looking into following the DMCA threat
The journalist then went on to do some checks of the firm, citing the ‘Our Lawyers’ section of the website as including all ‘AI-generated’ photos.
404 Media backed this up too, describing the supposed lawyers as having “vacant, thousand-yard stares” and none of them appear in any attorney or LinkedIn searches. The reverse image search results for them point to a now-broken website called Generated.Photos.
Smith then went on to look at the address which was described as being on the fourth floor of its building. A quick Google Maps search saw the proposed address actually being a one-storey structure.

Tech4Gods is a gadget review website run by Daniel Barczak. When 404 Media reached out to him, he said in an email: “I certainly don’t own any images on the web.”
He then went on to say he had been previously buying backlinks to his website for SEO, but said he wasn’t aware of who was doing this or why: “I have no idea; it certainly has nothing to do with me.
“However, recently, someone has been building spammy links against my site that I have been dealing with…
“In the past, I had a bad link builder. I wonder if it’s him going mad at me for letting him go…It’s hard to say the web is massive, and everyone can link whatever they want.”
Featured Image: Via Ideogram
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