The EU's Digital Gulag Is (Apparently) Ready To Roll

Walgreens Gives Bodycams To Employees After Rise In Retail Assaults As most Americans are now well aware, national retail theft has seen a significant spike since 2021, with total shoplifting incidents increasing by roughly 53% between 2021 and 2024 based on industry data.  This has led to sweeping policy changes to retail businesses, specifically in urban locations, and long aisles of locked glass cases are only the beginning.   In the case of Walgreens, the company has closed a significant number of locations in high crime areas since 2024 as part...

Google's New Quantum Research Reignites Push To Harden Bitcoin Authored by Micah Zimmerman via BitcoinMagazine.com, A new research paper from Google has intensified debate over whether Bitcoin can adapt in time to withstand advances in quantum computing, pushing developers and investors to confront a risk long treated as theoretical. Google’s quantum division said this week in a new whitepaper that future machines could break widely used encryption far more efficiently than previously estimated, including the elliptic curve cryptography that underpins Bitcoin wallets.  The research suggests attacks that once appeared decades away may arrive sooner, with some...

Elon Musk Reaches $1.5 Million Settlement With SEC Over Twitter Stake Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, Tech billionaire Elon Musk on May 4 agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit alleging he violated securities laws over the delayed disclosure of his Twitter stake. A filing dated May 4 states that Musk’s revocable trust will pay a civil penalty of $1.5 million to the commission as part of the settlement, subject to approval by the court. According to the filing, once the proposed settlement...