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View More NewsRobby Soave and Christian Britschgi are exhausted by the never-ending obsession with Jeffrey Epstein—but here they are again on Freed Up, breaking down Attorney General Pam Bondi’s congressional testimony on the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files, sparring over AI doomerism, and diving back into the sci-fi worlds of Dune and Game of Thrones. 0:00—Attorney General Pam Bondi is in trouble 12:33—There should be room for nuance in the Epstein files 17:30—Robby responds to Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie 24:11—Artificial intelligence doom 46:17—The Super Bowl and Bad Bunny 54:55—Mad Men and Dune…again 1:02:02—House of the Dragon is worse than A Knight of…
One way or another, the U.S. crypto industry is likely to receive official policy that defines which digital assets get what treatment from which federal agencies. The problem: It might not last.Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins is focused on reversing the “head in the sand” approach he accuses his predecessors of having on crypto policy, and he’s ready to issue rules that give the industry the regulatory clarity it craves. The catch, though, is that such rules won’t be locked down and can be erased by the same kind of commission vote that puts them in place. They…
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Lionel Shriver is an American novelist and journalist. She is the author of eighteen novels, as well as a story story collection and a collection of essays, beautifully entitled Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction. Her most famous book is We Need to Talk about Kevin, though my personal favourites are The Post-Birthday World and So Much for That.Her latest novel, A Better Life, is a tour de force, a comic pageturner that addresses one of the biggest political issues of our time head-on without ever becoming programmatic or preachy. It’s classical Shriver: a readable romp, lively,…
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Investment bank Standard Chartered lowered its short-term and full-year price forecasts for major cryptocurrencies, citing continued downside risk as exchange-traded fund (ETF) outflows and…
Bitcoin miner outflows jumped to 28,605 BTC, worth about $1.8 billion, on Feb. 5, one of the largest single-day transfers since November 2024, as…
In brief Research from Oxford University points to AI chatbots giving dangerous medical advice to users. While chatbots score highly on standardised tests of…
‘Armed Only with a Camera’ celebrates the life of filmmaker Brent Renaud New York, February 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) welcomes the…
Gen Z Americans may be open to paying for dates with cryptocurrency, but most still aren’t putting digital coins where their hearts are, according…
In brief WhatsApp said Russia attempted a full block of its service on Thursday, calling the move an effort to funnel over 100 million…
Binance did not cause the crypto market liquidation event on Oct. 10, but every exchange — centralized or decentralized — saw massive liquidations that…
Binance completed the $1 billion Bitcoin conversion for its emergency fund, committing to holding Bitcoin as its core reserve asset.Binance purchased another $304 million…
OKX Ventures, the venture capital arm of the global cryptocurrency exchange, has made a strategic investment in STBL, a next-generation stablecoin and yield infrastructure…
WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by social media giant Meta, has accused Russia of attempting to block access for millions of its users to…
In brief Denmark’s Danske Bank is now giving users of its Danske eBanking and Danske Mobile Banking the opportunity to invest in Bitcoin and…
WLFI$0.1063, the Trump-family-linked crypto project, will soon launch a foreign exchange platform called World Swap, its co-founder, Zak Folkman, said on stage at Consensus…