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US president Donald Trump has pardoned Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.Zhao, widely known as CZ, pled guilty in November 2023 to violating anti-money-laundering laws and US sanctions. The plea formed part of a sweeping deal with the US Department of Justice, under which Binance was required to pay a record-breaking $4.3 billion penalty.Zhao ultimately spent four months in federal prison. The DOJ had originally petitioned for a three-year prison sentence.After issuing the pardon, the White House has cast Zhao as the victim of a plot to trample the crypto industry carried out by the administration…
[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, WordPress, security, and the OSI model, which underpins the entire internet. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us to…
A hefty chunk of blackened material recently found smoldering in the Australian outback is likely part of a secretive Chinese rocket, experts claim. The charred debris likely crash-landed shortly after failing to completely burn up upon reentry to Earth’s atmosphere.Local miners discovered the smoking wreckage, which measures around 5 feet (1.5 meters) across, at around 2 p.m. local time on Saturday (Oct. 18), roughly 18.5 miles (30 kilometers) from the town of Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, ABC News originally reported.Local police quickly identified the object as potential space debris after ruling out the possibility that it…
Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the environment in your neck of the woods, all you have to do is ask.Google Earth AI, a fusion of Google’s Earth and Gemini AI systems, was introduced in July. Part of that effort is an AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations, which turns terabytes of satellite data into useful data layers tracking the history of what happens across the surface of the planet.The combined…
[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, the efficacy of website usability testing for WordPress projects. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice. Or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like us to feature on…
Scientists have identified five distinct “sleep profiles.”And based on their analysis, the researchers concluded that there’s more to a good night’s sleep than the length of sleep or whether it was fitful. Both genetics and emotional states such as feeling down, anxious, stressed or sad contribute to sleep quality, and each sleep profile was tied to how well people functioned in various ways, researchers reported in a study published Oct. 7 in the journal PLOS Biology.”I really hope that clinicians will consider [that there is more to] sleep on their first clinical assessment,” study lead author Aurore Perrault, a researcher…
White House staffers don’t appear to care all that much about the ongoing demolition of the East Wing occurring in the middle of the government shutdown.“Not affecting me at all, to be honest,” a White House aide tells WIRED. This source, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the press, adds they “have not thought about it” and that they’ve “probably only heard a handful of people talking about it.”President Donald Trump is moving ahead on a multihundred-million-dollar, privately funded ballroom that would supplant the East Wing, which was added onto the White House in 1902…
[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case what the WordPress Playground is, and how it’s transforming the scope of WordPress. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players. If you have a topic that you’d like…
Miners have unearthed a rare, two-colored natural diamond in Botswana — and experts say it likely formed in two stages.The diamond is half pink, half colorless. It measures about 1 by 0.63 by 0.57 inches (24.3 by 16 by 14.5 millimeters) and weighs an “astounding” 37.41 carats (0.25 ounces, or 7.5 grams), according to the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), a nonprofit research center based in Carlsbad, California.The pink half probably formed first, but from what scientists know about colorful diamonds, there’s a good chance that it wasn’t always this rosy, Sally Eaton-Magaña, senior manager of diamond identification at GIA,…
Mu is not the only comedian who has tried to imitate the style of AI-generated videos, but he really nails all of the elements: The clumsy bodily movements, the spaced-out facial expressions, and the unpredictable plot development. Many viewers, me included, were shocked at how accurately he captured the essence of AI slop videos.Mu tells me that the half-dozen AI imitation videos he has filmed represent only a small part of his acting career. He has wanted to be an actor since college and spent the summer after his freshman year at Hengdian World Studios—the world’s largest film studio—looking for…