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View More NewsIn brief Senator Warren sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding answers over Grok’s Pentagon access Security agencies have warned about Grok’s risks, but the Pentagon appears to be pushing ahead anyway. Grok’s history includes lurid deepfake images of minors, antisemitic outputs, and leaked conversations. Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to know how a chatbot that allegedly generated millions of deepfake images—including compromising images depicting minors—ended up with keys to the Pentagon’s most classified systems.On Sunday, Warren sent a four-page letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding answers about the Department of Defense’s decision to give Elon Musk’s xAI…
Mastercard has agreed to acquire stablecoin infrastructure company BVNK in a deal valued at up to $1.8 billion, further expanding into blockchain-based payments.The deal includes up to $300 million in contingent payments and is intended to strengthen Mastercard’s ability to connect fiat payment rails with onchain transactions, the company said on Tuesday.“We expect that most financial institutions and fintechs will in time provide digital currency services, be it with stablecoins or tokenized deposits,” Jorn Lambert, chief product officer at Mastercard, said.BVNK, founded in 2021, provides infrastructure that allows businesses to send and receive payments across major blockchain networks in more…
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A Review of Sex and Style: Literary Criticism and Gender in Early Modern England by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, 216 pages, Princeton UP (September 2025). The seventeenth-century English poet and playwright Aphra Behn (1640–89) was one of the first women to make a living from writing. Her life was extraordinary, although many details are obscure. We know she was born in 1640, probably the daughter of a barber in Kent, and was briefly married to a Dutch or German man whose surname she used professionally. She worked as a spy in Antwerp for Charles II following the Stuart Restoration, where she used…
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Michael Saylor’s Strategy is using its preferred stock, STRC, to buy Bitcoin (BTC) at an accelerating pace. But can this create a more powerful…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ended its civil enforcement action against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji and several related defendants, saying the decision…
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While How to Fix the Internet is on hiatus, we wanted to share a great conversation with you from last week. EFF Executive Director…
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from the forfeiting-the-future dept It has long been clear: Trump needs to be removed from office before he can inflict even more damage than…
São Paulo, March 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Brazilian authorities to end the police investigation against journalist Luís Pablo Conceição…
Artificial intelligence-linked cryptocurrencies extended their surge Monday after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang laid out the company’s vision for the next phase of AI infrastructure…
T. Rowe Price, the $1.8 trillion asset manager best known for managing mutual funds and retirement accounts, has amended the registration statement for its…
In brief A viral claim that ChatGPT helped cure a dog’s cancer oversimplifies a complex scientific effort. Human researchers, not AI, sequenced the genome,…
OpenSea co-founder Devin Finzer said Monday that the timeline for the launch of the highly anticipated SEA token is being pushed back, as the…
Key points:Sellers will attempt to halt the recovery at $74,508, but if buyers bulldoze their way through, the rally may reach $84,000. Select major altcoins…