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Mississippi officials declare a public health emergency due to the highest infant mortality rate “in the past decade.” Newborns are experiencing congenital malformations, low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome, as well as premature births in their mothers. "Too many families in Mississippi are losing their babies before their first birthday." And they stopped counting in 2023, I wonder why?

State of the NHS commentary with former Nurse Debie Evans

"This is bigger than Hatton Garden, Brink's-Mat and the Great Train Robbery combined," says one of the investors, Michael Moszynski.

Vashi: Jewellery boss in £170m scam told shop staff to pretend to be customers

Insiders tell BBC Panorama how the man behind upmarket jeweller Vashi conned investors and customers.

£359/$481/437,000 sats for a Pixel 9a in new condition

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#grapheneOS

Potential use cases for @Blockstream Simplicity coding language. Can see businesses (that survive the next 3-6 years) taking this up. Maybe being "banked" will be seen as a detriment. * Programmable Vaults – Time-locked withdrawals, policy-enforced access, and recovery logic. * Bitcoin-Native Smart Banks – Multi-user UTXO aggregation with enforceable balance rules, Merkle tree ownership, etc. * Decentralized Identity and Reputation – Web-of-trust systems built on signed assertions, suitable for social recovery and validation. * Auditable DEXs – Stateless, deterministic exchanges with lower attack surfaces and no global state or wrapped assets. * Institutional Custody and Access Control – Threshold signature schemes using B-N signatures, offering simpler implementation and auditing than alternatives like MuSig. * Decentralized Governance and Crowdfunding – Simplicity-encoded static voting rules, recurring payment logic, and access-controlled services, all without token dependencies.

Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure

Blockstream Launches Simplicity, Heralding a New Era of Smarter, Safer Contracts on Bitcoin

The long-anticipated release introduces more expressive Bitcoin-native smart contract capabilities to layer-2, anchored in Bitcoin’s security mod...