Freedom Index
The News Roundup
View More NewsIn brief Coinbase is launching futures, perpetuals and options for professional investors in the UK, with more than 170 contracts across crypto, commodities, equities and FX. Perpetuals carry up to 50x leverage and trade around the clock, while dated futures go up to 20x. The launch follows the MiFID investment services authorization the FCA granted Coinbase in July. Coinbase is opening derivatives trading to professional investors in the UK, announcing on Tuesday more than 170 contracts spanning crypto, commodities, equities and foreign exchange, with leverage of up to 50 times.The offering covers three contract types, according to a post by…
The story of Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor who has just resigned amid a scandal involving plagiarism, fabulism, and résumé-padding, has rattled a number of skeletons in Western academia’s closet. In 2023, Arday became the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge when he was appointed professor in the sociology of education at the age of 37. Arday had obtained his PhD from Liverpool John Moores University in 2015. The son of immigrants from Ghana who lived on a Clapham council estate, he claimed to have overcome autism and other disabilities that left him unable to read or write…
AI & Crypto
Read MorePolitics
Don't Miss!
Opinions & Debates
In late November 2023, seven weeks after Hamas’s 7 October terrorist attacks, I attended a private roundtable at the Jordanian Embassy in London. There, Ambassador Manar Dabbas discussed the unfolding regional catastrophe with the composure of someone reviewing the previous night’s football scores. Some 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, had been murdered; around 250 had been taken hostage into Gaza; and pro-terror rhetoric was spreading across the world. But at this juncture, Dabbas emphasised the importance of de-escalation and the need for Israeli restraint. With respect to Jordan’s position, he remarked: “We sometimes joke among ourselves that we are…
Latest News
from the it’s-always-conspiracy-tuesday-in-this-white-house dept We’ll see how long US Attorney (and, of course, former Fox News personality) Jeanine Pirro gets to keep her job.…
The big picture: In an interview on CoinDesk’s Public Keys, Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen said investors are underestimating Circle’s opportunity as stablecoins…
Cointelegraph is committed to providing independent, high-quality journalism across the crypto, blockchain, AI, and fintech industries.All news, reviews, and analyses are produced with full…
In brief Security company PromptArmor says the Rovo AI assistant can be steered to exfiltrate data with no human approval, via hidden instructions in…
In brief Companies running bug bounty programs report a sharp increase in low-quality AI-generated submissions. HackerOne and Nextcloud both suspended bug bounty programs after…
Jane Doe has sued Amazon.com Services LLC for employment discrimination and seeks to proceed under a pseudonym in all public filings…. In short, Doe…
Mexico City, May 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican authorities to immediately and credibly investigate possible malware and digital surveillance attacks…
The Senate Banking Committee’s top Democrat sent a letter to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency questioning the charters of nine crypto…
5,800 users in two hours. One QR code. One bow that went viral.Some platforms launch with a whitepaper. Some with a token. GraphDex launched…
In brief Google unveiled Gemini Spark at I/O 2026. Spark is a cloud-based personal AI agent powered by Gemini 3.5 that runs 24/7. Spark…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the libertarian-adjacent lawmaker who clashed with President Donald Trump over spending, tariffs, wars, and the Epstein files, was defeated in…
In Goethe’s poem Der Zauberlehrling, an apprentice, left alone in his master’s workshop, decides to try his hand at the magic he has only…