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View More NewsSold to the public as a foreign surveillance tool, Section 702 is the law has let intelligence agencies spy on millions of Americans’ private conversations without a warrant. Despite years of revelations about this law’s misuse, Congress has repeatedly reauthorized Section 702 without meaningful reform. Until this month, that is, when it finally lapsed in a major victory for privacy. In our latest EFFector newsletter, we’re covering the expiration of Section 702 and what happens next. JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER For over 35 years, EFFector has been your guide to understanding the intersection of technology, civil liberties, and the law. This issue covers a disastrous plan to overhaul the…
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 Decrypt. And check out our new daily news show covering all of the top stories in 5 minutes, downloadable on Apple Pod or Spotify.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors flat; BTC at $62.7k ETH Foundation to cut budget by 40%, layoff 20% of staff BlackRock formally recommends 1-2% portfolio allocation to BTC Hayes’ Maelstrom publishes bull case for CARDS token (CARDS +15%) Meta to enter prediction market space with “Arena” 🎰 Meta Is Building a Prediction MarketMark Zuckerberg wants…
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Our rockets can find Halley’s Comet and reach Venus.But our fridges don’t work. ~Mikhail Gorbachev In the hills of northeast China, the “State Guest Mansions” sit empty and silent, like the well-preserved ruins of some lost civilisation. There are 260 of these mansions, huge but tediously uniform, each of them close to completion. The project was abandoned a couple of years after launch in 2010. Now local farmers plough the surrounding land. Cattle roam the villas, along with the occasional feral dog. Inside, urban explorers climb through the open jambs and fly their drones down marble hallways, creating creepy home…
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Financial infrastructure provider OpenPayd said Wednesday that it has secured authorization under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), allowing it to offer…
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New York, June 24, 2026—Taliban authorities must allow broadcaster Tamadon TV to resume operations without interference and stop their escalating crackdown on Afghanistan’s independent…
Analysts track this using a metric called spent transaction outputs (STXO), which, in simple terms, tracks the movement of BTC on the blockchain. An…
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from the total-capitulation dept If there’s one thing that Donald Trump has shown over the years, it’s that he will get his most sycophantic…
AI-generated image. Today, in United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment prevents the federal government from banning gun ownership…
The win rate of a cycle-aware approach is lower than buy-and-hold, winning not by being right more often, but by avoiding the months when…
Bitcoin lending platform Ledn has expanded its services to include Tether Gold (XAUt), allowing investors to hold the tokenized asset and borrow against it…
In brief Everyday investors that have allocated savings to Strategy’s STRC have been drawn to double-digit yields, but the preferred stock’s volatility has created…
This evening, I will be speaking to students with The Fund for American Studies. As is my usual custom with June trips to DC,…
The Ethereum Foundation’s (EF) co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang shared that she has stepped down from her role leading the organization effective immediately, in a…