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Visions of future technology are often prescient about the broad strokes while flubbing the details. The tablets in “2001: A Space Odyssey” do indeed look like iPads, but you never see the astronauts paying for subscriptions or wasting hours on Candy Crush.  Channel factories are one vision that arose early in the history of the Lightning Network to address some challenges that Lightning has faced from the beginning. Despite having grown to become Bitcoin’s most successful layer-2 scaling solution, with instant and low-fee payments, Lightning’s scale is limited by its reliance on payment channels. Although Lightning shifts most transactions off-chain,…

Emma SaundersCulture reporterMarc BrennerAmelia Kenworthy, who starred in Amazon Prime show Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, is playing Emma on stageYou’re in a sweaty nightclub in Essex. You’re hammered. And your pushy best friend is trying to sort out your love life. It’s Jane Austen’s Emma, but not as you know it. For the uninitiated, the 1815 novel follows the charmed life of our protagonist in Regency England as she busies herself interfering in her friends’ relationships (or matchmaking, depending on your point of view).In Ava Pickett’s fresh adaptation, being staged at London’s Rose Theatre, Emma Woodhouse…

New Delhi: Former Delhi captain Mithun Manhas flew to Mumbai early on Sunday morning and filed his nomination for the post of Indian cricket board’s (BCCI) president. He is set to be elected unopposed at the board’s annual general meeting (AGM) on Sept 28 following a dramatic turn of events at a high-profile meeting in the Capital on Saturday night.After a dramatic night, Mithun Manhas filed his nominations and is now set to become the first from Jammu & Kashmir to head the BCCI. The decision comes amid a push to have a cricketer in the leadership position, with technicalities…

Nine days after a damaging exploit drained assets from its Shibarium bridge, Shiba Inu’s developers have issued their most detailed update yet. The update outlines containment measures while conceding to profound structural weaknesses in the project’s validator network. The attack on September 12 exploited a flaw at the heart of Shibarium’s proof-of-stake bridge, where validators confirm cross-chain transactions. According to core contributor Kaal Dhairya, attackers secured temporary control of ten of the network’s twelve signing keys, an extraordinary level of compromise. They used that access to push through fraudulent exit transactions. Assets including ETH, SHIB, and ROAR were siphoned from…

Are we in the most boring bull market ever?

US Dollar bounces from three-year lows after Fed cut, supported by rising US Treasury yields late in the week.Fed officials Daly and Kashkari offered cautious tones, while Miran reaffirmed his preference for deeper easing.French spending cut protests pressure Macron’s new PM, adding political headwinds for the Euro.EUR/USD edges lower on Friday, late in the North American session, as the Greenback recovers after bouncing off three-year lows reached in the aftermath of the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) interest rate cut. Political turmoil in France amid higher US Treasury yields boosted the US Dollar, sending the pair lower.EUR/USD falls as Fed speakers, higher…

Moe Obeidat knows data. Based in the Chicago area, he works as a data analyst at a Fortune 500 company, where reporting, visualization, and SQL are part of his everyday toolkit. But like many working professionals in the field, Moe was eager to take the next step: moving from analysis into advanced roles in data science and machine learning. That’s what led him to the University of Pittsburgh’s online Master of Data Science degree program (MDS). “I was looking online for programs that matched the hours that I could do at my own pace as a full-time employee, and I…

Jon Bon Jovi is excited to be a grandad!The rock star broke his silence on his son Jake Bongiovi, 23 and his wife Millie Bobby Brown, 21, adopting a baby in an interview with podcaster Bunnie XO.”It’s crazy, but great. Wonderful,” he said.For a daily dose of 9honey, subscribe to our newsletter here.Rock star Jon Bon Jovi is excited to be a grandad! (Tiktok)”They adopted a girl, we met the baby obviously and immediately that becomes your grandchild, you know what I mean?”The Bon Jovi frontman said since the adoption of his grandchild, he has been asking for constant updates.”It’s…

In his controversial but undeniably significant smash hit ​‘Stan’, Eminem relayed the story of an obsessive fan who would do anything to get the attention of his idol. His deteriorating mental health – conveyed through a series of increasingly worrying letters to Eminem – eventually led him to threats, then acts, of violence, and even some 20 years later the impact of the song on pop culture is unquestionable, blessing obsessive, sometimes overstepping fans with the nickname ​“stans”. Of course the depiction of the crazed fan is nothing new – Kathy Bates won an Oscar for Misery back in 1991 – but…

The Federal Reserve lowered its federal funds rate target range by 25 basis points, to 4.00–4.25 percent, on Wednesday. Before the decision, it had held rates steady since December 2024. The move came as no surprise to market participants, who had widely anticipated a cut in light of the weakening labor market. At the post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell stressed challenges on both sides of the Fed’s dual mandate. Unemployment, while still low, has edged higher in recent months, and job growth has slowed with risks of further weakening. At the same time, inflation has picked up again…