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View More NewsProsecutors have charged former Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Police Officer Deion Alexander with multiple traffic-related offenses, including first-degree vehicular homicide and reckless driving, following an on-duty crash that killed a pedestrian in February. At the time, Alexander was responding to a distress call from a fellow officer. Police say that on the way, he drove through 11 red lights in just 93 seconds, and traffic camera footage shows he entered an intersection against a red light and drove into oncoming traffic, causing a crash that killed one person and injured others. Investigators say he was using his lights…
Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are among the Big Tech firms named as founding members of the newly launched x402 Foundation, established to govern and standardize the x402 protocol for agentic AI payments on crypto and fiat rails. The x402 Foundation was launched on Thursday by the open-source software development non-profit Linux Foundation with the help of Coinbase, the creators of the x402 protocol.Other founding members of the x402 Foundation include American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Cloudflare, Shopify, Stripe, Circle, Base, Polygon Labs, Solana Foundation, Thirdweb and KakaoPay.”The internet was built on open protocols,” Jim Zemlin, CEO of the Linux Foundation,…
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I travel a lot, and this is one of my dad’s favourite things to brag about over coffee with his mates. Previous destinations—Mexico, Colorado, Bali—all elicited curiosity or envy. But now I was going to Israel for the first time, and his friends’ reaction was telling. “Why the hell would she want to go there?” they asked. Maybe they genuinely believe Israel is a warzone where people run to and from bomb shelters all day every day. But more likely, I suspect, they’re making a moral judgement, suggesting that visiting a country shows complicity in its perceived evils. I am very…
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