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View More NewsAthena Rem is a rising junior at the University of California, Los Angeles.Televangelist Jerry Falwell once confessed in an interview to drunken sex with his unconscious mother in an outhouse. Except it wasn’t a real interview. It was a fake Campari ad in a 1983 issue of adult magazine Hustler.Falwell sued the magazine and its publisher Larry Flynt for emotional distress, libel, and invasion of privacy. Flynt defended the ad’s publication as protected by the First Amendment. What came next remains one of the most famous free speech cases in American jurisprudence.Flynt won the case, Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988),…
In brief A new report from blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs says that crypto exchange HTX has kept operating under the same brand following UK sanctions, while rebuilding its on-chain infrastructure. HTX has rotated wallets across TRON, Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, and Solana, creating a “continuous moving target for compliance professionals,” TRM Labs said. The exchange told Decrypt the activity reflects “routine, security-driven platform operations,” and rejected any characterization implying otherwise. Crypto exchange HTX has rebuilt its underlying wallet infrastructure in the weeks since the UK sanctioned it, rotating deposit and hot wallets on a rapid cycle, blockchain intelligence firm…
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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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Cardano-based wallet SecondFi is preparing to shut down after a security breach exposed issues around wallet security and left hundreds of users awaiting recovery…
Balance Coin, a low-circulation algorithmic stablecoin meant to hold a dollar peg, crashed more than 99% on Wednesday after an attacker exploited a pricing…
US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to six sessions, bringing in about $930 million while remaining down $4.84 billion on a net…
OpenAI caught the anomaly internally, while Hugging Face’s team detected and contained it. It called the incident “unprecedented,” and said extensive security steps will…
from the miserable-spray-tanned-fuckwit dept Poll everyone you can. Even the most MAGA never dreamed up this scenario. There’s no single-issue voter whose kink is…
After a woman gave birth in a New York City courtroom earlier this month, New York lawmakers are pushing for anti-shackling bills that would…
Sui network, a layer 1 blockchain developed by Mysten Labs, is experiencing a network outage on Thursday after the project said its mainnet had…
For years, crypto has thrived on speculative capital flows and the explosive popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens and applications.That still holds true for…
In brief Standard Chartered highlighted a stark disparity between Ethereum’s current price and its growing network activity. Despite Ethereum underperforming compared to Bitcoin’s resilience,…
“Our seniors should not pay property taxes,” says Rep. Nancy Mace (R–S.C.). Normally, I’d advise against paying much attention to what Mace says and…
Axios reported that U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a draft 60-day memorandum of understanding to extend the ceasefire and begin talks around Iran’s nuclear…
Argentina’s government is moving to restrict banks, payment firms and crypto providers from serving unauthorized online gambling platforms as part of a broader crackdown…