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Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
In brief A developer recreated Claude Opus-style reasoning in a local open-source model. The resulting “Qwopus” model runs on consumer…
From Wikipedia, by Mos.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177890193 (By Mos.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=177890193)The post Happy Yuri Gagarin Day! appeared first…
Joseph Maldonado, aka Joe Exotic, may be in prison (for charges of animal abuse and attempted murder), but he continues…
In brief A new proposal outlines a way to create quantum-resistant Bitcoin transactions without changing the network protocol. The design…
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Forty-eight hours before he was scheduled to report to federal prison, Keonne Rodriguez was still talking about code. In 2015,…
In early March 2026, Germany’s four leading business associations—representing employers, industry, trade, and crafts—issued a joint warning to Chancellor Friedrich…
from the gaming-like-it’s-1930 dept It’s time for the third in our series of spotlight posts looking at the winners of…
Home distilling. (NA) Yesterday, in McNutt v. US Department of Justice, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit…
In brief Amy Oldenburg, head of digital-asset strategy at Morgan Stanley, sees a tokenized money-market fund as a natural path…
From Thursday’s decision by California Court of Appeal Justice Natalie Stone, joined by Justice John Segal and L.A. Superior Court…
In brief ASI Alliance and Matterhorn said they are building tools to reduce risks from AI-generated blockchain code. The platform…