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A wallet tagged to the US government moved a small amount of Bitcoin linked to assets seized from Alameda Research’s Binance.US accounts.The movement revives a familiar fear that Washington could be preparing to liquidate more of its forfeited Bitcoin stash.Bitcoin deposited into the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve “shall not be sold” under President Donald Trump’s March 2025 executive order, turning qualifying forfeited BTC into a long-term Treasury asset.Trump himself said on Aug. 19 that he had made Bitcoin “a permanent asset of the United States Treasury.”CategoryCovered by reserve sale ban?Why it mattersSeized BTCNot automaticallyGovernment control alone does not make BTC part…

Michael Sheen has welcomed the reaction to his documentary investigating Wales’ toxic waste legacy, saying he hopes it pushes the relevant authorities to “find a solution”.Dozens of people contacted BBC Wales following coverage of Sheen’s investigation into chemical giant Monsanto and the dumping of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).One of them was a former Monsanto worker who spent three years helping to seal toxic waste underground and said staff had “cheap” protective equipment and were not told what they were burying.Eastman Chemical Company, which is responsible for Monsanto’s legacy production in the UK, did not respond to either Sheen and his team…

Environmental regulators in Texas issued an emergency order on Tuesday evening suspending requirements for the drought-stricken city of Corpus Christi to release water from its reservoir system in support of coastal wetlands. On the same day, Corpus Christi lifted restrictions on watering lawns that had been in place since 2024, when its reservoirs remained below critical levels until a dramatic rebound in July. “The city has chosen lawns over the bay,” said Larry McKinney, a former senior director of aquatic resources for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department who lives in Corpus Christi. “Without freshwater inflows, the bay becomes basically…

Posts shared thousands of times on social media have repeated a long-standing false claim that Japan named the “Covid mRNA vaccine” the “most deadly drug in [the] history of humankind”.Japan has done no such thing. Approved mRNA Covid-19 vaccines are considered safe and are used around the world.The posts include a screenshot of an article that appeared on a website called The People’s Voice in November 2024, which we’ve fact checked various claims from before. The claim has been circulating since at least 2024 and has been debunked by other organisations. Full Fact has previously checked false claims that Japan…

27/08/2026 – 12:17China sends 141 rescuers to disaster-stricken area of Gyirong 27/08/2026 – 12:11Pope Leo ‘saddened’ by deaths from Nepal flood 27/08/2026 – 12:03 27/08/2026 – 12:02🎥 Countries send rescue teams to Nepal to search for missing tourists A total of 800 foreign tourists are missing across the affected Himalayan region, including South Korean, Indian and Australian nationals, with some of those countries sending their own rescue teams to aid in the search. 27/08/2026 – 11:33🎥 How a glacier collapse is believed to have caused Nepal-Tibet disaster A huge piece of ice that fell thousands of metres from a glacier…

Portrait Light: You can change up the lighting in your portrait selfies after you take them by opening them in Google Photos, tapping Edit, and heading to Actions > Portrait Light. This adds an artificial light you can place anywhere in the photo to brighten up your face and erase that five-o’clock shadow. Use the slider at the bottom to tweak the strength of the light. It also works on older Portrait mode photos you may have captured. It works only on faces.Health and Accessibility FeaturesCough & Snore Detection (Tensor G2 and newer): On the Pixel 7 and newer, your…

Nvidia has put nearly US$50 billion into the AI labs that buy its chips, and has lined up commitments for more than $500 billionColette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, told analysts on August 26 that demand from the labs Nvidia backs with its own balance sheet will contribute toward roughly a quarter of its business next year.That arrangement is what people mean by circular financing, and Nvidia used the phrase before any analyst did. Kress said on the earnings call that the company recognised the scale of the support it was providing and knew some would call it circular financing. She…

I’ve always been drawn to investigative documentaries — the kind where detectives reconstruct an entire crime from fragments of evidence. The breakthrough never comes from a single clue. It comes from connecting everything: movements, relationships, timing, and intent. Miss one piece and the case stalls, or worse, you chase the wrong suspect. Cybersecurity works the same way. In one of my previous articles, I wrote that the Security Operations Center (SOC) struggles because of architecture, not headcount. We keep layering AI onto systems that were never designed to give it what it needs: complete, high-fidelity data. Without that foundation, even…

Bitcoin price is trading near $78,900, close enough to $80,000 to revive the old treasury-company pitch on paper: higher Bitcoin should lift the value of corporate holdings, pull the shares back above net asset value, and reopen common-stock issuance as a source of fresh coins.That sequence did not return. At Strategy, Twenty One Capital, and Metaplanet, three listed companies built around corporate Bitcoin treasuries, common market capitalization remained well below the gross value of reported Bitcoin holdings. Yet the apparent discount was not uniform, and it did not amount to directly redeemable, cut-price Bitcoin. Debt, preferred stock, pledged coins, cash…

Severe stress during childhood can increase a person’s vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders when new challenges arise later in life. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Princeton University have now identified a biological process that may help explain how early trauma can have such long-lasting effects on the brain. Researchers have known that stress during early development can alter gene activity in the brain. The new findings suggest that these changes stem partly from the way brain cells package their DNA. By making certain stress-related genes easier to activate, early adversity may…