StarkWare introduces ‘Private KYC’ to address personal data breaches
“Identity checks today ask for your whole document when they only need one fact,” Starknet said.
Month: June 2026
Crypto PAC’s $5.5 million Congress pick gets Maryland win, more crypto allies advance
The Fairshake super PAC supported Adrian Boafo in Maryland, plus other candidates in Maryland, New York and Utah as each ran its primary elections.
CFTC sues Kentucky after state’s prediction market lawsuits
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has sued Kentucky, now the ninth state the regulator is battling in its fight over prediction markets.
Walmart-backed Flipkart expands quick-commerce push as Amazon ramps up in India
Walmart-backed Flipkart has crossed 1,000 micro-fulfillment centers as Amazon accelerates its own quick-commerce push in India.
India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.
Ethereum’s much-hated staking ‘tax’ may already be obsolete
Ethereum’s latest “funding crisis” has triggered a fierce debate: a contentious plan to tax staking rewards versus a new wave of labs and large ETH holders funding development offchain.
The Nex Playground is down to its pre-RAMageddon price during Prime Day
You gotta admit, it looks like fun. | Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge The Nex Playground is the family-centric, Kinect-like game console that made one Verge editor’s kids laugh, cry, and ask for more playtime, even when they were sick. The motion-based game play isn’t perfect, but it has won over plenty of parents … Read more
AI chipmaker Cerebras down 11% after first public earnings report
While revenue was up 92% from year-ago levels, the company forecasted a lower core gross margin next quarter.
Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you
A new update for Google Home could make it less likely your smart home cameras mistake you for someone else, just because you’re facing away from the camera. Starting June 23rd, Google’s expanding its facial recognition feature so that people you’ve tagged in your Familiar Faces library can continue to be identified when their faces … Read more
$170M Ether longs liquidated as crypto market tumbles: Is ETH doomed?
ETH price hangs in the balance as a fresh wave of liquidations pressure the altcoin and spillover from Bitcoin’s struggles to hold $62,000 impact investor sentiment.
Hollywood is bending the knee to OpenAI
Netflix, A24, Focus Features, and Warner Bros.’ Clockwork have all reportedly decided to pass on picking up Artificial – director Luca Guadagnino’s new biographical drama about OpenAI cofounder / CEO Sam Altman – for distribution deals. And while Neon and Mubi are still said to be interested in the film, this situation makes it seem … Read more
Meet Qwable: The Free Local Model That Thinks Like Claude Fable
Someone fine-tuned Fable 5’s reasoning style into a local Qwen model. Then someone else removed its conscience.
Starmer steps down: What Andy Burnham means for crypto in the UK
Burnham brings a dose of optimism to the UK crypto industry, having previously supported the blockchain industry as mayor of Manchester.
Crypto critic Roubini joins tokenization boom with onchain ‘Technodollar’
The economist known as “Dr. Doom” is supporting a tokenized security backed by a Nasdaq-listed ETF he oversees, designed to protect wealth in global crises.
Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.
Trump’s Quantum Push Wins Praise, But Experts Warn Bitcoin Isn’t Ready
Industry leaders welcomed President Trump’s quantum executive orders, while researchers said the accelerated timelines reflect growing urgency around post-quantum security and cryptocurrency infrastructure.
Here’s What AI Agent Found When We Let it Grade All Our Repos
When you roll out AI coding assistants to an engineering team, the tooling conversation centers on prompts, models, and context windows. But what gets almost zero attention is whether each repository is configured to give the AI useful context. At Promova, we use Claude Code across our engineering org — everything from mobile apps to … Read more
Your CI Pipeline Should Reject Any Service Without an Observability Contract
2:11 AM, Tuesday. Our payment notification service — fires transaction confirmations to roughly 40,000 users — had stopped processing. Completely. No alert fired. Nothing paged the on-call. Slack was dark. The engineer on rotation found out at 2:58 AM because a user tweeted at our support account saying they’d made a payment and hadn’t gotten … Read more
Crypto’s Clarity Act Has a New Enemy: Catholic Leaders
A group of 82 Catholic leaders warned a key provision of the crypto bill, protecting software developers from prosecution, could enable human trafficking.
Mark Zuckerberg ordered Meta staff to develop moneyless prediction market: NYT
The Meta CEO reportedly plans for the company to launch a prediction market independent of its other apps allowing users to place wagers using a points system rather than money.
The Future of AI Sales Speaks More Than One Language
I have spent fifteen years building between Europe, the Gulf, and China. The fastest growing buyers I meet are not reading English in an inbox. They are chatting on WhatsApp in their own language, and most AI tools still cannot meet them there. For years, my work has lived in the space between markets. Launching … Read more
The Meta Quest 3S is on sale for $297 — which is basically its old price
The Meta Quest 3S VR headset with 128GB of storage is $296.79 (about $53 off) at Amazon. This is Meta’s entry-level VR headset, which launched back in 2024 for $299.99 before getting a price increase this year to $349.99. So it’s not exactly the most exciting deal, but it’s about as good as you’re likely … Read more
Prime Day takes $240 off Roborock’s Saros 20, one of our favorite robovacs
The best robot vacuums are the ones you barely have to think about, and the Roborock Saros 20 fits that description well. It’s why it’s one of our favorite robovac / mop hybrids, and thanks to Prime Day, you can get it on sale at Amazon and Roborock for $1,359.99 ($240 off), a new low … Read more
What an End-to-End AI Guest Posting Agent Could Look Like
Most SEO tools optimize content creation while leaving outreach fragmented and manual. This article proposes an open-source AI agent that combines keyword research, topic clustering, brief generation, anchor text recommendations, and personalized outreach into a single workflow, reducing manual effort and potentially improving guest-post conversion rates.