Children’s services in Birmingham reprimanded after inappropriately disclosing a child’s personal information

We have issued a reprimand to Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company after the personal information of a child was inappropriately disclosed to another family. The child protection and review department at Birmingham Children’s Trust Community Interest Company, which is owned by Birmingham City Council, was working with two neighbouring families when the data breach occurred. A child protection plan was disclosed to one family that contained both personal information and criminal allegations relating to a child from the neighbouring family. This information was included in error after being copied…

Is The Bitcoin Run Over? Analyst Anticipates Further Upside

In the midst of recent market turbulence and widespread speculation about the future of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency analyst and trader, Crypto Jelle has offered an optimistic outlook for BTC, affirming that the crypto asset’s bull run is far from over, indicating its potential to rally even further in the upcoming months.  The Strength Of Bitcoin Is Underestimated Crypto Jelle’s analysis delves into Bitcoin’s current consolidation and the significance of the level. Following the recently concluded fourth Bitcoin Halving event, many people expect BTC to display immense price movement on the upside.…

China’s Digital Yuan (e-CNY) Fails to Find Favor During State Employee Salary Trial: Report

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Rain crypto exchange reportedly hacked for $15m

Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT suspects a hack on the Rain cryptocurrency exchange. In a blog post, the researcher shared his speculations, suggesting that Rain was likely hacked for $14.8 million on April 29. Rain is a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that serves the Middle East, Turkey, and Pakistan. ZachXBT claims that suspicious outflows were detected from their Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL) and Ripple (XRP) wallets. ZachXBT shared two addresses where the stolen funds are likely located to prove the assumptions. However, ZachXBT stressed that, at the moment, Rain has not…

Bitcoin Miner Marathon (MARA) In Talks With Kenya to Help With Its Green Energy Ambitions

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Donald Trump and Joe Biden Tied on Prediction Market, Diverging From Polls

Officially, the U.S. is a bicameral system, with the two legislative bodies working to craft bills that are sent to the president for signature. But the reality is the balance of power is a three-part affair, with the president able to reject what’s sent to him, or bills dying from between the House and the Senate, or being substantially modified in the process. Source

AI Agents Will Drive the Next Wave of Crypto Adoption

We can see today that LLMs like GPT-4 are already capable of understanding the intent behind a user’s message, and reason intelligently about how to respond, while at the same time having read all of the text on the internet to inform its answer. So it’s not a big leap to imagine a text-based interface to an agent that has read all relevant crypto media, ingested and understood all the data from all the blockchains, AND has the ability to execute actions on-chain. Source