Nigeria’s SEC backs stablecoins, signalling new crypto chapter

Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has expressed support for stablecoin businesses that operate within the bounds of the country’s digital asset regulations. During the Nigeria Stablecoin Summit held in Lagos, SEC Director-General Emomotimi Agama reportedly said the African country is ready to embrace blockchain-based payment innovations as long as they comply with existing laws. […]

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A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’

On May 6th, Andrew Ilyas and colleagues published a paper outlining two sets of experiments. Firstly, they showed that models trained on adversarial examples can transfer to real data, and secondly that models trained on a dataset derived from the representations of robust neural networks seem to inherit non-trivial robustness. They proposed an intriguing interpretation […]

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The Compound and Friends: Meme Stocks or Manipulation?

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HarborOne Bancorp Posts Q2 Profit Gain

HarborOne Bancorp (HONE 1.37%), a Massachusetts-based community-oriented bank holding company, released its second quarter results on July 24, 2025. The bank reported diluted earnings per share of $0.20 (GAAP), topping consensus forecasts of $0.19 GAAP EPS. Total revenue (GAAP) reached $45.44 million. The quarter showed steady improvement in profitability and margin, even as the bank […]

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Baltimore Shows You Can Bring Down Murder Rates Without Throwing More Cops At The Problem

from the sending-more-violence-to-violent-areas-isn’t-a-solution dept So many pro-police lawmakers and city officials have always insisted the only way to bring down crime rates is to add more cops to the mix. This may work if you’re mainly interested in racking up meaningless arrests or handing out “broken windows” citations, but it doesn’t address why certain areas […]

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Moving from an orchestration-heavy to leadership-heavy management role.

For managers who have spent a long time reporting to a specific leader or working in an organization with well‑understood goals, it’s easy to develop skill gaps without realizing it. Usually this happens because those skills were not particularly important in the environment you grew up in. You may become extremely confident in your existing […]

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Man in his 60s runs massive Ponzi scam while on probation for past fraud

Key Takeaways A South Korean man ran a $60 million Ponzi scheme targeting over 2,200 investors under the guise of AI and crypto businesses. The scam promised 300% returns and mainly affected victims aged 50-70, many of whom were unfamiliar with crypto technologies. Share this article South Korean police arrested a man in his 60s […]

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WOO X suffers $14 million breach affecting 9 users, halts withdrawals

WOO X suffered an authorized breach on July 24, resulting in the theft of roughly $14 million in crypto. The exchange said it is investigating the “contained incident” and revealed that the breach resulted in unauthorized withdrawals from nine user accounts. The exchange has paused withdrawals as a precaution. It added in its statement that it […]

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