eToro Acquires Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Firm Zengo for $70 Million
The deal signals eToro’s strategic push into self-custody solutions amid growing demand for non-custodial crypto infrastructure.
Wall Street won’t buy ‘trustless’ security promises
Chen argues that crypto exchange security is still mostly theater, and that stricter enforcement is essential.
Most people still don’t want anything to do with robotaxis
I’ve been reporting on self-driving cars for over a decade, and I’ve seen the technology go through many ups and downs, highs and lows. But one thing has remained remarkably the same over the years: the public just ain’t buying it. Poll after poll has revealed a deep and abiding skepticism toward autonomous vehicles. People … Read more
Anthropic shrugs off VC funding offers valuing it at $800B+, for now
VCs are frothing at the mouth to write more checks to Anthropic at a valuation that matches or beats OpenAI’s.
Pakistan Lifts 8-Year Crypto Banking Ban Following Trump Family, Binance Deals
Banks in Pakistan can now provide services to registered crypto firms—but not trade crypto themselves—after a 2018 ban was rescinded.
Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent
Allbirds had a hit a decade ago with its Wool Runner shoes, but after a $4 billion IPO in 2021, the business never turned a profit, and sales dropped nearly 50 percent between 2022 and 2025. The company recently announced it would sell off its name and assets for $39 million to American Exchange after … Read more
Crypto Long & Short: Fighting fraud in the digital age: why state-led identity is the future
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Tricia Gallagher writes how the fix for broken digital identity systems will need to be state-led and user-controlled.
Motorola sues social platforms and creators over posts, raising speech concerns in India
Motorola is suing dozens of content creators and social media platforms including Instagram, X, and YouTube over posts it alleges are defamatory.
Airwallex is about to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world
Airwallex, valued at $8 billion, is launching a point-of-sale product that lets businesses accept in-person payments in multiple countries via a single platform.
Nobody Is QA Testing Their LLM Apps (That’s Going to Be a Problem)
The testing playbook for probabilistic systems is fundamentally different — and almost nobody has written it down yet. Your AI app doesn’t crash when it fails. It just confidently lies. That’s worse. I’ve watched teams ship LLM-powered applications with the same QA process they’d use for a REST API. Test the happy path a few … Read more
TradFi and DeFi Operate in Parallel – Ault Makes Them Work as One
What do TradFi and DeFi actually have in common? Right now, aside from sharing the same suffix, not much. Some TradFi assets, stocks, commodities, are now accessible within DeFi, and a growing tranche of real-world assets (RWAs) is moving onchain. But structurally, TradFi and DeFi still operate in parallel, passing one another like trains on … Read more
Writing for the “marketing-proof” Reader: What Performs on HackerNoon
HackerNoon reaches 4M+ monthly readers, creating a high-density environment for technical discovery. Our audience is exceptionally specialized: the vast majority of our readers occupy high-leverage roles in engineering, data science, and product management. n n With a massive reach spanning North America, Europe, and the emerging tech hubs of Asia, we bridge the gap between established tech centers and … Read more
Reflection-Driven Development in Pure C: Eliminating Boilerplate at Scale
Nobody starts writing a game engine in pure C without a good reason. It gives you total control over memory management, predictable performance, fast build times, and clear abstractions that are often missing in C++ projects with too many templates. But this control has a high cost. The main thing you spend is your own … Read more
Online Casino Operator’s Stock Surges on Crypto.com Prediction Market Deal
Shares in High Roller Technologies nearly doubled Tuesday after the firm announced it was entering the prediction markets space.
Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp says it’s better to freeze 5.6 million BTC than let hackers have them
Lopp says dormant coins could pose systemic risk if quantum computing gives attackers the ability to grab them, intensifying the growing “freeze or not freeze” debate.
Create rich, custom tooltips in Amazon Quick Sight
Amazon Quick Sight, the business intelligence (BI) capability of Amazon Quick, is a unified BI service. It provides modern interactive dashboards, natural language querying, pixel-perfect reports, machine learning (ML) insights, and embedded analytics at scale. Amazon Quick brings together AI agents for business insights, research, and automation in one integrated experience, helping you work smarter … Read more
Accelerating decode-heavy LLM inference with speculative decoding on AWS Trainium and vLLM
Practical benchmarks showing faster inter-token latency when deploying Qwen3 models with vLLM, Kubernetes, and AWS AI Chips. Speculative decoding on AWS Trainium can accelerate token generation by up to 3x for decode-heavy workloads, helping reduce the cost per output token and improving throughput without sacrificing output quality. If you build AI writing assistants, coding agents, … Read more
Bitcoin falls to lower support as analysts say markets are ignoring key Iran issue
Bitcoin paused its rally toward new range highs while the S&P 500 came within an inch of a fresh year-to-date high, leading analysts to warn that traders are overconfident.
I Found 221 Bugs in vLLM. They All Had the Same Root Cause
I audited vLLM’s C++ and CUDA code and found 221 places where PyTorch’s 64-bit tensor metadata is silently truncated to 32-bit int before being used in GPU buffer allocations. For GGUF model file code paths, an attacker controls the tensor dimensions through the file header, making this a deterministic GPU buffer overflow triggered by loading … Read more
Why Morgan Stanley’s CFO sees tokenization as the next big step for its multi-trillion wealth business
Morgan Stanley CFO Sharon Yeshaya says the bank is eyeing a “tokenized world” where blockchain technology allows client assets and liabilities to move more efficiently across its wealth management platform.
‘Nothing Ever Happens’: This Bot Always Bets ‘No’ on Polymarket, And It Has a Point
Sterling Crispin’s ‘Nothing Ever Happens’ bot automatically buys “No” on every non-sports Polymarket it finds. It’s not that crazy.
Rede Mater Dei de Saúde: Monitoring AI agents in the revenue cycle with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
This post is cowritten by Renata Salvador Grande, Gabriel Bueno and Paulo Laurentys at Rede Mater Dei de Saúde. The growing adoption of multi-agent AI systems is redefining critical operations in healthcare. In large hospital networks, where thousands of decisions directly impact cash flow, service delivery times, and the risk of claim denials, the ability … Read more
SkillGauge Earns a 256 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Interview Platform
SkillGauge is an AI-powered interview platform designed to automate technical hiring through real-time video interviews, live coding assessments, and instant feedback. With over 50,000 monthly interviews and 500+ companies onboarded, it demonstrates strong adoption in the B2B hiring space. Its retention metrics—particularly repeat usage among candidates—highlight genuine product-market fit, while its focus on fairness, scalability, … Read more
EIP-8105: A new design for Ethereum’s encrypted mempool
EIP-8105 proposes a scheme-agnostic encrypted mempool for Ethereum, designed to hide transaction payloads until after inclusion and reduce harmful MEV.
New Bitcoin Proposal Would Freeze Coins to Counter Quantum Threat
The proposal would phase out Bitcoin’s original security methods and freeze coins that don’t move in time.
Pharos Network and Hong Kong University Are Quietly Building the Next Layer of On-Chain Forecasting
What happens when a Layer 1 built for real-world assets walks into a research lab studying whether crowds can price the future better than analysts? Pharos Network is about to find out, and the answer could decide whether prediction markets stay a sports book with a crypto wrapper or become the pricing layer for everything … Read more
UK FCA seeks feedback on guidance for crypto rules ahead of 2027 rollout
The UK financial regulator has launched a consultation on crypto rules covering stablecoins, trading and staking ahead of a broader UK crypto regime expected to take effect in 2027.
Can AI Beat the Sports Betting Market? 8 of the Top Models Tried
KellyBench put Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, and Grok through a full Premier League season of betting. Not one turned a profit. Here’s why.