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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Legislation was introduced in the Texas House of Representatives on Thursday to establish a strategic bitcoin reserve, which could serve as a proving ground for the U.S. Treasury. The proposed bill would enable the state to start building a strategic bitcoin reserve by accepting taxes, fees and donations in bitcoin that would be held for a minimum of five years, Republican state Rep. Giovanni Capriglione announced on an X Spaces event Thursday.
The Texas bill
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Did Apple really abandon its most premium metal? Discover why the latest flagship phones dropped Titanium, and the device that kept it alive. Read more ›
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Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They've all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments "are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs." In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies and municipal utilities have pushed back against new standards for physical protection, warning they could spe Read more ›
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Carl Jung split a human life down the middle and gave each half a different job. The first half, he said, is spent building something the world can see: a role, a reputation, a face that fits. The second half is spent deciding what to do with all of it. Do you keep playing the ... Read more Read more ›
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When a Stihl weed eater starts acting up, a handful of common issues are usually to blame. Here's what to check before assuming the worst. Read more ›
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The iPhone 18 and iPhone 18e may fall short of Apple’s AFM Core Advanced hardware requirement, meaning two major Siri AI features might not be available on these devices. Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, launched in India with a base price of INR139,999, is available at a discount on Samsung's official website. Samsung launched the Galaxy S26 Ultra in India with three memory options - 12GB/256GB, 12GB/512GB, and 16GB/1TB, priced at INR139,999, INR159,999, and INR189,999, respectively. Now, the Galaxy S26 Ultra's 12GB/256GB model is available at a discounted price of INR124,999, while the 12GB/512GB and 16GB/1TB models are available... Read more ›
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OpenAI's reported proposal to give the US government a stake in the company raises questions about who should profit from AI. Read more ›
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On the surface, turntables and record players do the same thing: play vinyl records. But audiophiles usually prefer the former, and here's hwy. Read more ›
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Yuru and Asa Japanese voice actors Kensho Ono and Yume Miyamoto talk about how they brought Bones Film and Hiromu Arakawa's latest shonen anime adventure to life. Read more ›
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The Plymouth Superbird is famous from racetracks to movies and if you want one your bank account might disagree. Here's how much it might cost you. Read more ›
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Chinese startup Z-Trak Space wants supercritical CO₂ to replace traditional launch pad ignition systems for small rockets. Read more ›
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'Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2' revealed its opening theme, 'Delicious in Dungeon' season two finally got a release date, and the studio teased an intriguing new project. Read more ›
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У вас тоже есть такая проблема на windows, что превью к таскбару не прилипает?Вот хочешь посмотреть (быстро и без переключения) — "что там скрипт/агент/отладчик прямо сейчас делают?" — наводишь на иконку в таскбаре и смотришь сильно прищуриваясь. Только мышку отвёл — и всё пропало. А раскладывать всё по сеткам windows‑окон сложно: во‑первых напрягает это делать на каждый запуск нового окна, во‑вторых при переключениях получается сюрреалистичная картина «поверх окон одного экрана... Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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There's a new digital detox flip phone coming soon, and it's going to appeal to Gen Z. Here's what makes this particular phone very interesting. Read more ›
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The daily step goal on hundreds of millions of wrists and phones did not come out of a laboratory. It came out of a marketing department. In the mid-1960s, riding the fitness buzz around the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Japanese clock and instrument company Yamasa released a step counter called the Manpo-kei. The name means, ... Read more Read more ›
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IBM spent a decade "building, testing and improving" quantum computing, reports the Wall Street Journal. "This year, the company is laying the groundwork to turn that technology into a fully-fledged, scalable business from an expensive science project." IBM said last month it plans to form a new independent subsidiary called Anderon, a foundry to produce the silicon wafers needed to make quantum-computing processors. The venture is seeded by a $1... Read more ›
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Jack Nekhala had a business selling on Amazon — and in December he received an unusual offer, reports Bloomberg. A woman said she could bribe an Amazon employee "to help him retrieve $90,000 in funds that the e-commerce giant had frozen after suspending him over an alleged violation of review policy." Hoping to ingratiate himself with the company and restart his business, Nekhala offered to provide evidence, including recorded conversations... Read more ›
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"Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers' AI token usage as they do for their salaries," writes InfoWorld: According to Gartner, these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer's monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agentic tools, it reflects a trend toward consumption-based licensing models as vendors balance infrastructure investments with... Read more ›
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The Onion joked the new movie Supergirl is about a hero who must single-handedly save the world "after the catastrophic collapse of interest in the genre." Unfortunately, The Hollywood Reporter says the film's reviews "range from negative to tepid praise (averaging a 58 percent Rotten Tomatoes score)." Many point fingers at the film's script, with Variety's line — "a comic-book movie with the worst script I can remember" — going... Read more ›
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Students are using AI-powered smart glasses to cheat on tests, reports CNN. "And in East Asia's test-obsessed societies, where a single exam could impact the trajectory of a student's future career and social status, educators are scrambling to get ahead of the problem." Already, countries are stepping up inspections for test-takers. For China's grueling annual college entrance exam earlier this month — which more than 10 million hopefuls take each... Read more ›
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America's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has "canceled its contract for a surveillance tool that enables warrantless tracking of mobile devices," reports the Associated Press. They note the move comes "after lawmakers, a prosecutor and a judge raised concerns about the legality of the tool in criminal investigations." ATF, the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation's gun laws, told The Associated Press that it discontinued what it... Read more ›
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The New York Times tells the story of a 63-year-old retiree who wrote a check for several thousand dollaras to pay her taxes. But she discovered much later that her taxes were never paid because that check had been intercepted and then altered to be payable to someone else: In some cases, thieves may pilfer one or more checks from local mailboxes. Adam Rust, director of financial services for the... Read more ›
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Chinese AI systems "have matched the performance of Anthropic's powerful model Mythos in some cybersecurity scenarios," reports the Wall Street Journal. They call it "a development poised to reset the global tech race and pressure the White House in its overhaul of U.S. AI policy." Security researchers said that a new AI model, released this month by China's Zhipu AI, also known as Z.ai, can match the latest U.S. models... Read more ›
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Spanish startup FOSSA Systems "has raised about $10.5 million to expand its connectivity constellation," reports Space News, noting some funding is backed by Spain's government: The support from the Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) comes a year after the fund injected 14 million euros into Spain's Sateliot , which is also developing a satellite connectivity network with security and defense applications. Spanish private investment firm Kibo Ventures led FOSSA's... Read more ›
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The New York Times alleges Microsoft actively encouraged OpenAI to steal its copyrighted work, reports Ars Technica, citing a new (and heavily redacted) court filing Thursday: NYT's motion comes after the [U.S.] Supreme Court sided with Cox Communications in a case where Sony tried and failed to claim that Cox was contributing to music piracy as an Internet service provider, which set a new standard for contributory infringement. Moving forward,... Read more ›
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