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Joe Gatto is entering an in-patient treatment after multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct.The “Impractical Jokers” star canceled all upcoming tour dates, stating he’s focusing on personal growth.This comes after allegations surfaced by a TikTok user who claimed that Joe Gatto assaulted her in 2023 after an event.Article continues below advertisementJoe Gatto Enters Treatment Facility To Work On HimselfOConnor/AFF-USA.com / MEGAGatto is stepping away from the spotlight to seek professional help following sexual assault and harassment allegations from multiple women.In a statement, the “Impractical Jokers” star, 48, announced he is voluntarily entering an in-patient treatment program to focus on…

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Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon said the state’s proposed stablecoin might be ready to launch by July, with the Wyoming Stable Token Commission announcing interoperability protocol LayerZero as a partner for the token launch.Speaking at the DC Blockchain Summit on March 26, Gordon praised the speed and efficiency of the Wyoming state government in embracing blockchain technology. Anthony Apollo, the executive director of the Wyoming Stable Token Commission, also confirmed:”The Stable Token Commission has formally engaged LayerZero as our token development and distribution partner, and we have stable tokens — Wyoming stable tokens — on several test networks.”Wyoming, which is represented…

Serenity Strull/ BBC/ Getty ImagesHow street-style photography has evolved from the Edwardian era to today. Now it is exploding – and turning fashion upside down.Jessica Chastain, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Parker Posey were among the stars attending the recent autumn/winter 2025 Gucci fashion show, but the photographers weren’t chasing them down outside. Instead, they jammed the ancient, moss-cracked alleys of Milan shouting, “Chloe!” “Chloe!”.Getty ImagesChloe King is often snapped in her imaginatively put-together outfits – she has become fashion’s version of a reality star (Credit: Getty Images)”It still makes me nervous,” says the Chloe in question, a Boston-born stylist and retail…

Ethereum’s weekly All Core Developer calls are a lot to keep up with, so this “Checkpoint” series aims for brief high-level updates with a target cadence of every 4-5 calls, depending on what’s happening in core development. See the initial update here. All subsequent updates will be hosted here on the Ethereum Foundation blog. The past month of calls have been focused on Pectra’s testnet upgrades in anticipation of the Pectra mainnet fork with development of the following fork, Fusaka, pushing forward in parallel. Pectra Both major testnets, Holešky and Sepolia, underwent the Pectra fork and both saw configuration issues…

NFTs minted on the Ronin blockchain are now live on OpenSea, allowing users with a Ronin Wallet to engage with OpenSea’s interface to buy, sell, and launch new NFTs on the network.The update also includes access to OpenSea Studio, a no-code creation platform for launching NFT collections directly on Ronin which is expected to make NFT creation more accessible for creators operating on the network.To mark the integration, Sky Mavis has released two free commemorative NFTs—Jin and Ronke—which users can mint by connecting their Ronin Wallets. Both tokens reference figures familiar to the Ronin user base and are available for…

The U.S. has lifted sanctions on 90 Ethereum addresses, but a key developer is still designated and faces criminal charges. The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on the coin mixer Tornado Cash and multiple related crypto addresses, according to a March 21 update. The change removes 90 Ethereum addresses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals List. The Treasury wrote that the decision is based on a review of legal and policy issues explained in its Monday filing in Van Loon v. Department of the Treasury. In December, the federal appeals court responsible for the case…

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for clean labeled data.Jonathan Frankle, chief AI scientist at Databricks, spent the past year talking to customers about the key challenges they face in getting AI to work reliably.The problem, Frankle says, is dirty data.”Everybody has some data, and has an idea of what they want to do,” Frankle says. But the lack of clean data makes it challenging to fine-tune a model to perform a specific task. “Nobody shows up…

Activism / March 26, 2025 Budapest has been repeatedly condemned for the erosion of its justice system. Will Europe’s courts still greenlight Budapest’s punitive search for leftists? Ad Policy Protesters hold a banner reading “FREE ALL ANTIFAS” as they demonstrate against the annual neo-Nazi “Day of Honour” rally in Budapest on February 8, 2025.(Attila Kisbenedek / AFP via Getty Images) On February 11, 2023, neo-Nazis from across Europe descended on Budapest for the “Day of Honor” rally. The event commemorates an unusual set of martyrs: the German army and collaborationist Magyar fascists, defeated by the advancing Red Army during…

Around 11 billion tons of goods, or about 1.5 tons per person worldwide, are transported by sea each year, representing about 90 percent of global trade by volume. Internationally, the merchant shipping fleet numbers around 110,000 vessels. These ships, and the ports that service them, are significant contributors to the local and global economy — and they’re significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.A new consortium, formalized in a signing ceremony at MIT last week, aims to address climate-harming emissions in the maritime shipping industry, while supporting efforts for environmentally friendly operation in compliance with the decarbonization goals set by the…