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View More NewsDays of bearish positioning unraveled in about two hours on Tuesday night as bitcoin surged past $72,700 after Trump confirmed a two-week ceasefire with Iran via Truth Social just before his 8 p.m. ET deadline.The move triggered $595 million in total crypto liquidations across 118,489 traders, according to CoinGlass data. Short positions accounted for $427 million versus $168 million in longs, a ratio of more than 2.5-to-1 that reflects just how heavily the market was positioned for further downside heading into the deadline.The largest single liquidation was an $11.79 million BTC-USDT short on Binance. Bitcoin accounted for $245 million in…
In brief Actress Milla Jovovich says she helped build an AI knowledge tool called MemPalace, inspired by the ancient memory palace mnemonic technique. The system organizes documents in virtual rooms instead of relying on keyword searches. Jovovich designed the concept while Bitcoin lending head Ben Sigman engineered the system, according to an Instagram post. Not content with battling aliens and zombie hordes, Milla Jovovich, the actress best known for roles in The Fifth Element and the Resident Evil franchise, has shifted her focus to artificial intelligence.In a video posted to Instagram on Monday, Jovovich said she spent months developing the…
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On March 26, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced a new policy that ensures female Olympic sports categories will be reserved for actual female athletes, as opposed to trans-identified men. Under the new policy, women will be required to prove their eligibility with a cheek swab or blood test—a simple one-time procedure that’s less intrusive than the drug-testing regimens that Olympians have submitted to for decades. The new policy will be warmly greeted by the substantial majority of ordinary people—on both sides of the political spectrum—who embrace the common-sense view that men should not be allowed to steal roster and…
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