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Belarus Seeks to Cement Role as Crypto ‘Digital Haven,’ President Lukashenko Says
CoinDesk
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Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko urged regulators to finalize long-delayed rules for cryptocurrencies and digital tokens, according to remarks reported by state news agency BelTA on Sept. 5. BelTA quoted Lukashenko as saying his 2023...
Satoshi-era wallet holding $50M in Bitcoin awakens after 11 years
Yahoo Finance
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A long-dormant Bitcoin wallet has resurfaced after more than a decade of inactivity, sparking speculation in the crypto community. Data shows that the wallet, which was first active in July 2011, moved 0.25 BTC worth approximately $28,000 on...
United Airlines adds new flights to 15 cities after Spirit entered bankruptcy. Here are the new routes
The Independent
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September 4, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Quantum Computing Cracks Toy Crypto Key—What It Means for Bitcoin Security
BeInCrypto
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September 4, 2025
Quantum computing has taken a symbolic step closer to testing crypto’s defenses. Researchers have shown that IBM’s 133-qubit machine can break a six-bit elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) key. The experiment has sparked debate over whether attacks...
Police Misconduct and State Legitimacy in Central America
JSTOR Daily
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September 4, 2025
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Police misconduct obviously undermines the public’s belief in the legitimacy of the police as well as trust in the criminal justice system. But it can do more than that. “Police...
Flesh-eating screwworms are not likely to spread to Louisiana, according to agriculture expert
Nola - Louisiana
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In early August, a Maryland resident who had traveled to El Salvador was diagnosed with New World screwworm — a flesh-eating parasite — being the first human case of a flesh-eating parasite in U.S. Although the case was an isolated incident, the...
Roaming Charges: Multiple Megalomaniacs
CounterPunch
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September 5, 2025
Still from John Waters’ Multiple Maniacs. Capitalism is presumably the first case of a blaming, rather than a repenting cult. … An enormous feeling of guilt, not itself knowing how to repent, grasps at the cult, not in order to repent for this...
If You Don't Like Socialism or the Establishment, Curtis Sliwa Wants Your Vote
Reason Magazine
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September 5, 2025
Curtis Sliwa became famous by stepping in where the government was falling short. As the New York mayoral candidate told Reason's Jesse Walker, the Guardian Angels—the anti-crime patrols that Sliwa launched in New York City in 1979—were born...
An Interview With Cornel West on Fascism, Faith, Feckless Democrats, and Hope in a Bleak Time
The Stranger - Washington State
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September 6, 2025
I’m rarely receptive to a man I’ve never met introducing himself with a hug, but Dr. Cornel West is a warm man. Warm, but terrifyingly smart, with a professor’s gaze. He teaches (now at Union Theological Seminary, but has taught at Harvard, Yale,...
The Anti-Lockdown Imposters of the New Right
Reason Magazine
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September 5, 2025
Resistance to the COVID-era lockdowns occupies a central place in the political identity of the New Right—the eclectic group of national conservatives, postliberals, populists, and neoreactionaries at the ideological core of the MAGA coalition....
Was Trump’s Venezuelan boat attack a ‘war crime’? Experts say extrajudicial killings violate international law
The Independent
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September 3, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Pakistan’s Bitcoin and AI strategic leap for digital economy
Business Recorder
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September 5, 2025
In a historic step aimed at transforming its digital landscape, Pakistan has announced the allocation of 2,000 megawatts (MW) of surplus electricity to support artificial intelligence (AI) data centres and Bitcoin mining operations. Backed by the...
Four new names to be added to Sebastopol’s Peace Wall
Sebastopol Times - California
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September 5, 2025
Sebastopol’s Living Peace Wall is located across the from the downtown plaza and next to the Rialto Cinemas. (Photo by Laura Hagar Rush) Four more names of peace activists and social justice heroes will be added to Sebastopol’s Peace Wall this...
US Visa Restrictions Target Central Americans Linked to China
Tico Times
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September 5, 2025
The United States has rolled out a new policy that bars visas for certain Central American citizens linked to China’s Communist Party. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made the announcement on Thursday, targeting people who help advance Beijing’s...
EA FC 25 Johan Cruyff FUTTIES Icon SBC: All tasks and cheapest solutions
Sportskeeda
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September 5, 2025
EA Sports has released the EA FC 25 Johan Cruyff FUTTIES Icon SBC in Ultimate Team, allowing gamers to obtain the 99-rated version of the Dutch legend. This item was released earlier in the game cycle and is one of the best playmakers in the game,...
Artefact acquires Chilean data and AI consulting firm Brain Food
Consultancy.org
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September 5, 2025
International consulting firm Artefact has acquired Brain Food, a Chilean consulting firm with around 60 staff. The move marks a major milestone in Artefact’s expansion goals in the Latin American market. Founded in 2015 in Chile, Santiago-based...
Crypto Brief - Lowenstein Crypto Newsletter - September 4, 2025
JD Supra - California
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September 5, 2025
Lowenstein Crypto advises leading digital asset and cryptocurrency projects, exchanges, and trading firms. Our practice covers regulatory advice, transactions and structuring advice, investigations, and adversarial matters including commercial...
The US Is Looking to Merge Two Failed Wars in Latin America, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror
naked capitalism
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September 5, 2025
“All-out war in Venezuela cannot be ruled out”, warns Jeffrey Sachs. “Anything is possible because this is a long-standing operation.” In 2014, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) declared Latin America and the Caribbean a...
News: Tiny Library 2025 competition winners envision educational spaces on a small footprint
Bustler
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September 5, 2025
The latest edition of the Tiny Library Architecture Competition has published its winning entries, with participants from 45 countries tasked with designing a tiny library for 50 users. Organized by Volume Zero, the competition brief tasked...
J-WAFS welcomes Daniela Giardina as new executive director
MIT
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September 5, 2025
The Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced that Daniela Giardina has been named the new J-WAFS executive director. Giardina stepped into the role at the start of the fall semester, replacing founding executive director...