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View More NewsLast September, the U.S. military fired the first of 63 strikes against 67 small fishing boats in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean. The spate of killings in Operation Southern Spear has claimed 221 lives so far, according to the Washington Office on Latin America, a human rights organization. In April, President Donald Trump boasted about the effectiveness of his extrajudicial maritime strikes against alleged drug traffickers, claiming his methods had stopped 98.2 percent of all drugs coming into the country by ocean or sea. However, new evidence from those inside the Trump administration shows the strikes have not slowed…
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A review of A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women by Steve Stewart-Williams; 362 pages; Forum, London (June 2026) “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!”—Gloria Steinem, 2019 In January 2005, at a private conference hosted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard President Lawrence Summers violated a central taboo of liberal discourse. In a discussion of why men were overrepresented in tenured science and engineering positions at top universities, he suggested that one possible cause was genetic differences between the sexes.Summers offered this as…
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In brief Researchers tested whether frontier AI agents could independently conduct AI research. The systems completed engineering tasks but failed to produce papers worthy…
The proposed act is widely viewed as a cornerstone for the next phase of institutional crypto adoption. By establishing clear rules for digital assets,…
The Bitcoin miner is using part of its treasury and a BTC-backed credit facility to fund an AI campus tied to a potential multi-billion-dollar…
In brief Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called on the Senate to immediately vote on the Clarity Act. He said the bill strengthens consumer protections…
from the holy-fuck dept There are many (negative) things this Trump administration is known for. It’s a long list and I would encourage everyone…
On Tuesday, Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore signed over 270 bills into law. With public scrutiny focused on bills related to crime and immigration,…
A major experiment led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) found that tokenization could help fix some of the biggest pain points in…
An attacker minted more than 5.4 trillion vsdCRV on Arbitrum after a suspected compromise of a StakeDAO-linked deployer key, though thin liquidity limited the…
In brief Researchers from Huawei and three partner institutions released Claw-Anything, a benchmark that evaluates AI agents on personal-assistant tasks. GPT-5.5, OpenAI’s flagship model,…
The minimum wage is on the rise in the U.S. Thirty states, the District of Columbia, and at least 68 localities have set hourly…
Welcome to our institutional newsletter, Crypto Long & Short. This week:Ravi Tanuku on how the GENIUS Act repriced bitcoin’s monetary premiumJesper Johansen on looped…
Sanctioned crypto exchange HTX is pushing back against the United Kingdom’s decision to blacklist Huobi Global S.A., the Panamanian company behind the platform, over…