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View More Newsfrom the community-funded-films dept Walled Culture the book (digital versions available free) is about the incompatibility of the traditional copyright system with the digital world, and its failure to reward creators fairly. That raises the question of what might replace it, and the book’s last chapter offers one solution in the form of true fans. These are people who love an artist’s work and are happy to support it directly. This allows those works to be made available for no cost, since they have already been funded by fans. That, in turn, means creations can be shared – no need for…
In brief Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced a native non-custodial Gram wallet is rolling out to all Telegram apps this summer, targeting more than 1 billion users with instant, zero-fee crypto transactions. Gram, Telegram’s native crypto, jumped roughly 7% on the news. The coin is still a long way offs from its highs, and 88% down from May levels. Pavel Durov has a big promise to keep before summer ends. Telegram’s founder announced on Tuesday that the messaging app—think WhatsApp but larger, with over 1 billion monthly active users—will roll out a native non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet across every version of…
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A review of Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov; 243 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux (April 2026)Omer Bartov, a prominent historian at Brown University, was born to a solidly left-wing Zionist family in Kibbutz ‘Ein Hahoresh, south of Haifa, in 1954. (By chance, I was also born in ‘Ein Hahoresh, six years earlier; also by chance, both of us did our IDF service in the Nahal (Infantry) Corps and both at some point were wounded. And both of us did our PhDs in Oxbridge in European history). Omer’s father, Hanoch Bartov, was born in Palestine in 1926 to Polish Jewish…
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from the dysfunctional-government dept Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop…
But the larger pull is simpler: AI is where the speculative money and investors’ attention are now going. The capital that once chased crypto…
Researchers at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that dollar-backed stablecoins are creating a new form of “digital dollarization” that appears largely unaffected…
In brief XRP jumped 3.25% to $1.1485, ranking third among top-50 performers on the day, behind Ondo and Cardano. Reports that Trump agreed to…
In brief Sui’s layer-1 blockchain is currently suffering another major network outage. The network’s engineers have identified the issue and are rolling out a…
Right now, tens of thousands of Americans with end-stage kidney disease spend years waiting for a viable transplant, which are rare and mostly come…
Stablecoin giant Tether’s U.S.-focused digital dollar token USAT (USAT) expanded more than sixfold month-over-month in April, it still lags far behind its rivals.According to…
US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce said financial privacy is becoming increasingly undervalued in US regulation, warning against treating privacy-preserving technologies…
In brief Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the AI company at $965 billion. The company said annualized revenue…
from the corruption-kills dept There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade…
California’s onerous and easily exploitable environmental review law is being pushed to new levels of absurdity by unionized state workers who are threatening to…
Crypto trading firm FalconX has confidentially filed a draft S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the initial step toward a…