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Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal : DeFi, which accounted for an estimated 40% of ether moved on the Ethereum network in the year ended April, is helping fuel the crypto boom and recent volatility   —  Decentralized finance differs from traditional banks because there is no centralized system.  It can be risky.

After more than four months in office, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are both planning this week to leave the U.S. and take the first foreign trips of their administration.

Catalin Cimpanu / The Record : US DOJ has charged a Latvian woman who it says was a programmer in a gang that helped develop TrickBot malware; the woman was arrested in Miami on February 6   —  The US Department of Justice has arraigned in court today a Latvian woman who was part of the Trickbot malware crew …

Amy Feldman / Forbes : In 2019, the number of foreign-born entrepreneurs in the US declined by 4,400, the only yearly drop since 2000, thanks to US' convoluted immigration policies   —  America's convoluted and highly politicized immigration system puts roadblocks in the way of foreign-born founders.

“Gone Girl” actress Lisa Banes was critically hurt in a hit-and-run crash in New York City Friday evening, according to reports.

Former President Trump tells Fox News he is not ready to re-up with former Vice President Mike Pence on a potential campaign in 2024.

Donald Trump returned to the GOP political scene Saturday with a speech at the North Carolina Republican Convention, where he called on China to pay “reparations” to the U.S. for coronavirus-related damages.

House Republican Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy became the latest and highest-ranking elected Republican to call for Dr. Anthony Fauci to depart his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC : El Salvador's president unveils a bill to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, partnering with payments startup Strike, in a bid to become the first nation to do so   —  - El Salvador President Nayib Bukele plans to introduce legislation that will make it the world's first sovereign nation to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.

William Gallagher / AppleInsider : In macOS 11.4 update Apple has fixed the excessive M1 Mac SSD wear reporting issue noticed in February   —  Previous issues surrounding reporting tools reporting heavy wear on SSDs in Apple Silicon Macs now appear to be fixed in macOS 11.4  —  Solid State Drives (SSDs) …

Senate Sergeant at Arms Karen Gibson said Saturday that she finds the threat of a cyberattack on the U.S. Capitol more worrisome than another repeat of the Jan. 6 assault.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said this week that Iran will lose its voting rights in the General Assembly after failing to pay its dues to the multilateral organization’s operating budget.

The Department of Justice will not seek information identifying the readers of a USA TODAY story from earlier this year, according to a Friday court filing, but only after the FBI captured the alleged criminal it was seeking through other means.

Lucas Matney / TechCrunch : Facebook buys Unit 2 Games, a studio behind Roblox-like Crayta game platform, says it will integrate Crayta's toolset into Facebook Gaming's cloud platform   —  Facebook has been making plenty of one-off virtual reality studio acquisitions lately, but today the company announced …

President Biden on Saturday addressed the class of 2021 in a speech in which he told the they stood at an “inflection point” in history, and described systemic racism as one of “the great crises of our time.”

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul said his family has received death threats for being “outspoken” in his criticism of chief medical advisor to President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci.

New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Maya Wiley for New York City mayor, hindering the chances for GOP-backed Andrew Yang.

The George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations agreed to accept $5 million from a group with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and China's international propaganda efforts, according to a report Saturday. 

Elizabeth Rembert / Bloomberg : Square partners with Blockstream, says it will invest $5M to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the US   —  Square Inc. will invest $5 million to build a solar-powered Bitcoin mining facility at a Blockstream Mining site in the U.S. through a partnership with the blockchain technology provider.

An epidemiologist and professor at the University of Stanford said Friday that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s credibility “is entirely shot” after revelations from his emails show a reversal on the subject of mask wearing to prevent COVID-19.

Prince Edward had quite the witty response when asked about his nephew Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey that saw the couple put the British royal family on blast.

Three top U.S. senators will visit Taiwan to meet with its top leaders Sunday amid a period of tense relations between the United States and China.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Teachers’ Federation, tweeted on Thursday that she is “incredibly disappointed” that New York City mayoral candidate Kathryn Garcia expressed support of lifting the city’s cap on charter schools.

A Massachusetts sheriff is calling on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to reinstate an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract to use a detention center in his county and apologize to officers, after the arrangement was terminated over allegations of mistreatment.

President Biden and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., talked Friday in their effort to forge a bipartisan deal on infrastructure spending and they've agreed to reconvene on Monday, the senator's office said. 

Bloomberg : Investigator says hackers breached Colonial Pipeline through a VPN account whose password has since been discovered inside a batch of leaks on the dark web   —  - Investigators suspect hackers got password from dark web leak  — Colonial CEO hopes U.S. goes after criminal hackers abroad

Bloomberg : Snowflake CEO says diversity shouldn't “override” merit in hiring decisions, claiming other CEOs feel the same way but are reluctant to say so publicly   —  - CEO Frank Slootman seeks ‘moderated’ approach on diversity  — Cloud software maker went public in biggest 2020 U.S. IPO

Wall Street Journal : Director of FBI says it is investigating ~100 types of ransomware, many tracing back to Russia, and compares the challenge of this wave of cyberattacks to 9/11   —  Christopher Wray points to Russian hackers, calls for coordinated fight across U.S. society  —  FBI Director Christopher Wray …

Troian Bellisario and her husband Patrick J. Adams secretly welcomed their second child together, a baby girl, in May.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday there is no circumstance where she could imagine President Biden ever firing Dr. Anthony Fauci as Republicans have ramped up their attacks on the president’s top medical adviser after thousands of his emails were made public this week.

EXCLUSIVE: Emails between two top State Department officials show the intense mistrust and interagency infighting between the department’s COVID-19 investigative team and the arms control bureaucracy over the claim the virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.

Texas GOP Rep. Kevin Brady said the border crisis is "growing worse" and the influx of unaccompanied migrant children is making the already tough foster care system even "more cruel" for American children.

Democrats are poised to use Republican's filibuster of the bipartisan commission to investigate the 1/6 riot at the Capitol as cudgel to degrade it or eliminate altogether.

Stephen Shankland / CNET : Teams behind Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge unveil a development forum at W3C to standardize and build a unified, more secure foundation for extensions   —  The teams behind the Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers have banded together to improve extensions …

Joseph Cox / VICE : Microsoft's Bing is not displaying image results for “tank man” when connecting from US IP addresses, on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre   —  “There are no results for tank man,” the Bing website reads after searching for the term.  —  Joseph Cox

Charlie Warzel / Galaxy Brain : Facebook's two-year Trump timeout, ending just before an election season, feels like punishment in name only, out of sync with claims of fomenting civil unrest   —  The company must not consider Donald Trump a true threat … Facebook finally acted on the Facebook Oversight Board's ruling on whether or not to ban Donald Trump.

The actress and singer Joe Jonas welcomed a child in July 2020