📱 X brings back Voice Notes to X Chat — works in both one-on-one messages and group chats

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⚡️ NATO chief says group moving on from unhealthy co-dependence on US

"Europe is assuming a greater and fairer share of the task of providing for its conventional defense, and from that there will be no going back, nor should there be. This is a move from unhealthy codependence to a transatlantic alliance grounded in true partnership," — Mark Rutte said.

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🚀 This founder helped build SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now he’s building a ‘fighter jet for orbit.’

Jeff Thornburg helped turn a government research project into SpaceX’s most powerful rocket engine. Now, he’s trying to do the same thing at his startup Portal Space Systems, which is taking an idea set aside by NASA and turning it into high-powered propulsion for the next generation of spacecraft.

The company is developing a technology called solar thermal propulsion. Today’s standard satellite engines either burn chemical fuel or convert the sun’s energy to electricity, using that to power efficient but low-powered thrusters. Portal’s engines would instead concentrate the heat of the sun, using that to heat propellant and move the spacecraft along at high speed.

The technology has been the subject of investigation in government research labs since the 1960s, most recently as a concept for sending a probe into interstellar space, but has yet to make it into orbit. Thornburg, along with co-founders Ian Vorbach and Prashaanth Ravindran, plans to change that in the next two years.

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⚡️🇮🇷 Iran’s sanctions-busting crypto ambitions grow on toll payments

Tehran has signaled that payments in digital currency should form part of any toll system for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz — tokens cannot be easily confiscated under sanctions.

“There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait,” — Donald Trump warned Iran against charging tolls on vessels. “They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!”

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⚖️🇻🇪 Venezuela’s National Assembly passed a mining law pushed by acting president Delcy Rodríguez

Lawmakers granted final, unanimous approval to the 131-article bill. The legislation offers legal guarantees and a more flexible tax regime to international investors, particularly from the US.

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📱 Instagram expands its restrictions for teens internationally and introduced a small but useful update

Instagram is expanding its revamped Teen Accounts, inspired by 13+ movie ratings criteria and parent feedback — teens will see content on Instagram that’s similar to what they’d see in an age-appropriate movie by default. There's also a new setting called “Limited Content” that has stricter content filters. The company would show less content with themes like extreme violence, sexual nudity, and graphic drug use.

Users now have the option to edit comments, which is a long-awaited fix for anyone who’s ever had to delete and re-post a comment just to fix a typo. But there's only 15-minute window after posting to make changes.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev ​is in the U.S. to meet with Trump's administration for discussions on a peace ​deal for Ukraine and U.S.-Russia economic ​cooperation. The visit precedes the ​U.S. decision on whether to extend ​sanctions relief on Russian oil, which expires April 11 and could also be on the agenda.

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⚡️ The World Bank Group could mobilize $20 billion to $25 billion in rapid financing to countries grappling with the economic fallout of the war in Iran.

If the conflict ​persists, the World ​Bank is trying to see ‌if ⁠it can get another $50 billion to $60 billion in capacity ​to ​help, ⁠Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank said. Any ​World Bank support ​would ⁠add to that from the International ⁠Monetary ​Fund.

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🤑 Is Blockchain Privacy a Trade-off? Scaling Confidential Payments on Stellar

The biggest challenge for institutions moving to blockchain isn't efficiency — it's privacy. How do you leverage a public ledger without exposing client data or competitive strategies to the world? 🤔

In this episode Denelle Dixon and the Stellar Development Foundation’s Chief Product Officer, Tomer Weller, unpack the team’s strategy for configurable privacy.🔐⚙️

They explore why privacy and openness don’t have to be a trade-off and dive into the cutting-edge technology making private institutional payments a reality in 2026, including:

➠ Confidential Tokens vs. Privacy Pools: Understanding the different cryptographic models for securing balances and transactions.
➠ The Power of Zero-Knowledge (ZK): How ZK proofs allow for verifiable computation without revealing sensitive underlying data.
➠ A "Menu" of Compliance: How configurable privacy provides institutions with the administrative controls needed to satisfy regulators.
➠ Live Tools on Stellar: A look at the new building blocks and partnerships (like Nethermind and OpenZeppelin) that are already open-sourcing privacy solutions on the network.

📱 Watch the full video on YouTube

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🤝 Google and Intel deepen AI infrastructure partnership

Intel Corporation and Google announced a multiyear collaboration to advance the next generation of AI and cloud infrastructure. Google Cloud will use Intel’s Xeon processors, including Intel’s latest Xeon 6 chips, for AI, cloud, and inference tasks. The companies will also expand the co-development of custom infrastructure processing units (IPUs), which help accelerate and manage data center tasks by offloading them from CPUs.

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