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View More NewsA few years ago, nuclear power looked doomed. Plants were shutting down. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won applause bragging about closing a nuclear plant “14 years ahead of schedule.” “Why would they applaud?” asks former nuclear engineer Ray Rothrock in my new video. “They shut down New York’s finest source of clean energy.” Rothrock has met with presidents, trying to persuade them to embrace nuclear power, but “nothing was ever addressed.” Until now. President Donald Trump ordered the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to speed up licensing of new plants. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D–R.I.) called that a “flagrant disregard…
In brief A UK government-commissioned review recommends the Judicial College prepare all judges, including magistrates, for a likely rise in cases involving AI-enabled fraud and money laundering using cryptocurrencies. The report warns that fraud may soon make up half of all crime in England and Wales, and cites estimates that more than half of investment scams now involve crypto-assets. It highlights the case of convicted fraudster Qian Zhimin, which produced the UK’s largest-ever crypto seizure of more than 61,000 BTC, to show the complexity now reaching the courts. A major UK review of fraud has recommended that judges and magistrates…
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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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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined four other press freedom and human rights organizations on Wednesday in calling on Bangladesh’s government to drop any…
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Coinbase has enabled direct rupee bank rails in India, making it easier for local customers to move money between bank accounts and crypto markets…
In brief BChat is an open-source privacy-preserving decentralized messaging app. The app minimizes metadata collection and does not require a phone number to register.…
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Bitcoin (BTC) heads into June with new local lows as the US-Iran war drives crypto market nerves.Iran ceasefire hopes hang in the balance as…
Police in Ohio arrested Waterford High School teacher Matthew Warden on two charges of assault for allegedly punching one student in the jaw and…
A security researcher who goes by 0xflorent worked with the team behind a 2016 Ethereum (ETH) ICO contract to unlock about $2 million in…