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View More NewsIn brief Thai police arrested two people over a scheme that laundered romance-scam proceeds through crypto, using cross-chain swaps to hide the trail, Interpol said. One suspect, aged 20, controlled a wallet that processed more than $122.5 million in 10 months. The arrests came out of Operation First Light 2026, a four-month push across 97 countries and territories that led to 5,811 arrests and the interception of $293 million in illicit assets. Interpol said it identified more than 142,000 victims and blocked over 31,000 bank accounts, using its I-GRIP stop-payment tool to check the flows of fiat and virtual assets.…
This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.The most important decisions about our lives can turn on factors ranging from unfair to downright absurd. In medieval England, a criminal facing the gallows could save their neck by reciting Psalm 51 from memory — a literacy test meant to identify clergy that became a famous loophole for accused commoners. In France, employers have long sorted job candidates by handwriting analysis, a method researchers later found predicts job performance no better than chance. In Israel, a famous study of parole boards found that favorable rulings peaked right after the judges had lunch…
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