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• Bitfinex Hacker Out of Prison After a Year Due to President Trump’s First Step Act January 2, 2026 10:46 pm BeInCrypto Ilya Lichtenstein, the man behind the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack, has been released early from US federal prison on January 2, 2026, after serving roughly one year of a five-year sentence.  The release was granted following sentence reductions tied to …
• Inside Kenya’s Biggest Digital Policy Shifts of 2025 January 2, 2026 10:45 pm Techweez The year 2025 marked a crucial milestone for Kenya’s technology ecosystem as policy reforms accelerated efforts to shape a modern, well-regulated digital economy. Driven by rapid innovation across fintech, artificial intelligence (AI), internet …
• Commercial Real Estate Turns to AI to Automate the Back Office January 2, 2026 10:44 pm PYMNTS.com - Massachusetts Artificial intelligence (AI) is beginning to reshape commercial real estate—not through futuristic smart buildings, but by automating the manual back-office work that underpins valuations, underwriting, leasing and property operations. Morgan Stanley …
• Is Your AI Falling Short? It’s Probably Bad Data January 2, 2026 10:44 pm EdTech Magazine   AI Adoption Starts With Data Governance When institutions ask us about AI adoption, they often start with the tools. Which platform is the best? How can they integrate tools like Copilot or Gemini into their existing environments? Should they build their …
• Largest Cyber Stocks Feast in 2025, as Smaller Stocks Famish January 2, 2026 10:42 pm Bank Information Security - New Jersey Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Vendor Roundup Investors Increasingly See Each Security Technology Category as Winner-Take-All Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • January 2, 2026     Image: Shuttershock The chasm between the cyber …
• Conservatives push back on Israeli billionaire calling for limitations on First Amendment January 2, 2026 10:41 pm WSBT 22 - Indiana WASHINGTON (TNND) — Conservatives on the social media platform X have been pushing back on Israeli investor Shlomo Kramer who went viral during a CNBC interview for saying there has to be limitations on the First Amendment. During a conversation about …
• Herald Community Calendar for the week of Jan. 2 January 2, 2026 10:39 pm The Farmville Herald - Virginia Published 2:40 pm Thursday, January 1, 2026 The Herald Church and Community Events calendar is published each Friday. Items must be submitted by 10 a.m. Monday for that Friday’s calendar. Events should be emailed to CommunityCalendar@FarmvilleHerald.com. …
• Supply chain’s path to the C-suite January 2, 2026 10:38 pm Becker's Hospital Review Hospital supply chain leaders say the next five years will redefine their role — shifting it from traditional procurement and logistics toward enterprise strategy, technology integration and cross-functional leadership. Across health systems, leaders …
• Meghan and Harry going in different directions, mass bankruptcy and violent political protests: I'm the Living Nostradamus who foresaw Megxit and Covid... and these are my chilling predictions for what's coming this year January 2, 2026 10:28 pm Daily Mail Ever since I was 12 years old, my intuition has been exceptionally strong. It’s an inherited gift – I’m Brazilian, but my ancestry is Romany. There have always been seers in my family, people whose perceptions are sensitive to future events. Most humans …
• What Site Features Do DC Participants Value Most? January 2, 2026 10:26 pm PLANSPONSOR - New York Defined contribution plan participants most value account balance information, security settings and privacy preferences among recordkeeping website features, according to Corporate Insight Inc.’s “2025 DC Plan Participant Website Experience Benchmark,” …
• Guest commentary: How small and mid-sized businesses can grow in 2026 January 2, 2026 10:23 pm Pacific Coast Business Times - California By Guest commentary Friday, January 2nd, 2026 By Jason Bietz The latest Bank of America Business Owner Report confirms what we see every day from entrepreneurs across our communities: cautious yet determined optimism. Nearly three in four business owners …
• Schools step up with education as frontline in AI battle January 2, 2026 10:22 pm Long Island Press - New York It looks like AI also stands for “all in” when it comes to many educational institutions’ efforts to focus on this as a new field of study, as well as a skill in many sectors and source of careers.The SUNY Board of Trustees late last year updated SUNY’s …
• 'Hundreds' of EVM wallets drained in mysterious attack: ZachXBT January 2, 2026 10:20 pm Coin Telegraph An attacker has drained "hundreds” of crypto wallets on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains, siphoning small sums from each victim in what onchain investigator ZachXBT described as a broad but low-value exploit. The losses appear limited on a per- …
• North Dakota launches campaign finance and ethics systems to strengthen voter transparency January 2, 2026 10:14 pm StateScoop North Dakota has upgraded how political and ethics disclosure information is reported and accessed with the launch of two new systems to help simplify reporting requirements and increase voter transparency. The Campaign Finance Reporting system and …
• Advanced AI Systems Display Self Preservation Tendencies January 2, 2026 10:12 pm News Ghana Advanced artificial intelligence models have exhibited behaviors that mimic self preservation during safety testing in 2025, with systems from multiple developers resisting shutdown commands and in some cases attempting to preserve their own operation …