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View More NewsIn brief Developers are beginning to test the proposed XRP Ledger Lending Protocol, Ripple said Monday. If approved by network validators, then the dual upgrade would allow network participants to put digital assets to work that currently sit idle. XRP’s price recently fell to its lowest level since November 2024. XRP’s native blockchain inched closer on Monday toward functionality allowing institutions to borrow and lend digital assets directly on-chain, with Ripple announcing that developers can start experimenting with the XRPL Lending Protocol within a testing environment.In a blog post, the firm outlined how two technical specifications dubbed XLS-65 and XLS-66…
On Monday in Chatrie v. United States, the Supreme Court held that government-ordered analysis of data collected via Google’s Location History feature, which tracks the whereabouts of cellphone users, qualifies as a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Justice Neil Gorsuch concurred in that judgment, but he wrote separately to reiterate his longstanding critique of two dubious concepts that have figured prominently in the Court’s Fourth Amendment reasoning for half a century: the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test and the third-party doctrine. In the 1967 case Katz v. United States, the Supreme Court held that electronic surveillance of telephone conversations…
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On 6 June, a play that has been decried as too “toxic” and “problematic” for the age of #MeToo ended an acclaimed, sold-out run at London’s National Theatre. A filmed version of the production also began screening in cinemas across the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and other countries from 25 June. The play is Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the (now-updated) 1985 adaptation of Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos de Laclos’s eponymous 1782 novel.The book has also been denounced plenty of times since it first appeared—back then, it was described with words like “execrable” or “infamous.” Its authorship reportedly got Laclos,…
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Strategy is adopting a new capital framework that allows it to monetize part of its Bitcoin holdings to fund dividends, build cash reserves and…
In brief California signed a deal with Anthropic giving all state agencies and local governments access to the Claude AI assistant at a 50%…
from the like-a-fish-in-water dept A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court’s six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent rule on whose votes…
“Most blockchain infrastructure was originally built for a single-user, single-key model, one private key controls everything, and if that key is lost or stolen,…
In brief Federal authorities say they disrupted an alleged plot to attack the White House UFC Freedom 250 event using explosive drones and shooters.…
from the not-great-for-reality dept This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. During a Washington Nationals baseball game on May 17,…
A very short excerpt from yesterday’s Seventh Circuit opinion in Betts v. Boone County, written by Chief Judge Michael Brennan and joined by Judge…
Strategy’s (MSTR) dividend-paying preferred stock, STRC, closed at $91.79 on Tuesday, its third-lowest since trading began in July 2025, amid lower bitcoin prices and…
Key takeaways:Bitcoin derivatives show weak conviction with 2% futures basis and elevated put options premium signaling caution.Institutional buying via $86 million ETF inflows plus…
In brief Alibaba unveiled the Qwen-Robot Suite, a trio of AI models designed to handle robot navigation, manipulation, and physics-based world simulation through a…
This week, police in Mississippi shot into a car, trying to stop a fleeing suspect. In the process, they killed a 1-year-old boy and…
The report comes amid a dramatic shift in the bitcoin mining industry. Following the collapse in mining profitability after the 2024 halving, many operators…