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View More NewsIn brief Covered websites must verify Utah visitors’ ages even when VPNs conceal their location. Verification providers cannot retain identifying information after granting access. Operators face penalties for violations and cannot provide VPN instructions to help users bypass age checks. Utah is testing new ground in the digital rights battle, becoming the first state to directly target VPN use for age verification.The state will now require websites that host adult material to verify visitors’ ages even when VPNs hide their location, putting operators on the hook for determining whether users are physically inside the state.Myriad: Who will top Spotify in…
In brief Bitcoin reclaimed $80,000, trading near $80,270 and up close to 3% over 24 hours, as XRP, Ethereum, and BNB rallied alongside a broader stock market advance. Fed Governor Christopher Waller signaled Thursday he could support holding rates steady, pulling September rate-hike odds down to 50.4% from 63.2% a day earlier, per CME FedWatch. CoinGlass data shows more than $500 million in crypto liquidations over 24 hours, with short sellers accounting for over $415 million of that as rising prices forced them to buy back positions. The crypto market—including Bitcoin and altcoins like XRP, Ethereum, and BNB—is riding a…
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Gillo Pontecorvo’s film The Battle of Algiers was first screened at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 1966. I saw it several months after it was released in North America in September 1967 while I was an undergraduate at York University in Toronto. The political and cultural turmoil of the late 1960s was in full swing, and the film made a deep impression on my friends and me. We immediately understood that this was a seminal piece of cinema—a compelling work of art about a compelling historical event—and it quickly became an iconic exploration of the revolutionary anticolonialism that…
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