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View More NewsFrom Pennsylvania appellate court in Adewale v. Adewale, decided by Judge Correale Stevens and joined by Judge Anne Lazarus and Jack Panella on June 22, but just posted on Westlaw in the last couple of days: Wife claims the trial court erred in determining that the parties’ marriage was void ab initio based on its finding that Wife was married to another individual at the time of the parties’ purported marriage. {Although we affirm the trial court’s order finding the parties’ marriage to be void, we refer to the parties as “Husband” and “Wife” for ease of review.} … The…
A total of nine companies have formed a consortium pledging a combined $15 million over three years to support Bitcoin’s security research and open-source development.Companies in the newly formed Bitcoin Security Consortium include major crypto market participants, including BlackRock, Coinbase, Strategy, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, Block, Blockstream, Fidelity Digital Assets and Galaxy.The group will focus partly on preparing Bitcoin for advances in quantum computing and will publish material tracking the state of Bitcoin security work for investors and the public.The $15 million will not be held or allocated by the consortium; instead, members will choose which developers, researchers or organizations…
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In this episode of Quillette Cetera, Zoe Sankey speaks with Rachel Moiselle, a doctoral student in linguistics at Trinity College Dublin who has become one of the most visible voices against antisemitism in Irish public life. Of paternal Jewish heritage and raised Catholic, Moiselle began speaking out after October 7th and found herself, almost overnight, both a target and a lightning rod. She and Zoe discuss why a country with fewer than 3,000 Jews devotes so much of its political and media energy to Israel, how anti-Zionism has taken on the fervour of a replacement faith in post-Catholic Ireland, and…
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The closure of crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is prompting fresh questions about whether the industry is entering a new phase of consolidation, as analysts…
In brief Attackers hijacked Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s verified X account on Thursday to promote a fake meme coin called Vladhood (VLAD). Robinhood confirmed…
from the words-mean-what-i-say-they-mean dept We spent a few years pointing out the ridiculousness of the whole “TikTok ban” moral panic, and the fact that…
Robinhood (HOOD) CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was compromised on Thursday and used to promote a fake memecoin as traders have piled into tokens…
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and companies behind prediction market platforms are continuing legal fights against state-level authorities, with the latest battlegrounds…
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…