Author: Vidya Saras

Flows into Iranian crypto trading platforms have fallen in 2025 due to a breakdown in nuclear negotiations with Israel, a $90 million hack on Iran’s largest crypto exchange, and a major stablecoin blacklisting, says blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs.Iranian crypto flows hit $3.7 billion between January and July, an 11% decrease compared to the same period last year, with the worst drop off coming in June and July, TRM Labs said in a report on Tuesday.“This downturn coincided with a breakdown in nuclear negotiations, a 12-day conflict with Israel beginning June 13, and widespread power outages in Iran — driven…

The Ethereum community, key developers and researchers and others have always recognized scalability as perhaps the single most important key technical challenge that needs to be solved in order for blockchain applications to reach mass adoption. Blockchain scalability is difficult primarily because a typical blockchain design requires every node in the network to process every transaction, which limits the transaction processing capacity of the entire system to the capacity of a single node. There are two main paths to improving blockchain scalability. The first (“sharding”) involves creating better-designed base-layer blockchain protocols, which still maintain most of the desired decentralization and…

The rally of Bitcoin to new highs of over $124,000 has subsided, and the price has fallen to about $115,000 in recent sessions. The shift is a decline of about 7 percent from its high, and although the decline has raised concerns that the momentum is waning, the overall trend remains positive. The pace has been slowed by profit-taking and macroeconomic uncertainty, but the underlying demand and confidence among long-term holders have not been lost. Bitcoin in Practice Outside of Speculation The evolution has also brought into focus how Bitcoin is utilized outside of price speculation. Investors are also finding…

Anthropic has reached a preliminary settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by a group of prominent authors, marking a major turn in of the most significant ongoing AI copyright lawsuits in history. The move will allow Anthropic to avoid what could have been a financially devastating outcome in court.The settlement agreement is expected to be finalized September 3, with more details to follow, according to a legal filing published on Tuesday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Anthropic declined to comment.In 2024, three book writers, Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson,…

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Google AI has just unveiled Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a new generation image model designed to let users generate and edit images simply by describing them—and its true innovation is how it delivers precise, consistent, and high-fidelity edits at impressive speed and scale. What Makes Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Impressive? Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is built on the multimodal, advanced reasoning foundation of Gemini 2.5, (meaning it natively understands both images and text) enabling seamless workflows for generation and editing. This architecture allows users to: Blend multiple images into one with a single prompt Maintain subject and character consistency across…

Wayward premieres 25 September on Netflix internationallyApple TV+(Credit: Apple TV+)11. The SavantJessica Chastain stars in this timely thriller as Jodie, whose intuitive skills make her excellent at her top-secret job: tracing white supremacists and other hate groups on-line in order to prevent any violent attacks. She should be safely infiltrating the groups from her desk, interacting with them using a false persona, but her work becomes more immediate than she expected. The show reveals its strain on her home life, which includes two children and a husband in the military. And along with glimpses of the chilling videos the hate…

The cybersecurity community on Reddit responded in disbelief this month when a self-described Air National Guard member with top secret security clearance began questioning the arrangement they’d made with company called DSLRoot, which was paying $250 a month to plug a pair of laptops into the Redditor’s high-speed Internet connection in the United States. This post examines the history and provenance of DSLRoot, one of the oldest “residential proxy” networks with origins in Russia and Eastern Europe. The query about DSLRoot came from a Reddit user “Sacapoopie,” who did not respond to questions. This user has since deleted the original…

General Hospital sees Ava Jerome (Maura West) in deep trouble for bashing Ric Lansing (Rick Hearst) in the head. But Ava is not going to go down without taking Kristina Corinthos-Davis (Kate Mansi) with her. We’re going to talk about how Ava and Kristina may need to work together to handle Ric, assuming he is dead, and keeping each other’s dirty secrets is going to be part of it. General Hospital: Ava Jerome Snaps Recently, we saw Ava storm over to Alexis Davis‘s (Nancy Lee Grahn) house, ready to rant at the lady lawyer and demand more money. I’m guessing…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has come under fire from financial advisers after reports suggested she may target tax-free family gifts in her latest inheritance tax (IHT) reforms. Wealth managers and planners have branded the proposal “daft” and a “blatant tax grab” that risks punishing grandparents who financially support their children and grandchildren. At present, individuals can give up to £3,000 a year in gifts tax-free, with additional exemptions for weddings and small gifts of up to £250 per person. Larger transfers can also fall outside IHT if the donor survives for seven years. However, reports indicate that the Treasury is considering…