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Last updated: February 20, 2024 09:45 EST | 5 min read Get your daily, bite-sized digest of blockchain and crypto news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s news. In today’s crypto news: All MetaMask Users Will Now Receive Security Alerts ELOOP is Building a Machine RWA Tokenization Platform on peaq ZKX Launches Pro Trade on Starknet for Experienced Traders __________All MetaMask Users Will Now Receive Security AlertsFollowing a successful beta phase, the Consensys-developed wallet MetaMask and Web3 security provider Blockaid announced the by-default integration of privacy-preserving security alerts for all MetaMask extension and mobile app users.Per…

OpenAI is fighting legal battles over copyright infringement.The New York Times, Authors Guild, and others accuse OpenAI of illegally using their content.OpenAI has suggested its approach is the only way to build high-quality AI models. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app OpenAI, like many tech giants before it, leaned heavily into Silicon Valley’s famous old mantra when building ChatGPT.”Move fast and break things” was a strategy that underpinned the exponential growth of the likes of Uber, Airbnb, and Facebook. It enabled companies to get their rule-bending…

Introduction The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) provides branded consumer packaged goods worldwide. It operates through five segments: Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Fabric & Home Care; and Baby, Feminine & Family Care. We have started covering PG in July 2022 and have written four articles on the company since then. During our entire coverage period, we have been bullish on the firm. The following screenshot shows our analysis history. Analysis history (Author) Slightly more than one year has passed since our last writing, so we thought it is really time to give an update and assess whether our previously established…

Russian officials have refused to tell Alexei Navalny’s family the probable cause of his death or whereabouts of his body, which the late opposition activist’s team claims is a Kremlin-orchestrated cover-up.Navalny’s mother Lyudmila and family lawyers have spent the past three days in a remote part of northern Russia trying to recover his body and establish a cause of death after the activist’s death in prison was announced on Friday.But on Monday, Russian investigators told them the probe into Navalny’s death had been extended for an indefinite period of time, while staff at the morgue would not say if they…

Former President Donald Trump has so far declined to publicly condemn Russia and President Vladimir Putin for the death of Alexey Navalny and has baselessly suggested he is being politically persecuted in the same way the Russian opposition leader was. The lack of a direct response from the GOP presidential frontrunner is likely to fuel fresh questions about how he would approach Russia in a potential second term following comments earlier this month that he would encourage the country to invade a NATO ally that was not spending enough on defense. Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges and claims without…

New York Community Bancorp. rallied 17% at the closing bell on Friday after insiders at the company bought stock after a brutal couple of weeks for the bank. With no major credit ratings actions or further updates from the company, New York Community Bancorp’s stock rose 71 cents to end Friday trading at $4.90 a share. At the current price, the stock hasn’t traded consistently at this level since 1997. Seven executives and directors of the company bought a combined $865,170 worth of stock at prices ranging from $4.05 a share to $4.41 a share, according to Friday filings. Among…

The numbers: The New York Fed’s Empire State business-conditions index, a gauge of manufacturing activity in the state, rebounded 41 points in February, but stayed below the breakeven rate at negative 2.4, the regional Fed bank said Thursday. That’s the third straight month in negative territory. The index had fallen 53 points in the prior two months. The gain was larger than expected. Economists had expected a reading of negative 13.5 in February, according to a survey of economists by the Wall Street Journal. A separate reading from the Philadelphia Fed showed manufacturing index accelerated to a reading of 5.2…

Investing.com — Oil prices settled higher Friday to end the week at nearly two-month highs as healthy U.S. economic growth and signs of Chinese stimulus supported the crude demand outlook, prompting bullish bets on crude. By 14:30 ET (19:30 GMT), the futures settled 0.8% higher at $78.01 a barrel and the contract dropped 1.4% to $83.62 a barrel. Demand growth hope from U.S. and China The crude benchmarks are both still on track for their biggest weekly uptick since October, after data on Thursday showed the expanded more quickly than expected in the fourth quarter, suggesting economic resilience in the…

By Herbert Lash and Amanda Cooper NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar eased on Friday as it headed for a fourth week of gains while traders reduced their bets on how quickly the Bank of Japan might raise interest rates and how soon the Federal Reserve will cut them. Traders shrugged off revised U.S. monthly consumer prices that rose less than initially estimated in December. While underlying inflation remained a bit warm, the mixed picture did not alter the market’s outlook on the timing of Fed rate cuts. The annual revisions published by the Labor Department also showed the consumer price…

Gift tax returns could be the most misunderstood, neglected, and overlooked part of estate planning. There are many people who know estate planning quite well but draw blanks when issues about gift tax returns are raised. The gift tax return is IRS Form 709. You can download it free from www.irs.gov. The first mistake people make is not knowing when they have to or should file a gift tax return. Even when a gift you made is tax free, you might have to file a return. Plus, there are times when filing a gift tax return is a good idea,…