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Meta, as mentioned, does not particularly like the move. Reuters quotes Meta spokesperson Stephanie Otway, who says “parents tell us they want to have the final say over the apps their teens use, and that’s why we support legislation that requires app stores to verify a child’s age and get a parent’s approval before their child downloads an app.”
From: Apple volleys age verification question back to sites and apps | Biometric Update.
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This, my friends, is the birth of A-Commerce.
And look closely, and you’ll notice that digital identity flows through each. So let’s take a look at the Empowerment Tech angle
From: Is LinkedIn a massive digital ID network hiding in plain sight, and The New (Travel) Agents.
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Anyone, anywhere should be able to verify workplace identities
From: Is LinkedIn a massive digital ID network hiding in plain sight, and The New (Travel) Agents.
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For crypto, the moment is more existential. Derided for years as an industry dominated by gamblers and money launderers, crypto now has a moment to define itself as a political force in other terms — if, that is, its leaders stand for something more than higher asset prices.
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A typical comment was that of a German tech entrepreneur who described the announcement that the government would not acquire additional assets as “famous words than can unleash a bear market”. As inded they did. But who cares? Since when was it the responsibility of the US government
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The November 26 SSRS survey indicated that about 46 percent of adults still carry cash, while 34 percent seldom, if ever, carry it.
In general, the older you are, the more likely you are to like to carry cash. Likewise, men carry cash more often than women. The key for coin-collecting readers is that the 18- to 29-year-old group is the least likely to carry coins and bank notes, but those that never carry cash in this group only numbered 23 percent. That means 77 percent of this youngest age group surveyed still carry some physical money regularly.
From: Cash Is Still King for Many Americans, Especially Older Generations – Numismatic News.
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Olas, the original agent project in crypto, has officially launched Mech Marketplace: The AI Agent Bazaar, a place for AI agents to offer their skills, hire other agents’ services and collaborate autonomously.
With over 4 million agent transactions, including 2m+ agent-to-agent transactions, Olas is the undisputed leader of AI agent activity in crypto. Olas is the first to see entire economies of AI agents emerging on-chain, from predicting the future to decentralized finance. Before Olas’, agents in and outside of crypto have largely operated in silos, limited by their own capabilities or that of their platform and lacking a way to collaborate with other agents and dynamically gain more powerful skills.
From: Olas Launches the Mech Marketplace: The AI Agent Bazaar | Olas | Co-own AI.
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Identity & Payments Are Converging
From: Key Takeaways from STA Summit 2025: The Future of Identity & Payments is Here.
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Mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) and verifiable credentials (VCs) took center stage at the summit—and for good reason. With millions of mDLs already issued across the U.S. and beyond, the market is reaching a tipping point. For organizations ready to act, there’s a major opportunity to lead the way in transforming digital identity and unlocking new customer experiences.
To borrow a quote from Simon Curry, VP of TBC at Visa, in his fireside chat at the Secure Technology Alliance Summit 2025 in San Diego, “mDLs offer the best option we have today in the arms race we’re in to combat the ever-evolving world of threat and fraud from bad actors and AI — and it’s a significant leap forward”.
From: Key Takeaways from STA Summit 2025: The Future of Identity & Payments is Here.
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When the system went down on Thursday, the chaos that descended in the 10 hours it took to identify and fix the problem blocked the welfare payments of more than 15,000 mostly elderly and poor Greeks, a large number of salaries and pensions in Austria, plus several financial trades.
At the heart of the escalating turmoil was a piece of malfunctioning hardware, but it took hours for the ECB’s technicians to spot the problem after an initial, erroneous diagnosis of database issues, according to the ECB messages and officials at the ECB and three other euro zone central banks.From: Exclusive: How ECB dodged a payment disaster in 10 hours of tech meltdown | Reuters.
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