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news

Charlie Kirk's dramatic statement 48 hours before assassination - real or not?

Signal312

no downzaps. low trust rank (in news terr) zaps

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@gleasonator's bio

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oracle

> Polymarket traders are being accused of “insider trading” the Nobel Peace Prize, with some betting $68,000 on Venezuelan activist María Corina Machado to win the award hours before it was announced.   
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> Onlookers on X spotted that one trader called “6741” had created a Polymarket account specifically for this market. They started betting on Machado to win as early as 10:42 pm UTC the day before, spending $29,000 on yes bets over five hours.
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> They also placed bets on several other candidates, including Greta Thunberg and Julian Assange, that were priced between $30 and $400.
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> The only other pricey position they bet was $14,000 placed on Alexei Navalny’s wife, Yulia Navalnaya, to win. 
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> The award was announced at 9:00 am UTC, and 6741 made a profit of $53,500. Polymarket trader “Dirtycup” was also flagged as suspicious after only placing bets from 3:41am UTC onwards on Machado winning, paying $68,340 on yes shares and making a profit of almost $31,000.  
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> X account Polymarket Whales noted, “Either @​dirtycup knows something from Oslo, or that’s the wildest fan club ever.”
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> **[...read more at protos.com](https://protos.com/polymarket-traders-accused-of-insider-trading-nobel-peace-prize/)**

Polymarket traders accused of 'insider trading' Nobel Peace Prize

> **Court ends controversial order forcing OpenAI to save deleted ChatGPT logs.**
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> OpenAI will finally stop saving most ChatGPT users' deleted and temporary chats after a court fight compelled the AI firm to retain the logs "indefinitely."
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> The preservation order came in a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs, who alleged that user attempts to skirt paywalls with ChatGPT would most likely set their chats as temporary or delete the logs.
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> OpenAI vowed to fight the order, defending its policies and users' privacy, but it lost. By July, news plaintiffs started digging through the logs—which only preserved ChatGPT's outputs—while a few ChatGPT users' efforts to intervene were consistently denied, as they were deemed non-parties to the lawsuit.
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> In an order on Thursday, US Magistrate Judge Ona Wang approved a joint motion from news organizations and OpenAI to terminate the preservation order, although some ChatGPT users' deleted and temporary chats will still be monitored.
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> Under the agreement, OpenAI was allowed to stop the controversial practice of preserving "all output log data that would otherwise be deleted" on September 26.
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> **[...read more at arstechnica.com](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/openai-no-longer-forced-to-save-deleted-chats-but-some-users-still-affected/)**

OpenAI no longer forced to save deleted chats—but some users still affected

builders

Startup Day Yucatán presented by Yopaki - Day 2 ⚡️

12:00am-1:00pm -> tacos time

![](https://m.stacker.news/109271)

bitcoin

María Corina Machado Calls Bitcoin A “Lifeline” - Nobel Peace Prize

south_korea_ln

`official announcement`: https://stacker.news/items/1252591

science

> **New work shows that physical folding of the genome to control genes located far away may have been a critical turning point for life on Earth.**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/111591)
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> For evolutionary biologists, what most distinguishes the marine creatures called cnidarians and ctenophores is not the peculiar spelling of their names, nor the fact that they tend to be beautiful, but that they are among the oldest known groups of complex animals. Cnidarians (the “c” is silent) include jellyfish, corals and sea anemones, and their colorful tendrils and fronds adorn oceans all over the globe. Ctenophores (another silent “c”), otherwise known as comb jellies, are mostly translucent and gelatinous, and they glide through the marine world like ectoplasm.
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> Thought to have arisen between about 740 million and 520 million years ago, both phyla of marine invertebrates were among the first multicellular animals to evolve several different tissue types. Their appearance ramped up the complexity of the animal world: They are more similar to us in terms of size and organization than they are to the single-celled organisms that came before them. The evolutionary debut of cnidarians and ctenophores thus represented one of the most significant steps in the journey from primordial slime to humans.
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> What made it possible?
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> **[...read more at quantamagazine.org](https://www.quantamagazine.org/loops-of-dna-equipped-ancient-life-to-become-complex-20251008/)**

Loops of DNA Equipped Ancient Life To Become Complex

> **The path from fiat to Bitcoin is becoming increasingly surveilled and regulated**
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/111587)
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> The way people acquire Bitcoin is at a crossroads. As regulatory frameworks tighten around centralized exchanges and privacy concerns mount, many users are reevaluating how they convert their fiat currency into cryptocurrency. Understanding the trade-offs between centralized exchanges (CEXs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms has never been more critical.
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> # The Centralized Exchange Model
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> Centralized exchanges like Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance have dominated the Bitcoin onboarding experience for years. They offer a familiar, user-friendly gateway that mirrors traditional financial services. You create an account, verify your identity, deposit fiat currency, and purchase Bitcoin with a few clicks and very low fees but you have a great penetration in your private sphere.
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> **[...read more at massmux.org](https://massmux.org/p/from-cex-to-peer-2-peer)**

From Cex to Peer 2 Peer

charts_and_numbers

> The visualization compares 2024 statutory minimum wages in 50 U.S. states and 35 OECD and emerging-market countries. Figures are converted and expressed in 2021 U.S. dollars per hour using purchasing-power parity (PPP) to level out cost-of-living differences.
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> The data for this visualization comes from a blend of publicly available sources:
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> - Cross-country PPP figures from the OECD.
> - State minimum wage rates from Labor Law Center.
> - Regional price parities from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
> - U.S. dollar amounts are shown in constant-2021 terms using the BLS Consumer Price Index.
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> ![](https://m.stacker.news/111569)
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> **[🔗 visualcapitalist.com](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/minimum-wages-in-50-u-s-states-35-countries-adjusted-for-living-costs/)**

Minimum Wages in 50 U.S. States & 35 Countries, Adjusted for Living Costs

Jack Dorsey Calls for Tax Exemption on Small Bitcoin Payments

I saw your comment before you edited it, now it makes sense!

Meta Tells Its Metaverse Workers to Use AI to ‘Go 5X Faster’

We’ll see about that, but if all those billions pumped into this don’t pay off, it’s gonna be a total flop. Time will tell.

Animal_World

Snake Breed Of The Week — Worm Snake

If it’s from the Typhlopidae family, I’m guessing it’s not venomous.

> - Jack Dorsey is advocating for a U.S. tax exemption on small bitcoin payments.
> - Senator Cynthia Lummis has introduced a bill to exempt bitcoin transactions under $300 from capital gains tax.
> - Industry leaders warn the U.S. risks falling behind countries with more favorable bitcoin tax policies.
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> Jack Dorsey, founder of Square, has called for a de minimis tax exemption for small bitcoin transactions in the United States, aiming to make bitcoin more suitable for everyday use.
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> # Dorsey’s push for bitcoin as daily money
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> Following Square’s rollout of bitcoin payment services for merchants, Dorsey stated:
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> “We want Bitcoin to be everyday money ASAP.”
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> His comments align with ongoing efforts to integrate bitcoin into daily commerce, removing barriers for both consumers and businesses.
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> **[...read more at bitbo.io](https://bitbo.io/news/dorsey-bitcoin-tax-exemption/)**

gaming

This $299 Rubik’s Cube swaps colored squares for LCD screens

StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears

> **Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse chief is urging employees to adopt AI across every workflow as part of a broader shift inside the company.**
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> A Meta executive in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees that they should be using AI to “go 5X faster” according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media.
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> “Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,” the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Meta’s VP of Metaverse, said (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should be using AI to work five times more efficiently than they are currently working—not just using it to go 5 percent more efficiently.
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> “Our goal is simple yet audacious: make Al a habit, not a novelty. This means prioritizing training and adoption for everyone, so that using Al becomes second nature—just like any other tool we rely on,” the message read. “It also means integrating Al into every major codebase and workflow.” Shah added that this doesn’t just apply to engineers. “I want to see PMs, designers, and [cross functional] partners rolling up their sleeves and building prototypes, fixing bugs, and pushing the boundaries of what's possible,” he wrote. “I want to see us go 5X faster by eliminating the frictions that slow us down. And 5X faster to get to how our products feel much more quickly. Imagine a world where anyone can rapidly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours—not weeks. That's the future we're building.”
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> **[...read more at archive.is](https://archive.is/Z3dBV)**