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Pepe-themed meme coins PEPE and KEKIUS posted notable gains after tech mogul Elon Musk rebranded his X account. Ethereum-based KEKIUS rallied over 2,600%, hitting an all-time high of $0.301 at the time of writing, while its market cap rose from $12.8 million to over $265 million. Meanwhile, Pepe (PEPE) embarked on a parabolic rally, rising roughly 20% to minimize some of the past week’s losses. The recent hype has also spurred the creation of several similar meme coins on token deployers like Solana-based Pump.fun and Tron’s SunPump, bearing tickers such as KM, KEKIUS, and MAXIMUS. Kekius Maximus meme tokens created…

Internet watchdogs generally agreed that Internet freedom declined once again in 2024 – the fourteenth loss in a row, according to Freedom House. The major drivers of declining Internet freedom over the past year were the rise of military juntas, the spread of Islamist speech codes, and the general tightening of authoritarian rule – including authoritarianism spreading across the formerly free world, especially in the United Kingdom. The annual “Freedom on the Net” (FOTN) report from Freedom House sadly observed that Myanmar’s military junta now rivals Communist China as “the world’s worst environment for Internet freedom.” Military governments tend to…

Calvin Kattar (Photo by Mike Lawrie/Getty Images)Getty Images Who said New Year’s Eve was an off day for combat sports news? On Tuesday, we saw a steady flood of information roll in on fights scheduled for the first quarter of 2025. A few of these bouts will likely be main or co-main events for upcoming cards. Youssef Zalal is getting an opportunity to take a huge step toward title contention in the UFC’s featherweight division. On Tuesday, he was a guest on the Jaxxon podcast and confirmed his next fight is against No. 10-ranked Calvin Kattar at UFC Vegas 102…

(Bloomberg) — Bankrupt retailer Big Lots Inc. won court approval of a rescue deal to save some of its stores from shutting-down despite challenges from vendors that claimed the deal unfairly saddles them with steep losses. Most Read from Bloomberg Judge J. Kate Stickles said late Tuesday she’d approve a sale of the retailer to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, which intends to transfer between 200 and 400 Big Lots stores to Variety Wholesalers Inc. The sale may also save thousands of jobs, lawyers said Tuesday. The deal was announced days after an earlier sale to Nexus Capital Management LP unraveled…

UXLINK wants to expand its ecosystem to 100 million users with new features and innovations that are centered on the needs of its consumers. UXLINK (UXLINK) has unveiled its plans for 2025, focusing on expanding its ecosystem and improving user interaction with blockchain technology. Following steady progress in the previous year, the platform is now targeting significant growth, aiming to reach 100 million users while enhancing the utility of its native token, UXLINK. Currently trading at approximately $1.45, with a market capitalization of $247 million and a 24-hour trading volume of $804 million, UXLINK price action remains sideways in the…

The Crimson DiamondJulia Minamata In this new world of open source do it yourself everything, indie games have flourished and there are more titles than ever before made with small teams and aged game engines to produce games that look and play not unlike the games of yore. What this means for the games fan is that there are more and more retro-style games to play than ever before In other words it takes something really special to stand out, and I think that the new adventure game The Crimson Diamond from first time game designer Julia Minamata has really…

Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976, which prohibits companies from serving “addictive feeds” to minors. The effect of this decision is that beginning Wednesday, companies will be prohibited from serving an addictive feed to a California-based user they know to be a minor, except with explicit parental consent. SB 976 defines an addictive feed as an algorithm that selects and recommends content for users based on their behavior, and not their explicit preferences. From January 2027 onward, companies will be required to use “age assurance techniques,” like…

A proposition to add Bitcoin to Switzerland’s national reserves has been set in motion by the Swiss Chancellery. Proposed by a coalition of ten Swiss crypto advocates, including Tether’s Vice President of Energy and Mining Giw Zanganeh and Swiss think tank 2B4CH founder Yves Bennaïm, the initiative needs 100,000 signatures to advance a constitutional amendment mandating the Swiss National Bank to hold Bitcoin alongside gold as part of its monetary reserves. The proposal was initially submitted on Dec. 5 and officially registered in Switzerland’s Federal Gazette on Dec. 31, marking the beginning of an 18-month window to solicit the required…

Regardless of how 2024 went for you, 2025 is another chance for all of us to make the new year better than the one that came before it. New Year’s resolutions are usually set with the best intentions, but it’s no secret many people fail after just a few weeks — old habits die hard. It’s important to have a support group, people who can cheer you on during those particularly hard days. But it’s also important to have the right tools to make achieving your goals easier. Whether you’re trying to get healthy, be more organized, read more or…

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 24: Chris Pine attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Poolman” … [+] celebrating Chris Pine’s directorial debut at Vista Theatre on April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)Getty Images Critics have made their picks for the worst movies of 2024, which includes films featuring the likes of Chris Pine, Dennis Quaid, Zack Snyder and even Mickey Mouse. While Hollywood gave fans plenty of reasons to cheer about with such critical successes as Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine and Longlegs—and more recently films like The Brutalist, A Complete Unknown and…