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This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Drought and fire are a dangerous duo. The Southeastern United States is witnessing this firsthand, as several major blazes have burned tens of thousands of acres across the parched region, destroying homes and prompting evacuations in some areas. Florida and Georgia have been particularly hard hit, and strong winds and unusually low humidity have made it difficult to combat the flames.With much of the Southeast in a long-standing drought since July 2025, dried-out vegetation has provided ample fuel for wildfires to…

Apple‘s big design overhaul for macOS 26 looks great on iPhones. But on most Macs? Not so much. The company’s macOS 26 Tahoe introduced the same Liquid Glass interface seen in iOS 26—translucent effects and glass-like textures designed for crisp OLED displays. The problem: most Macs still use LCD screens, which don’t render those effects as well. The result is transparency and shadows that make text harder to read. Apple is now planning what insiders call a “slight redesign” for macOS 27 to address the readability issues, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports. The Liquid Glass look isn’t going away—it’s being refined.…

Last week, we introduced Wirex One, our next-generation finance app built fully onchain, powered by stablecoins, and designed to feel as simple as your everyday banking app.At the heart of Wirex One is a simple idea: your assets should stay under your control, always.Why Ownership MattersRecent events across the industry have shown how fragile access can be when you depend on a single, custodial platform. Most platforms today are custodial. That means they hold your private keys (your unique blockchain address), and ultimately control access to your money. If that platform freezes, fails, or is hacked, your control disappears with…

Bhutan has moved 100 BTC worth $8.1 million out of its holding wallets, continuing a steady liquidation that blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence says will empty the country’s entire Bitcoin reserve before the end of September. Since the start of 2026, the Himalayan kingdom has now sold $230.39 million worth of Bitcoin, while it currently holds $252 million worth of the cryptocurrency. It is reportedly selling at an average pace of about $50 million per month, a pace that will clear its remaining stash in five months. Bhutan’s crypto reserve. Source: Arkham Intelligence. A sovereign seller in slow motion According…

Federal prosecutors say a former Pennsylvania bank manager stole more than $214,000 from a Citizens Bank branch and spent most of the money feeding a gambling habit, a scheme that has now landed him in federal prison. Jonathan Lim, 42, of Wallingford, was sentenced this week to 18 months behind bars followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty to bank fraud and bank embezzlement charges. Prosecutors said Lim took approximately $214,155 while serving as branch manager of the Citizens Bank location on West Lancaster Avenue in Downingtown. Court records filed May 6 and seen by ReadWrite show…

If you’re using Verizon One Talk today, you probably chose it because it’s good enough to get business calls off personal lines fast. However, the minute your team starts thinking about clean call flows, real reporting, integrations, or scaling beyond a few users, One Talk starts to feel less like a phone system and more like a mobile add-on with guardrails you keep bumping into. In this guide, I’ll break down what One Talk is, why it works for some teams, where it tends to break as you grow (including the limits Verizon documents), and the Verizon One Talk alternatives…

Bitcoin price is holding above $80,000 as prediction markets price a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire at near-certainty, and the question of whether that signal is real or a diplomatic mirage is now the single most important variable in the crypto market analysis. At the time of writing, BTC USD is trading at $80,600, up roughly +0.2% over 24 hours, trading within a tight band between $80,300 and $82,300 as traders weighed improving on-chain data against a geopolitical backdrop that remains genuinely unresolved. This news came as the broader market experienced a modest pullback overnight, with the total crypto market cap dropping 0.2%…

Make CryptoSlate preferred on The CLARITY Act is heading back to the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 after months of stalled negotiations, putting a small group of Democrats at the center of the crypto industry’s push for a federal market-structure law.The markup comes after the bill was slowed by disputes over stablecoin rewards, anti-money laundering safeguards and ethics provisions.Those fights have turned a committee vote that Republicans may be able to win on numbers into a broader test of whether the measure can attract enough Democratic support to remain viable on the Senate floor.Republicans hold 13 of the committee’s…

Over the next six weeks, Brockman said, Musk and the other cofounders had intense discussions about creating a for-profit entity to raise enough capital to build artificial general intelligence—powerful AI that can compete with humans on most cognitive tasks. Musk wanted to have majority equity in the entity and the right to choose a majority of the board members. He also wanted to be its CEO, said Brockman.  Brockman testified that in August 2017, he and other cofounders gathered to hash out the terms of the for-profit structure. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist at the time, arrived bearing a painting…

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