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Submission + - Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B 30m Before Crash - Insider Trading Suspected. (cryptonews.com)

Submitted by AleRunner
AleRunner writes: "Satoshi-era whale with 86K BTC shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump's 100% tariff announcement, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B across 1.66M traders. " writes Cryptonews, describing how one long time Bitcoin insider profited massively, and likely in an illegal way, from the losses of other Bitcoin traders. The "whale" ended up "pocketing between $190 million and $200 million in realized profits within a single day.", money take directly from the pockets of other Bitcoin traders. The aggrieved Bitcoin investors were upset with Cryptonews noting that "Community speculation intensified after crypto researcher Maartunn noted the correlation between the whale’s Satoshi-era origins and potential government connections, suggesting insider ties may have provided advance knowledge of Trump’s tariff announcement.". According to Cryptonews "multiple analysts calling the sequence “one of the biggest insider trades in history.”

Just earlier today, before news about the insider trade had broken clearly we discussed this very crash and even in that discussion there were crypto-boosters trying to get more people involved with BTC.

Comment Re:At least they aren't literally bricking it. (Score 1) 90

by drn8 (#65718878) Attached to: Bose SoundTouch Home Theater Systems Regress Into Dumb Speakers
The word "Hawaii" is an English loanword that originated in the Hawaiian("Hawaiian" is also a loanword) language ("ÊÅOElelo HawaiÊi" ).

The Hawaiian language word "HawaiÊi" Has an ÊOkina between the trailing i's to indicate a glottal stop.
ÊOkina is "modifier letter turned comma" in unicode, sort of like an upside-down apostrophe. It is considered to be a letter in Hawaiian.

ÊOkina is a Hawaiian word meaning "1. n., Cutting off, ending, severance, separation." and "2. Glottal stop." which is the meaning here.

You can produce an Êokina on your keyboard by switching to the Hawaiian language keyboard layout and pressing the key that usually produces an apostrophe.

Since Slashdot doesn't support unicode, Êokina doesn't come out right in this post.

https://wehe.hilo.hawaii.edu/?q=%CA%BBokina/

Submission + - Space Ghost voice actor dies (yahoo.com) 2

Submitted by invisik
invisik writes: Space Ghost was a parody of talk shows with live-action celebrity guests, hosted by the Hanna Barbera character Space Ghost, which aired from 1994 to 1999 on Cartoon Network. The show later returned in 2001, airing on Adult Swim’s late-night programming block until 2004, Deadline reported.

Deadline noted that Lowe also voiced Space Ghost in the "Space Ghost Coast to Coast" spinoff "Cartoon Planet," "Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, "and "The Brak Show," where Lowe also was a regular on the program as the voice of Dad, and Robot Chicken, and others. In February 2024, Lowe voiced Space Ghost in an episode of Max’s "Jellystone."

Comment Re:Don't use anything from google (Score 1) 205

by drn8 (#64870741) Attached to: Google's Chrome Browser Starts Disabling uBlock Origin

On that note, I've swapped back to Firefox like 10 years ago. Chrome was "faster" when it first came out, but today I'm not sure what advantages it has, or how it's still so popular...

I switched from Firefox to Chromium as my daily driver maybe a year ago, because firefox was crazy slow loading when I have dozens of windows with dozens of tabs for different tasks open. Firefox would take like 1-2 minutes to load a page. At the moment I have 50 chromium windows open, and its running smooth as silk.

I have 64GB ram, 8 cores/16 threads. I have no idea why firefox would be like that. Its not being limited by CPU or RAM, so it must be something dumb with the way its coded.

There isnt a build of official chrome available for my linux distro (Arch). I imagine that Chromium will lose the ability to run uBlock Origin soon as well.

I havent tried uBlock Origin Lite yet, so I dont know if it will be an adequate replacement.

Submission + - 67% of American Tech Workers Interested in Joining a Union (visualcapitalist.com)

Submitted by AsylumWraith
AsylumWraith writes: Visual Capitalist has posted an article and graph showing that, on average, 67% of US tech workers would be interested in joining a union.

The percentage is highest at companies like Intuit, with 94% or respondents indicating they'd be interested in joining a union. On the other end of the scale, fewer than half of the employees at Apple, Tesla, and Google, who were surveyed were interested in such a move.

Submission + - EPA Must Address Fluoridated Water's Risk To Children's IQs, US Judge Rules (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A federal judge in California has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen regulations for fluoride in drinking water, saying the compound poses an unreasonable potential risk to children at levels that are currently typical nationwide. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco on Tuesday sided with several advocacy groups, finding the current practice of adding fluoride to drinking water supplies to fight cavities presented unreasonable risks for children’s developing brains.

Chen said the advocacy groups had established during a non-jury trial that fluoride posed an unreasonable risk of harm sufficient to require a regulatory response by the EPA under the Toxic Substances Control Act. "The scientific literature in the record provides a high level of certainty that a hazard is present; fluoride is associated with reduced IQ," wrote Chen, an appointee of Democratic former President Barack Obama. But the judge stressed he was not concluding with certainty that fluoridated water endangered public health. [...] The EPA said it was reviewing the decision.

Submission + - Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by echo123
echo123 writes: Polypropylene and polyethylene can be recycled, but the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. They are both polyolefins, which are the products of polymerizing ethylene and propylene, raw materials that are mainly derived from fossil fuels. The bonds of polyolefins are also notoriously hard to break.

Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have come up with a method of recycling these polymers that uses catalysts that easily break their bonds, converting them into propylene and isobutylene, which are gasses at room temperature. Those gasses can then be recycled into new plastics.

Submission + - Windows Recall Preview Remains Hackable as Google Develops Similar Feature (thecyberexpress.com)

Submitted by storagedude
storagedude writes: The latest version of Microsoft’s planned Windows Recall feature still contains data privacy and security vulnerabilities, according to a report by the Cyber Express.

Security researcher Kevin Beaumont – whose work started the backlash that resulted in Recall getting delayed last month – said the most recent preview version is still hackable by Alex Hagenah’s “TotalRecall” method “with the smallest of tweaks.”

The Windows screen recording feature could as yet be refined to fix security concerns, but some have spotted it recently in some versions of the Windows 11 24H2 release preview that will be officially released in the fall.

Google, meanwhile, is working on a similar feature, only with greater privacy controls that may be more appealing to data privacy and security advocates, according to an Android Authority report.

Comment Re:You're confusing private & public Universit (Score 1) 162

>"RESTORING THE SUBSIDIES US OLD FARTS ENJOYED WHEN WERE WERE IN COLLAGE"

What I got was exactly two $600 Pell Grants. THAT WAS IT. We were lower-middle class and I had to borrow the rest. And I started working 2/3 time in third year, so it took me 7 years but graduated with only $10K of debt, which I think I paid off in 3 years or so (early).

The Federal Government used to give subsidies directly to universities to keep the cost of tuition affordable. If you're a boomer or early gen x then you benefited from subsidies that you did not personally receive.

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