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View More NewsIn the first six months of 2026, the crypto industry raised $11.2 billion. Not one dollar of it went to the permissionless, ungoverned experiments that digital assets were supposed to be built on.”There is an irony at the heart of crypto, and it took an $11.2 billion dataset to make it obvious,” said Dubai-based crypto lawyer Irina Heaver, founder of NeosLegal. “The industry was born on a single promise: permissionless. Money and markets that answer to no gatekeeper.”Heaver and her team gathered data that might, as he put it, indicate that “crypto’s permissionless era is over.”NeosLegal tracked every disclosed crypto…
Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an opinion by Justice Richard Dietz, joined by Chief Justice Paul Newby and Justices Philip Berger Jr., Tamara Barringer, and Trey Allen: According to the complaint in this case, Plaintiffs Doug and Nicole Turpin sent their children to a private school called Charlotte Latin School. Beginning in the summer of 2020, the school began to change its curriculum to focus on politicized issues of race and gender identity. At some point, the Turpins learned that the school was teaching their sixth-grade…
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“Dogma,” Albert Einstein told an audience at the Sorbonne in 1929, “is the enemy of progress.” Just kidding—it’s what ChatGPT whispered in the ear of the rector of my university at the start of this academic year after she decided to outsource her inaugural address to AI. The speech she delivered was a string of grammatically impeccable platitudes garnished with four quotations, three of which turned out to be hallucinations—the kind of false erudition that academics like to flaunt. The fourth quotation was real, but it was a cringeworthy piece of self-flattery lifted from an obscure 1946 speech: “There are…
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In brief OpenAI employees told Wired that pressure to release models and products has made it difficult to prioritize safety, security, and alignment. A…
from the never-wrong-prez-just-dying-to-be-wrong-again dept This is why having a case dismissed with prejudice is important. Trump’s cronies/donors — who were paid millions to do…
The moves followed CoinDesk’s report late Thursday that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was set to further delay its anticipated “innovation exemption,” which…
UK Reform leader Nigel Farage will face an investigation that had been briefly paused following his resignation from Parliament after winning a by-election on…
In brief Bitcoin firm Nakamoto is instituting a 1-for-40 reverse stock split. The move is intended to help it achieve a share price of…
None of this proves that extreme views are always right, and moderate ones always misguided. The point is not that we should always adopt…
The U.S. Federal Reserve took another step toward special limited payment accounts that would give a lighter version of the master-account services the central…
Coinbase launched USDF with Flipcash, a Solana-based stablecoin backed 1:1 by Circle’s USD Coin, as the crypto exchange expands its infrastructure business for companies…
SpaceX’s official IPO filing revealed a Bitcoin position worth $1.45 billion on Wednesday, highlighting tech CEO Elon Musk’s quiet commitment to the digital asset.The…
Billionaire Tom Steyer used his money to attack a lone climate researcher. Roger Pielke Jr.’s research on climate and disaster policy wins awards and…
As I watched Israel’s Eurovision contestant Noam Bettan belt his way to second place in Vienna last week, I found myself thinking about the…
Prediction market provider Polymarket filed to list parlays in sports event contracts in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to a self-certification filing with the…