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An anonymous reader shares a report: Harvard is ramping up its holdings in cryptocurrency. The nation's oldest university reported a $443 million investment in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust in the third quarter. The school now holds 6.8 million shares of the exchange-traded fund, up from 1.9 million in the second quarter. The digital currency amounts to a little less than 1% of the school's $57 billion endowment. Other schools are bullish on crypto as well. Brown University reported holding $13 million of the BlackRock bitcoin ETF in the second quarter and Emory University reported holding $20 million of Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF as of March.

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The singer, dubbed the Queen of Tejano music, was gunned down aged just 23 by the deranged president of her fan club, Yolanda Saldivar on March 31, 1995 - in a crime that shocked the world.

George W Bush made preparations to launch nuclear weapons after the deadly 9/11 terror attacks, a former British defence chief has revealed. 

Kyle Mehmet (pictured), 40, has claimed he took part in the robbery at 247 Kettles in Kew Road, Richmond, on May 25 last year because he owed gangsters £190,000.

The TV presenter, 40, showed off her slender physique during a winter break in Antigua as she explored the island in a black, figure-hugging, one-piece.

Piers Morgan has broken his silence on Kelly Brook's feud with Ant and Dec amid her appearance on their show, I'm A Celebrity on Sunday night. 

Kelsey Grammer's daughter Greer is firing back at claims she's a nepo baby, revealing she spent most of her childhood estranged from him.  

Abstract of a paper on NBER: This paper documents video consumption among school-aged children in the U.S. and explores its impact on human capital development. Video watching is common across all segments of society, yet surprisingly little is known about its developmental consequences. With a bunching identification strategy, we find that an additional hour of daily video consumption has a negative impact on children's noncognitive skills, with harmful effects on both internalizing behaviors (e.g., depression) and externalizing behaviors (e.g., social difficulties). We find a positive effect on math skills, though the effect on an aggregate measure of cognitive skills is smaller and not statistically significant. These findings are robust and largely stable across most demographics and different ways of measuring skills and video watching. We find evidence that for Hispanic children, video watching has positive effects on both cognitive and noncognitive skills -- potentially reflecting its role in supporting cultural assimilation. Interestingly, the marginal effects of video watching remain relatively stable regardless of how much time children spend on the activity, with similar incremental impacts observed among those who watch very little and those who watch for many hours.

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Scientists have uncovered the earliest chemical evidence of life on Earth in a discovery that could revolutionise our understanding of how ancient molecules evolved.

The electro-pop pioneer struggled to continue after telling fans at the city's O2 Academy he had received 'the worst news' earlier in the day.

Claims he reported the attack in January after fraudsters tried to scam him

A security researcher says Coinbase knew about a December 2024 security breach during which miscreants bribed its support staff into handing over almost 70,000 customers' details at least four months before it disclosed the data theft.…

Thomas Crooks, who shot Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at the height of the presidential campaign in 2024, went by the alias 'epicmicrowave'.

Proposals set out by Shabana Mahmood this afternoon stress that the government wants to limit the scope for failed applicants to appeal.

The Skinnygirl Margarita founder and original Real Housewife of New York, 54, got to know Meghan's film producer former partner at around the time her relationship with Harry became public in 2016.

Archaeologists have uncovered a stunning 1,500-year-old Christian floor mosaic that features long-lost imagery of the Bible.

Authorities in Iran have sprayed clouds with chemicals to induce rain, in an attempt to combat the country's worst drought in decades. From a report: Known as cloud-seeding, the process was conducted over the Urmia lake basin on Saturday, Iran's official news agency Irna reported. Urmia is Iran's largest lake, but has largely dried out leaving a vast salt bed. Further operations will be carried out in east and west Azerbaijan, the agency said. Rainfall is at record lows and reservoirs are nearly empty. Last week President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that if there is not enough rainfall soon, Tehran's water supply could be rationed and people may be evacuated from the capital. Cloud seeding involves injecting chemical salts including silver or potassium iodide into clouds via aircraft or through generators on the ground. Water vapour can then condense more easily and turn into rain. The technique has been around for decades, and the UAE has used it in recent years to help address water shortages. Iran's meteorological organisation said rainfall had decreased by about 89% this year compared with the long-term average, Irna reported.

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It's news that will have been welcomed by Timothee's fans, who made no secret of the fact they disapproved of the actor dating a reality TV star.

In a forthright response to critics, Ms Mahmood described to the House of Commons how she is 'regularly called a f***ing P*** and told to go back home'.

EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

SC25  Europe has officially entered exascale orbit. On Monday, EuroHPC's Jupiter supercomputer became the fourth such machine on the Top500 list of publicly known systems to exceed a million-trillion floating point operations a second in the time-honored High-Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark.…

For the past two years now, we have been picking apart the semi-annual rankings of supercomputers known as the Top500 is a different way, focusing on the new machines that come into each list in either June or November. …

Modest HPC Centers Drive Top500 Supercomputer Rankings This Time Around was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.