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Bitcoin futures open interest is back above $50 billion for the first time this year. Is that healthy leverage or a warning sign? David Lawant, head of research at Anchorage Digital, says it’s a sign of vitality, and explains why rising spot volume and thinning order books point to the early stages of a Bitcoin market upturn. Chapters:0:00 Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Tops $50B – Healthy or a Warning Sign?1:26 Reading Bitcoin’s Market Structure Beyond Open Interest3:23 Rising Spot Volume, Thinning Order Books, and the Anthropic IPO4:15 The Liquidity Absorption Ratio Explained6:52 How to Spot a Bitcoin Market Regime Change7:36…

A large review led by researchers at King’s College London has found that people who use cannabis are more likely both to commit violent acts and to experience violence themselves. Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) combined data from 63 studies involving more than 265,000 people. They analyzed the general population separately from people receiving psychiatric care. What the Review Examined The researchers used the World Health Organization’s broad definition of violence, which includes physical, sexual and psychological violence toward another person, both inside and outside intimate relationships. They also separated self-reported violence from cases that…

A potentially historic El Niño event is building in the Pacific Ocean and already impacting the globe. Based on most recent models, this year’s event could be the largest ever recorded.Recent studies suggest that climate change is increasing the intensity of El Niños. A paper analyzing coral samples from the Galapagos Islands found that intensity has increased 36.5% in the last four decades.Modeling suggests that climate change will continue to intensify El Niños into the future and change their frequency. Though this is still debated, with some models showing more limited influence.See All Key Ideas As a potentially…

The claim that a video shows shoppers in a U.K. grocery store standing in gender-segregated lines is still under investigation.  The footage itself is real, meaning not created by an artificial intelligence tool. It shows shoppers at Masala Bazaar in Chadwell Heath, East London, standing in lines split by gender. A TikTok user who appears to be a store employee, as of this writing, posted it on Sept. 28, 2026. Some social media users speculated that the apparent gender segregation seen in the clip was due to the shoppers’ Muslim faith or culture. The store’s management reportedly told the Daily…

Alongside Israel’s genocide in Gaza, there has been an apparent attempt to erase the Palestinian enclave’s cultural heritage.At least 164 cultural sites in Gaza have been damaged since Israeli military operations began in October 2023 and March 2026, according to UNESCO.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAmong the ancient landmarks affected in waves of Israeli bombing are the Great Omari Mosque and Hamam al-Sammara, Qasr al-Basha in Gaza’s Old City, and the al-Qarara Cultural Museum near Khan Younis.Among the rubble are precious artefacts and antiquities, which tell a story of Gaza’s rich cultural history, being at the crossroads of…

Farage is spoiling to address all these fault-lines on Thursday.  “He will talk about Burnham wanting to take us into the Euro, return us to freedom of movement with 500 million people and losing the ability to nationalize key industries,” said the Reform official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the pending speech in Doncaster. The Yorkshire city voted 69% in favor of leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum, making it one of the most pro-Brexit areas in the U.K. One of its MPs is Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband. Burnham has reopened the debate in Labour and…

New analysis produced exclusively for the Guardian reveals how different voting systems would return significantly different seat totals in the UK parliament, based on recent polling.While the current first past the post (FPTP) system could leave Labour short of a majority with 250 seats, the modelling shows how proportional systems would be likely to reduce the number of seats given to the leading party – and give the UK a more finely balanced parliament that better represents the votes people cast.The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has announced a new national commission on electoral reform aimed at changing the electoral…

WhatsApp is introducing new parental controls for teenagers, as tech companies continue to come under pressure to provide more age-appropriate experiences for children.The social messaging app’s new tools will give parents a range of options, such as being told when their child joins or leaves a group. It will also let them decide on privacy settings for their account.In a blog post, WhatsApp, clarified parents would not be given the power to see the messages their teen is sending and receiving, which along with calls would stay private and protected by end-to-end encryption.And it said the controls were optional, which…

Remote access software company TeamViewer warned customers on Tuesday to immediately patch a set of high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its client and host software. The highest-severity flaw is a remote session access control bypass (CVE-2026-92370) stemming from an improper access control weakness in TeamViewer Full Client and Host software for Windows, Linux, and macOS that could let remote threat actors perform unauthorized actions leading to remote code execution on targeted systems. The other four security issues addressed on Tuesday are a path traversal (CVE-2026-19743), a heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-2026-92368), a time-of-check time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition (CVE-2026-92369), and an improper path validation…

After suspected North Korean hackers exploited crypto exchange Bitget for $387.5 million last week, investigators were able to quickly flag and trace the recipient addresses. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen then controversially demanded that decentralized cross-chain swaps platform THORChain “refuse service to these addresses.”THORChain responded: “THORChain is decentralized and permissionless like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB Chain. What responsibility should Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB Chain bear when handling known stolen funds?”The move was controversial, especially given the protocol was halted immediately in May when $10.7 million of its own funds were exploited. Complicating matters, THORChain has retired its admin key and doesn’t have…