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View More Newsfrom the they-still-put-people-at-risk dept Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous proposals, from the KIDS Act to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), have been advancing at the federal level. European Union member states are moving toward having age verification in a centralized app by the end of this year. Australia famously now has one extremely broad restriction in place. Most age verification laws tend to fail at their…
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Binance’s employees were cleared and released after providing statements to UAE authorities about third-party fund flows through a company client account, a spokesperson told…
In brief Bitcoin climbed 7.9% over 24 hours to around $77,137—up 23.2% on the week—after touching an intraday high of $79,320. The rally triggered…
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from the playing-games dept It might be time to do a wellness check on GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen. We had just discussed Cohen’s announced…
The Roberts Court is often derided as a pro-corporation Court. I’ve lost count of how many stories measure the Chamber of Commerce’s success rate…
The AI infrastructure company began trading Thursday as investors continue pouring capital into artificial intelligence stocks. Read the full article here
XRP (XRP) has recovered from its April lows of $1.26, rising as much as 19% to a three-week high of $1.50 on Sunday.Whale activity,…
In brief Researchers found AI agents often carried out unsafe or irrational tasks while staying focused on completing the assignment. The study identified a…
This year, the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary. To commemorate the occasion, FIRE is proud to present the limited series “Figures of Speech,”…
from the hetero-druggy-fascists-are-the-heroes-this-country-deserves dept As was covered here last week, ProPublica’s Hannah Allam reached out to Trump’s “terrorism czar” Sebastian Gorka to ask him…
Something strange is happening in Washington. A generation of investors and entrepreneurs who built careers championing private capital and intuitively understood the power of…