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Coin Metrics corrected more than 19 months of Bitcoin ETF-related on-chain data, leaving users of its identified-wallet series to reassess any analysis built on the affected history.The Sept. 22 status notice says the correction covers Bitcoin data from Feb. 7, 2025 through Sept. 17, 2026. Coin Metrics listed 35 affected daily series and 25 hourly series, including ETF deposits, withdrawals, transfer counts and transactions. The daily list also included net-flow and supply measures. Related ReadingBitcoin ETFs just lost $463 million as the Fed puts BTC at risk of losing $75,000 These are provider-derived observations of activity involving blockchain addresses Coin…

For more information, contact Jonathan E. Jones, Langley Research Center, jonathan.e.jones@nasa.gov Download the PDF version The purpose of this Technical Bulletin is to communicate the risks associated with freeze–thaw cycles in hydrazine monopropellant systems and to provide general recommendations for mitigating damage, operational hazards, and loss of system reliability in propulsion and auxiliary hydrazine systems. BackgroundHydrazine (N2H4) freezes near 1.6°C, and its phase transition is known to introduce risks to flight hardware. Multiple NASA programs have historically encountered hydrazine freeze related issues: • Space Shuttle APU hydrazine lines were vulnerable to freeze induced contraction followed by thaw induced over expansion,…

Maymead, a company that plans to build a controversial asphalt plant south of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is suing a consulting firm and one of its former employees, alleging they committed fraud, civil conspiracy and deceptive trade practices in spearheading opposition to the project. The former employee, Chris Hopkins of Tennessee, used an alias, Chris Sanderson, to infiltrate a neighborhood group in Clemmons near the proposed plant, Inside Climate News reported in early September.  Although Hopkins told neighbors he opposed the plant for environmental reasons, Maymead alleged in court documents filed in Forsyth County Superior Court that he and then-employer Land…

U.S.-headquartered energy services provider Expro has won a multimillion-dollar deal to provide integrated well services for a major life-extension campaign off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Illustration; Source: Expro The 14-well project, which is set to kick off in early 2027, will see Expro provide integrated well services across well construction, well flow management, and subsea well access to support a life-extension campaign offshore Newfoundland. The undisclosed operator, which the U.S. firm describes as a major Canadian operator, also has options for additional wells. The American player’s multi-product line scope is designed to reduce interface complexity by bringing several well…

At our wedding reception 15 years ago, my new father-in-law stood up, pint in hand, looked me squarely in the eye and welcomed me to the family – and to Yorkshire. He acknowledged my obvious defect – my London roots – before offering a note of comfort. “Don’t worry, Zahaan,” he said. “You’ll fit in here eventually. It’ll just take 50 years.” He added that if I’d been from Lancashire, there’d have been an extra zero on that 50.Not long after the wedding, my wife and I relocated from our first place together in London to her beautiful home city…

A number of social media users have shared the misleading claim that the leader of Camden Council Sagal Abdi-Wali, Labour’s candidate in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election, is a Somali asylum seeker.Ms Abdi-Wali has spoken about coming to the UK from Somalia as a child refugee in the 1990s, but she is now listed on Companies House as having British nationality. She is not currently seeking asylum. Posts making the claim have been shared more than a thousand times across X, Facebook and Instagram, with some questioning the eligibility of “non-citizens” or “foreigners” to stand in UK elections.To…

Weinstein, who was at the center of abuse allegations that spurred the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, was resentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting one-time TV production assistant Miriam Haley. In 2020, Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years for assaulting Haley but his conviction was overturned on appeal in 2024. A jury found him guilty again in 2025 after a retrial in New York.  Haley gave her account of the assault at two trials and spoke again in court Wednesday just before Weinstein was to be sentenced. “Having been sexually assaulted by Harvey Weinstein has had a…

The French book scene is in uproar after a Canadian-Haitian author billed as a sensation was accused of using artificial intelligence (AI) to write his first novel.Thélyson Orélien, 38, has just been awarded the Prix du Roman Fnac – the first of the literary season’s prizes – for C’était ça ou mourir (It was either that or die). He is also a finalist for the most prestigious annual French language awards, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, set to be issued soon.But on Tuesday a little-known group called Balance ton Claude (Denounce your Claude, in reference to Anthropic’s AI assistant) claimed…

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has registered gifts worth £8,177 covering travel and accommodation for a meeting with media mogul Rupert Murdoch in Greece.Badenoch, along with her husband Hamish and shadow minister Alex Burghart, were flown to Athens on 24 August – with the costs paid for by the Murdoch family’s News Corp UK organisation.Badenoch’s spokesperson said: “Kemi was pleased to meet Rupert Murdoch and senior News Corp and News UK executives.”The visit has been declared in full in the usual way.”The spokesperson added: “Kemi values serious engagement with Britain’s major media organisations and the people who run them (including at…

Six people have been arrested after anti-migrant protesters gathered at a marina in Hampshire in the mistaken belief that a small boat was due to arrive.Heeding calls from the far-right campaigner Daniel Thomas, hundreds of protesters gathered early on Tuesday evening at Gosport in Hampshire, aiming to disrupt any disembarkation of asylum seekers. The Border Force vessels carrying them landed instead in Dover early on Wednesday.Thomas, who styles himself as Danny Tommo, spent Tuesday afternoon in a speedboat in the Channel broadcasting his pursuit of the asylum seekers to more than 100,000 people.He is facing a police inquiry after using…