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You’d think Binance has enough going on that it’d avoid problems of its own doing. Like mistakenly announcing on social media that euro transactions are no longer available. And yet, on Monday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange caused a bit of chaos after just such a corporate communications flub.To clear everything up: no, Binance did not lose the ability to transact in Europe. Paysafe Payment Solutions, Binance’s banking partner in the area, confirmed that withdraws and deposits conducted in the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) will be available until Sept. 25, the original date it gave after announcing in June it would drop the global exchange as a customer following a “strategic review.”This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a daily roundup of the most pivotal crypto news on CoinDesk and beyond. You can subscribe to get the full newsletter here.The bank was mopping up Binance’s mess, and may now feel even more justified in leaving Binance high and dry. Mistakes happen – X (RIP Twitter) is basically only interesting because people say regrettable things everyday – though this particular misstatement likely couldn’t come at a more inopportune time for Binance.Binance, although it retracted its statement, essentially said what

Oopsies! Well ya know what they say - Dallas Sucks heyooooooooo! The like has already been removed, but the Internet never forgets. Like remember that one season Diggs had 11 INTs and the entire world was blowing him but there were still 1,068 receiving yards against Diggs in coverage, by FAR the most in the NFL? Yeah. Oh well. Head up, Trevon and the Cowboys as a whole. I'm sure this season will be different than the last 25 or so. In fact, for the sake of objectivity I'd post some Cowboys Super Bowl Winning highlights but VHS players are no longer a thing - heyooooooooo 2.0!Best get off the Tweeter and stick to what you're good at, Trevon. What's that, you didn't ask? Toast. Being overrated toast. Yeah. Stick with that.  

It seems like Elon Musk's infinite faith in X—formerly known as Twitter—might finally be running dry. The owner of the company—who is also the CEO of Tesla, and founder of the Boring Company and SpaceX—admitted the platform "may fail, as so many have predicted."Spectators have been watching to see if X will survive mass layoffs, advertisers leaving en masse, public scraps between Musk and former employees, and other major cost-saving efforts. Musk, the richest man on earth, posted on X last week: "There are no great 'social networks' right now."He continued: "We may fail, as so many have predicted, but we will try our best to make there be at least one."Unfortunately for Musk—who as recently as last week lost a host of major advertisers after their content was promoted on a pro-Nazi page—his vow to build a "great" platform came just before another embarrassing mishap.X, which now operates with around 20% of the staff it did prior to Musk's takeover, has suffered a number of service outages and glitches in recent months.In February users found they were unable to tweet unless their posts had already been scheduled—with a message appearing for customers telling them they had gone over their

Your Community Notes are wrong — there isn't a big meme account pro-porn conspiracy In theory, the “community notes” feature on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter till it was inexplicably renamed by owner Elon Musk), is intended to refute or provide more context for a given tweet, which is — again, in theory — supposed to curb the spread of misinformation on the platform. In practice, however, some people have started using the Community Notes feature for another purpose entirely: getting mad at women who have OnlyFans. Last week, the meme account @bornakang, which has about 831,000 followers on X, posted a photo of five attractive women in various states of undress (though it’s worth noting that none of the women were unclothed, and the photo was relatively SFW). “Wyd in this situation,” the caption read, a reference to a longstanding meme. The women weren’t tagged in the original post, but according to screengrabs, a few of them did respond in the replies, which would ostensibly draw traffic to their own social media accounts. Nothing about the post was particularly new or unusual. On X and Instagram, large meme accounts have become somewhat notorious for

The internet has been flooded with memes after Russia's lunar hopes were dashed. Russia's Luna-25 crashed into the moon, leading to a failure of its first such mission in the last 47 years. Russia's space agency Roscosmos explained how the crash happened and announced the opening of a probe into it. However, speculation online suggests that Europe was behind the unfortunate crash. Watch for more details. #luna25 #russia #chandrayaan3 #India #Moonmission #roscosmos #science #spaceagency #esa #Memes #lunar #Orbit #Isro Hindustan Times Videos bring you news, views and explainers about current issues in India and across the globe. We’re always excited to report the news as quickly as possible, use new technological tools to reach you better and tell stories with a 360 degree view to give you a better understanding of the world around you.

ByCNNSunday, August 20, 2023 6:48PMCHICAGO -- Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer be able to block other accounts.That is according to Elon Musk, CNN reported.On Friday, he posted that block is going to be deleted as a feature, except for direct messages.He also posted that the block function "makes no sense."SEE ALSO: Zuckerberg says Musk not taking fight challenge seriously, match unlikely to happenHe was responding to a post from the account of Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, which asked "Is there ever a reason to block versus mute someone?"Blocking prevents that user from interacting with an account, such as following them or seeing a post.The mute feature keeps the individual user from seeing the undesired responses.It is unclear when the block feature will be removed, but users fear that it will result in an increase of harassment on the social media platform.As of Sunday morning, the feature still appeared to be working.ABC7 Chicago contributed to this report.

Match of the Day host Gary Lineker caused a stir on social media with a light-hearted post about Bruno Fernandes during Manchester United's match against TottenhamGary Lineker's social media post about Bruno Fernandes caused a stir online (Image: BBC iPlayer)Gary Lineker left fans on social media in stitches with a mischievous post about Bruno Fernandes during Manchester United's 2-0 defeat against Tottenham. Lineker was taking in the match between United and Spurs on Saturday evening and was left purring following a moment of individual brilliance from Fernandes, who pulled off a slick rabona during the first-half of the game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. And Lineker's X-rated post in reaction to Fernandes' trick went down a storm with fans on X. The Match of the Day host quipped: "That rabona from Bruno was so good it gave me a boner….which is quite something at my age." Social media star KSI was quick to pick up on Lineker's cheeky post and fired back: "You gotta be hacked" complete with a laughing emoji. Lineker responded playfully, posting: "Nah, I just wish it was". While Fernandes' superb rabona cross - and Lineker's hilarious reaction - caught the eye on X ( Twitter )

“It makes no sense,” Elon Musk announced Friday via his social network. Those who viewed the billionaire's post to X might have hoped he was referring to his proposed brawl with Meta chair Mark Zuckerberg or his decision to change Twitter's name to X or his money-losing purchase of the company in the first place. (Or a multitude of other things he's said and done.) Those hopes are all for naught, however, as the allegedly senseless thing Musk is now seeking to destroy is one of the only things left that makes X endurable for those with large followings: the ability to block other users.According to X's own “Help Center," the block function is intended to “control how you interact with other accounts on Twitter” and “helps people in restricting specific accounts from contacting them, seeing their Tweets, and following them.” As Kotaku reporter Gita Jackson wrote in 2018, the platform's “safety measures are notoriously lackluster” so blocking other users is often the only way to avoid targeted harassment from specific people. It's also a good way to stop those harassers in their tracks, Jackson notes. “Even some of the more persistent angry people who show up in my mentions, the

Twitter, er X, competitor Bluesky buckled following Elon Musk’s announcement that X will no longer support the “block” function in favor of mutes only. Users on Bluesky were seeing issues with slow load times and the occasional error message when trying to load posts. Images and graphics were also slow to load. In addition, the site’s status page indicated an issue affecting performance was being investigated. The company has often had to deal with the influx of users when Twitter announces a particularly unwelcome change, and that could be the case here — though members of the Bluesky team have not yet confirmed what’s causing the issues at hand or whether the timing is coincidental. However, data from a source that leverages the Bluesky API to track new user registrations indicates that the decentralized social media platform has seen 5616 new registrations in the past 24 hours, compared with 536 in the 24 hours preceding this. So it could be that more people suddenly cashed in their invite codes. The Bluesky status page, meanwhile, published a message that it’s seeing degraded PDS performance, and noted “We are currently investigating this issue.” That’s not very helpful information, but the AT Protocol

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