Midnight, You come and pick me up, no headlights, Long drive, Could end in burning flames or paradise…sounds like Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and John F. Kennedy, Jr., huh? As the song says, they never went out of style. The famously tragic It Couple of the 1990s is back on everyone’s fashion radar thanks to FX’s … Read more
Bitcoin is heading toward an uncomfortable milestone, a potential fifth consecutive monthly decline if February closes in the red, and the setup is starting to look less like a crypto-specific drawdown and more like a macro-driven repricing. This five-month losing streak would be notable in the post-ETF era and would also be Bitcoin’s longest stretch … Read more
A UK regulator today fined Reddit £14.5 million ($19.6 million) for not verifying the ages of users. The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) alleged that the failure to check ages resulted in Reddit illegally using children’s personal information. “Our investigation found that Reddit failed to apply any robust age assurance mechanism and therefore did not … Read more
PDRN (PolyDeoxyRiboNucleotides) are DNA fragments typically derived from fish, often salmon or trout, Dr. Hall: “It has a well-established history in the medical world—particularly for its role in supporting tissue regeneration and wound healing.” PDRN first rose to fame in South Korea through in‑clinic treatments such as injectables and skin boosters, where doctors noticed how … Read more
Writer and producer Etan Frankel (Joe vs. Carole, Sorry for Your Loss) is getting into business with Fox Entertainment Studios. Frankel has inked a first-look producing deal with the studio to develop and produce premium scripted series across genres. Under the new partnership, Frankel will develop a slate of scripted projects aligned with the studio’s … Read more
AI has brought the startup world the rise of a new phenomenon: startups that almost instantly hit multimillion ARR (annual recurring revenue). Stories abound of founders going from zero to $10 million, or as much as $100 million, in annual recurring revenue in a matter of months. To be fair, this, alone, isn’t a harbinger of … Read more
A solo Bitcoin miner notched a rare win by validating an entire Bitcoin block, securing a huge payday using a hobby-level mining operation and on-demand hashrate. The miner earned the 3.125 Bitcoin (BTC) block reward, worth about $200,000 at current prices, after successfully mining block 938092, according to blockchain data and a post from Bitcoin … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK chancellor Rachel Reeves will next week unveil the most “boring” spring economic statement in years, as she seeks to deliver a “stability dividend” for business and shore up an embattled Sir Keir Starmer. After … Read more
The wasted materials in question are in high demand — so much so that it isn’t actually the plastic and glass used in the manufacture of wearables that poses the biggest problem. Instead, according to the researchers, more than 70% of a device’s carbon footprint comes from the printed circuit boards (PCBs) housed within wearable devices … Read more
Discord already runs safety systems that catch spam rings, prevent raids, and detect coordinated abuse, powered by our rules engine (which we just open sourced as Osprey for other platforms to use). Age determination works the same way, using the same category of account-level signals: how long your account has existed, whether you have a … Read more