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View More NewsIn New Mexico, Facebook and Instagram are considered a “public nuisance,” but letting artificial intelligence systems record and store young kids’ voices and score their reading prowess is state policy. Starting last school year, the state required all public schools to use Amira—a personified AI system designed to assess and instruct elementary school students—for mandatory literacy assessments, dyslexia screenings, and weekly tutoring sessions in kindergarten through second grade. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. As the 2026–27 school year drew to a start,…
Thailand is tightening oversight of crypto transfers, including transactions involving self-custodial wallets, as it moves to align with global Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards.Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued new Travel Rule regulations requiring digital asset operators to collect information about parties involved in crypto transfers, the regulator announced Wednesday.The rules will take effect on Feb. 27, 2027, giving crypto businesses nearly six months to develop systems for transmitting, receiving and monitoring transaction information.Thailand joins a growing global push to track who sends and receives crypto, as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) estimated that 83% of surveyed jurisdictions had…
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People in Canberra are typically quite polite, non-intrusive, and tolerant. That may be why the civil servants up the road from where I live don’t ask, “What the hell are you doing?” The doing for which I’m attracting sidelong glances is picking up garbage—specifically discarded cigarette packets. Not vape containers. Not cigar or cigarillo packages. Just empty packs of Manchester Sapphire Blue smokes, Winfield Original Classic, or one of the other 155 varieties that I’ve come across. Many of these packets have dark olive-green packaging, broken by ugly pictures of diseased flesh and unmarked by any information regarding the amount…
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Every large-cap token fell over the past 24 hours, and the high-beta majors gave up roughly triple what bitcoin did. Read the full article…
Core says the incident is contained and its planned forward upgrade will not roll back the network or reverse previously confirmed transactions. Read the…
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is reconsidering its earlier restriction on stablecoins issued across multiple jurisdictions, proposing a route for some jointly issued…
In brief DeFi Development Corp. is offering 2.2 million preferred shares at $9 each. CEO Joseph Onorati said most of the proceeds are expected…
In brief Top banking groups say the new Clarity Act language leaves loopholes regarding stablecoin yield. The compromise would ban direct yield on stablecoins…
from the seems-very-stable dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka is one of the most controversial figures…
In a recent Washington Post op ed, Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin Roth makes the case for legalizing kidney sales. Roth is a world-leading expert…
Mexico City, May 8, 2026—El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s administration must immediately unfreeze the bank accounts and property of El Faro’s shareholders and end…
With bitcoin holding above $80,000 and stocks pushing to fresh record highs, risk appetite spilled deeper into crypto markets Friday, lifting altcoins and blockchain…
Latest NewsPublishedMay 8, 2026The US banking regulator has already approved similar charter applications for Coinbase, Ripple Labs, BitGo, Circle, Fidelity Digital Assets and Paxos.Payward,…
In brief Apple and Intel reached a preliminary chip manufacturing agreement after more than a year of negotiations, per The Wall Street Journal. Intel…
Carmen Navas spent a year going from prison to prison looking for her son Víctor Hugo Quero Navas, who was arrested last year by Venezuela’s…