Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’
A federal judge ruled that a sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock to search for her license plate without a warrant.
Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs
The CEO of Amazon Web Services tried to push back against widespread suspicion of data centers.
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Chainalysis Used AI to Trace the $387M Bitget Hack Back to North Korea
The firm says the Sept. 24 breach pushed North Korea’s 2026 crypto haul past $1 billion, and detailed how it used in-house AI to trace the stolen funds across four blockchains in a race against the attackers.
Capcom is preparing for a ‘future where we create games together with AI’
Capcom’s Pragmata might be all about the horrors of AI, but in practice the studio doesn’t seem so down on the tech. During the Capcom Open Conference RE: 2026 programmer Satoshi Ishida gave a presentation with the mouthful of a title: “The Outlook and Future of the REX Project, Further Evolving the RE Engine for … Read more
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning from their job.
OpenAI Banned PewDiePie Twice While He Built Ajax, an Uncensored AI That Will Run on Your PC
The YouTuber says OpenAI suspended his account twice while he trained a small, uncensored model built to run on your own computer.
I Built My Own “Muse Charm” on an ESP32 Stick: One Fast Brain, One Slow Brain
TL;DR: What it is: Kai is a push-to-talk AI pal on a charm-sized M5StickS3. Two brains: a fast path (Gemini Live, ~2 s spoken answers) handles most questions. A slow path (a locked-down Hermes Agent, 15–50 s) does research, memory, and schedules, and Kai speaks the result when it lands. How routing works: the voice … Read more
Crypto job postings triple to over 1,200 in September, but applications fall
Finance, engineering and trading led hiring demand, while Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana were the most frequently requested blockchain skills.
Payments firm OpenPayd targets year-end Nasdaq listing to fund U.S. expansion and acquisitions
CEO Iana Dimitrova said OpenPayd aims to launch in the U.S. by April 2027 and is eyeing deals to add licenses and technology.
2021–2026 : The Web 3 Ownership Evolution
this article is basically a curve of curiosity and it is focused on how asset ownership has been revolutionized by the Blockchain technology statistics are derived from the DeFi Llama live analytics dashboard as at 27th August when the research was done, the RWA market on DeFi Llama looked like this: But before this volume … Read more
What 4 Million Tokenized-Stock Wallets Say, and Don’t Say, About Adoption
I think retail adoption of tokenised assets is coming through convenience, not through rights-first design. Tessera was built on that bet – permissionless access for retail – so read what follows as an interested party’s case. The clearest evidence I have seen for it came from somewhere I did not expect at all: a memecoin … Read more
Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order
Bitchat has become largely unavailable in India as a result of the restrictions.
Trump Is Hosting Yet Another Meme Coin Dinner: Here Are the Details
The TRUMP meme coin project is inviting its top 185 holders to a Nov. 22 gala dinner with President Trump two weeks after ethics disputes over his crypto interests helped stall the Clarity Act in the Senate.
Agentic DevSecFinOps : A Practical Guide to Safe Automation
AI in software engineering has moved from being an autocomplete tool to “Agentic AI”, where these AI systems are actively reading our environment, coming up with multi-step plans, hitting APIs, and modifying cloud infrastructure on their own. This speed of AI comes with risks at enterprise scale. An agent that went rogue can trigger a … Read more
As South Korea Tightens AI Security, Agent-to-Agent Handoffs Deserve More Attention
This is no longer the childhood game of telephone. When AI agents pass conclusions from one to another, a local decision can quietly become someone else’s authority. South Korea is developing updated AI-security guidance for autonomous agents. The Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) has said the work may include a checklist for agentic-AI services … Read more
Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava thinks AI emails are killing conversations
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa’s “Money” and “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles … Read more
Cathie Wood says smart investors need to start watching where AI agents spend money
As AI agents evolve from answering questions to spending real money, investors and tech giants are scrambling to control the financial networks powering machine-driven commerce.
Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies
Vessev hopes its electric hydrofoil ferry will change the way people and cities think about boats.
An OpenAI safety employee has quit and is sounding the alarm
David Robinson used to write the safety reports that accompanied every major model release at OpenAI. This week, he resigned from his position and is now speaking out in an editorial in The Atlantic. It’s understandable if you’re feeling a bit cynical about everyone suddenly coming out of the woodwork to warn about how dangerous … Read more
Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America
Farooq Abbasi, an investor in Neko Health, talked to Equity about the hot health tech company and what’s next for it.
All the AI agents that can live in your text messages
We created a list of the most notable AI agents that can live in your text messages, from general assistants to agents designed for families, travel, and work.
The Pope Has Thoughts on AI Art—And They’re Not Flattering
The pontiff says algorithms “lack the spark of humanity,” and the Vatican wants to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to protect it.
BlackRock offers a glimpse of how tokenization may change your investment portfolio
Tokenization is not just about putting individual stocks and funds onchain. The next step could be entire investment portfolios that can be traded, rebalanced and eventually managed in real-time.