The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has, since March 1, used its most sophisticated tools to date to track crypto-assets and offshore financial interests. The implementation of the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) and the expanded Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) regime marks a fundamental shift in the nation’s tax enforcement architecture.
Let us pause to marvel at the timing! Just as the weekend’s geopolitical fireworks erupted-missiles launched, tweets dispatched-the crypto markets, ever the nervous virgin, swooned. Darkfost, peering into his crystal ball (or perhaps a Bloomberg terminal), notes how swiftly the “first strikes” spooked the herd. How poetic that digital gold, birthed to escape fiat’s shackles, now trembles at the whim of oil-soaked geopolitics. The irony! The humanity!
A new framework combines the strengths of statistical learning and symbolic reasoning to move medical AI beyond simple prediction and towards robust, interpretable decision support.
How? By teaming up with AI agents for a wild experiment in “agentic coding.” These bots built a working Ethereum client prototype in 14 days-covering 65 roadmap items and writing 700,000 lines of code. It’s like if your college roommate cleaned your apartment and alphabetized the socks. Impressive, but also slightly terrifying.
I’m so excited! We just got God of War: Sons of Sparta, and it sounds like Santa Monica Studio and Mega Cat Studios are already working on another huge God of War game! I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.
Writer Scott Snyder shared the cover art by Nick Dragotta for issue #19. The image shows Scarecrow’s reflection in Batman’s batarangs. At first glance, Scarecrow looks strangely calm, dressed in a suit and hat reminiscent of the 1920s. A closer look reveals unsettling details: his eyes appear as buttons, and thread-like lines extend across his widely opened, fractured mouth.
New research explores the dynamics of artificial intelligence agents interacting on networks, revealing how their behaviors and the nature of shared information shape collective outcomes.
The latest Scream movie, directed by Kevin Williamson who also wrote the first films, earned $64.1 million in the US and Canada from 3,540 cinemas. This breaks the previous record of $44.4 million held by the 2023 film, Scream VI. Including $33.1 million earned internationally, the film has already made $97.2 million worldwide – the biggest opening weekend in the Scream series’ history.
When the great ledger has sagged for the second longest stretch since the roaring severities of 2018, one can only sigh like an old bibliophile turning the brittle pages of a forgotten novel.
