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View More NewsMorning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors fall 2-5% after US strikes at Iran ending ceasefire; BTC at $62k Vanguard is hiring a head of digital assets as it capitulates into crypto SEC plans to introduce its crypto rules as soon as this month Zcash jumped 10% on Tachyon Upgrade progress shows it will be free of…
Over the course of 12 days last month, the Supreme Court upheld the gun rights of cannabis consumers, rejected Hawaii’s default rule against firearms on private property open to the public, and agreed to address the constitutionality of “assault weapon” bans. That flurry of Second Amendment activity underlines the point that supposedly sensible gun regulations are not necessarily consistent with the right to arms as it was historically understood. When Congress enacted the Gun Control Act in 1968, legislators took it for granted that an “unlawful user” of marijuana, depressants, stimulants, or narcotics should not be allowed to own a…
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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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In brief Anthropic removed hidden tracking markers from Claude Code after researchers discovered code used to identify some Chinese users. The company said the…
EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, said it raised $76 million in a Series C funding round led by SBI Holdings.The company plans…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced proposed rule changes that its chair said would “help clarify the regulatory framework for crypto assets…
In brief Tether will invest $20 million in a strategic financing round for Mercado Bitcoin, a Brazilian crypto platform, to expand blockchain-based financial services…
XRP keeps finding buyers near major support, but it keeps losing support anyway. The latest drop pushed the token back toward the same $1.10…
AI company Anthropic on Tuesday released the first public version of its powerful Claude Mythos model, called Fable 5, with some crypto users worried…
Even if President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project is illegal, the Justice Department argued last week, federal courts are powerless to stop it.…
from the america-isn’t-denmark dept Back in January of this year, RFK Jr. clearly strong armed the CDC into changing the childhood vaccination schedules in…
Protests over poor living conditions for detainees at Delaney Hall immigration detention center erupted over the weekend, leading to the arrest of over 80…
Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread.~Michael Sandel British prime minister Keir Starmer doesn’t believe the birthplace of modern liberalism can defend liberal…
Circle Internet’s (CRCL) wrapped version of bitcoin BTC$61,456.03, cirBTC, is live on Ethereum as the company best known for its dollar-pegged stablecoin takes on…
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter takes a look at some recent state-level policy changes in New York,…