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View More NewsThe European Central Bank warned EU finance ministers on Friday that proposals to expand euro stablecoin issuance could weaken bank lending and complicate monetary policy, according to three sources cited by Reuters.The pushback came in response to a policy paper prepared by Brussels-based think tank Bruegel, whose authors presented their proposals at the two-day informal meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council in Nicosia, Cyprus. The paper called for easing liquidity requirements for stablecoin issuers and potentially granting them access to ECB funding, arguing that these measures were necessary if the euro stablecoin market was to compete with dollar-backed…
From today’s D.C. Circuit decision in Butters v. Nat’l Acad. of Sciences, by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, joined by Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson and Florence Pan: This consolidated appeal involves claims of defamation, defamation by implication, and false light invasion of privacy relating to the rescission of Luis Jaime Castillo Butters’s membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Castillo brought these claims against the NAS and its president, Marcia McNutt, after they made statements concerning Castillo’s ouster…. Castillo is a professor of archaeology at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. The NAS, a “private, nonprofit organization of the United States’ leading…
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A review of Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks; 304 pages, Hogarth (April 2026)I.Back in the 1960s and ’70s, you could still find serious music lovers who claimed that the Beatles were a passing fad and that their music would be largely forgotten in another fifty years. Likewise, in the 1980s and ’90s you could find plenty of serious fiction lovers who claimed that Stephen King was a writer of ephemeral novels that would soon be forgotten. In the 1970s, when King began his amazing run of bestselling novels with Carrie (1974),…
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In brief Based Apparel, linked to FBI Director Kash Patel, went dark after being flagged for pushing “ClickFix” wallet-draining malware. The infostealer targeted macOS…
from the put-it-out-of-its-misery dept One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyright’s intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law…
Chun Wang, the Chinese-born Maltese-Kittitian crypto investor who co-founded F2Pool, has been named Mission Commander for SpaceX’s first commercial human spaceflight interplanetary mission to…
Key points:Bitcoin has dipped below $77,000, signaling that the bears are poised to seize control.Altcoins are a mixed bag, with some attempting to push…
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) displayed strength on Friday, rising 34% over the last 24 hours to $2.32, leading artificial intelligence-based tokens in a rally fueled…
In brief Institutional giants now dominate market flows, potentially dampening the wild, rapid price swings that retail speculators crave. In the first quarter, Coinbase’s…
from the turning-gold-into-lead dept Elon Musk, business genius. When Elon Musk announced his plans to buy Twitter, some of his billionaire friends rushed to…
The U.S. House Oversight Committee plans a probe into the largest prediction market platforms over suspicions that government employees could be exploiting classified information…
Institutional adoption continued to reshape the digital asset market this week, even as geopolitical tensions reminded investors that crypto remains sensitive to broader macro…
In brief Bitcoin addresses tied to Trump Media transferred $204 million worth of Bitcoin to addresses labeled as Crypto.com. The addresses last transferred funds…
The next wave of financial disruption is not arriving as a better app or a cheaper brokerage built on decades-old infrastructure. It is a…
In brief OKX is rolling out regulated perpetual futures tied to ICE’s Brent and WTI benchmarks for non-U.S. traders. The move intensifies competition with…