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Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.

Arriving at Act I, The Alters is quite engaging. It's a video game, in case you are reaching for your favourite search engine. So far, the sci-fi aspect has that structured feeling of the Eastern European/Soviet branch of the genre, mixed up with the post-Soviet era shift of values and cultural trends -- still kind of bland, but looking at the Western guilty thrill of the dystopian. It's a damn good, well-made game. I hope it holds up in that way until the end.

Geometric Interpretation of 3-SAT and Phase Transition
Frederic Gillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19740 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19740

Geometric Interpretation of 3-SAT and Phase Transition
Interpretation of 3-SAT as a volume filling problem, and its use to explore the SAT/UNSAT phase transition.

Filings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M for the first time (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/tech-lobbying-insights-q3

Meta tops spending again as AI lobbying heats up
Big Tech companies are still outspending companies focusing purely on AI and hardware.

Check out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …

Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea
CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,' Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season, Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled, Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money laundering, Firefox gets anti-fingerprinting fix, much more

hanukkah’s grotesque aftermath

I have been following this guy's videos for a very long time (since 2018?). When he started, he was posting videos five times per week. I'm glad to see that he's back to the daily cadence.
https://youtu.be/IpRkgoJOBd0?si=7ELngKaQu4NMsFV3

James Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges following Trump pressure to prosecute (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/08/james-comey-pleads-not-guilty-trial-date-00597839
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p53#a251008p53

In RTLnieuws een kok die het jammer zou vinden als kleine mooie boeren bedrijven (met een goed product) zouden verdwijnen.
Als ik zo wel naar koffie als koeien kijk, heb je je juist specialisten die hun eigen niche creëren. Uit beide soorten ken ik ze. Ze hebben vooral vaste klantenkring. Zowel voor de koffie als vlees geldt dat het bij die niches om de smaak (kwaliteit) gaat.
Bij de koffie zie je tot nu toe dat flinke prijsstijgingen in de goedkope koffies zat.
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