Galaxy says the draft crypto market structure bill would give the US Treasury new powers to freeze transactions and deploy Patriot Actâstyle measures....
French finance minister Roland Lescure raised concerns with American Treasury secretary Scott Bessent...
The United Kingdom has walked back plans to make its upcoming digital ID scheme a mandatory requirement for working adults. While the UK government remains "committed to mandatory digital right-to-wor...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
Galaxy said that new Treasury authorities in a Senate draft could mark the largest surveillance expansion since 2001....
The Treasury announcement comes a day after Trump that heâd been told "on good authority" that plans for executions in Iran have stopped....
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is not happy with the Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, multiple sources told ABC News....
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Article URL: https://parliamentnews.co.uk/uk-officials-could-face-us-entry-ban-over-x-policy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614963 Points: 15 # Comments: 4...
The legislation would allow the stateâs treasury to hold digital assets with a market capitalization of more than $750 billion, which applied only to Bitcoin as of January....
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US President Donald Trump on Friday gave a key role in post-war Gaza to former British prime minister Tony Blair and appointed a US officer to lead a nascent security force. Trump named members of a b...
The UK is weighing an Australiaâstyle ban on social media for underâ16s, as regulators ramp up enforcement of the Online Safety Act....
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer scrapped plans to make digital ID mandatory for workers after a backlash over âOrwellianâ surveillance fears....
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/15/state-department-threatens-uk-over-grok-investigation-because-only-the-us-is-allowed-to-ban-foreign-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
In the past 12 months, the Conservatives have suffered a string of defections to hard-right Reform UK, including some former Cabinet ministers....
Aggressive US rhetoric over Greenland demands a change in strategy by the EU and UK, officials say...
UK prime minister says xAI will restrict the image generator as billionaire pledges to follow laws in all markets...
By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world...