When, as editor and publisher of the Columbia Journalism Review, Kyle Pope testified before Congress in 2017 about threats to press freedom, he was primarily focused on the changing political landscape under the Trump administration. Nearly a decade later, Pope’s focus has expanded to an even broader existential challenge: the climate emergency. As co-founder and…
The global computing landscape has undergone a profound structural shift over the past two decades. Legacy corporate IT departments once relied almost exclusively on localized, on-premises data centers filled with physical server racks, standalone storage arrays, and dedicated network switches. Managing these environments required massive upfront capital expenditure, long procurement cycles, and continuous physical…
wearing HTML/CSS can. has a strict no .html policy. The tag is not as static as its name suggests. Any embedded JavaScript unfortunately won’t run if you load an SVG file with an tag, but CSS animations work perfectly fine. Many of the SVG attributes do have CSS property counterparts, and the geometry properties have…
Accelerating yield hikes fuel capital repatriation, threatening to drive up USD debt issuance costs. Japan’s rapidly rising interest rates are providing another significant variable for corporate treasurers with upcoming bond offerings or refinancings to monitor. While the deluge of debt issued by so-called hyperscalers has yet to increase other companies’ borrowing costs, it’s critical for…
By Branko Brkic, Founder Project Kontinuum Most of us in media work harder and risk much to produce or support journalism that matters. At the same time, trust in our institutions and people is woeful. Propaganda, noise and open attacks make the truth more difficult to find and so much easier to ignore. We keep…
Rideshare services are a convenient part of life in Las Vegas, but passengers who are harmed during a ride have rights, including the option to pursue a civil claim. Survivors of assault in a rideshare can seek accountability from the person responsible and, in some cases, from the company whose failures enabled the harm. What…
Stephen and Chris hop on to talk about the couple of weeks post 2.0 launch. Things are certainly different in 2.0! Literally the location of certain buttons is in a new place, and that requires folks to poke around a bit and figure it out. Some people just do that and it’s a non-issue. Some…
Since January, many Cubans have lived a life of near-constant darkness. The Trump administration’s oil blockades have led the country into a worsening energy crisis, collapsing what was already an eroding national power grid. Daily blackouts have plunged the Cuban nationalized, universal health system, once the pride of the country, into a humanitarian crisis. For…
Home Technology HSBC, Standard Chartered Test Interbank Tokenized Deposits On SWIFT Banks clear major milestone toward real-time, cross-border tokenized deposits. Tokenized deposits are a step closer to broader institutional use as HSBC Holdings PLC and Standard Chartered PLC completed the first bank-to-bank transaction via the banking messaging consortium SWIFT’s digital blockchain-backed ledger, the banks reported…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s planned Canada tariffs are off — for now. What happened? Trump had previously threatened 50-percent tariffs on about $20 billion…