Ripple said Monday that Luxembourg upgraded its preliminary Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization under the European Union’s (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulations to a full license. The approval clears Ripple to provide cryptoasset services throughout the European Economic Area (EEA). “This CASP authorisation means Ripple enters the post-transitional MiCA era fully compliant and ready…
South Korean nuclear fusion startup EternaFusion has raised roughly $1.49 million (KRW 2.3 billion) in a seed round. Company K Partners, Bluepoint Partners, and Seoul Techno Holdings participated in the round. The proceeds will go toward proof-of-concept work and early-stage validation of EternaFusion’s proprietary current-drive technology, called Tokamak Injection. Nuclear fusion recreates the reaction that…
The Stargazer figurine was carved from marble around 5,000 years ago. (Image credit: Cleveland Museum of Art / Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; John L. Severance Fund 1993.165 (Public Domain)) QUICK FACTS Name: The Stargazer What it is: A marble figurine Where it is from: Kırşehir, Turkey When it was made: Circa 3000 B.C. This…
Where Dolls Hang – Official Reveal Announcement Trailer – YouTube Watch On Isla de las Muñecas, the Mexican island that holds the Guinness World Record for largest collection of haunted dolls, served as the inspiration for Where Dolls Hang, a survival horror game where you play a detective searching for people who’ve gone missing in…
Nearly one in three compliance and data protection professionals (31%) do not know when their organisation last reviewed its main GDPR risk assessments. That is according to the latest findings from a survey of 198 professionals carried out at the end of May 2026 by VinciWorks, marking eight years since GDPR came into force….
Google executives used Claude to port classic retro games to iPhone, burning through their subscription. Article author and source: AI New Era [Overview] Google’s product lead natively ported the 2003 PC classic to the iPhone using Claude Fable 5—at the cost of burning through an entire Max subscription in two days. A senior executive at…
Mink numbers in Kent could be cut by 90% within two years under a new project aimed at protecting wildlife. The Waterlife Recovery Trust (WRT) has received a £20,000 grant from the BASC Wildlife Fund to expand trapping and monitoring across Kent, which once had one of Britain’s highest densities of invasive American mink. Conservationists…
SAN JOSE — A woman died early Sunday morning after being shot and “a person of interest” was apprehended, according to the San Jose Police Department. Officers responded to the area of Bonita Avenue and Sunny Court, where they found the woman who suffered from at least one gunshot wound, police said. The woman was…
Last week brought the news that strategy game publisher Slitherine have penned a deal with Cyanide Studios to continue developing Blood Bowl 3 (which will soon become Warhammer Blood Bowl. The tabletop-inflected sport is broadly similar to American football, though there are opportunities for even greater violence on the pitch. As the Americans are currently…
A joint operation involving Google has disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network that gave access to millions of compromised Android devices, including smart TVs and streaming boxes. Also known as Popa, the NetNut botnet allowed cybercriminals and espionage groups to hide behind legitimate home internet addresses when launching attacks. According to the Google Threat Intelligence…