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In brief Square has automatically enabled Bitcoin payments as the default setting for eligible U.S. sellers. The shift affects 4…
from the donald-trump-gets-into-vibe-coding dept Call me crazy, but I don’t think an official government app should be loading executable code…
More than seven years after two Texas cops kidnapped a teenaged girl they falsely claimed had been “abandoned,” a federal…
Kampala, March 30, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Ugandan authorities to immediately disclose whether they have detained journalist…
In brief Ethereum investment products lost $222 million last week, the most of any digital asset tracked by CoinShares. Total…
As he celebrated the 50th anniversary of Social Security, then–Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill (D–Mass.) hailed the program’s epic…
In brief American Bitcoin, the Trump brothers’ Bitcoin mining firm, eclipsed 7,000 BTC in total holdings. However, shares in the…
EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show tonight, Monday March 30, at 11 pm ET and…
from the who-needs-opsec-when-you-can-party-with-hockey-players dept Call me a sicko, but I’m almost always happy when a top-level government official’s communications get…
Good news in the battle between the federal government and the AI company Anthropic: A federal judge has temporarily blocked…
Trump Is Getting His Way in Latin America. But Bully Tactics Have a Cost—and the Bill Is Coming Due.
Dressed in a navy-blue suit and a light blue tie, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio flanking him on one…
In brief Tom Lee’s BitMine Immersion Technologies added around $146 million in ETH over the last week. Meanwhile, top Bitcoin…