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Polymarket, the crypto prediction platform, has pushed into perpetual futures trading, launching with ten markets and scaling to sixty-seven within a single day. The product offers leverage as high as twenty times on select markets, though U.S. traders are locked out entirely — a reminder that regulatory geography still draws hard lines around who gets to participate in crypto's frontier products.
On the hardware side, Nvidia has unveiled a custom memory architecture called NVHBM, promising thirty percent more bandwidth, fifteen percent lower power consumption, and twenty-five percent more compute area compared to standard high-bandwidth memory. The catch is that those benchmarks are measured against HBM four E, a product still in sampling with a launch not expected until sometime in two thousand twenty-seven, and access to the custom solution will be tightly gated.
Closer to the ground, Florida has officially banned Flock Safety cameras from state roads, joining a growing wave of jurisdictions pushing back against automated license plate readers. The move reflects a broader tension between the genuine public safety case for surveillance infrastructure and mounting concern over who controls that data and for how long.
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