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View More NewsSubscribe to the Free Future NewsletterOr get immediate notifications of new posts via SubstackFree Future home Videos from drone flights by the San Francisco Police Department were accidentally streamed onto the open internet, providing a revealing snapshot of today’s police “drones as first responder” programs. The videos were discovered by two security researchers, who captured 48 hours of drone flight video and shared it with Wired Magazine reporters, who in turn shared it with me so that I could provide the magazine with comment for their story. (I wrote an ACLU white paper on these drone programs in 2023.) Watching…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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Bitcoin (BTC) dipped below $62,500 at Friday’s Wall Street open as stocks took a fresh hit from the US-Iran war.Key points:Bitcoin gives traders a…
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Japanese financial services group SBI Holdings has acquired a majority stake in Holdbuild, the parent company of Singaporean crypto platform Coinhako, after receiving regulatory…
In brief Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tencent developed ProAct, an AI agent designed to predict likely user needs before users ask.…
About a month after federal prosecutors accused former CNN anchor Don Lemon and eight other people of violating civil rights laws by disrupting a…
The Ethereum Foundation, the nonprofit organization that has long served as the closest thing Ethereum has to a central steward, has been facing renewed…
The France-based semiconductor company that announced a move into crypto is “no longer pursuing” a treasury strategy after less than a year.In a Thursday…
In brief Kalshi sued Minnesota to block the state’s new law making prediction markets operations a felony. The lawsuit aligns with the Trump administration,…
With the backlash to wokeness in full swing, it was probably inevitable that some political figures would come to regret the things they said…
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Latest developments: Bitwise is leaning into Hyperliquid as one of crypto’s breakout platforms this cycle.Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen said the firm is…