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Based on reports, several asset managers have updated filings for spot XRP exchange-traded funds, naming tickers such as GXRP and XRPZ. Related Reading That regulatory activity is one of the items market watchers say is drawing attention back to XRP. At the same time, Ripple’s move to acquire GTreasury for $1 billion has been highlighted by some analysts as a step closer to the $120 trillion corporate treasury market. Those developments, taken together, are keeping optimism alive among traders and community figures. Analyst Claims Accelerated Timeline According to social posts and comment threads, the analyst known as 24hrscrypto1 told followers…

Deepfakes of famous faces are still flooding digital platforms to promote phoney crypto schemes and other cons, Which? data, as banks report £98m stolen by investment fraudsters in the first half of the year. Celebrity deepfakes were the most common scam advert reported to the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) in 2024, and these scammers appear to be relentless. New figures from UK Finance show that investment scam losses reached £98m in the first six months of 2025, a 55% increase year-on-year. Which? data points to a similar trend – we’ve received over 200 reports of investment scams to our Scam Sharer tool…

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is experiencing an outage that appears to have hit Microsoft 365 , Xbox and Minecraft. All three show spikes in outage reports on DownDetector around 12PM ET, and the Azure status page indicates Microsoft is dealing with issues with “Azure Portal access.”In the most recent Azure status update as of writing, Microsoft says that “starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. In addition, customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal.”On the Microsoft 365 Status account on X, Microsoft shared that it…

Trump’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Arielle Roth, outlined the Administration’s policies for reforming the wasteful Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program in a speech at the Hudson Institute this week. According to Roth, “For years, BEAD was weighed down by red tape and extralegal conditions that slowed down states, deterred providers, and sidelined innovative technologies.” As Breitbart has previously reported, BEAD was filled with DEI mandates, climate-regulation burdens, and a fiber-technology bias that virtually banned viable satellite and fixed-wireless solutions — despite fiber being inefficient in sparsely populated areas. Rather than…

What to Know: Dogecoin shows potential for $0.22 as whales move millions in $DOGE ahead of the coming FOMC meeting. Some analysts point to a $0.248 price point if $DOGE breaks out of the symmetrical triangle pattern. House of Doge becomes majority stakeholder in the Italian soccer team US Triestina Calcio 1918, which expands on $DOGE’s real-world utility. Maxi Doge ($MAXI) reaches $3.8M in presale, promoting no-stop-loss trading and YOLO entries at 1000x leverage. Dogecoin remains bullish, according to analysts, despite a 4% drop over the last 24 hours, which suggests a potential breakout to $0.22 if momentum recovers in…

Laura Wolvaardt led from the front with a majestic 169 to help South Africa thrash England by 125 runs and reach their first-ever ODI Women’s World Cup final on Wednesday. South Africa posted 319-7 and then bowled out England for 194 in 42.3 overs with medium-pace bowler Marizanne Kapp returning figures of 5-20 in the first semi-final in Guwahati. The Proteas now await the winner of the second semi-final between holders Australia and India for the title clash on Sunday in the outskirts of Mumbai. South Africa made their third straight final of a women’s World Cup — two in…

Chalk this one up under “The most clever (alleged) legal sidesteps this side of Tony Soprano.” On Wednesday, The Guardian published a report about a so-called “winking mechanism” regarding Israeli cloud computing contracts with Amazon and Google. The stipulation from 2021’s Project Nimbus is said to require the US companies to send coded messages to Israel. According to the report, whenever Google or Amazon secretly complies with an overseas legal request for Israeli data, they’re required to send money to Israel. The dollar amount indicates which country issued the request.The coding system reportedly involves country dialing prefixes. For example, if…

Blueprint’s round included Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Saquon Barkley and a slate of tech heavyweights as Johnson pushes his supplement brand into the spotlight following his “Don’t Die” Netflix documentary Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur behind the “Don’t Die” longevity effort featured on Netflix, has raised $60 million for Blueprint, his startup offering supplements which he plans to expand into a full-fledged longevity service. The raise brings in a high-profile roster of celebrity investors, tech founders and venture names, including Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Saquon Barkley, the Winklevoss twins, Jay Shetty, Naval Ravikant, Steve Aoki and more. Kardashian has recently…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Iran does not appear to be actively enriching uranium but that the agency has recently detected renewed movement at the country’s nuclear sites.Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that despite being unable to access Iranian nuclear sites, inspectors have not seen any activity via satellite to indicate that the Islamic Republic has accelerated its production of uranium enriched beyond what it had compiled before the 12-day war with Israel in June. “However, the nuclear material enriched…

A crypto commentator is once again discussing how the United States may use XRP in a key plan. According to his post, XRP could one day reach very high prices and still be small compared to the US national debt. He suggests crypto could one day help solve the country’s money problems and tells people to hold four digital assets that he believes are important for the future. He says he has known about these ideas for a long time and is reminding the public again. Crypto Pundit Says XRP At $1,000 Is “Peanuts” For US National Debt The crypto…