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View More NewsA common recurring nightmare is showing up for school as a student and being unprepared. I’ve often had a variant of that dream where I show up for the first day of class as a professor, and was unprepared to teach. In one dream I had years ago, I had to fake my way through teaching Pierson v. Post. Last night I had a new variant of that dream, which was an actual Supreme Court nightmare. In the dream, I was co-counsel in a case set for argument. We are at the Supreme Court. The bench looks the same, but…
It may sound Farfetch’d, but lawmakers are advancing a bill that would stop minors from nicknaming their Pokémon online—in violation of the First Amendment. Last month, the House of Representatives passed the KIDS Act, a wide-ranging package of youth online safety bills. It includes the Safer GAMING Act, which would require interactive online video games to “limit communication between” players “under the age of 17” and “any other user.” That limit must be “enabled by default” and “set to the most restrictive setting,” automatically blocking all “verbal, written, or visual messages” to and from minor users. Parents could adjust the…
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In January 1986, four skinny, long-haired twenty-somethings from Huntington Park, California, walked into a recording studio in Los Angeles. Three weeks later, they emerged with Reign in Blood—a 28-minute and 55-second sonic blitzkrieg that became an instant thrash-metal classic. This wasn’t just another metal album. It was an assault that redefined just how fast and just how uncompromising music could be. If John Coltrane pioneered sheets of sound, Slayer fired sheets of shrapnel from the opening bars of “Angel of Death.” There is no atmospheric intro, no fade-in, and no warning—just a surgically precise cymbal and guitar punch before vocalist Tom…
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In brief Cities in Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky, and New Jersey have pursued bans or moratoriums on data centers. Power plants serving data centers…
from the fix-your-own-shit dept There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally…
This latest U.S. appeals court ruling sets up a rift between federal courts on event contracts, suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court may need to…
In brief Bitcoin dropped as low as $76,877 on Friday after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s hawkish Jackson Hole keynote, confirming the resistance zone flagged…
In brief Fed Chair Kevin Warsh dedicated a full section of his Jackson Hole keynote to artificial intelligence, calling the current moment a “hinge…
from the when-the-ai-company-is-more-principled-than-the-government dept When Pete Hegseth declared Anthropic a national security risk because it wouldn’t agree to his dangerously unethical demands for what…
The Japanese financial giant is acquiring a 20% stake in the Indonesian online brokerage to build a cross-border, blockchain-based settlement network. Read the full…
Circle, the issuer behind the USDC stablecoin, will be the latest sponsor for the Chelsea Football Club just months after the UK’s financial watchdog…
In brief Solana closed its first binding on-chain governance vote, passing SGP-0002 to double the network’s disinflation rate from 15% to 30%, hitting the…
from the today-in-what-the-everloving-fuck dept Compliant Technologies probably would have preferred to keep flying under the radar. But a gaudy new no-bid contract with ICE…
Solana’s first network-wide vote went down to the wire, with a Kraken-linked validator switching sides before the disinflation proposal narrowly passed. Read the full…
Institutional crypto exchange operator Bullish has provided USD.AI with a $100 million stablecoin-based debt facility to finance loans secured by GPU infrastructure, the companies…