A7A5, a ruble-linked stablecoin few outside Russia had heard of a year ago grew the most of any stablecoin, outpacing both USDT and USDC over the past 12 months. Source link
Investment in consumer tech startups has been in a downturn since 2022, as a turbulent macroeconomic climate and rising inflation have made VCs skittish about consumer spending power. For the past couple of years, most AI investment has focused on winning over enterprise customers, who provide fat checks, multi-year contracts, and quick paths to scale. …
Reading to children from a young age leads to greater happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility – no wonder the government wants to encourage everyone to do it more. To this end, next year has been decreed the National Year of Reading 2026. It couldn’t be more timely. Reading is in crisis. Picking up…
There was a time when most Americans had little to no knowledge about their local data center. Long the invisible but critical backbone of the internet, server farms have rarely been a point of interest for folks outside of the tech industry, let alone an issue of particularly captivating political resonance. Well, as of 2025,…
The formula for stable government, according to Britain’s constitution, is a big parliamentary majority and divided opposition. Sir Keir Starmer’s predicament proves that those conditions are not sufficient. The prime minister’s inability to convince voters that he has an agenda for national renewal, and the demoralising effect that has had on the Labour party, make…
Another roller-coaster year in MMA has gone up and down and all around, giving us so much to yell about. Fighters at the top of their game, such as Merab Dvalishvili and Valentina Shevchenko, pushed themselves to the brink of history. A 24-year-old took down giants to become a UFC champion. And of course, jaws…
Now here is something rare: good news. It was announced earlier this year that, after 26 years, the beloved film festival Ebertfest, founded by iconic film critic Roger Ebert and currently run by his widow Chaz Ebert and festival director Nate Kohn, was coming to a likely end at its longstanding home at the Virginia…
Hedera plunged through key support levels during Sunday’s session, declining 5.8% from $0.1202 to $0.1127 as technical selling pressure overwhelmed early buying interest. The cryptocurrency established a clear bearish structure after failing to hold gains above $0.1218, with price action dominated by profit-taking near resistance levels. Volume patterns told the story of capital flows throughout…
A security researcher said Home Depot exposed access to its internal systems for a year after one of its employees published a private access token online, likely by mistake. The researcher found the exposed token and tried to privately alert Home Depot to its security lapse but was ignored for several weeks. The exposure is…