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View More NewsIn this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Solstice Finance’s David Plisek argues that most of the money lost in DeFi this spring wasn’t taken by hackers but by yield strategies that quietly stopped working. Looking at April’s $13 billion drawdown, he shows that a headline yield number reveals almost nothing about whether it will hold under stress, laying out four questions an allocator should ask before committing capital. Read the full article here
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Pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck announced today the highly promising results of their anti-cancer mRNA vaccine Phase 3 clinical trial targeting later-stage melanoma skin cancers. Researchers sequenced the DNA from each patient’s tumors to create personalized vaccines that, when injected,…
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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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From 2000 through 2024, FIRE recorded 102 cases of politicians trying to silence faculty. That’s four cases a year on average. Then, in 2025…
Bitcoin is close to forming a pattern that analysts say could signal prices rising to as high as $76,000. Read the full article here
Injective’s affiliated entity can now maintain securities ownership records, adding regulated market infrastructure to its growing push into tokenized assets. Read the full article…
New York, August 19, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is shocked by the eight-year prison sentence handed down to Gulnara Bazhkenova, former editor-in-chief of…
The Bank of England on Monday proposed extending operating hours for its core settlement infrastructure toward near-24/7 availability, part of a broader push with…
In brief ARFBench is the first AI benchmark built entirely from real production incidents. GPT-5 leads all existing AI models at 62.7% accuracy but…
from the 10-insurrections-get-your-11th-free dept We discussed the rumor of this on Friday, but it’s now real: Donald Trump has handed himself a $1.776 billion…
On January 26, 2026, the Government filed a complaint alleging that Defendant Joshua Doyle “did forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, or interfere with ……
The revenue share deal could shift an estimated $160 million in revenue from Coinbase and Circle into Hyperliquid’s ecosystem, Compass Point analysts said. Read…
Bitcoin (BTC) lost its hold on the $80,000 level over the weekend, and data suggest that the cryptocurrency needs to trade above the $74,000-$75,000…
In brief PCT Litigation Trust sued financial services firm Swan Bitcoin seeking repayment of nearly $1 billion in assets. The lawsuit alleges that Swan…
Today the Supreme Court GVR’d two cases in light of Callais. State Board of Election Commissioners v. Mississippi NAACP and Turtle Mountain Band of…