About 1,600 federal employees who work at the General Services Administration have been forced to relocate from their office on F Street in Washington, DC, to the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building, roughly two blocks away. Workers say the new building, which also houses staff from the Office of Personnel Management has mice, a caved-in bathroom ceiling, and…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Southeast Asia’s largest crypto gathering felt less like a speculative trade show and more like an active regulatory workshop for a regional economic pivot. At Coinfest Asia 2026 in Bali, over 10,000 attendees gathered as…
A former White House teleprompter operator has agreed to pay $172,539 after U.S. regulators found he used advance access to President Donald Trump’s speeches to make more than $107,500 trading prediction market contracts. Summary Gabriel Perez made more than $107,500 trading prediction market contracts using advance access to Trump’s speeches, the CFTC said. Perez must…
When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a private-equity rescue — a business that was printing money but also had no real product or business strategy. Four years, a SPAC listing, and a controversial return-to-office mandate later, Grindr…
Key Takeaways Belgium’s BAPO ordered domain registrars to submit financial, IP, and account details of pirate operators. Court orders named host Hostinger among entities compelled to share data to shield the sports economy. Experts question if cross-border demands will survive scrutiny under the EU Digital Services Act. Crackdown on Digital Piracy Belgian authorities have escalated…
Another busy economic week is ahead of us as investors are trying to predict what the Fed will do next. Bitcoin ends August and enters September under renewed pressure, but geopolitics won’t be the only factor traders need to watch this week. Several important US economic reports are due between Tuesday and Friday, culminating…
Fancy doing a bit of Moon spotting tonight? You might be surprised by how much detail you can pick out from Earth, especially if you have binoculars or a telescope handy. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Monday, Aug. 31, NASA’s Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us the Moon is in Waning Gibbous phase,…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will not draw down its foreign currency reserves to artificially defend a ₱60 exchange rate against the US dollar. The policy stance comes as the Philippine peso breached the…
Coinbase will suspend trading for Badger DAO and Storj on Sept. 28, 2026, following its latest review of assets listed on the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. Summary Coinbase will suspend BADGER and STORJ trading on September 28, 2026, around 2:00 p.m. ET. Suspension covers Coinbase.com Simple and Advanced Trade, Coinbase Exchange, and Coinbase Prime services for…
In the very first moments of the universe, matter didn’t exist as we know today. A millionth of a second or so after the big bang, the universe was a dense, hot soup scientists call quark-gluon plasma (QGP). For several years, particle colliders—which smash molecules together at nearly the speed of light—have been able to…
