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India orders GitHub to remove Bitchat, the offline messaging app built by Jack Dorsey that is used by anti-government protesters amid internet blackouts (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/07/24/indi…

India orders takedown of Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin-linked messaging app Bitchat
The order targets Bitchat, an offline Bluetooth mesh app built to relay encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions, as 'Cockroach Janta Party' protesters in Delhi use mesh tools to communicate through internet shutdowns.

Und der Truppe hat der Landtag gestern erweiterte Befugnisse gegeben. 🤦
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2026-06/plakat-polizei-chemnitz-tino-chrupalla-afd-zentrum-fuer-politische-schoenheit

Plakat vor Polizeidirektion Chemnitz: Ermittler durchsuchen Räume des Zentrums für Politische Schönheit
Die Staatsanwaltschaft Chemnitz hat Räume von Aktivisten durchsuchen lassen. Hintergrund ist offenbar eine Karikatur, auf der auch AfD-Chef Tino Chrupalla zu sehen ist.

French political title Contexte, which generates 100% of its revenue from subscriptions, reports a €268K net profit for 2025, its first profit without subsidies (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

French political title Contexte hits first profit on revenue of €12.9m
After a year of slowed investment and expansion into the EU market, Contexte has reached profitability for the first time without subsidies.

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Lions CB Terrion Arnold arrested on eight felony counts that carry possible life sentence https://www.nfl.com/news/lions-cb-terrion-arnold-arrested-on-eight-felony-counts-that-carry-possible-life-sentence

Story Protocol, a blockchain-based IP ownership network that raised $140M, rebrands as Data Foundation to build an on-chain registry for AI training data (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/

a16z-backed crypto firm rebrands, shifts focus to solving AI’s global copyright headache
The startup formerly known as Story Protocol raised $140 million to secure internet rights and is now building an audit layer for data consent, licensing, and provenance for tech firms.

contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a $385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/2…

Kraken eyes 15% stake in DeFi lender Aave in deal valuing protocol at $385 million
The DeFi lender is rebuilding after the fallout from April's KelpDAO exploit sparked a multibillion-dollar exodus of deposits despite Aave itself not being hacked.

The Ethereum Foundation cuts ~20% of its workforce, or 54 staff, as part of a broad restructuring amid leadership turnover and growing Ethereum fragmentation (Margaux Nijkerk/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/06/23/ethereum-foun…

Ethereum (ETH) news: Foundation cuts 20% of staff amid leadership exodus
The reduction follows a period of significant upheaval at the organization’s leadership level.