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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.

San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York pleads no contest to two misdemeanor charges in Ohio https://www.nfl.com/news/san-francisco-49ers-owner-jed-york-pleads-no-contest-to-two-misdemeanor-charges-in-ohio

“If u iz at dis borin wimbledore final lookin 2 get grand slammed, I iz here wif de hookup.”
The offer was from Ali G, real name Alistair Leslie Graham, AKA the malapropism-dropping home counties wide boy played by Sacha Baron Cohen,
kitted out for the occasion in trademark skullcap and gold chain, plus custom Wimbledon jacket, traditional crossed rackets replaced with cannabis leaves.
Security released him without penalty, but the reprimand was captured on scores of smartph…

Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice of yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return?

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.

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

Two unvaccinated individuals have died of measles in Pennsylvania,
state health officials announced on Tuesday.
The deaths are the first in the state in 35 years
and have been announced just one day after Maryland declared a measles outbreak in three counties.
Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to medicine,
and is preventable with a highly effective vaccine.
Because measles was largely eliminated in the Commonwealth for more than three d…

Two unvaccinated people die of measles in Pennsylvania
Deaths from disease are first in state in 35 years and just one day after Maryland declared outbreak in three counties

Skild AI unveils S1, a robotics foundation model that it says can learn tasks never seen during pretraining, using a single video demo, without fine-tuning (Skild AI)
https://www.skild.ai/blogs/s1

Introducing S1: In-Context Learning for Robotics
S1 is our flagship robotic foundation model, built from the ground up as an in-context learner: show it a single video demonstration of a task, seen or unseen, short or long-horizon, and it executes with no fine-tuning or post-training.

Fasset, which offers stablecoin-powered banking services across Asia and other emerging markets, raised $68M at a $1B valuation, after raising $51M in May (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/08/

OpenAI says its AI agents "took actions we did not intend" when they tried to hack government and university websites, and it is working with the organizations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/techno…

OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.