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View More NewsNew Delhi, August 18, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Bangladeshi authorities to drop their new crimes against humanity case against journalists Shyamal Dutta, Mozammel Babu, and Farzana Rupa, and stop criminalizing news reporting. Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday ordered prison authorities to produce the journalists, who have been detained since 2024 on separate charges, before the domestic war crimes court on August 24, according to news reports. Prosecutors allege the journalists incited the suppression of student demonstrators during a July 2024 uprising that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. They say that the journalists asked Hasina…
from the one-more-time-into-the-fray dept A few years ago a California appeals court produced the unfortunate Liapes v. Facebook decision. In this decision, it gave the go-ahead to age discrimination claims under California’s Unruh Act resulting from ads not being served to users of certain ages. It’s a nonsensical application of anti-discrimination law, because ads are not themselves the goods and services that the Unruh Act governs but instead expression. Furthermore, for more than a century American media has been supported by an advertising model that allows advertisers to target audiences based on their demographic information, including their age. It would…
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The blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has led to a massive spike in demand for Homer’s original text. At one Brooklyn book store visited by a Guardian reporter, more than a dozen different editions of the Odyssey were on prominent display. Over the last month, a staffer said, sales had multiplied “several thousand per cent.”I fear many of these new readers will come away disappointed, as the ruthless 2,800-year-old version of Odysseus whom Homer conjured is quite unlike the more modern, guilt-addled protagonist that reviewers have found in Matt Damon’s performance. As Charlotte Allen argued in this space…
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In brief XRP is trading around $1.00, clinging to the dollar price line it’s defended since Trump’s 2024 win. The daily chart is bearish,…
from the regulating-the-mirror dept This ruling came out a week and a half ago at this point and I’ve been so annoyed with it…
Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion added more of the token to its balance sheet, bringing its total holdings up to 5.815 million tokens.In an…
Bitcoin (BTC) returned to $64,000 after Monday’s Wall Street open as US stocks gave way to gold.Key points:Bitcoin continues a rebound from Sunday’s weekly…
Key takeaways:Solana perpetual futures funding rates flipped negative, signaling excess demand for bearish positions.Rival networks like Base and Hyperliquid pose direct threats to Solana…
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…