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Disclaimer: The following blog is a proposal from the Stateless Consensus team. Content may not imply consensus views, and the EF is a broad organization that includes a healthy diversity of opinion across Protocol and beyond that together strengthen Ethereum. Special thanks to Ladislaus von Daniels and Marius van der Wijden for reviewing this article. Ethereum has grown from a small experimental network into a critical piece of global infrastructure. Every day it settles billions of dollars in value, coordinates thousands of applications, and anchors an entire ecosystem of L2s. All of this ultimately relies on a single underlying component:…

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Manisha Krishnan: OK. So it sounds like you’re potentially open. You’re not closing the door on working with AI basically?Jon Chu: I don’t know.Manisha Krishnan: OK. That’s fair. I do want to talk a little bit about Crazy Rich Asians because I love that movie, but also I sort of wonder, did you have concerns about being typecast for doing Asian projects? That movie meant so much for representation. Did you also feel a lot of responsibility when you undertook that project?Jon Chu: Yeah. I mean, there’s a reason why I did it because I was so scared of talking…

Politics / Obituary / December 17, 2025 With the death of Norman Podhoretz at 95, the transition from New York’s intellectual golden age to the age of grievance and provocation is complete. Edit Ad Policy Norman Podhoretz.(Jon Naso / NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Postwar Manhattan hosted a tight-knit, disputatious intellectual culture shaped heavily by the sons (and occasionally the daughters) of shtetl-born immigrants. Applying talmudic rigor to secular debates about literature and foreign affairs, they published little magazines whose ideas spread directly from their pages to the highest political offices. While traces of that culture remain—The New…

Most languages use word position and sentence structure to extract meaning. For example, “The cat sat on the box,” is not the same as “The box was on the cat.” Over a long text, like a financial document or a novel, the syntax of these words likely evolves. Similarly, a person might be tracking variables in a piece of code or following instructions that have conditional actions. These are examples of state changes and sequential reasoning that we expect state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems to excel at; however, the existing, cutting-edge attention mechanism within transformers — the primarily architecture used in large…

“Across incidents, the same story repeats. A small web facing issue becomes the first step. A series of quiet pivots leads to domain level control. The environment is then repurposed as part of a larger network that powers operations against additional targets,” said Check Point. As to the traffic itself, the group hides communication inside ordinary mailbox drafts, making it look like everyday communication. Coincidentally, Check Point found that a second Chinese threat group, RudePanda, was simultaneously exploiting IIS weaknesses to compromise government servers. This meant that RudePanda “ended up operating in the same [compromised] environments at the same time.”…

Coinbase is launching stock trading and prediction markets as the crypto exchange looks beyond digital assets to chase its ambition of creating an “everything app.”Coinbase head of consumer and business products, Max Branzburg, announced at the company’s year-end conference that “stock trading is now available on Coinbase.”“This is a major milestone in our plan to enable 24/7 trading of stocks and ETFs from anywhere in the world, powered by crypto,” he said.Stock trading.Rolling out on Coinbase in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/tTcjpvVyXc— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) December 17, 2025 Branzburg also said that Coinbase has launched prediction markets in partnership with Kalshi, which…

Tim Allen‘s character on Shifting Gears is using a traditional values dating app after his shocking split from his onscreen girlfriend — played by Jenna Elfman. Earlier this season, Eve (Elfman) got a job that would take her overseas for a few months. Matt (Allen) decided it was a sign that they needed to end their relationship because he couldn’t deal with the distance. TVLine confirmed on Tuesday, December 16, that Matt won’t be single for long because Angela Kinsey will guest star in the second half of season 2 as Lynn, a woman Matt meets via a “traditional values…

By Katherine K. Chan PHILIPPINE BANKS and trust entities’ exposure to the property sector slipped at the end of September, amid a decline in real estate investments, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) data showed. The industry’s real estate exposure ratio stood at 19.54% as of end-September, falling from 19.61% at end-June and 19.55% in the same period a year ago. The BSP monitors lenders’ exposure to the real estate industry as part of its mandate to maintain financial stability. Philippine banks and trust departments have extended P3.451 trillion in total investments and loans to the real estate sector as of…