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View More NewsIn brief Bryan Johnson wrote on X that the best anti-aging therapies are filters, retouching and lighting. Since June he has disclosed autoimmune gastritis, a diagnosis for girlfriend Kate Tolo, and a refocus on curing disease. Johnson says he is still aiming for immortality by 2039. Bryan Johnson, the face of the “Don’t Die” movement, just posted the least immortal tweet of his career.”Sadly, the best anti-aging therapies are filters, retouch and lighting,” the biohacker wrote on X on Tuesday.Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction.That’s an odd line from a man who has said he…
Rentrée, interrupted: The fall season is termed rentrée in France, referring to the return to work and school after summer breaks. But this autumn reset is different: People appear to be afraid France is spiraling into financial crisis, and protests—by students and unionized workers alike—have roiled multiple industries as citizens voice their discontent, with 90,000 or so protesting across the country. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning. “On Tuesday, teachers and other public workers plan rallies against proposed wage freezes as the government labors to pass…
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A review of In the War Room: The Inside Story of Israel’s Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman; 352 pages; Wicked Son (September 2026)In early September, the Israeli political scene ignited after two Haaretz journalists reported that the president of the United Arab Emirates had warned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu about an imminent Hamas attack ten days before 7 October. The allegation rocketed around an already fraught society preparing for its first election since the most destructive day in Jewish history since the Holocaust. Netanyahu furiously denied the report and threatened…
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Solana DvP offers financial institutions an open-source settlement program designed to complete asset transfers and payments in seconds. Read the full article here
“Atomic settlement removes counterparty risk that is inherent in traditional finance. Solana DvP program provides institutions with one open standard across the Solana ecosystem,…
Bitcoin fell 1.2% to about $85,600 as of Tuesday Asian morning hours after sellers turned it back from just above $87,000 on Monday —…
An EEZ contributor shared a 0.001 ETH cross-chain test as the project develops a framework to connect Ethereum mainnet and its rollups. Read the…
Ether had $13 million to $14 million in depth within 0.15% of its market price. In simple terms, that’s roughly how much money was…
The Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) has backed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC’s) move to approve several charters for crypto…
In brief Strive bought 2,000 Bitcoin between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2 at an average of about $84,422 per coin, its largest purchase since…
The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping…
Payward, the financial infrastructure company behind crypto exchange Kraken, integrated Singapore Gulf Bank’s real-time clearing network to enable institutional clients to settle qualifying digital-asset…
Fairshake, the political action committee (PAC) backed by contributions from Coinbase, Ripple Labs and Andreessen Horowitz, announced that it would initially spend a combined…
In brief DeFi Development Corp. added about 26,203 SOL between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2, lifting holdings to 2,564,212 SOL and SOL equivalents, per…
Cardano’s ADA token is trading decisively positive in a market where majors are up slightly but still locked in recent, familiar price ranges. The…