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View More NewsJurrien Timmer, Fidelity’s director of global macro, says bitcoin is drifting toward the bottom edge of the model he has used to track it for years.That model is the power law, which plots bitcoin’s entire price history on a logarithmic chart bounded by three curves — an upper resistance line, a middle trendline, and a lower support line that has caught every major bottom since 2015.On Timmer’s latest chart the support line sits near $58,000, and bitcoin at about $62,700 is closing in on it.The lower panel is where he expects accumulation. It tracks how far bitcoin trades above or…
This was quickly fixed and disclosed as ‘CVE-2026-34219′ with credit to the team. The broader concern, however, was separating the agents’ real bugs from the ones that were confidently masquerading as such.”The surprise was how little of the work went into finding them, and how much went into telling the real bugs from the ones that just looked real,” wrote Nikos Baxevanis, who authored the post.The difficulty started with what an agent produces. A fuzzer, the standard tool that hurls malformed data at software until something breaks, returned a crash and a record of where it happened, which an engineer…
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Claire Lehmann sits down with Parnell Palme McGuinness—columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and senior research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies—to unpack her landmark report, Generation Trapped, on the collapsing life satisfaction of Australians aged 18–34.Parnell identifies six distinct “tribes” among young Australians—from disillusioned Progressive Identitarians to optimistic Strivers—and explains why a sense of control, not income, is the strongest predictor of happiness. The conversation ranges across why women are swinging toward One Nation, the East-West divide still shaping German politics, the missing men in the marriage debate, the manosphere and the collapse of dating…
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USDC stablecoin issuer Circle on Friday announced it received final approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish…
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…
The crypto industry has spent years convincing Washington that it deserves a seat at the table. Now, as Congress inches toward passing the CLARITY…
A recent records request revealed that a Canadian government department is working up a potential new federal strategy on misinformation. But the section explaining what…
NA Below is my list of speaking engagements for the summer of 2026. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the…
My father’s dissertation adviser emigrated from the USSR on the eve of his postdoctoral defence. In the Soviet Union, emigration was an act of…
Prediction market traders are increasingly wagering that bitcoin’s correction is far from over, even after the cryptocurrency tumbled toward $65,000 this week amid mounting…
Crypto is turning into a “contrarian bet” as institutional investors are being drawn to artificial intelligence stocks, says Bitwise chief investment officer Matt Hougan.“The…
In brief President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at strengthening U.S. cybersecurity with advanced AI tools. The order establishes a voluntary framework…
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XRP keeps finding bullish narratives underneath the surface, but price keeps ignoring them. Exchange balances are shrinking, ETF money is still coming into crypto,…
Modern artificial intelligence-powered robots are impressive in their capabilities, but are still years away from replacing humans as they can’t yet adapt to changing…