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View More NewsTokyo-listed Quantum Solutions (2338) sold 1,000 ETH for $1.9 million and more than doubled its disposal ceiling to fund an AI data center business.The move came as another crypto treasury firm, Hyperscale Data (GPUS), monetized about 100 BTC and opened a bitcoin-backed credit line for a Michigan AI data center..Quantum sold the ETH on July 30 at $1,903 per token, generating $1.903 million after fees, according to a company filing. It expects to recognize a $100,970 loss against the position’s May 31 carrying value of $2,003.97 per ETH, the filing adds.The sale price was 47% below the $3,595.02 average acquisition…
Earlier this month, the Federal Court of Australia dismissed claims brought by the concert pianist Jayson Gillham against the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra over its response to a recital he gave in August 2024. What caused the trouble was not his piano-playing but an oratorical prelude condemning Israel for (in his telling) the war crime of deliberately killing journalists in Gaza. In the cacophony that ensued, the MSO cancelled his next performance, telling subscribers that his remarks had been “an intrusion of personal political views”. Then some of its own musicians revolted, and the orchestra offered to reinstate the performance on…
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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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UMass Dartmouth recently rescinded the student newspaper adviser’s contract, and student journalists suspect the decision is part of a broader effort to quell their coverage. When…
from the scaling-but-for-hallucinations dept It’s not that AI can’t be useful or helpful in certain contexts. And this is certainly not to say AI…
Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate bitcoin BTC$64,774.49 holder, reported Thursday an $8.2 billion second-quarter net loss after the cryptocurrency’s price decline erased billions…
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Russian authorities designated him a “terrorist” after he refused government demands for mass surveillance and censorship on the messaging…
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…
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In brief Kraken users can now earn yield from their Bitcoin holdings via the exchange’s new Bitcoin Vaults. Putting BTC in the vaults earns…
Today’s guest is Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth, the author of Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ Sales, What Controversial Transactions Reveal About…