Signing Day Sports Revenue Drops 67%

Signing Day Sports (SGN 22.73%), a digital sports recruitment platform helping student-athletes connect with coaches and recruiters, released its second quarter results on August 12, 2025. The earnings highlighted a significant drop in revenue, attributed mainly to lower event fees, alongside a slight increase in net loss versus the same period last year. There were […]

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Bitcoin, AI, and the unstoppable deficit train

Welcome to Slate Sundays, CryptoSlate’s new weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto. Lyn Alden is an exceptional human. Broadly recognized as one of the top minds in macroeconomics, during a conversation with Lyn, you can feel […]

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3 Reasons to Buy Carnival Stock Like There’s No Tomorrow

Shares of this leading cruise line operator have more than doubled in the past 12 months. Carnival (CCL -2.27%) continues sailing in the right direction, something its shareholders have become extremely optimistic about. That’s not a surprise, given that the cruise line business was decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the company is on much […]

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AI Safety Needs Social Scientists

The goal of long-term artificial intelligence (AI) safety is to ensure that advanced AI systems are reliably aligned with human values — that they reliably do things that people want them to do.Roughly by human values we mean whatever it is that causes people to choose one option over another in each case, suitably corrected by reflection, […]

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This Week In Techdirt History: August 3rd – 9th

from the how-many-roads dept Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at how the DHS was surveilling journalists who published leaked documents and how they obtained the encrypted messages of protestors. The FCC was trying to pretend Trump’s executive order about social media wasn’t ridiculous, and one commissioner who suggested it was unconstitutional […]

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TRON surpasses $600B in monthly stablecoin transfers

Share this article Geneva, Switzerland – August 8, 2025 – CoinDesk Data, the institutional research and analytics arm of CoinDesk, a leading media outlet in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, has published a comprehensive protocol report on TRON. The report offers a detailed analysis of TRON’s performance in the first half of 2025, highlighting its […]

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What Attackers Are Doing With Them

When an organization’s credentials are leaked, the immediate consequences are rarely visible—but the long-term impact is far-reaching. Far from the cloak-and-dagger tactics seen in fiction, many real-world cyber breaches begin with something deceptively simple: a username and password. According to Verizon’s 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, leaked credentials accounted for 22% of breaches in 2024, […]

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