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View More NewsThanks to Wikipedia for the koala photo. From Remus Enterprises 1, LLC v. Breece, decided Thursday by the D.C. Court of Appeals (Judge Shanker, joined by Judges Easterly and Ruiz): Punctuation matters. At the heart of this case is the placement of a comma. Appellant Remus Enterprises 1, LLC (“Remus 2023”) sued appellee Quinn Breece in Superior Court asserting tort claims arising out of Remus 2023’s alleged ownership of, and desire to sell, a parcel of property located at 3308 16th Street, NE, in Washington, D.C. But a consent judgment in another case established that a different entity with a…
The $292 million exploit of Kelp DAO and the subsequent fallout across crypto lending markets hit decentralized finance (DeFi) at a pivotal moment.Just as Wall Street firms pushed deeper into onchain markets, the incident has exposed how fragile parts of the system remain and how much work is left before institutions can scale their exposure.In the weeks leading up to the hack, private credit giant Apollo Global Management (APO), which oversees $900 billion, inked a strategic partnership with Morpho to support lending markets with an option to acquire governance tokens of the protocol, too. Around the same time, the world’s…
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In April 2020, I published an essay in these pages investigating attempts to boost minority (specifically black) enrolment in America’s medical schools. These attempts consisted mostly of subtle bookkeeping gimmickry that under-counted grade point averages and Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) scores while giving greater weight to “non-cognitive skills.” A month after that essay appeared, in Minneapolis, a white cop knelt on a black man’s neck for nine minutes and sparked one of the greatest moral panics in modern American history.Declining Med School Standards in a Time of PandemicThe language of the social justice Left began appearing in diversity statements…
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The US CLARITY Act, which aims to provide the US crypto industry with more regulatory clarity, could now move closer to becoming law after…
From Oregon Court of Appeals Judge Ramón Pagán, joined by Judges Robyn Aoyagi and Jacqueline Kamins, Wednesday in Estens v. Wells: [In a child…
Solana-based decentralized finance yield protocol Carrot said Thursday that it is shutting down permanently, becoming one of the first DeFi protocols to fall due…
On February 28, President Donald Trump authorized military strikes against Iran. It has now been over 60 days since the first bombs fell. Legally,…
Key takeaways:Negative Bitcoin funding rates indicate bearishness, yet whales maintain steady long-to-short ratios at major exchanges.Inflation concerns and tech corporate earnings remain the biggest…
In brief The Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady for a third time this year as conflict in the Middle East continues…
Last November, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a Department of Energy energy efficiency standard for…
As fully expected by markets, the U.S. Federal Reserve held its benchmark fed funds rate range steady at 3.50%-3.75% on Wednesday, marking the fourth…
More than 70% of crypto investors believe that Bitcoin (BTC) is undervalued, according to a recent Global Investor Survey conducted by Coinbase and Glassnode.The…
In brief Talkie-1930 is a 13B open-weight LLM trained on 260 billion tokens of text published before January 1, 1931. The hard knowledge cutoff…
The article is here; the Introduction: In recent years, a lively scholarly discourse has emerged about whether and how the U.S. First Amendment protects…
For a decade, the crypto industry has gathered at Consensus to discuss what was coming next. This year, something different is happening. The future…