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The closest thing Canada has to The New York Times is The Globe & Mail, a Toronto-based newspaper that defines—to…

In brief Standard Chartered’s Geoff Kendrick argues that Strategy’s $2.5 million Bitcoin liquidation marked a turning point for Ethereum. As…

I continue to find one small detail of the Slush Fund affair (Slushfundgate?) of particular interest. As you may recall,…

In brief The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control designated four Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges for sanctions violations. Nobitex,…

from the age-gating-is-still-bad dept After public outrage, California lawmakers are moving closer to exempting open-source operating systems from the sweeping…

On Monday, in a New York Times op-ed, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) announced plans to introduce the American A.I. Sovereign…

In brief Microsoft said its new MAI-Thinking-1 model outperformed Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 in blind evaluations and matched Claude Opus…

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s lead story covers the release of the federal…

In brief Shares in Strategy (MSTR) closed down more than 9% on Tuesday, one day after selling Bitcoin for the…

from the bricks-and-minifigs-and-influencers-and-lawsuits dept On Techdirt, we often complain about lawyers and bad lawyering and bad cases. But there are…

President Donald Trump and some of his top advisers have routinely insisted that the administration’s new, higher tariffs would not…

In brief Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren urged the Labor Department to drop a proposal to make it easier to…