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Chiltern Railways enters public ownership in Labour nationalisation push
Operator that runs services between London Marylebone and Birmingham is sixth to be nationalised since 2025Chiltern Railways has become the latest train operator to enter public o…
Reαd carefully: how to spot – and avoid – a homoglyph attack
Scam emails are increasingly using psychological tricks, such as using near-identical URLs like miсrosoft.comYou’ve read the email carefully and it looks legitimate. The link it a…
Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarmAt the height of the summer, the mood was optimistic in the world’s financi…
Polish prime minister warns Russia is planning drone or rocket strikes on European countries supporting Ukraine as ‘Carpathian Eight’ meet
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday that the EU needs a NATO-like mechanism to better respond to hybrid attacks blamed on Russia.
Trump vows to create an ‘AI Force’ and nods to justice system after rejecting calls to slow down industry. ‘Rather, we will cherish it’
"We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry," Trump posted on Truth Social.
Arbitrator says Uber was ‘vicariously liable’ for a driver’s negligence in a fatal accident, rejecting argument that the company is a tech platform
The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was fatally struck after her Uber driver pulled over along a southern California highway were awarded $40 million.
Nobel laureate says Iran’s repression of society has increased since the war began, but ‘a wave of resistance among the people’ is rising up
Narges Mohammadi, 54, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023, was temporarily released from prison for medical reasons earlier this year.
Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws when they coordinated AI slowdown, reducing value of subscriptions
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit contend they are not against the AI companies asking Congress, the White House or any other agency to develop AI regulation.
Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘What, if anything, can people like me do about it?’
After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters Aisha Down, Blake Montgomery and Dan Milmo…
Trump to create ‘AI Force’ to monitor technology as fears over out-of-control agents grow
President had brushed away suggestions to slow down AI technology, even as his own party counseled cautionDonald Trump on Saturday said he would appoint an artificial intelligence…
Treasury yields are already blowing up the CBO’s long-term forecasts, and experts who previously downplayed U.S. debt fears are now starting to worry
"If interest begets debt, and debt begets interest, eventually debt will spin out of control. A fiscal crisis, once unthinkable, is now a distinct possibility."
REX launches 2x leveraged ETF tied to Bitcoin treasury firm Strive
The new ASSX fund offers 2x daily exposure to Strive shares, giving traders a leveraged way to bet on the Bitcoin treasury company.
Kalshi joins Coinbase with filing for US stock perpetual futures
Kalshi’s proposal would bring perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to US traders, as Coinbase and Bitnomial pursue similar products.
Before getting dropped by Ed Sheeran, Macklemore had long supported Palestinians, and his latest gift catalyzed YouTube star Ms. Rachel to donate
Macklemore committed to donate his net earnings from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour after he was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium.
California’s billionaire tax will ‘kickstart a movement’ that spreads to more states, the federal government and other countries, Nobel laureates say
"The explosive growth of the state’s billionaires over the past few decades has made it one of the most unequal places in America."
How the Clarity Act's Defeat Handed the SEC and CFTC the Wheel on Crypto
The Clarity Act failed to advance in the Senate, shifting the industry’s focus to a new wave of action from the SEC and CFTC.
VanEck criticizes Metaplanet over executive dilution despite compensation cuts
VanEck said Metaplanet’s executive equity exposure remains well above its digital asset treasury peers, even after the company cut its potential share pool by 41%.
Bitcoin's Sharpest Rally in Two Years Ran Almost Entirely on Short Liquidations
A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.
UK politics increasingly funded by billionaires as mega-donations surge
Exclusive: A total £179m has been donated by wealthy individuals since 2019, research revealsBritish politics is increasingly being funded by individual billionaires with a wave o…
Clarity Act, we hardly knew ye: We look at what was in the bill and what's replacing it
U.S. agencies are racing to substitute their regulations for the law that was meant to set crypto markets in governmental bedrock, but will the stand-ins last?
George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’
British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewingGeorge Osborne has said he thought no one would find out about a private vie…
Central Command says U.S. military has aided the transit of 1 billion barrels of oil through Hormuz in past two months while Iran has ‘exported zero’
Adm. Brad Cooper said the volume of oil, natural gas and cargo transiting over the past two weeks is the highest it has been in six months.
As AI companies get closer to ‘recursive self-improvement,’ this physics professor calls full autonomy ‘the worst idea in the history of humanity’
The prospect of artificial intelligence models teaching themselves autonomously to be more efficient and capable appears ever closer to reality.
Grayscale Is Making Its Red-Hot Zcash ETF More Affordable
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.