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View More NewsBlockstream co-founder and CEO Adam Back has a reputation as a quantum computer skeptic who believes the technology is so immature the threat won’t materialize for decades.Which makes it all the more fascinating that his company is one of the leaders in researching practical solutions to the issue. Back told Cointelegraph earlier this year “the safe thing” is to prepare for the threat well in advance.Blockstream has already proven its experimental post-quantum signature scheme called SHRINCS works in production on its Liquid sidechain and a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal for SHRINCS was published earlier today.Blockstream Research’s Jonas Nick called it “the…
A group of Florida students returning to college may have scored a temporary free speech win, but their legal battle may not be over. On Sunday, a federal judge ruled that Florida International University (FIU) likely violated students’ free speech rights when the school punished students for silently protesting indoors, reported Axios. In her ruling, U.S. Southern District of Florida Judge Jacqueline Becerra issued a preliminary injunction, preventing the school from enforcing its expressive activity rule against the students. The case stems from an incident in March when a group of students wearing shirts saying “ICE OFF FIU” stood in…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, CoinDesk’s Joshua DeVos writes that demand for tokenized equities is accelerating fast, from $16 billion to more…
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Monaco, May 12, 2026 — Following the resounding success of its 2025 edition, WAIB Summit Monaco proudly announces its return on June 9–10, 2026, at…
In brief Google says Gemini Intelligence will let Android devices complete multi-step tasks across apps with user approval. New features include AI-powered browsing, smarter…
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The recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejection of RP1, an experimental immunotherapy for advanced melanoma, has sparked frustration among oncologists and patients who see it as another…
Arc, Canton and Tempo, three blockchains focused on stablecoins and tokenization, have raised more than $1 billion combined, highlighting rising institutional demand for privacy-focused…
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) will integrate Chainlink infrastructure into its collateral management platform ahead of a planned fourth-quarter 2026 launch as…