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Russia has taken a carefully measured step into digital assets, giving the green light to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tether on regulated platforms. The central bank drew the line at liquidity, which is why XRP and most other tokens didn't make the cut. Retail investors can now participate, but only within those tightly defined boundaries.
Shifting to a story that raises serious questions about supply chain security, the British Royal Navy has stripped internet access from its fleet of K-three Scout surveillance drones after discovering the devices had been quietly sending heartbeat communications back to China. The culprit was Chinese-made camera components fitted without proper origin checks, and the signals went undetected for several months before a routine cyber assessment caught them.
And in a case that puts a very human face on automated policing, a woman in the United States was pulled over at gunpoint on two separate occasions after a glitch in a Flock license plate recognition camera flagged her vehicle incorrectly. It's a sharp reminder that when algorithmic systems feed directly into law enforcement decisions, the cost of a software error isn't measured in downtime — it's measured in fear.
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