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In brief Four long-dormant Bitcoin wallets moved a combined 1,971.03 BTC (~$161 million) over the past two weeks, per Galaxy Research, led by a 1,260.78 BTC stash (~$100.63 million) untouched since 2016. The oldest coins posted staggering gains—one 2011-era wallet was up more than 8.38 million percent—while the most recent, a 600 BTC (~$51.9 million) transfer dormant since 2012, moved early Tuesday. Three of the four carried “Noah Doe” tags tied to a New York abandoned-property lawsuit, extending a 2026 trend of decade-old wallets reactivating. The steady procession of long-dormant Bitcoin wallets springing back to life is showing no sign…

Catherine O’Connell-Cooper, APXS Strategic Planner and Payload Uplink/Downlink Lead, University New Brunswick, NB, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 11, 2026 This week we had two planning days (Tuesday and Friday), as Monday was Labor Day in North America, where many of the Curiosity team are based. Labor Day (the first Monday in September) marks the end of summer holidays and thrills, and the return to more typical routines and back to school. The MSL team has marked several important milestones within the past few weeks — marking our 14th “Landiversary” on Aug. 6 and surpassing the 1-kilometer elevation mark…

I have a simple solution to help keep the super-rich happy with their tax bills while keeping their enormous wealth safely stored offshore and allowing them possibly to spend more time in the UK (Manchester United Muslim fans group calls on co-owner Jim Ratcliffe to quit, 19 September). They could insist that any company they earn their wealth from commits to paying all UK staff a decent living wage.For this small compromise from the billionaires (who will still play the money markets and profit from others’ hard labour), the government could offer to reduce employers’ taxation costs by increasing the…

King Charles has referred a landmark slavery reparations petition from Jamaica to a high-level UK appeals court for legal advice, Jamaica’s culture minister announced in parliament on Tuesday.Referring to the move as a “really big deal”, Olivia Grange told Jamaica’s MPs the monarch had confirmed that their legal questions have been passed on to the London-based privy council – the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth countries.The petition seeks guidance on three questions: whether the forced transport of Africans to Jamaica was lawful; whether it constituted a crime against humanity; and whether Britain is under…

The US has criticised Australia’s proposal to give users the ability to opt out of social media algorithms, saying it amounts to “censorship of protected speech”.Under Australia’s draft digital duty of care laws, tech firms risk hefty fines if they fail to give users the option to turn off algorithms in a bid to protect them from harmful content.In a rare submission to the proposed laws, the US embassy in Canberra said it had “serious concerns” and allowing the government to “enforce vague definitions of ‘harm'” would lead to “viewpoint-based censorship”.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the legislation was not…

Sweden’s data privacy regulator, IMY, has imposed a $183,000 (SEK 1.8 million) fine on IT systems provider Miljödata for inadequate security measures leading to a breach in August 2025 affecting 2.2 million people. Miljödata is a Swedish software company that develops and provides work environment and HR management systems used by 80% of Sweden’s municipal systems. Last year, on August 25, the company suffered a cyberattack that disrupted IT services in over 200 regions and compromised residents’ sensitive data. The threat actor demanded a ransom of 1.5 Bitcoin (valued at $168,000 at the time) to prevent leaking the stolen information, but…

XRP registered an intraday high of $1.60 on Sept. 22, with roughly $7.4 billion in reported volume. The move was strong, but the latest public data on regulated futures showed different positioning shifts across venues.The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Sept. 15 snapshot showed leveraged funds cutting their net short in CME futures by the equivalent of 46.3 million XRP in one week. Net short means reported short contracts exceeded reported long contracts.Across three separately reported Coinbase Derivatives products, adjusted for each contract’s unit, the same trader category reduced its combined net short by only 2.452 million XRP and remained short…

Ketamine abuse in children and young people is on the rise in the UK.The Alder Hey doctors, external saw one young patient in 2023, nine in 2024, and then “a rapid escalation” in 2025, which led them to open the bespoke clinic in May.They get about one referral every week from GPs or emergency departments in Cheshire, Merseyside and other nearby regions. Of the first 60 they saw, 43 were girls. Despite its name, “ketamine bladder” can affect the entire urinary tract, including the kidneys and ureters.Symptoms include an urgent and frequent need to urinate. This can be very painful…

In honor of World Rhino Day, on Sept. 22, here’s a snapshot of Mongabay’s reporting from the past year on the actions being taken to save rhinos from extinction: Reintroduction in Uganda In 1983, the last wild northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni) living in Uganda was killed for its horn. But now rhinos are back in the country, contributor Benjamin Jumbe reported in March. In the last year, at least four southern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum simum) were brought to northern Uganda’s Kidepo Valley National Park and another four to Ajai Wildlife Reserve. The reintroduced rhinos are a…

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, on the ground for Day 2 of UNGA. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Trump’s speech, Guterres’s swan song, and Zelensky’s press conference. U.S. President Donald Trump used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to dial up the pressure on Iran, threatening to “annihilate” the country if it does not make a deal with the United States to end the war. “I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever…