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View More NewsThen-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK’s ambitions to be a “global cryptoasset hub” all the way back in 2022. Since then, that goal has seemed more like a distant aspiration rather than actuality. But several recent announcements suggest the gap between fantasy and reality might finally be narrowing.Within days of each other, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Bank of England have taken major regulatory steps toward proving that the UK is serious about that goal, setting out rules designed to create a workable climate for both consumer and institutional crypto adoption.The FCA finalized their crypto rules last month,…
from the truth-and-fiction-and-ai dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Last month, my colleagues and I published an investigation into a Texas oil refinery startup, America First Refining, that had secretly gotten investment from Donald Trump Jr. We discovered a saga involving the Trump administration’s tariff policy, sanctioned Russian oil and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo. At the center of the story was the CEO of the refinery company, Texas businessman John Calce. We’d spent weeks examining Calce — pulling old lawsuits, property records, corporate registry filings — and had pieced together a portrait of what appeared…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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from the the-censorship-police-are-getting-bolder dept Another senior Trump administration official is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications…
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In brief The Federal Reserve named Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to a task force studying AI’s impact on jobs and productivity. Sharma joins Marc…
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NEAR Protocol (NEAR) declined 15.2% and Internet Computer (ICP) dropped 13.1%, leading the index lower. Read the full article here
Jonathan Gould, the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) nominated by Donald Trump, implied that the US president had not ordered him to approve or give…
In brief Anthropic says Claude now authors more than 80% of the code merged into the company’s codebase. The AI startup says engineers are…
President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless mass spying power must…