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Bangkok, March 13, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Vietnamese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release journalist Le Anh…
In brief The CFTC has issued a staff advisory to exchanges and has launched an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking…
In brief Bitcoin has gained ~6% since the Iran crisis began, outpacing gold and equities. Rising Treasury yields suggest investors…
In brief Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen will step down as the company expands its push for generative AI tools. Layoffs…
The Ninth Circuit denied rehearing en banc Olympus Spa v. Armstrong. Judge VanDyke wrote the lead dissent, which begins this…
In brief Bitcoin is up 2.6% to around $71,500, its highest level in a week. On Thursday, Brent crude jumped…
from the crazy-pants dept If you agree with me that what RFK Jr. has done at HHS — particularly when…
In brief The White House is demanding that ABC News retract a report about a possible Iranian drone attack on…
In brief A new GI-TOC report has revealed that illicit Amazonian gold is being sold in Venezuela in exchange for…
In brief Europol and partners announced the disruption of the “SocksEscort” malicious proxy service and the freezing of $3.5 million…
Josh Blackman, Jonathan Adler, and I have all previously blogged (here, here, and here) about issues relating to the “stealth…
In brief Google built the largest-ever flash flood dataset by using Gemini to mine two decades of global news reports.…