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Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg)

Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Digital asset treasuries increasingly rely on in-kind contributions, with sponsors using their own crypto instead of cash, shifting risk to retail investors  —  Executives are turning to a novel structure to fund crypto accumulation vehicles as investor appetite thins.

Trump’s redistricting campaign isn’t going well

This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s campaign to redistrict his way to a House majority in the 2026 midterms may be beginning to backfire. What happened? On Friday, […]

Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)

Marcus Mendes / 9to5Mac:
Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA  —  Norway-based Opera announced today that its iOS user base in Europe has grown by as much as five times since the Digital Markets Act (DMA) took effect in 2024.

Best early city layout in Anno 117: Pax Romana

How to form your first residential quarters and manage your early production lines in Anno 117: Pax Romana.

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says ChatGPT will now avoid em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI  —  OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch the em dashes if you tell it to.  The telltale sign that supposedly signals text written by AI has popped …