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TAKENOSUNKNOWN
Data · Investigation in progress

Who are you paying when the QR says Takenos? A WhatsApp scam sends Bs 2,900 from my aunt to a QR. Three banking apps show the Takenos brand where the Central Bank’s rule asks for the name of whoever collects.

By Violeta Ayala — Tecnóloga

Bolivia: 119 days under a state of exception · Decreto Supremo 5636 Biggest internet outages (24h): Lithuania, Armenia, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Namibia · IODA — Georgia Tech Official Bs 11.68 vs parallel Bs 11.79 — 0.9% gap · BCB + Binance P2P Frontier AI: GPT-6 Astra · Claude Fable 5.1 · Gemini 3.1 Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · Qwen3.8-27B · Grok 4.5 · Muse Glimmer-30B · llm-stats.com ≈16,752 active satellites in orbit · CelesTrak NVIDIA (NVDA): $217.23 · market cap $5.26T (2026-10-15) · Yahoo Finance Bolivia: 119 days under a state of exception · Decreto Supremo 5636 Biggest internet outages (24h): Lithuania, Armenia, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Namibia · IODA — Georgia Tech Official Bs 11.68 vs parallel Bs 11.79 — 0.9% gap · BCB + Binance P2P Frontier AI: GPT-6 Astra · Claude Fable 5.1 · Gemini 3.1 Pro · DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 · Qwen3.8-27B · Grok 4.5 · Muse Glimmer-30B · llm-stats.com ≈16,752 active satellites in orbit · CelesTrak NVIDIA (NVDA): $217.23 · market cap $5.26T (2026-10-15) · Yahoo Finance
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Ideas · Part 2 WiFi and Chips

Two Ways to Fail

Dan Fallshaw

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