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View More NewsIn brief DeFi Development Corp’s SOL treasury grew by 55,491 tokens to approximately 2,388,923 SOL and SOL equivalents, a roughly 2% increase since August 27. The company established a $300 million at-the-market program for its CHAD preferred stock. DFDV said SOL has outperformed the Nasdaq-100 by 39% quarter-to-date, while its own shares have outperformed SOL by 2x over that same stretch. Solana treasury company DeFi Development Corp. added 55,491 SOL, worth roughly $5.78 million, to its balance sheet, pushing its treasury to roughly 2,388,923 SOL and SOL equivalents.The Nasdaq-listed company disclosed the purchase Monday alongside a new $300 million at-the-market…
Detainees at Florida’s now-closed “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention camp were held in phone booth–sized cages as punishment, a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report released Monday found. In addition to finding numerous other violations of humane detention standards, the DHS OIG audit offers a rare account of conditions inside the secretive facility, and it partially confirms accounts by former detainees, published last year by Amnesty International and several media outlets, that they were punished by being put in “the box,” a small metal cage. OIG inspectors who performed an unannounced inspection in January of the…
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Karl Popper invited us to be clear about the problem we are trying to solve. Testing a claim is not the same as evaluating the character of the person making it, and the latter cannot be asked to stand in for the former. Because it takes cognitive effort to parse data, weigh arguments, and assess logical coherence, we often default to name-calling, ad hominem, and guilt-by-association instead. This is a lazy and unscrupulous way to argue, and it drags down discourse, not least because its prevalence has made it unremarkable.A news item in the Guardian on 31 August by the…
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Bogotá, September 14, 2026—Peruvian authorities must conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into an armed attack on the digital website La Noticia Clave, said the…
CEO Vlad Tenev said more shareholder features are coming as Robinhood’s offshore stock tokens draw scrutiny over ownership rights. Read the full article here
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In brief Altman said AI progress should slow to accommodate safety checks and monitoring. OpenAI now prepares safety cases ahead of certain training runs,…
Miami, September 12, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed to learn that Haitian journalist Wesly Renaud Jean was abducted by armed gang members…
Anthropic is in talks with Nvidia about a potential $10 billion investment in what may be the biggest IPO in history, Reuters reported on…
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This past Wednesday, Jeffrey Sutton, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, delivered the annual Sumner Canary Memorial Lecture…
The yield-generating asset has a special place in the digital asset investor’s portfolio, argues GlobalStake’s Ryan Haczynski. Read the full article here
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In brief ChatGPT Images 2.5 launched September 8 with sharper detail, more precise editing, and up to 50% lower latency than its predecessor Across…
9/12/1958: Cooper v. Aaron is decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 12, 1958 appeared first on Reason Magazine. Read the full…