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Proof: Cornell president speaks out, says 'defining moment' for university

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-04T00:40:27Z","headline":"Cornell president speaks out, says 'defining moment' for university","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"abcnews","url":"https://abcnews.com/US/tompkins-county-das-office-declined-review-additional-material/story?id=136973934","v":1}

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7bbbbae9f17d078b30cb595be6b78e453fcf335688bfc9b09647336385246411

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 969787, mined 2026-10-04 02:17 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-04 00:44 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-04 01:02 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-7bbbbae9f17d.json prints 7bbbbae9f17d078b30cb595be6b78e453fcf335688bfc9b09647336385246411. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-7bbbbae9f17d.json and headline-7bbbbae9f17d.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-7bbbbae9f17d.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 2 min after it was first seen.