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The CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M settlement in January 2025, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/05/27

U.S. CFTC files request to erase Gemini settlement that it no longer considers fair
The regulator went back to analyze the 2022 case and decided that it wouldn't have been pursued under current management and practices.

Human translators manage good #translation because they comprehend the original text, know its intricacies and can actually creatively write to preserve its gist. Context is more than the surrounding paragraphs: it includes the cultural and social background, other books, etc. Sometimes it literally involves getting hints from the author. And in the end, it is deeply personal. It can't be "accurate", because no two people are the same, and no two languages map 1:1 (though the interpretation will also differ between different users of the same language); the best you can do is add translator's notes.
LLM translators manage good translation because they've been fed tons of human translation work, and quite often they manage to match an original human translation and plagiarize it. They may even seem better because they seem to manage it without sufficient context, but that's only because they've found a human translation that had that context already.
Or, well, technically they can also regurgitate something that makes sense only in the irrelevant original context.
#NoAI #NoLLM

We are now deep into the weeds of the cyber news work week, so check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Centcom: US war zone troops were targeted through commercial location data,
--Canada signals flexibility as tech giants fight surveillance bill,
--Canadian sentenced to 30 years for years-long child sextortion scheme,
--Romanian sentenced to 56 months for Oregon gov't, other hacks,
--Germany and France fig…

Centcom: US war zone troops were targeted through commercial location data
Canada signals flexibility as tech giants fight surveillance bill, Canadian lands 30 years for child sextortion scheme, Romanian sentenced to 56 months for Oregon gov't, other hacks, Germany and France fight EC's ban of Huawei on cyber grounds, much more

🧩 Bonus: container attribute injection with #[Context('trace_id')], conditional when()/unless(), exception reporting that carries context, and survival across the scheduler subprocess via __LARAVEL_CONTEXT.
✅ Use it for trace IDs, tenants, route names, user IDs, locale. Not for required business inputs, secrets, or large payloads. If the code can't run without it, pass it explicitly.
🌐

Becerra leads governor's race, with Hilton and Steyer in tight contest for second spot, poll finds (Seema Mehta/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-05-28/becerra-leads-governors-race-hilton-steyer-in-tight-contest-for-second-spot
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p46#a260529p46

Like CSUNATC, I was turned away from a Disability:IN session. Unlike CSUNATC, I was able to sit outside the room and stream the session.

On Tuesday, the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized a contested oil and gas leasing plan for its Bakersfield Field Office,
which manages public lands from Fresno to Ventura counties.
Under the approved plan, the BLM is offering up 850,000 acres across the Central Coast to future drilling and fracking. 
The BLM Bakersfield Field Office manages more than 1.2 million acres of public lands and federal mineral estate in Central California.
It supports about 3,5…

Feds Opens Up 850,000 Acres of Central Coast to Oil and Gas Drilling, Fracking
Public land now open to leasing includes a parcel next to Cate School in Carpinteria, a public park in Lompoc, and land bordering Lake Cachuma.

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings agrees to acquire Bitbank, a top 10 Japanese crypto exchange by trading activity, for ~$289M, set to close in October (Jamie Crawley/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/06/

Japanese giant SBI Holdings to buy Bitbank for $289 million
SBI said the acquisition, which is subject to regulatory approval, is set to close in October.

🔍 Everything about Laravel's Context facade
Laravel's #Context facade is a framework-level place to store execution metadata during a request, command, or queued job — and attach it to your logs automatically. No more passing the same arrays through every method call.
🧠 Mental model: a per-execution key-value repository. Add data once (a trace_id), and any log later in the…

Crypto exchange BitMart says it plans to wind down its trading platform on January 31, 2027, ending 9 years of operation, and has stopped accepting new orders (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/2

BitMart to shut down after nine years, exchange token crashes 58%
Users have a month to close trades and six months to withdraw funds, and the exchange gave no specific reason for the closure.