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View More NewsIn March 2000, Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor watched more than $6 billion disappear from his fortune in a single day.MicroStrategy’s shares had plummeted more than 60%, thrusting the thirty-five year old software entrepreneur into the center of the dot-com crash. The company later settled civil fraud charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over its accounting practices without admitting or denying wrongdoing. MicroStrategy did not cause the dot-com bubble to burst, but the saga was one of the era’s high-profile corporate blowups and the company became a symbol of the periods excesses and risks. Now, more than 25…
The age-adjusted cancer mortality rate in the United States continues to fall. The decrease is largely the result of a combination of the continuing decline in smoking, the development of earlier detection diagnostics, and ever more effective treatments. Cancer Statistics, 2026 The experience of former Sen. Ben Sasse (R–Neb.) is an example of the development of more effective treatments. In December, Sasse was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer and given just a few months to live. His continuing survival can likely be chalked up to participating in a clinical trial of the new anti-cancer drug daraxonrasib that targets a…
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Four years ago, a colleague asked me whether I could chair a debate with some guy called ‘Gary Stevenson’, who was, apparently, an anti-inequality campaigner and a YouTube commentator of some description. I had never heard of Stevenson, but accepted. The debate went all right, even though it was mostly a case of talking past each other (which, given that I was the moderator, was probably my fault). It was otherwise not especially memorable. Britain does not exactly have a shortage of left-wing media figures and activists. In the first half of the 2010s, there was the campaign for a…
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Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of…
US Senate consideration of the Digital Asset Clarity (CLARITY) Act is likely to resume as members reconvene this week after an extended Memorial Day…
In brief Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said that Toncoin (TON) will be rebanded as Gram, the coin’s original planned name. Durov said in May…
From Wenzler v. U.S. Coast Guard, decided today by Seventh Circuit Judge Michael Scudder, joined by Judges Amy St. Eve and Joshua Kolar: James…
On 15 April, forty out of 47 Democratic Senators voted for Bernie Sanders’s motion to block arms sales to Israel. Prominent Jewish and non-Jewish…
Bitmine Immersion (BMNR), the largest publicly-traded Ethereum treasury firm, bought 26,497 ether (ETH) last week, sharply reducing the pace of accumulation after making its…
Key takeaways:Whale’s bullish positioning in the Bitcoin derivatives market is failing to counter the heavy spot selling pressure. The slight discount on USDT indicates capital…
In brief NVIDIA unveiled Nemotron 3 Ultra at Computex on June 1, a 550-billion-parameter open-weight model. The model delivers over 300 tokens per second…
from the running-out-of-lawyers dept The DOJ has gone past bleeding talent. Now, it’s just bleeding whatever. It’s one thing to do a bit of…