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South Korea is nearing an Aug. 11 deadline for public comments on proposed crypto seizure rules that could give exchanges just seven days to disclose customer holdings once served with a court order.The Supreme Court’s proposed amendments to the Civil Execution Rules would create a standardized process for creditors to freeze, identify and liquidate virtual assets held by debtors. If finalized on the current timetable, the rules are expected to take effect Oct. 1.That would leave exchanges and other virtual asset service providers roughly seven weeks after the consultation closes to prepare for a more formal role in civil debt…

In Guernsey, Dr Jean Dean, from La Société Guernesiaise’s astronomy section, advised people to head to the west coast of the Channel Island to enjoy the spectacle.She said people needed to use eclipse glasses or have their back to the sun and project it onto a piece of card.Eclipse glasses have been given out are Les Bourgs Hospice charity shops in St Martins and St Sampsons.Dean warned that if anyone looked directly at the sun they would “burn your retina in your eye and you will be permanently blind”.She stressed people should not use the eclipse glasses with other optical…

The UK could be forgiven if, like Brenda from Bristol, it feels it has had too much politics of late. The long death rattle of the Starmer government against a backdrop of relentless excitement from the White House has left everyone suffering a severe case of overwhelm. We all deserve a holiday – even Andy Burnham, exhausted after a few weeks in the job.So the political and media class may think they are doing us a favour by turning the forthcoming byelection prompted by the resignation of the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, into a joke. But it is not…

Nvidia ⁠has partnered with six major Wall Street financial institutions to raise ⁠more than $500bn (£370bn) capital for artificial intelligence infrastructure.The Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, said on X that the company has ⁠the option to backstop up to $125bn, or 25% of the potential deals.The move highlights how surging demand ⁠for AI computing capacity is drawing institutional investors, as governments, companies and ​startups race to build out ‌datacentres.Big tech companies have signalled that spending on AI ‌would not slow down, with combined outlays set to surpass $730bn this year. However, there has been concerns over the link between high…

The Trump administration is making an intense push to identify and deport noncitizens who registered to vote, even if they did so inadvertently or never cast ballots — an unusually aggressive approach that is helping it promote baseless claims that voter fraud is rampant.State audits and studies have repeatedly found that noncitizen voting is extremely rare, and there have been no instances in which their votes are known to have swayed an election. It is against federal law for noncitizens to register to vote or actually vote, and doing so can carry steep penalties, including jail time and deportation.In the…

I’m just another girl who dreams of owning her own L.L.Bean Boat and Tote, and I know I’m not alone. But the favored beach bag isn’t the only thing L.L.Bean is beloved for, both on the WIRED team and off of it. I’ve slept on its famed flannel bed sheets for our Best Flannel Sheets story, while another editor has raved that the Zip Hunter Tote Bag is the only tote bag you need. We’ve even been obsessed with L.L.Bean’s duck boots for years.Safe to say, there’s no lack of great gear, like travel totes, you can get from L.L.Bean.…

Mozilla announced on Monday that it has issued a new GPG signing subkey used for some Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts after the previous key was accidentally exposed in a GitHub repository. In general, if a GPG private signing key used for software releases is exposed, an attacker who obtains it could create valid signatures on malicious files. This creates a supply chain attack risk: the attacker could distribute modified or malicious versions of the software that appear authentic. Successful exploitation would still require a way to deliver the signed files to users, for instance via a compromised mirror, an alternate…

Supporters of BTCPay Server have committed to funding a bounty of up to three Bitcoins for the recovery of funds stolen through a recently disclosed vulnerability in the open-source bitcoin payment processor, the project said in a statement. The bounty is set at 10 percent of whatever is recovered, capped at three coins in the event of a full recovery.  The project even extended the offer to the attacker directly alongside anyone else holding actionable information, directing them to a dedicated security address and offering Signal or other encrypted channels on request.  Hackers last week managed to extract Lightning Network…

There’s no conservation motive or benefit behind the Uzbekistan government’s recent releases of more than 2,000 captive-bred Asian houbara bustards across its desert regions, according to an expert on the threatened species. The government has touted the releases over the past three months as a wildlife restoration effort, but Nigel Collar, a conservation biologist at BirdLife International, suggested the birds are meant to serve as quarry for hunting parties. “In reality both areas [where they were released] are hunting concessions for Gulf State falconers and these are birds being put out in the wild simply to provide ‘sport,’”…

When you go to the dentist, what do you expect? That they will check your teeth, see if you need any fillings, give you some advice on oral hygiene? You probably don’t expect that they will teach your child to read, tackle youth unemployment or solve poverty.But when it comes to education, politicians are remarkably relaxed about loading wider social responsibilities on to schools. The suggestion from Alan Milburn, a former minister and now a senior government adviser, is that primary schools – that is, schools that educate children aged four to 11 – should identify children who might not…