The investigation into Nigel Farage’s undeclared £5 million gift from cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne has become more than a parliamentary disclosure case. It has opened a broader debate about political financing, democratic accountability, immigration, and the growing role of concentrated wealth in shaping modern politics. Farage insists the payment was a personal gift received…
The nomination process for the IIPC Steering Committee is now open. The Steering Committee (SC) is composed of no more than fifteen Member Institutions who establish and revise the framework conditions for the activities of the Consortium. This year, we want particularly to encourage members who may not have served on the Steering Committee to […]
Bitcoin is approaching a deadline that could turn one of its longest-running arguments into the network’s most serious governance fight in years. At the center of the dispute is Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110), a proposed change that would restrict the amount of non-financial data that can be included in Bitcoin transactions. With the network […]
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Six months ago I pulled a local language model onto my laptop. Took about 12 minutes with Ollama. No account, no API key, no data leaving the machine. It felt like a small act of sovereignty — exactly the kind of local-first approach I’d been arguing for.
Then I started using it. And I noticed something.
The model’s cultural centre of gravity was somewhere around San Francisco, circa 2022. Ask…
Cardano's 2026 Summit in Singapore is off after the network's treasury governance process failed to approve funding for it. The official event page now says the Summit will not take place on Oct. 5-6 as previously announced. The cause is governance: Cardano Foundation said treasury-funded initiatives are subject to community vote, and the community decided not to proceed with […]
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iMage: AdaDerana බාලවයස්කාර දැරියක අපයෝජනය කිරීමේ බරපතළ චෝදනාවට ලක්ව සිටින පල්ලේගම හේමරතන සම්බන්ධ නාට්යය දෙස බලන විට, මේ රටේ සාමාන්ය පුරවැසියාට යුක්තිය පිළිබඳ විශ්වාසය පළුදුවීම වීම පුදුමයට කරුණක් නොවේ. ප්රබල සාක්ෂි පවතිද්දී...
Automated yield protocols built DeFi's most persuasive retail pitch that depositing into a vault was all a user needed to do, with the protocol handling everything else. For users wanting exposure to Curve's boosted yields without manually managing CRV locks, vote power, wrappers, gauges, and incentives, Stake DAO offered a product that packaged the full […]
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Charles Hoskinson, Cardano's founder, is turning his public focus back to the blockchain network, and Midnight, one of his largest ventures outside crypto, prepares to close. The shift comes at a difficult moment for the Cardano founder. His Wyoming health care project is winding down after years of investment, while the blockchain he helped build […]
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Vibe coding is expanding beyond the realm of software development teams into a variety of business units at a range of enterprises, and technology leaders are not only supporting these efforts but in some cases leading the charge.
This democratization of software development, buoyed by vibe coding tools, including chatbots and agents that generate code via prompts, has made vibe coding a thing…
With at least nine senior Ethereum Foundation (EF) members having left in 2026 and years of community frustration over EF-linked ETH sales, Vitalik Buterin posted his perspective on the Foundation's direction. For Buterin, the EF should become smaller, more opinionated, and less central to Ethereum's future. He said this reflects his view alone and that […]
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Cardano could lose a core group of scientists if Input Output fails to secure treasury funding for a slate of research and infrastructure proposals that are still awaiting approval. Last month, Input Output, the development firm behind the Cardano network, revealed that it was seeking $46.8 million to finance its operations for the 2026 development […]
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XRPL's known amendments page lists fixCleanup3_1__3 for activation on May 27, and by design the event is a maintenance upgrade. Version 3.1.3 of rippled bundles fixes for NFTs, Permissioned Domains, Vaults, and the Lending Protocol, and the XRPL blog set the default vote to Yes because of the importance of those fixes. The amendment process […]
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The gubernatorial candidate answered student questions at a Wednesday town hall.
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Today, the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted emergency relief in the American Historical Association and American Oversight’s lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s effort to evade the Presidential Records Act (PRA).
Cardano's next hard fork is arriving at a moment when crypto markets no longer reward blockchains for roadmap promises alone, especially as ADA price performance increasingly tracks real developer and DeFi activity. Protocol Version 11, known as Van Rossem, is already live on the Preview testnet and targets a mainnet governance action submission on May […]
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“අදත් නෑ…” පොලොන්නරුව මහේස්ත්රාත් අධිකරණ භූමියෙන් පිටතට පැමිණි ඒ මහලු මව්පියන්ගේ දෑස්වල තිබුණේ හිස් බවකි. තම පුතුගේ ඝාතනයට යුක්තිය ඉල්ලා නීතියේ දෙවොලට පැමිණි ඔවුන්ට, ඊයේ(05) දවසේත් හිමි වූයේ තවත් “දිනයක්” පමණි. පසුගිය...
This is ultimately the key issue. Tech utopianists and abundists view AI as a potentially equalizing, even liberating force, but history shows us that without political intervention or strong unions, those with the power to deploy labor-saving automation technologies at scale, to use it as leverage against workers who cannot, will themselves concentrate the gains from productivity increases. In…
(image from https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f990.pdf) The long-rumored reworking for the federal Form 990 has formally begun. The U.S. Department of the Treasury (DoT) announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to revise the Form 990 in an attempt to improve transparency, strengthen tax administration, and provide clearer reporting on certain activities of tax-exempt organizations…
Paul Sztorc, LayerTwo Labs CEO and longtime Bitcoin developer, is planning an August 2026 Bitcoin hard fork called eCash, targeted around Bitcoin block 964,000. His April 24 announcement described a new chain that would copy Bitcoin history, give holders 1 eCash for every 1 BTC at the split, and launch with a Bitcoin-Core-like base layer […]
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Cardano's governance system is facing two deadlines that belong in the same conversation. JPG Store, a prominent Cardano NFT marketplace whose product page calls it the #1 Cardano NFT marketplace, began a ‘Restriction Mode' on April 23 and scheduled its ‘Complete Shutdown for May 23′. The shutdown gives users immediate work to do. The shutdown […]
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iMage: Create GenAI අතීතයේදී කෘතියක් තහනම් කිරීම යනු යම් මතවාදයක ව්යාප්තිය භෞතිකව අවහිර කිරීමේ ප්රබල මෙවලමකි. එහෙත්, තොරතුරු “දිය ඇල්ලක්” මෙන් ඇද හැලෙන වර්තමානයේ දියුණු ඩිජිටල් යුගය තුළ එම සම්ප්රදායික මර්දනෝපායන් අභියෝගයට...
A Tanzanian commission investigating deadly unrest following the October 2025 general election has recommended national reconciliation, criminal investigations and fast-tracking a new Constitution by 2028
The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) was established in terms of section 146 of the Constitution, which provided for a body to regulate national lottery activities and ensure that proceeds benefit social development. The Lotteries Act 57 of 1997, as amended, gives effect to this mandate and legally establishes the NLC in terms of section 2 […]
ශ්රී ලංකාවේ භාෂණයේ සහ ප්රකාශනයේ නිදහස යළිත් වරක් මාරාන්තික අගාධයකට ඇද දමා ඇති බව තහවුරු වන්නේ, ලේඛක දීපචෙල්වන්ගේ කෘති සම්බන්ධයෙන් රේගුව සහ කලා මණ්ඩලය ගනු ලැබූ මර්දනකාරී තීරණයත් සමඟය. රේගු අධ්යක්ෂ ජනරාල්වරයාගේ...
Bitcoin's debate about quantum computers produced a published draft with real political consequences on Apr. 14. Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 361 (BIP 361), titled “Post Quantum Migration and Legacy Signature Sunset,” landed in Bitcoin's official proposal repository with a three-phase plan to phase out ECDSA and Schnorr signature spends entirely once a quantum-resistant output type exists…
Lebogang Maile warns that the province’s school system faces growing strain
I’m tired. Not the kind of tired that a good night’s sleep or a weekend off the grid can fix. It’s a deeper, more pervasive exhaustion—the fatigue of living in a culture of relentless, performative positivity. In the tech world, we’re told to “crush it,” to “move fast,” and to embrace every new “game-changer” with uncritical enthusiasm. If you’re not a believer, you’re a “naysayer” or, worse, a…
The University of Fort Hare faces a governance crisis after vice-chancellor Sakhela Buhlungu was placed on precautionary suspension. Councillors warn of contested authority, procedural strain and risks to institutional integrity in the Eastern Cape university
iMage: VOX [පළමු කොටස: භාෂාව, නීතිය සහ වසන් කිරීමේ නිර්මාණ ශිල්පය] දෙවරක් මරා දමන වචනයක් වචන යථාර්ථය හැඩ ගස්වයි. නූතන යුද්ධයේ දී, “අතුරු හානි” යන වචන දෙකෙන් සැදුම් ලත් යෙදුමට වඩා කෲරත්වය...
Aave commands DeFi lending, with DefiLlama showing $24.51 billion in total value locked and $17.526 billion in borrowed funds. The margin against Morpho, its closest rival, is roughly 4.1 times. Spark, the third-largest competitor, sits at $967.52 million in borrowed funds. Aave ended 2025 with 61.5% active loan market share and 52.4% lending TVL share, […]
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