Month: June 2026
52 Prime Day steals under $25 you won’t want to miss
We at The Verge love a good gadget or tchotchke, especially when it’s not too expensive. But with the rising cost of just about everything these days, many once-cheap gadgets aren’t so affordable anymore. Amazon and other retailers sell all sorts of products from word salad brand names, but only some of it is handy … Read more
The solar-powered Birdbuddy Pro is on sale for $168, the lowest price yet
For anyone looking to add some fun tech to their yard, the Birdbuddy Pro with solar panels is $168 at Amazon for Prime Day (usually around $240). This Internet connected birdhouse has a 5-megapixel camera to automatically capture crisp photos and videos of the various visitors to your yard, and can even identify species and … Read more
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Bitcoin falls to $60,000 as AI trade continues to draw investor interest and capital
South Korean memory chip giant on Wednesday filed to raise nearly $30 billion in a U.S. offering.
Nobody Hacked the Firewall: Inside the Year Identity Became the Whole Battlefield
Two of the most consequential intrusion campaigns of the past eighteen months have almost nothing in common on paper. One is a multi-year Chinese state espionage operation that lived inside American telecom infrastructure. The other is a loosely organized, English-speaking criminal collective that mostly just calls help desks and asks nicely. Put them side by … Read more
Crypto Long & Short: Infrastructure is the prevailing currency in digital assets
In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, Nonco’s Caue Teixeri makes the case that regardless of which coin ultimately wins, infrastructure is the prevailing currency in digital assets. Then, using CoinDesk’s liquidation feed, Liquibit Capital’s Alen Pavlović finds that June’s forced selling peaked near $68,000, days before bitcoin actually bottomed.
Credit unions managing $25B in assets join stablecoin infrastructure program
A new pilot from Stablecore, Circuit and Curql gives participating US credit unions access to test stablecoin payments and other digital asset services.
SecondFi loses $2.4 million in Cardano wallet exploit
SecondFi was hit by three separate attacks exploiting a flaw in its wallet generation software. A further 129 million ADA was secured by the team before attackers could reach it.
Trump’s refusal to sign housing bill could delay Congress and imperil Clarity Act
As Congress prepared to celebrate the president’s signing of the bipartisan housing bill that contains a CBDC prohibition, Trump abruptly cancelled the event.
OpenAI Turns Up the Heat With Jalapeño, Its First Custom AI Chip
Built with Broadcom, the LLM-focused accelerator is the first step in OpenAI’s effort to design the hardware behind ChatGPT and beyond.
How Agentic AI Could Fix Telecom’s Most Persistent Customer Complaint
Every month, millions of customers open their bills hoping to see a number they recognize. When they don’t, confusion quickly turns into frustration and frustration turns into support calls. Despite years of digital transformation, billing remains one of the biggest drivers of customer dissatisfaction. For product managers, this presents an opportunity: use Agentic AI not … Read more
Trump Cancels Signing of Bipartisan Housing Bill Containing CBDC Ban: ‘Of Minor Importance’
President Trump said he won’t sign the popular bill until Congress passes a controversial bill restricting voting rights.
Why AI Memory Agents May Start Inside Telegram Communities
I don’t think the next wave of AI agents will begin inside clean dashboards. What about you, what do you think ?? Read till the end.. It may begin inside messy conversations. Inside Telegram groups. Inside WhatsApp communities. Inside Discord servers. Inside WeChat ecosystems. Inside the places where people already talk, ask, react, complain, share … Read more
Ex-FCA policy insider explains the ‘great divide’ in the UK’s crypto ambition
Former FCA policymaker and Hedera Global Policy VP, Isadora Arredondo says there is a gap between the U.K.’s crypto ambitions and how policy is carried out in practice.
Trump cancels signing of housing bill with CBDC ban
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act included a provision that the US Federal Reserve was barred from issuing or creating a CBDC until 2030, but exempted certain stablecoins.
How Investors Adapt to a World of Competing Jurisdictions
Discover how governance-first wealth structures, jurisdictional diversification, and strategic planning can protect capital from political and sovereign risk.
Zoox upgrades its robotaxi as it prepares for commercial service
The new Zoox robotaxi has more cushioning, lighter colors, and a better microphone and speaker for communicating with Zoox Support.
The Future Belongs to AI Products, Not AI Wrappers
AI agents have grown astronomically in recent years, with some forecasts predicting they’ll cross 2.2 billion by 2030. But most of these agents are AI wrappers, with structurally identical capabilities. In a highly competitive market, AI agents won’t have an edge unless they provide proprietary solutions. Instead, AI products with specialized models, unique domain knowledge, … Read more
This new tracking label could help solve cargo theft
The Samsara Tracking Label hides a BLE system that can offer real-time location in a disposable package.
The Impossibility of Perfect Fairness in Transaction Ordering
Why perfect fairness cannot hold in asynchronous networks, and how different blockchains adopt different relaxations to fairness.
Bitcoin just broke below the floor of its famous Rainbow Chart into the ‘BTC is dead’ zone
A 50% drop from recent highs has pushed the asset into a zone historically labeled as a dead end, sparking a debate among crypto analysts.
The banking lobby is wrong about stablecoins and community banks
Congress should not kneecap one of the clearest advances in payment infrastructure to protect community banks from a threat that has not been proven, argues Eco CEO Ryne Saxe.
OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño
OpenAI has just revealed a new “intelligence processor” chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Jalapeño is an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), meaning it’s designed for a specific purpose: AI inference. With AI … Read more
Strategy Shares Crash Below $100 as Bitcoin Sinks Towards $60K
Bitcoin fell to a two-week low price Wednesday as Strategy shares dove below the $100 mark for the first time since March 2024.
How memecoin marketing moved from online speculation to real-world risk
From alcohol dares to head-shaving challenges, memecoin campaigns are turning engagement into exploitation.