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View More NewsAs the U.S. begins a “new war” against Iran, lawmakers want to know: Why did a Tomahawk cruise missile strike an elementary school in Minab, reportedly killing more than 100 Iranian schoolchildren? Since the February 28 deadly missile attack on the school, calls for transparency surrounding the strike have largely quieted, as national attention remains focused on each new round of strikes and control over the Strait of Hormuz. In late March, a group of lawmakers requested a bipartisan investigation of the incident, but the government has released little to no information about the strike. On Monday, a group of…
Shares of CleanSpark surged as much as 22% on Tuesday after the Bitcoin miner announced a 20-year data center lease in Georgia, reflecting its ongoing expansion into digital infrastructure beyond cryptocurrency mining.CleanSpark said it signed a 20-year triple-net lease with an undisclosed investment-grade global technology company for a 175-megawatt data center at its Sandersville, Georgia, campus. The company estimates the deal will generate approximately $6.6 billion in contracted revenue over the initial term, increasing to $11.6 billion if the tenant exercises two five-year extension options.Under the agreement, the tenant will install computing infrastructure at the site, with phased deliveries expected…
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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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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…
Today, the Society for the Rule of Law published my article on “The Case Against Mass Deportation,” on its Checks and Balances substack. Here…
For years, Strategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor insisted he would never sell bitcoin BTC$71,189.43.Yet on Monday, the largest company disclosed that it sold…
The Dogecoin Foundation’s corporate arm has partnered with Paxos to integrate DOGE across its brokerage and custody infrastructure, potentially expanding access to the memecoin…