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The developer education platform EasyA has reached an independent valuation of $1.1 billion and is targeting a direct listing in the first half of 2027. What makes this milestone stand out is the company’s plan to make its shares available onchain from the first day of trading,…
A party that positions itself as a vehicle for public frustration with the political establishment must eventually answer a difficult question: what happens when the frustration it channels reveals something darker within its own ranks? Reform UK is facing that question after an…
Saudi Arabia has accused Yemen’s Houthi movement of targeting Mecca with a drone, a charge the Iran-backed group denies. The claim, reported by CNBC, surfaces amid escalating regional tensions and, if true, represents an attack on the holiest site in Islam—a city where even figh…
The US September inflation report came in hotter than expected, with consumer prices rising 3.7% year over year, above the consensus forecast of 3.6%. That triggered a sharp sell‑off in bitcoin, which dropped $1,000 to around $82,800, and sent the 10‑year Treasury yield higher…
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France is weighing a proposal to expand its 31.4% crypto capital gains tax to include trades involving EU-regulated stablecoins. Chainalysis CEO in France Francois Volpoet has warned this could drive investors toward unmonitored offshore channels, essentially undermining the reg…
The conviction of Kosovo’s former president on war crimes charges marks a rare moment when the highest levels of political power face legal reckoning. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague handed down a 25-year sentence for crimes committed during the 1998-99 war of indepe…
A car is stolen in the UK roughly every four minutes. The BBC report on this crisis isn’t just a crime story — it’s a systems-level diagnostic. Police officers describe being overstretched and outgunned, while organised gangs exploit the vulnerability of keyless-entry systems. T…
The world’s largest custody bank and the trading giant Citadel Securities announced this week that they had completed a transaction using tokenized Treasuries to show how blockchain technology could move assets from trading into financing more quickly. By using a tokenised U.S. …
For nearly three years, the central pillar of Western strategy on Ukraine has been economic isolation of Russia. Sanctions on Russian energy exports were designed to starve the Kremlin of the revenue that funds its war machine. So when President Donald Trump agreed to let Russia…
The news that a war-damaged building in Gaza has collapsed, killing at least twenty people and leaving dozens missing, lands like another weight on a heart already heavy. For those following the conflict, the image is painfully familiar: a structure already weakened by previous …
Federated Hermes, the Pittsburgh-based investment manager overseeing $911 billion in assets, plans to issue its first tokenized fund shares early next year in partnership with Prometheum. The move represents the latest and most significant step yet by a traditional asset manage…
A new crypto exchange called MNX launched today, built on the MegaETH blockchain and backed by former Manifold executives, offering futures contracts tied to the future valuations of private AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. The concept is straightforward: let t…
A cryptocurrency trader in the UK says masked intruders broke into his home and forced him at knifepoint to transfer nearly $800,000 in digital assets to their wallet — the latest in a surge of what security researchers call “wrench attacks”: crimes aimed not at a vulnerability…
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the United States ambassador to Greece, has been asked to resign following mounting allegations that she offered access to Trump administration officials in exchange for money. The story, reported by Al Jazeera, highlights a recurring tension in political app…
The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, has confirmed that Russia did interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum, though he argued there was no evidence the outcome was swayed as a result. The admission, made during a public appearance, settles a long-debated question about foreign meddling…
Hardware wallets are supposed to be the gold standard for self-custody of cryptocurrency — a physical device that keeps your private keys offline and out of reach of remote attackers. That assumption was dealt a severe blow this week when Ledger confirmed that a covert implant i…
First Secretary Louise Haigh’s speech today, calling on the government to “heed the warnings” of AI experts, marks a significant moment in the global debate over the technology’s trajectory. While the UK has positioned itself as a potential honest broker — willing to listen to t…
Macklemore was dropped from the Ed Sheeran tour this week after a pro-Palestine speech, according to BBC News. The decision follows a familiar pattern: when an artist with mainstream visibility speaks out against the suffering in Gaza, commercial partnerships often sever ties sw…
The sudden, unified call from AI’s leading figures to install guardrails has sent a jolt through financial markets this weekend. Dario Amodei of Anthropic, along with Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk, have all warned that the technology is advancing faster than safe. Th…