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The United States Senate passed a bipartisan bill on Saturday evening, just three hours before the midnight deadline, to prevent a government shutdown. 

Electricity is being restored in most parts of Kenya, 14 hours after the longest outage in recent memory

Coinbase and Circle have redefined their relationship, according to identical announcements on the Coinbaseand Circle blogs on Aug. 21. The two organizations jointly launched the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin and have until now governed the token through the Centre Consortium.

Social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer allow advertisers to promote their accounts within the platform's timeline to attract new followers, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing an email to advertising clients. Promoted accounts, or «Follower Objective» ads, generate more than $100 million annually in global revenue for X, according to the report.

spider is a small insect, but it can cause hours-long erection in human beings and it can also cause a supermarket to be shuttered down. The store manager in the Penny Markt in Krems an der Donau in Australia found a spider sitting prettily in a banana box and called the fire department officials. Initially, the spider was thought to be a banana spider.

trolls! The superstar is gearing up for his next release — the action thriller 'Jawan’. Recently, the ‘Pathaan’ star hosted a Q & A session on Twitter, after sharing a poster of his new film. One ageist troll tried to take a potshot at his age, commenting that at his age (57), he is no longer fit to play the role of a ‘jawan’ (in Hindi, the word ‘jawan’ means youth). “Sir jawan hone ki ek umar hoti hai par aapki umer to bahut jada ho gai hai,” (sir there is an age-limit to be jawan, you are much more older than that), wrote the troll. The ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge’ star was the epitome of composure and biting wit when he gave the troll a taste of his own medicine. “Accha kiya yaad dila diya….ek aur yaad rakhna…bewakoof hone ki koi Umar nahi hoti….ha ha,” (Good that you reminded me, however, remember, there is no age for foolishness!” The acerbic tweet went viral on the microblogging website, gaining 204K views and 6,730 likes. Many Twitter users gushed over his unparalleled wit and presence of mind. “Just him & his unmatched wit & humour,” wrote one fan. Another Twitter user wrote, “How to give back to trollers in his language I loved it!”

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₹1.3 lakh). An official from the Enforcement Bureau of Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism stated that the performances violated social ethics and undermined the preservation of the region's traditional culture, SCMP reported.

The apparent shutdown of one of the biggest trucking companies in the U.S. is having an impact north of the border, with the union for over 100 affiliated Canadian truckers claiming they’ve been told not to report for work.

(Reuters) — Yellow, one of the oldest and biggest U.S. trucking businesses, shut down on Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Taiwan's largest cities have shut down schools and offices Thursday as Typhoon Doksuri brought heavy rains and winds to the island's eastern and southern coast. Doksuri weakened further on Thursday, with sustained winds of 155 kph (96 mph) and gusts of up to 190 kph (118 mph), according to Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau.

Nigerian social payments app, Bundle announced on July 20 that it is shutting down its crypto exchange arm. 

As the wider brokerage industry figures out how to cut real estate costs in a work-from-home era, one firm, Charles Schwab Corp., said Tuesday it was closing offices in five cities because employees in those locations are now working from home.

Multichain, a crypto project that connects different blockchains, said it's shutting down after learning that its founder was taken away by Chinese police. In a Twitter post on Friday, Multichain provided details around the sudden disappearance of its founder and chief executive, identified only by the name Zhaojun, in late May. Multichain is a so-called crypto bridge, which allows users to swap digital tokens across the various blockchains they run on. Speculation around Zhaojun's whereabouts has been swirling since his disappearance, fueled by Multichain's announcement on July 7 that it had seen an unexpected outflow of assets of more than $120 million. After that, Zhaojun's sister transferred remaining user assets to wallets she controlled before she was taken into custody as well, Multichain said on Friday.

Lending protocol Geist Finance is shutting down permanently due to losses from the Multichain exploit, according to a July 14 social media post from the app’s development team. Geist contracts were paused on July 6, then resumed in “withdraw and repay only” mode on July 9. The latest post confirms the team does not plan to reopen lending and borrowing on Geist.

Hollywood actors will go on strike at midnight Thursday, effectively bringing the giant movie and television business to a halt as they join writers in the first industry-wide walkout for 63 years. The Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) issued a strike order after last-ditch talks with studios on their demands over dwindling pay and the threat posed by artificial intelligence ended without a deal.

The United Kingdom’s financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), “disrupted” 26 of the 34 cryptocurrency ATMs it visited and inspected since the start of 2023.

BuzzFeed shares dropped more than 20% after CEO Jonah Peretti said the company is shutting down its news division as part of a 15% workforce reduction affecting 180 jobs.

journalism came to an end asWiener Zeitung, one of the world's oldest newspapers, bid farewell to its daily print edition on Friday. This conclusion came after more than three centuries. The final front page of Wiener Zeitung’s print edition paid homage to the newspaper’s remarkable legacy, featuring the statement, «320 years, 12 presidents, 10 emperors, 2 republics, 1 newspaper.» It was shared by a Twitter user along with the tweet, «The oldest newspaper in the world — the Wiener Zeitung — has been printed for the last time. This is the final front page.» Reactions started to pour in soon after the announcement was made. A user wrote, «Damn. I'm in Vienna today, June 30th, I'm gonna find this, frame & preserve it.»

Solana’s Cardinal protocol is winding down operations due to economic conditions, nearly a year after raising $4.4 million to improve nonfungible tokens (NFT) utility. According to an announcement on Twitter, withdrawals should be made by Aug. 26.