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Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream has announced a new feature allowing users to make trustless swaps.  Dubbed Blockstream Swaps, the idea is that Bitcoiners will be able to quickly move between the main chain and Lightning network.  It comes after non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz suspended its service after it said attackers were finding vulnerabilities faster than its team could fix using AI.  “In support of the broader Bitcoin and Liquid ecosystem, Blockstream is launching Blockstream Swaps,” Blockstream said.  “This initiative was already under development to ensure a resilient suite of utility for the ecosystem, and it complements the providers already…

Kim Kardashian’s Hidden Hills home in Los Angeles, was reportedly targeted in an alleged burglary over the weekend. A 27-year-old man has since been arrested.Kim Kardashian’s house burglarisedKim, who was previously a victim of a burglary attempt in Paris, was reportedly not at home when a man broke into her plush property. According to TMZ reports, authorities were called to the property shortly before 4 pm on Sunday after a man was allegedly seen loading several items into a white Lexus on the property and then driving the car around. A law enforcement source told the Los Angeles Times that…

Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif has suggested that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) should keep Babar Azam away from the English media during the team’s upcoming three-Test tour of England.Latif believes Babar could come under scrutiny from the English media and has suggested that former Pakistan captain Shan Masood should handle more of the team’s media interactions during the series.“An England tour is a difficult assignment, and the English media often tries to unnecessarily involve visiting teams in news stories,” Rashid said while speaking to Geo News.“Babar Azam is an experienced player, so it would be better for the PCB…

IISER IAT seat allotment result 2026: The Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) have released the Round 3 seat allotment result for IISER IAT 2026. Candidates who participated in the counselling process can now check their allotment status through the official admission portal using their login credentials.The Round 3 allotment is an important stage for candidates who are seeking admission to IISER programmes through the IISER Aptitude Test (IAT) 2026. Those who have received a seat offer must now submit their decision and complete the seat acceptance process within the prescribed deadline.Candidates who have been allotted a seat…

BALI, INDONESIA, AUGUST 10, 2026 / AlexaBlockchain/ – Luvon Labs and SpedaxAI have announced Pitch Fest Bali 2026, an invite-only Web3 Demo Day taking place on August 19, running alongside CoinFest Asia. From more than 200 applications, the event has narrowed the field to a curated cohort of 15+ standout teams, who will pitch live to a panel of leading venture investors, competing for a prize pool of more than $100,000.The thinking behind Pitch Fest Bali is straightforward. Instead of competing for attention on a crowded conference floor, the event creates a focused, high-quality room where pre-TGE and growth-stage founders can meet the investors, exchanges, and…

EUR/CHF is pushing back toward recent highs, but the latest advance is also bringing the pair closer to a key resistance zone. With price stretched near the top of its recent range, traders may be watching for either a breakout that extends the rally or signs of rejection that could trigger a pullback. Welcome to “TA Alert of the Day.” Each day after the market close, MarketMilk scans for popular technical indicator alerts. We use these alerts as the basis for a mini-lesson, breaking down what each alert means, why it matters, and how traders might interpret it. The goal…

Alfred Hitch­cock­’s The Birds was nom­i­nat­ed for an Acad­e­my Award for Best Spe­cial Effects, though view­ers raised on more recent Hol­ly­wood spec­ta­cles would hard­ly find its mech­a­nized and opti­cal­ly print­ed avian attack­ers con­vinc­ing. Still, the pic­ture as a whole has retained its eerie, omi­nous pow­er over the last six decades, and a decent amount of the cred­it for that goes to an aspect that has­n’t dat­ed at all: its non-musi­cal “score” by the ear­ly elec­tron­ic com­pos­er Oskar Sala. Many of the threat­en­ing bird calls on the sound­track were actu­al­ly played by Sala on a device called the Mix­tur-Trau­to­ni­um, a pre-syn­the­siz­er orches­tral…

By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The first few weeks of your new semester are usually okay. You have your fresh notebooks. You’re rocking a new planner. And you’re bursting with motivation and the intention to have the best semester ever. But then you realize you have three tests next week. Your math class is covering a unit that feels like a foreign language. And you’re starting to freak out about the huge essay due next Tuesday. On top of that, your after-school activities are picking up. You have like 10 emails you haven’t replied to. And the application deadline for that…

The finale episode of HBO’s ‘Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness’ imagines David as responsible for Obama’s infamous 2014 fashion choiceLarry David and Barack Obama in ‘Life, Larry, And The Pursuit Of Unhappiness.’Credit: Art Streiber/HBONEED TO KNOWLarry David plays a fictional advisor to former President Barack Obama in a comedic sketch about the infamous tan suit controversyThe finale episode of HBO’s Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness imagines David as responsible for Obama’s 2014 fashion choice that sparked widespread criticismThe series is available to stream on HBO MaxLarry David is taking some credit for one of Barack Obama’s…

Living in a cruel dystopia where the most commercially successful film biopic of all time is a wan apologia for Michael Jackson’s sex crimes, it’s nice to see something that is a bit more critical about its subject. Tony charts a brief summer during the formative years of the late chef, gourmand and cultural wayfarer Anthony Bourdain, and it takes its lead from the older Bourdain’s own proclamation that young Bourdain was an entitled brat who was in need of a good shoeing.Canada’s Matt Johnson assumes the directing reins for this breezy, ribald account of young Tony (a slimily charming Dominic Sessa), a dilettante indie kid…