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Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a new study from the University of Georgia, researchers found that the time high schoolers spend on so-called enrichment activities—including tutoring, sports, school clubs and even homework—is negatively affecting their mental health. The study also found that any additional enrichment activities are unlikely to benefit students academically. …

Indian startups have now approached the country's top antitrust watchdog in order to force Google to reinstate the apps it delisted for policy reasons on Friday. Google had removed around 200 Indian apps including Naukri, 99acres, Bharat Matrimony and Kuku FM and the tech giant later reinstated only around 15 of these applications.  According to a Reuters report…

All that glitters is not gold. Actual glitter, for instance, can be a surprisingly harmful environmental pollutant, as a new study demonstrates.Despite its association with fun and frivolity, glitter has a dark side. Flecks of glitter reduce the amount of sunlight that penetrates into bodies of water, the new study shows, potentially impairing the ability of some aquatic plants to photosynthesize.Glitter is essentially a microplastic in disguise, whose whimsical nature distracts from its insidious contributions to…

Main Results – Linear and non-linear effects of pollution on team performance. Note: The left panel of each graph depicts the linear effect of a one standard deviation increase in pollution on team performance (Eq. (1)) for the respective pollutant (N = 15,397). The right panel of each graph depicts the non-linear effect of pollution on team performance for three pollution exposure bins, relative to levels below the lower bound specified for each…

In September 2017, Singapore-based lawyer Pav Gill took a job at Wirecard, a high-flying German payments business worth tens of billions of euros. Not long after he started, he heard from a colleague that an executive at Wirecard Asia, the region Gill was responsible for, had allegedly been teaching staff how to trick auditors into thinking the firm had money it didn’t have.Gill quietly began an investigation, codenamed Project Phoenix. The results were damning: Wirecard had been fudging its numbers. But when the board of…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain With a record number of people seeking help for problem gambling through the National Gambling Helpline last year, and the Gambling Commission's new figures suggesting that as many as 1.3 million adults in Great Britain might experience gambling-related harm, new research from Queen Mary University of London reveals innovative and effective approaches by financial institutions to support…

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the "hockey stick" for its dramatic illustration of a warming planet.The work brought Mann wide exposure but also many skeptics, including the two writers…

The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk's computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, the billionaire says.In a post Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection."Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institutes of Health describe as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new pair of reports co-led by a UCL researcher highlights the scale of online harm faced by young people in the UK while also demonstrating the impact of educational workshops in equipping young people with tools to navigate the digital world. For the first report, researchers surveyed 551 UK teenagers (aged…