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Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on May 28, 2025.Rhonda Churchill | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA New York Times report claims to have discovered the identity of the pseudonymous Bitcoin creator known as Satoshi Nakamoto.The article identifies 55-year-old Blockstream CEO Adam Back, a renowned cryptologist and early figure in the Bitcoin community, as the top candidate to be the founder of the revolutionary digital currency system introduced in 2008. Mr. Buck himself has long denied various claims that he is Satoshi Nakamoto, and did so again on Wednesday in a series…
The seal of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can be seen at its headquarters in Washington, DC, USA.Andrew Kelly ReuterThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has named Gibson Dunn attorney and former agency official David Woodcock as its next enforcement director after the regulator’s top law enforcement officer abruptly resigned last month.Woodcock, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Dallas, Texas, will join the SEC starting May 4 to lead a division of more than 1,000 people, according to an SEC statement. He will replace Margaret Ryan, who resigned after just six months in office after clashing with…
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — To end the war Iran, along with the United States and Israel, is demanding the right to collect tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as a precondition for reopening the waterway, which is vital to global oil supplies.However, charging tolls in the straits would violate a fundamental and enduring principle of international maritime trade: freedom of peaceful navigation. This is an ancient idea codified by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which came into force in 1994. Opening the Straits will save the world economy supply constraints Energy and fertilizer prices have…
Tyson Fury won’t let criticism from his father distract him ahead of his fight with Arslanbek Makhmudov.Fury will return to boxing on Saturday after a year of retirement. His father John Fury has publicly warned him not to return. Fury admitted that his father had wanted him to retire once and for all a while ago. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player John Fury has spoken about his relationship with son Tyson Fury ahead of his return fight against Gipsy King Arslanbek Makhmudov. Video credit: “Playbook Boxing powered by Betway” “A father wants the best for his…
Addressing growing concerns About child safety online OpenAI has released a blueprint to strengthen U.S. child protection efforts amid the AI boom. of child safety blueprintThe tool, released on Tuesday, is designed to help detect, better report, and more efficiently investigate child exploitation cases using AI. The overall goal of the Child Safety Blueprint is to address the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation associated with advances in AI. According to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), more than 8,000 reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse content were detected in the first half of 2025, an increase of 14% year-on-year. This…
Kevin Corey spends his weekdays teaching high school students real-life examples of the ups and downs of running a business, including his own side hustle.Corey, 41, teaches business courses at Uniondale High School in Uniondale, New York. He is also the co-founder and president of Stall Mates, a flushable bathroom wipes brand that brought in more than $3.8 million in revenue in 2025, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. And his students have a front row seat to watch Corey and his co-founder Greg Schipff run the business.“All the highs and lows, including the current tariff situation, are…
Voters vote inside the new Chicago Board of Elections “supersite” at 175 North State Street during the Illinois Primary In-the-Loop on March 17, 2026, as registered party members select candidates for key elections including U.S. Senate, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, U.S. House of Representatives seats, State House, and Cook County. He will be running for a variety of judicial positions ahead of the Nov. 3 general election.Jacek Bocharski | Anadolu | Getty ImagesDemocrats won the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a 20-point margin, but Republicans won a special election for a Georgia…
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth declared a decisive military victory over Iran and said Iran’s missile program had been functionally destroyed.Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Kaine spoke to reporters Wednesday, a day after they pulled back from the brink of threatening an all-out attack on Iran, two hours before the deadline that U.S. President Donald Trump set for Tehran to open the blockaded Strait of Hormuz.”Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory on the battlefield. It was a military victory for Capital V,” Hegseth said, adding that the U.S. and Israel’s…
Demand for Apple’s Mac Mini is surging, especially in China, as the small computer becomes an ideal platform for experimenting with autonomous AI agents such as OpenClaw. A company called Astropad is currently building a remote desktop solution specifically for this use case. Astropad CEO Matt Ronge on Tuesday announced Astropad Workbench, a remote desktop solution for Apple devices that he touts as being built “for the AI era.” An AI agent running on a Mac Mini may not need a screen, but its operators (humans) will want to log in from time to time to see what’s going on,…
Levi Strauss Thanks in part to higher prices, we had another strong quarter, with direct-to-consumer sales accounting for more than half of our overall revenue. This was a milestone for the company, which had long relied on wholesalers. The denim maker’s revenue increased 14%, and DTC sales through Levi’s own stores and website increased 16%, bringing total DTC sales to 52% of total revenue. CEO Michelle Gass said in an interview with CNBC that the company expects DTC revenue to account for more than half of its total sales for the year, even as traditional wholesale channels continue to grow.…