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Sources: Binance has been exploring ways to reboot its Binance.US affiliate, including a recapitalization to cut CZ's stake, which is a hurdle to expansion (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-17/binan…

🤑 $54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/28/brian-kelly-payout-lsu-college-football-coaches

$54m to walk: getting fired as a college football coach is a booming industry
Brian Kelly’s departure from LSU is just the latest in a series of big money firings. It’s also a jarring state of affairs for many struggling fans

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/3m3dmlo7t7k2t

Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT - 3lxsr74rnk22h
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.

"As trading activity spiked on [#Crypto] exchanges and prices whipsawed, multiple centralized platforms suffered glitches. Binance’s site went completely down at one point, and customers reported unexplained account freezes, unsuccessful trades, and automated protections like stop-losses failing to trigger"
Again, of course. People build crypto exchanges because they want to get ric…

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

Great comment by @…:
«[…] private institutions are fundamentally extractive. Decisions are made on the basis of profit or some similar self-serving motivation. They provide as little as possible for the revenue they receive. Public institutions, by contrast, are fundamentally constructive. They exist to promote the social good or (if we believe Mark Carney) s…

Two Wikipedia contributors disarmed a gunman who threatened to kill himself at WikiConference to protest a policy banning editors who identify as pedophiles (Andy Newman/New York Times)
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Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
After the man walked onto the stage at the “Wiki World’s Fair” event and threatened to kill himself, witnesses said, two members of the audience jumped in to stop him.

Sources: French regulator ACPR is carrying out anti-money laundering checks on Binance and others, as it seeks to determine eligibility for EU MiCA licenses (Claudia Cohen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-…

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API

Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…

Coinbase to Launch Prediction Market Powered by Kalshi
Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market to allow its crypto clients to bet on events such as elections and sports, according to two people familiar with the matter. The market will be powered by prediction market company Kalshi and will put Coinbase in a booming but increasingly ...

Inside Hyperliquid, a booming DEX for perpetual crypto futures still controlled by a small insider group, raising questions about how decentralized it really is (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20