Coinbase launches direct Indian rupee deposit and withdrawal rails via the Immediate Payment Service, aiming to remove its reliance on P2P and intermediaries (Omkar Godbole/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/05/3…
Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015; the contest will be held in Bulgaria (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jul/01/canada-joins-eurovision-song-co…
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#newJersey
Starmer does the dirty on Burnham.
Commits an extra £4.7bn on weapons.
£47bn on new nuclear submarines
£13bn on a new nuclear warhead
£1.7bn on nuclear fuels.
£1bn for 12 Lockheed Martin F-35A jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs
£8.6bn on new fighter aircraft and £1.1bn to keep existing Typhoons in service until the 2040s.
£5bn more on drones.
Do you feel safer now?
Burnham left with £4.7bn bill for Starmer’s new defence investment plan
Here's a good long read for Sunday - how to achieve a just green transition, looking at energy as a thread binding together questions of war, class, corporate oppression, and labour.
Una lectura para el domingo: cómo lograr una transición ecológica justa, analizando la energía como vínculo entre cuestiones de guerra, clase social, opresión corporativa y sindicalismo.
To make it easier esp. for junior folks (students, postdocs, jr faculty) to talk to me, I'm trying a new thing: open office hours at conferences! Come find me at PLDI 2026, using the public calendar linked to the page below. Please feel free to reshare!
https://cs.brown.edu/people/sk/Contact
from my link log —
ARM LDM and STM are Turing complete.
https://kellanclark.github.io/2023/09/18/armfuck/
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SEC filing: Strategy sold 32 bitcoin between May 26 and May 31 for ~$2.5M at an average net price of $77,135 per coin, its first disclosed bitcoin disposal (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/01/strate…
The US sentences Guo Wengui, a self-exiled billionaire Chinese tycoon who defrauded his online followers out of hundreds of millions, to 30 years in prison (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/guo-wengui-chinese-businessman-fraud-3deb…