Wall Street Giant Cantor Debuts Bitcoin Fund With Gold Insurance
The fund will supposedly protect investors from Bitcoin’s sometimes huge dips by using the precious metal.
Month: September 2025
Nuclear startup Deep Fission goes public in a curious SPAC
Deep Fission had been seeking to raise $15 million in a seed round as recently as April. The reverse merger will raise twice that amount.
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Bitcoin climbs above $112K, but derivatives data show traders remain cautious
Bitcoin derivatives markets showed persistent caution, with sentiment influenced by BTC spot ETF outflows and Strategy not being included in the S&P 500 index.
Kazakhstan’s president calls for national crypto reserve, digital asset law by 2026
The president announced his “CryptoCity” plans would be developed in Alatau, while the government would move forward to create a strategic crypto reserve with “promising assets.”
Bluesky adds private bookmarks
Bluesky adds bookmarks so users can privately save posts they want to reference later.
Ledger CTO Warns of NPM Supply-Chain Attack Hitting 1B+ Downloads
Charles Guillemet, chief technology officer at hardware wallet maker Ledger, warned on X on Monday that a large-scale supply chain attack is underway after the compromise of a reputable developer’s Node Package Manager (NPM) account. According to Guillemet, the malicious code — already pushed into packages with over 1 billion downloads — is designed to … Read more
Crypto Users Warned to Stop Transacting as Massive Exploit Threatens Apps and Wallets
Security experts are advising crypto users to be very careful as a large-scale supply chain exploit could be used to swipe funds.
Gemini app finally expands to audio files
Google made three major updates to its Gemini-powered products on Monday: The Gemini app now accepts audio files; Search can handle five new languages; and NotebookLM creates reports in the form of blog posts, study guides, quizzes, and more. According to a Monday post on X by Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and … Read more
Build and scale adoption of AI agents for education with Strands Agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and LibreChat
Basic AI chat isn’t enough for most business applications. Institutions need AI that can pull from their databases, integrate with their existing tools, handle multi-step processes, and make decisions independently. This post demonstrates how to quickly build sophisticated AI agents using Strands Agents, scale them reliably with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and make them accessible through … Read more
Skai uses Amazon Bedrock Agents to significantly improve customer insights by revolutionized data access and analysis
This post was written with Lior Heber and Yarden Ron of Skai. Skai (formerly Kenshoo) is an AI-driven omnichannel advertising and analytics platform designed for brands and agencies to plan, launch, optimize, and measure paid media across search, social, retail media marketplaces and other “walled-garden” channels from a single interface. By unifying data from over … Read more
ATM Operator Athena Bitcoin Profits From Elderly Scams, Alleges DC Attorney General
The firm has allegedly charged seniors a 26% fee to buy Bitcoin.
With the SEC on the Sidelines, Nasdaq Becomes Crypto’s New Sheriff
The playbook pioneered by Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy has gone viral. What was once a bold, contrarian strategy is now sparking a full-blown epidemic on Wall Street. Public companies are increasingly ditching traditional corporate treasury management for a far riskier gambit: using the capital markets to fund a massive bet on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The … Read more
Ship Smarter, Not Harder: Affordable Kubernetes CI/CD with GitHub Actions + Helm
Audience: freelancers and small teams who need reliable, inexpensive delivery to Kubernetes. This is a long, hands-on guide with lots of copy-pasteable code and extra explanations. TL;DR Build Docker images in GitHub Actions, tag each image with the commit SHA, push to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN, and deploy to Kubernetes with … Read more
Floor It
The highway was empty… The exception was a 20-ton bus barreling down a construction zone at 65 mph. A quarter mile ahead was a 50-foot gap in the I-105 South Central Los Angeles overpass. Destruction was imminent… And no, the bus couldn’t simply come to a stop. Some maniac strapped a bomb to the undercarriage … Read more
Space DOTS raises $1.5M seed round to provide insights on orbital threats
Cefalo is the founder of Space DOTs, which launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team have created a software platform for space tech manufacturers and operators to help them capture various data points, like radiation interference, as well as track any in-orbit anomalies, to help make space travel safer.
Signal’s first paid feature adds encrypted media and message backups
Signal is launching its first paid feature: the ability to make secure, end-to-end encrypted backups of your media history older than 45 days and of your text message history for $1.99 per month. “Media requires a lot of storage, and storing and transferring large amounts of data is expensive,” Signal’s VP of engineering, Jim O’Leary, … Read more
VC giant Insight Partners notifies staff and limited partners after data breach
The venture capital giant, behind cyber giants Wiz and Databricks, said it has notified current and former employees and the firm’s limited partners of its January breach.
Cognition AI defies turbulence with a $400M raise at $10.2B valuation
Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-backed VC, led Cognition’s latest round, with participation from existing investors like Lux Capital, Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC, Elad Gil, Definition Capital and Swish Ventures.
SharpLink Gaming Will Be A ‘Positive White Swan Event’ for Ethereum (Interview with Joseph Chalom)
Joseph Chalom, co-CEO of SharpLink Gaming, speaks on if crypto treasury firms will prompt this cycle’s black swan event, how it plans to change its staking strategy, and why he thinks Satoshi Nakamoto may return.
Google’s AI Mode adds 5 new languages including Hindi, Japanese, and Korean
Google’s AI Mode is rolling out in Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Analytics vs. Instinct in Football
One Saturday night, my husband and I were sitting on the couch waiting for the Manchester United match to start when something seemed very wrong. The Coach had just announced the team lineup, and instead of playing their new striker, he had decided to use a midfielder in the striker position. My husband, who has … Read more
Why Sharplink’s Plan to Stake Ethereum on Linea Got a Muted Response From Investors
Analysts said Sharplink share dilution has created concern among investors that yield from staking can’t easily erase.