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In brief Strive purchased 1,110 Bitcoin at an average price of $73,409. The company issued 3.65 million common shares and 441,313 preferred shares during the same period. Its total Bitcoin holdings reached 21,356 BTC. Public asset manager Strive bought 1,110 Bitcoin, worth around $87.5 million, last week while issuing more common and preferred shares to fund its treasury strategy.Co-founded in 2022 by Vivek Ramaswamy, Strive’s Bitcoin holdings increased 5.5% between August 17 and August 21. But the new shares meant its Bitcoin per fully diluted share—a measure of how much Bitcoin corresponds to each share—rose by only about 1.4%.Myriad: Bitcoin…

The Indonesian government has integrated data from its Ministry of Culture, the Ancestral Domain Registration Agency and AMAN, the country’s largest Indigenous peoples’ alliance, to build a new dataset covering 3,857 Indigenous communities.The database will document and register customary territories and capture cultural aspects as well, including Indigenous languages, local foods and traditional knowledge.It is hoped that the database will provide greater visibility of Indigenous territories and enable them to be incorporated into permitting, development planning and spatial planning, but it does not grant legal recognition to Indigenous communities or customary territories.See All Key Ideas JAKARTA — Indigenous…

As a retired special school headteacher, I warmly welcome Alan Milburn’s proposal to expand supported internships for young people with special educational needs and disabilities (Turbocharge special needs internships to help tackle UK youth jobs crisis, says Milburn, 16 August). For too long society has concentrated on what these young people cannot do rather than what they can, with the right support and opportunity.I often meet former students who, once established in a workplace, have not only held down jobs but progressed to positions of greater responsibility.If Milburn’s proposals help shift the question from “What can’t this young person do?”…

Explainer: why is Albanese ‘WA’s daddy’ this week?Josh ButlerWith all the federal focus on Western Australia in recent days, humble readers not living on the west coast may be thinking: “… why?”Over the last week we’ve had Anthony Albanese inventing ever-more elaborate ways to promise that the federal government won’t be changing WA’s generous GST payments, bringing a full federal ministry meeting to the west again, a clutch of new agreements and funding, federal ministers tripping over themselves to lavish praise on the mining-rich state, and now even the famous Blue Poles painting being sent to Perth for a visit.Even…

Nach der Sommerpause trifft sich die Bundesregierung zur ersten Klausur nach dem Kabinettsumbau im brandenburgischen Schloss Neuhardenberg. Der Kanzler fordert Disziplin, aber die Konflikte belasten die Koalition weiterhin merklich. Rasmus Buchsteiner liefert dazu die ersten Einschätzungen direkt aus Neuhardenberg. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview stellt sich der SPD-Fraktionschef Matthias Miersch den Fragen zum politischen Herbst. Er zeigt sich überzeugt, dass Friedrich Merz trotz aktuell schlechter Umfragen bis zum Ende der Amtszeit Kanzler bleibt. Außerdem ordnet er die Rentenpläne und die Umfragewerte der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt ein. Nachdem ein pauschales Social-Media-Verbot für Jugendliche in Frankreich gescheitert ist, sortiert Larissa Kögl von POLITICO PRO „Technologie…

Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, was forced to defend himself on Monday for taking a recent meeting with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, amid a backlash about the encounter from some progressives.“I wanted to give you a little real talk on this Jared Kushner situation,” Mr. Jeffries said in a video he posted on social media, in which he appeared in Brooklyn dressed in a bright green Yankees cap and matching polo shirt.Mr. Jeffries, who had initially declined to acknowledge the meeting or comment on it, said in the video…

Artie Beaty/ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysThe Meta Pocket app lets you vibe code small games and widgets.You describe what you want and the app does the rest.Creations only take about a minute to appear.Meta just made it incredibly easy to vibe-code your own mini-games, memes, and gizmos.Last week, the company launched the Pocket app for all users. The app lets you vibe code (instead of writing code line by line, you describe what you want in plain language to an AI) lightweight, playable experiences like games, gizmos that reach to touch, tilt, and sound,…

Industry surveys have long put CISO tenure below that of other C-suite roles, and part of the reason is a double standard. During recruitment, the focus is technical depth, security experience, and leadership. But when budget season arrives and the board weighs a leader’s performance, the lens is cost, growth, customer trust, and brand protection. Many CISOs feel this acutely. They came up through security, or through risk and compliance, and that is where they are fluent. Their board is not. It wakes up thinking about cost, growth, and customer commitments, and a security leader who cannot connect their work…

KOREASouth Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank taps Ripple for cross-border paymentsSouth Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank has partnered with blockchain payments company Ripple to deploy its cross-border payment system for business customers.The service targets businesses including import-export companies, technology startups and online content creators. Ripple said its system would provide the bank with faster, less expensive remittance capabilities than conventional transfers routed through intermediary banks via the SWIFT messaging network, which can take several days. South Korean lawmakers seek expanded FIU powers over unregistered crypto firmsA group of South Korean lawmakers has introduced a bill to amend an existing financial law and expand the Financial Intelligence…

Screens are now a routine part of life for many young children, raising growing questions about how early exposure could influence development over time. New longitudinal research that tracked children from age 1 through age 8 found that greater screen viewing, especially during infancy and around the time children begin school, was associated with lower academic performance at age 9 and weaker working memory at age 10.5. The results suggest that when children are exposed to screens could matter just as much as how much time they spend using them. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the American Academy of…