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View More NewsSome excerpts from today’s very long opinion in Pernell v. Fla. Bd. of Governors of State Univ. by Judge Britt Grant, joined by Judge Charles Wilson; note that the leading Eleventh Circuit precedent on this is Bishop v. Aronov, which both opinions discuss in considerable detail:[A.] The provision at issue here disallows any “training or instruction that espouses, promotes, advances, inculcates, or compels” students at Florida’s public colleges and universities to believe any of eight concepts relating to topics like race and sex: Members of one race, color, national origin, or sex are morally superior to members of another race,…
“To deliver on President Trump’s goal to ensure that the United States is the crypto capital of the world, we are embracing innovation to bring more products onshore, creating clear rules of the road for capital raising with crypto assets, and providing clarity as to how market participants can custody and facilitate trading of tokenized securities onchain,” Atkins said in a statement on Tuesday, mentioning his agency’s crypto agenda before any other specific rulemaking effort.As the process to advance a crypto market structure bill has languished in Congress, the SEC has been a bright spot for the industry’s regulatory hopes,…
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Science does not often advance in sudden epiphanies that yield “Eureka” moments. More typical are years of failed experiments, dogged hypothesis-testing, and incremental discoveries that are, at best, inconclusive. And then, sometimes, eventually, the accumulated knowledge results in a breakthrough. Two recent examples are stunning advances in cancer medicine—one for pancreatic cancer, the other for melanoma—that are rewriting what doctors can promise their patients. But to understand why these achievements matter so profoundly, it is instructive to appreciate how long they took.A Pill That Doubled Survival for the Disease That Kills Almost EveryonePancreatic cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer…
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Bitcoin is trading in a market that’s getting harder to define.Hovering around $64,000 at the time of writing, Bitcoin is down by almost 50%…
In brief MediaFuse, the PR newswire group behind crypto-focused Chainwire, has launched TechnologyWire, a press-release distribution network for the tech sector. The service is…
from the the-lobbyist-with-the-most-money-wins dept Earlier this year I noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking…
Bitcoin BTC$63,070.96 fell on Tuesday after chalking out a six-day winning streak, the longest since March. The gains, in any case, looked fragile when…
from the rebuilding-a-better-internet dept Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about “the boring internet,” discussing how the internet that…
From today’s opinion by Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué A. Lett (S.D. Fla.) in Trump v. BBC: On December 15, 2025, Plaintiff initiated this action, and…
New York, June 10, 2026 —The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Azerbaijan to drop charges against journalists and other individuals associated with leading…
The customer experience industry will become a $5 trillion market by 2030, according to Netomi founder and CEO Puneet Mehta, who says that growth…
Prediction markets overtook onchain gambling for the first time in the opening quarter of 2026, recording $36.6 billion in volume compared with gambling’s $14…
In brief Instant crypto swaps enable crypto holders to convert one token to another, either using a centralized exchange, a DEX, or a non-custodial…
from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept The Trump administration has thrown billions at purging non-white people from this country. Most of that has ended up in…
iPhones may have slightly exacerbated an already underway drop in unintended pregnancies among teens. That’s the big finding in a new working paper published…