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Clapper, a rapidly growing social media platform, announces its partnership with TruBit, the leading digital asset payment solutions platform in Latin America. This strategic collaboration is set to transform how Mexico-based content creators on Clapper receive their earnings, offering a faster, more efficient, and user-friendly solution.

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have emerged as a key focus for central banks globally. By 2023, many policymakers had moved from conceptual frameworks to pilot programs. 131 countries, representing 98% of the global economy, are exploring digital currencies. Nearly half of these countries are in advanced development, pilot, or launch stages.

This paper explores how space-based initiatives, including satellites, sensors, and advanced data analysis, transform our understanding of climate change. It also delves into the framework of using space technology to combat climate change, including potential applications and key players in the field. The challenges and prospects of space technology addressing climate change are discussed.

Crypto is reshaping the paradigm of ownership, finance, and governance. But it operates in a low-trust environment with no established models for success. Finding a way to navigate this environment is not always easy.

At first glance, the promise of concurrency is appealing: faster execution, improved responsiveness, and the ability to scale workloads across multiple threads or cores. But lurking beneath that promise are several complex challenges.

Hackers stole a staggering $1.5 billion from the crypto exchange Bybit in what the market dubbed ‘The biggest digital heist ever’ But the problem wasn’t a failure of the underlying technology - it was a failure. of ‘human’ security.

While most would agree that the effectiveness of managers depends on the individual and the situation, ask yourself — how likely are you to hire a woman for an executive position in your business?

The widening wealth gap threatens economic stability and democracy, necessitating new mechanisms for equitable economic participation. Equitism offers a sustainable solution that aligns free market principles with widespread prosperity. It’s designed to be democratic, with citizens having both a financial share and a voice in how shared assets are managed.

After five years at FAANG, I discovered technical excellence alone won't help you thrive. Success requires building relationships with leadership, understanding organizational dynamics, and focusing on business impact metrics rather than technical elegance. The job involves less coding and more influence than most expect.

This study investigates "tankie" communities on Reddit, analyzing over 1.3M posts to understand their ideology, discourse patterns, and network connections. Findings reveal their distinct vocabulary, higher toxicity levels, and migration to decentralized platforms post-deplatforming.

The crypto market in March 2025 is a whirlwind of innovation, uncertainty, and that familiar rollercoaster energy we’ve all come to love. After a wild 2024, where AI tokens soared and memecoins reminded us why this space is still a casino at heart, this month feels like a turning point.

There are 16 tools to run and interact with your local LLMs, all given below. These tools allow you to run LLMs directly on your system, without relying on cloud services or an internet connection after initial model download. And, most are open source!

Jon Callas was a participant in the original cypherpunk mailing list. He is now a well-known figure in the computer science field. He helped develop PowerTalk, one of the first operating system-integrated encryption tools.

Tankies, a far-left extremist community, show unique online behaviors, including migration to decentralized platforms after Reddit bans and high toxicity levels. The study calls for increased research into left-wing extremism to understand its radicalization pathways and implications for social media governance.

Former US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents call on lawmakers in Congress to ramp-up the use of surveillance technology. Three former ICE employees and a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation testified as expert witnesses.

Tankies exhibit higher toxicity than other far-left communities, especially in identity attacks and threats. They frequently use profane language, target political figures, and express hostility toward ethnic and religious groups, particularly Muslims and Jews.

Tankies' language diverges significantly from other far-left communities. They exhibit stronger alignment with CCP narratives, Stalinism, Russian perspectives on Ukraine, and anti-Zionism. They also favor state-sponsored media, use pejorative terms for other ideologies, and discuss U.S. politics with an anti-democratic tone.

Tankies prioritize discussions on state-level political events (e.g., Uyghur genocide, North Korea, Russian invasion of Ukraine) over social issues (e.g., police, climate change, healthcare). Using BERTopic and RTPR, we find that tankies diverge from broader far-left communities by emphasizing political conflicts and authoritarian socialist states rather than traditional leftist social concerns.

Tankies prioritize discussions on state-level political events (e.g., Uyghur genocide, North Korea, Russian invasion of Ukraine) over social issues (e.g., police, climate change, healthcare). Using BERTopic and RTPR, we find that tankies diverge from broader far-left communities by emphasizing political conflicts and authoritarian socialist states rather than traditional leftist social concerns.

The study tracks user migration between tankies and other far-left communities on Reddit using MRD and MRS metrics. While the proportional inflow from established subreddits declines over time, tankies increasingly attract users—especially from r/communism and r/Marxism—solidifying their distinct and growing position within the far-left online spectrum.

To study left-wing extremism online, we identify tankie subreddits and analyze their connections within Reddit’s broader political landscape. Using network analysis and data from the Pushshift API, we collect and examine over 22 million posts from 47 ideological subreddits to map the digital presence of tankie communities.

This section explores the digital clustering of far-left communities, focusing on tankies. Using network analysis, we examine how ideological subreddits group together and how users migrate between them. Our findings show tankies as a distinct and rapidly growing faction within the far-left, with significant user influx starting in mid-2020.

The internet has transformed political discourse, enabling extremist communities to flourish. While research has primarily focused on right-wing radicalization, left-wing extremism—particularly the "tankie" movement—remains underexplored. This section reviews existing studies on online extremism, highlights the imbalance in research focus, and argues for a more comprehensive analysis of all forms of digital radicalization.