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View More NewsThe Committee to Protect Journalists joined partner organizations on Wednesday to mark Ashraf Omar’s second arrest anniversary by calling for his immediate release. In the letter, the signatories voice concern over the significant time that has passed since the Al-Manassa cartoonist was arrested in his home on July 22, 2024 and their refusal to accept Omar’s arbitrary detention, while awaiting a trial that “exploits anti-terrorism legislations for repressive purposes.” On November 15, 2025, the State Security Prosecution referred the case to the Cairo Criminal Court, charging Omar with “financing terrorism for the benefit of a terrorist group” and “participation in…
On a black volcanic beach, Christopher Nolan peers into a wheeled contraption that looks like a portable air-conditioner. The IMAX camera, weighing some 180 kilograms, is encased in a black box—a “blimp”—designed to muffle the camera’s sound. Unhoused, the machine is so loud that Matt Damon compared it to ‘a blender… in your face’. Nolan had used IMAX cameras for action scenes before, but this new casing let him do something he never could: film quiet dialogue, with the huge machine only inches from an actor’s face. The Odyssey, Nolan’s thirteenth feature film, is the first narrative feature shot entirely…
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I’ve often used the term “social panic” to describe the unmarked-graves claims that swept through Canada in 2021. For reasons described below, the term feels inadequate. But I can’t think of any word or phrase that better captures the spasm of manic self-denigration that unfolded following the purported discovery of 215 dead children (some “believed to be as young as three years old,” gullible reporters told us) on the grounds of a former Indigenous residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.Those claims, originally announced by Kamloops First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir, set off a frenzied rhetorical bidding war among pundits and…
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The crypto market rallied on reports suggesting the final hurdle for the long-awaited U.S. Clarity Act may have cleared. Eleanor Terrett, host of Crypto…
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In brief Shareholders voted by more than 90% to sell the company’s 668 BTC, return capital, and cancel its London Stock Exchange listing This…
Ethics has been the last major obstacle to the Clarity Act, which would create the first comprehensive federal framework for digital assets and split…
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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…
Trezor has integrated native stablecoin yield functionality into Trezor Suite, the hardware wallet provider’s desktop and mobile application, in a move that could make…
In brief Anthropic said it expects to bring its Claude Mythos AI model to customers “in the coming weeks” after completing additional tests. Claude…
from the at-least-someone-is-doing-something dept Thirty-five (thirty-five!) former federal judges are asking a current federal judge to reopen the case where Donald Trump sued his…
Bloomberg Law confirmed what we already knew: Judge Betsy is Judge Ross (you see what I did there). Eleanor Ross is the federal district…
Hyperliquid’s SPACEX-USDH perpetual contract suffered a violent flash crash on Thursday afternoon, plunging from an open of $2,277 to a low of $1,254, a…
May 28, 2026 – P2P.org, a blockchain infrastructure provider operating validators across 40+ proof-of-stake networks since 2018, today launched Syncro Data Stream, a real-time blockchain…