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View More NewsIn brief Zcash and Midnight are among the altcoins notching notable gains over the past day as Bitcoin topped $75,000 Tuesday morning. While some experts suggest a shift in investor behavior, others remain cautious. Lack of support from spot buying could undo the recent gains, Decrypt was told. Altcoins in the artificial intelligence and privacy sectors recorded significant gains following Bitcoin’s extended recovery rally on Monday, triggering a broader risk-on rotation across crypto markets.Zcash surged 17.9% over the past 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data, while Midnight and Monero, posted gains of 4.1% and 3.3% on the day respectively. Meanwhile, AI…
In the previous essay in this four-part series on the impact of the Second World War in Southeast Asia, I looked at the widespread violence, scarcity, and militarisation that characterised the Japanese occupation. This third essay will focus on the experiences of individual countries under the occupation and examine how local nationalist movements were cautiously co-opted by the Japanese.Japan’s Conquest Shattered European Rule in Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia in World War II, Part One: Japanese Conquests and British DisgraceTerror and TransformationSoutheast Asia in World War II, Part Two: The Japanese Occupation and Its RepercussionsThe Japanese occupiers had an ambivalent relationship with…
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A Review of Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, 216 pages, Princeton UP (September 2025). The seventeenth-century English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first women to make a living from writing. Her life was extraordinary, although many details are obscure. We know she was born in 1640, probably the daughter of a barber in Kent, and was briefly married to a Dutch or German man whose surname she used professionally. She worked as a spy in Antwerp for Charles II following the Stuart Restoration, where she used…
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As AI agents increasingly transact, shop, and act autonomously online — a market that can reach $3 trillion to $5 trillion by 2030 —…
Bitcoin (BTC) is closing in on its average entry price for US spot BTC exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors at $79,900. The narrowing gap between…
In brief Tim Scott said a compromise on stablecoin yield—key to the stalled crypto market structure bill—could emerge by the end of the week.…
from the seems-bad dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law…
In brief A now-estranged wife is alleged to have stolen $172 million in Bitcoin from her husband. A court filing alleges that she used…
from the blame-it-on-sassafras-patterdale dept We’ve been covering the growing parade of lawyers submitting AI-hallucinated case citations to courts for a while now. It keeps…
Paul Ehrlich, the leading false prophet of inevitable environmental doom and author of the infamous The Population Bomb, has died at age 93. Why…
T. Rowe Price has filed to hold a broad set of digital assets in its new exchange-traded fund (ETF), including bitcoin, ether, dogecoin, and…
Bitmine Immersion Technologies has accelerated the pace of its Ether purchases in recent weeks, chairman Tom Lee said Monday, following the company’s over-the-counter purchase…
In brief Buterin says running two separate Ethereum clients adds unnecessary complexity for independent validators. The Nimbus team recently merged both clients into a…
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in…
from the bribes-for-the-king dept We’ve discussed at length how Trump’s “fix” for TikTok’s problems basically involved forcing the sale of the platform to his…