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Crypto exchange Kraken is "actively reviewing" whether to delist the stablecoin Tether in its European market, Bloomberg reports. 

The move, which the company is still considering, would end support for Tether in the exchange's European platform following approval of MiCA. Kraken's Global Head of Regulatory Strategy Marcus Hughes told Bloomberg that the exchange is "absolutely planning for all eventualities, including situations where it's just not tenable to list specific tokens such as USDT," adding that "it's something we're actively reviewing." The firm will make a final decision once the "position becomes clearer," Hughes adds. 

Kraken is 'actively reviewing' dropping Tether support after new EU rules

Time might kind of flow backward for quantum systems, due to present but lower “entropy.”

In a new paper, scientists model quantum “entropy” using a generous probabilistic model.

This means their holdings could be true for weaker, or less generous, models of these effects.

A New Study Says Quantum Entanglement May Be Reversible

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BLint is a Binary Linter designed to evaluate your executables’ security properties and capabilities, utilizing LIEF for its operations. From version 2, BLint can also produce Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) for compatible binaries.

BLint: Open-source tool to check the security properties of your executables

science

In a remarkable feat, a team of scientists has taken the world’s first X-ray signature of just one atom. This stunning achievement could revolutionize the way scientists detect materials.

Breakthrough: X-ray of a single atom captured for the first time

With new W-boson, top quark, and Higgs boson measurements, the LHC contradicts earlier Fermilab results. The Standard Model still holds.

New LHC results refute Fermilab's "hole" in the Standard Model

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is just one of billions in our universe. So, in the grand scheme of things, we're not so special. But zoom in to our local cosmic neighborhood, and that story begins to change.

We may live at the center of a cosmic void that defies the laws of cosmology

econ

Columbia professor Tomasz Piskorski warned banks could become "less relevant" as interest rates and looming regulations squeeze their margins, leaving room for private credit and nonbank lenders to eat up market share in the lending landscape.

‘Banks continue to become increasingly less relevant’

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**Summary:** Researchers found that a hormone-producing cell in the adrenal glands may explain why oldfield mice are monogamous while their close relatives are promiscuous. This hormone, 20⍺-OHP, boosts nurturing behavior, suggesting a link to monogamy. The discovery of this cell type, dubbed “zona inaudita,” highlights potential parallels in human parenting behaviors.

New Hormone Discovery Explains Monogamy - Neuroscience News

security

The Ebury Linux botnet’s expansion has continued uninterrupted over the past decade, with approximately 100,000 infected systems identified at the end of 2023, ESET reports.

Initially uncovered in 2014, when it was a 25,000 systems-strong botnet, the Ebury botnet survived a takedown attempt and the sentencing of Maxim Senakh for his involvement in the operation.

400,000 Linux Servers Hit by Ebury Botnet

You might not have heard of spinocerebellar ataxia type 4 (SCA4), as it's an incredibly rare condition – but after a quarter of a century of looking, the genetic coding behind SCA4 has now been identified, potentially opening up new treatment options for this serious disease.

Genetic Cause of Rare Neurological Disease Found After 25-Year Search

Amid a drop in the cryptocurrency market, Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy's chairman, has issued a rallying call to crypto holders.

Michael Saylor Ejects 'Bitcoin Money' Message Amid Market Dip

How Repetition Solidifies Memory - Neuroscience News

BRICS Alliance Set to Make Big Announcements at Summit

At the BRICS 2023 Annual Summit, the economic alliance made a landmark announcement. Indeed, it invited six nations to join its ranks in what was its first expansion effort since 2001. Now, heading into the subsequent summit, the BRICS bloc is preparing to make a host of announcements that will rival those of the preceding year.

**Summary:** A new study reveals that repetitive practice not only improves skills but also induces significant changes in the brain’s memory pathways. The research shows how training mice to recall odor sequences led to stable memory representations in the secondary motor cortex.

The Norwegian National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recommends replacing SSLVPN/WebVPN solutions with alternatives due to the repeated exploitation of related vulnerabilities in edge network devices to breach corporate networks.

The organization recommends that the transition be completed by 2025, while organizations subject to the 'Safety Act' or those in critical infrastructure should adopt safer alternatives by the end of 2024.

Norway recommends replacing SSL VPN to prevent breaches

Understanding the shape of the universe is notoriously difficult. When it comes to local geometry, scientists are relatively certain that the observable universe is flat—or, at least nearly flat. But experts are far less certain of the universe’s overall global topology, and to this day, we still don't know for sure if the universe is infinite or finite, taking on a torus (a.k.a. donut) shape during the quantum processes of the Big Bang.

Scientists Say Our Universe Might Be a Hall of Mirrors

OpenAI introduced its flagship GPT-4o model at the Spring Update event and made it free for everyone. Just after a day, at the Google I/O 2024 event, Google debuted the Gemini 1.5 Pro model for consumers via Gemini Advanced. Now that two flagship models are available for consumers, let’s compare ChatGPT 4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro and see which one does a better job. On that note, let’s begin.

ChatGPT 4o vs Gemini 1.5 Pro: It's Not Even Close

The Great Trip Restoration: A Path Forward For Bitcoin

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