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Kaspa, a proof-of-work Layer 1 blockchain using blockDAG via GHOSTDAG, now produces 10 blocks per second post-May 2025 Crescendo hard fork, up tenfold from 1 BPS while maintaining decentralization. Moog explains its model treats blocks as reorganization markers, enabling parallel transaction execution via causal dependencies and eventual consistency, targeting 64,000 TPS in a decentralized PoW network. He shares a Rust-based Move runtime prototype on GitHub, highlighting vProgs for efficient off-chain execution with on-chain ZK proofs.

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Hans Moog, IOTA veteran with 20+ years in distributed systems, unveils Kaspa's lock-free runtime as a blockchain scalability breakthrough.

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Protests erupted across Iran after the rial hit a record low of 1.42 million to the dollar on December 28, driving up food prices by 72% and medicine by 50% over the past year. Demonstrators in Tehran and cities like Hamedan and Kerman demand economic relief while rejecting clerical rule and invoking the pre-1979 monarchy, with Reza Pahlavi urging security forces to join the people. Authorities deployed tear gas but President Pezeshkian called for dialogue on legitimate demands, as no deaths are confirmed yet.

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Shopkeepers in Tehran's Grand Bazaar shut their stalls and blocked streets, drawing thousands who chanted for the return of exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi amid soaring prices.

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A new report by the Atra Center for Rabbinic Innovation, surveying over 1,500 rabbis and students, finds that 57% of current non-Haredi rabbinical students are women and 51% identify as LGBTQ, with many entering as second-career adults holding prior degrees. Enrollment has declined at major seminaries like Hebrew Union College amid high tuition costs, though smaller programs show growth, totaling about 520 students. The study excludes Haredi communities, drawing criticism for potential bias toward progressive institutions and incomplete representation of American Jewish leadership.

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In a seismic shift for American Judaism, over half of non-Haredi rabbinical students are women, and more than 50% identify as LGBTQ—signaling a diverse yet challenged future for rabbinic leadership.

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Turkish Islamic scholar Adnan Bilaç declared in a lecture that if a woman applies perfume and goes out in public where men can smell it, she commits an act equivalent to adultery and requires ritual purification. The statement was shared in a video clip.

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The argument highlights pigs as 'democratic animals' that anyone could keep easily, unlike cattle and sheep requiring vast pastures controlled by rulers. Critics note flaws, like pigs needing water and shade in the arid Middle East, where archaeology shows their decline after 1200 BCE as people shifted to drought-resistant livestock. Religious texts frame it as divine command for purity, while ecology, health risks like parasites, and cultural identity offer other explanations—no single reason fully explains the enduring bans.

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Imagine peasants raising pigs on kitchen scraps, gaining meat independence without elite herds. A recent post claims this self-sufficiency threatened ancient power structures, leading to pork taboos in Judaism, Islam, and early Christianity.

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Haqqani, acting minister for refugees and uncle to Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, died Wednesday in Kabul from the attack, which Taliban officials blamed on Islamic State Khorasan Province. Tributes poured in with the hashtag #شهيدحقاني, featuring drawings, photos, religious quotes, and calls for prayers to honor his sacrifices for jihad and unity. The response highlights loyalty to the Haqqani network amid internal rivalries and tightening security, as Sirajuddin appeared publicly in Khost province greeted by crowds.

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Khalil ur-Rahman Haqqani signed paperwork at the Ministry for Refugees when a suicide bomber disguised as a visitor struck, ending his life in an instant. The blast marked the highest-profile Taliban assassination since 2021.

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Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau charged Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman with embezzling around $100 million from state nuclear firm Energoatom through inflated contracts, kickbacks, and laundering. Mindich, a former co-owner of Zelenskyy's Kvartal 95 studio, and Tsukerman now face wanted notices and sanctions from Israel, complicating extradition. The case led to resignations of Ukraine's justice and energy ministers amid the war-torn energy sector's struggles. It tests Zelenskyy's reform promises as nuclear power remains crucial for the nation's fragile economy.

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Raids revealed stacks of cash and a gold-plated toilet in one suspect's apartment, exposing a scheme that drained Ukraine's vital nuclear power funds. The businessmen, tied to Zelenskyy's entertainment past, fled to Israel just before investigators closed in.

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CUDA Tile lets coders work with 'tiles' of data instead of juggling thousands of low-level threads, hiding hardware details for smoother coding on Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. It kicks off with cuTile Python, an open-source tool on GitHub that compiles Python kernels into efficient code. Performance perks include up to 4x faster math operations, plus new profiling tools—though some developers want more code examples right away. NVIDIA sees this as a future-proof step for the 6 million developers relying on CUDA across industries like healthcare.

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NVIDIA just dropped CUDA 13.1, their biggest update to the GPU programming toolkit in nearly 20 years. At its core is CUDA Tile, a fresh way to handle data chunks that simplifies life for developers building AI tools.

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