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View More NewsThe arrival of Morgan Stanley at the U.S. spot bitcoin BTC$77,029.33 ETF party earlier this month was characterized by some observers as the catalyst that will end the current crypto bear market thanks to the massive distribution power of the Wall Street wirehouse’s $8 trillion advisory network.Not so fast, said Blockstream CEO Adam Back, an early contributor to the Bitcoin community and recently tipped by the New York Times to be the cryptocurrency’s pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, an assertion he denies.The bitcoin ETFs could be the single most important development of recent times when it comes to positive market signals,…
In brief DeepMind veteran David Silver raised $1.1 billion for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1 billion valuation. Silver says reinforcement learning, not large language models, is the best path to superintelligence. The startup aims to build AI “superlearners” that learn through simulations and self-play. David Silver, the DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo’s historic 2016 win over world Go champion Lee Sedol, has raised $1.1 billion to launch a startup betting that the next era of AI won’t come from today’s dominant technology.Silver’s company, Ineffable Intelligence, launched in January at a $5.1 billion valuation and is betting on reinforcement…
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Twenty years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted the draft text of a document known as the “Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples”—widely known by its (unfortunate) acronym, UNDRIP. Like many utopian UN manifestos of this type, it set forth a catalogue of aspirational principles that were easy to applaud but difficult to implement. Article 19, for instance, instructs signatory states to “consult and cooperate in good faith with the indigenous peoples” to obtain their “free, prior and informed consent before adopting and implementing legislative or administrative measures that may affect them.” Since pretty much any law…
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In brief Sze Man Yu Inos, 30, received a 71-month federal prison sentence for wire fraud targeting elderly women. The scheme involved false claims…
from the fix-your-own-shit dept There’s still a meaningful effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally…
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones said bitcoin BTC$76,882.32 stands out as the strongest hedge against inflation, citing its fixed supply as a key advantage…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) Coinbase Premium Index has turned negative at -0.008 for the first time in three weeks, signaling a sharp reduction in US spot…
In brief Bernstein cut IREN’s price target from $125 to $100 amid Bitcoin mining scale-down and share dilution, while keeping an Outperform rating. IREN…
Declining trust in higher education is mostly a self-inflicted wound, a Yale panel concluded in a report released last week. The primary reasons given are…
from the what-the-fuck-is-this-i-don’t-even dept There have been plenty of absolutely batshit crazy legal filings from Trump and his crew over the last few years,…
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 22 press freedom and human rights organizations in an April 28 joint statement condemning Turkey’s frequent use of…
Sports-focused blockchain Chiliz is expanding its roster of over 70 fan tokens to Solana and Base, the Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Coinbase (COIN).Chiliz…
Canaan (CAN) has secured an additional order from Tether for custom Bitcoin mining hardware, extending their collaboration beyond an earlier research and development effort…
In brief The DeFi United coalition has published a technical implementation for restoring rsETH token backing following the Kelp DAO hack. The relief effort…
from the ever-increasing-chorus-of-judicial-opposition dept Under Trump, DHS, ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have violated every single right affected by their daily work. When you’re…