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View More NewsA bitcoin mining pool built to reject both the industrial pay-per-share model and the pure lottery approach has now proved its design works. Twice.Upstart mining pool Parasite Pool mined block 945,601 on Friday morning, its second block since launching in April 2025 and roughly 48 days after the pool’s first block at #938,713 in late February. The block carried 7,398 transactions and 0.002 BTC in fees, landing with bitcoin trading at $76,213.The pool operates on a hybrid model that has no parallel in mainstream mining. A winning miner that solves a block receives 1 BTC outright, with the remaining 2.125…
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov warned Friday that the European Union’s new age-verification app could become a stepping stone toward broader online identity tracking, days after the European Commission said the system was technically ready for rollout.In a Telegram post on Friday, Durov cited analysis from security consultant Paul Moore, who said the app is hackable in “under two minutes” after examining its technical design.“This product will be the catalyst for an enormous breach at some point,” Moore said in an X post on Thursday, adding that the system could be tricked so the age check isn’t properly tied to the…
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The landslide defeat suffered by Viktor Orbán in Hungary on 12 April has dealt a body blow to global postliberalism at a moment when the democratic recession may be on the brink of a reversal. Although Hungary is a nation of fewer than ten million people with a GDP about half the size of Elon Musk’s net worth, its global significance is magnified by the political model Orbán spent over a decade and a half building. He called it “illiberal democracy,” but it has attracted emulators and apologists from across the liberal-democratic world. Orbán’s massive defeat arrives as Donald Trump’s…
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Polymarket prediction market odds of the Strait of Hormuz “returning to normal” by the end of May spiked to 73% on Friday, following news…
In brief World launched a major World ID protocol upgrade featuring account-based architecture for “proof-of-human” verification. Tinder is expanding verification to U.S. users, Zoom…
from the robbing-us-blind dept Back in January, we covered Trump’s audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of…
Grinex, a cryptocurrency exchange popular with sanctions-avoiding Russians, suspended operations after saying a cyber attack drained about 1 billion rubles ($13 million) from its…
Bitcoin (BTC) rallied above $78,000 to hit another 10-week high on Friday as crypto and equity markets reacted to cooling tensions in the US…
In brief Elizabeth Warren accused Paul Atkins of potentially misleading Congress about the SEC’s falling enforcement activity. New data showed the SEC brought far…
from the i’d-throw-my-computer-in-a-lake dept We’ve been covering Brendan Carr’s censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the…
The best sign of a U.S.-Iranian compromise is both sides insisting that they aren’t giving anything up. On Friday morning, U.S. President Donald Trump…
Brussels, April 17, 2026—European Union officials and foreign ministers should call for a full or partial suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement during the…
World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, has unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet to World ID, positioning the…
Key points:Bitcoin soared above $76,000, opening the doors for a further rally toward $84,000.Several major altcoins are showing strength, signaling broad-based buying by the…
In brief Researchers show Anthropic-style exploits can be reproduced with public AI, report claims. Study suggests vulnerability discovery is already cheap and widely accessible.…