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BNY Mellon, the world's largest custody bank, is expanding into stablecoin services, adding custody and minting capabilities for Circle's USDC. The move signals that digital dollars are no longer a fringe experiment — they're being woven into the infrastructure of mainstream institutional finance.
Shifting to data governance, Microsoft has stepped into a high-stakes legal battle in Europe, formally intervening before the Court of Justice of the European Union to defend the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The agreement is the legal backbone that allows countless organizations to move data across the Atlantic, and its survival matters as much to American tech giants as it does to European regulators.
And on a lighter note for developers, a two-year solo project called Artifacts is drawing attention on Hacker News. It's a sandbox MMORPG with a twist — there's no clicking, no controller, no mouse. Every action your character takes, from fighting to crafting to trading, is executed through a REST API. You don't play the game. You code it.
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