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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…
Bitcoin (BTC) demand on Coinbase points to early signs of market stabilization as BTC reclaimed the upper bounds of its range highs. The 14-day…
In brief Shai-Hulud malware has been linked to roughly 300 npm and PyPI package entries. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Mistral AI disclosed recent Shai-Hulud-related incidents.…
from the moral-turpitude-is-my-middle-name dept I’m not here to kink shame or suggest sex work isn’t work. I’m not here to claim that every sex…
In a wide-ranging interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Wednesday, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the fourth-richest man in the world, disputed claims…
Nvidia (NVDA) posted another blockbuster quarter on Wednesday, as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure pushed revenue, profit and cash flow to record levels.The chipmaker…
In brief SpaceX publicly disclosed its IPO filing ahead of a planned Nasdaq debut under the ticker SPCX. Elon Musk will retain majority voting…
Missouri is suing the company behind cryptocurrency ATM operator CoinFlip for “knowingly facilitating fraudulent transactions and profiting from them,” in the latest move by…
Raúl Castro, Cuba’s 94-year-old former dictator, was indicted Wednesday for his alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of two civilian aircraft operated by Brothers…