After a three-year rise, fewer immigrants decided to call New York State home in 2025, according to Census Bureau data released last week. The drop in foreign-born people moving to the U.S. occurred nationwide, but immigration advocates pointed to one major issue driving them out of the state: affordability.  “I’ve firsthand heard from so many […]

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Jill R Shah / Financial Times:
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says initial plans to raise $15B to $20B were a “misconception”; sources say Tether's advisers have floated raising as little as $5B  —  CEO Paolo Ardoino downplays the scale of $185bn stablecoin group's capital raise  —  Tether's chief executive …

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Pinterest fires two employees who it says “wrote custom scripts” that accessed confidential info to track which workers lost their jobs during recent layoffs  —  Pinterest has sacked two engineers for tracking which workers lost their jobs in a recent round of layoffs.

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M+ dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison  —  U.S. prosecutors say the Taiwanese operator of the $105 Million Incognito Market used cryptocurrency and anonymity tools …