CryptoNews

Ripple Breaks Down Stablecoin Rules as Institutions Evaluate RLUSD

September 13, 2026
Stablecoin licenses carry different reserve and oversight requirements, Ripple emphasized as it outlined RLUSD’s regulatory structure. The company also distinguished its conditional federal bank approval from a completed charter and clarified the scope of derivatives collateral rules. Key Takeaways Ripple outlined how stablecoin licenses differ in holder protections. RLUSD’s proposed federal…
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2 private spacecraft zoom within 650 feet of each other to showcase 'advanced capabilities' in orbit (photos)

September 13, 2026
A pair of private spacecraft just showed off some impressive maneuverability high above Earth. The two probes — Mira satellites operated by the California startup Impulse Space — zoomed within 650 feet (200 meters) of each other in low Earth orbit (LEO) recently. The rendezvous demonstrated skills that could be useful to a variety of customers down the road, according to the…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

September 13, 2026
We’ve been seeing increasingly dire warnings from AI researchers about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and even comments from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that it may be time to “pace” AI development. But what would that actually look like? In a new blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei not only echoed the call to “pace the frontier,” but also outlined three broad…
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NewsPhotography

Baldwin Lee waited until the streets of New York had emptied of people, then took these photos with a 4x5 view camera that have sat unseen for 47 years

September 13, 2026
Every morning, a young Chinese-American photographer fresh out of Yale would set an alarm for well before sunrise, drive from New England into Manhattan, then haul a wooden box camera and a tripod out onto pavements that were, by design, as empty as he could find them. That was Baldwin Lee’s routine through the winters of 1975 to 1979. Lee was using a 4×5 view camera, his first time…
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