Bank of England Eases Stablecoin Rules, Swaps Holding Caps for £40B ‘Guardrail’
The BoE scrapped individual holding caps for a £40 billion per-coin issuance limit and will let issuers hold more reserves in government debt.
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Ethereum Foundation talent exodus sparks fresh debate over leadership
The Ethereum community is once again debating the future of the foundation after co-executive director Hsiao-Wei Wang announced she would step down.
RingConn’s Lord of the Rings promotion assumes smart ring wearers want to be like Gollum
Smart ring maker RingConn’s marketing copy says Lord of the Rings’ “enduring narrative highlights a simple but powerful idea: that meaningful transformation often begins with the choices we make each day. RingConn embraces a similar philosophy, believing that lasting change begins with everyday awareness and small, intentional decisions.” Of course, the “intentional decisions” Frodo makes … Read more
AMD releases FSR 4.1 upscaling for older graphics cards
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will have support for FSR 4.1 on day one. AMD is officially launching FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000-series GPUs today. The update means that computers with those older graphics cards, which use the RDNA 3 graphics architecture, will be able to see improvements like better image quality and … Read more
Embed the world: Multimodal AI for searchable aerial imagery at scale
Turning a library of aerial imagery into a natural-language-searchable knowledge base is a problem that touches every industry that relies on geospatial data — insurance, real estate, government, infrastructure, and agriculture. The traditional path requires either manual tile-by-tile inspection or training a bespoke computer vision model for each new question. Multimodal embeddings, large language model … Read more
Running ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs
With ComfyUI workflows on Amazon SageMaker AI processing jobs, you can automate content generation at scale. For enterprises, every delay or misstep in creating compelling multimedia assets can mean lost sales, faded brand relevance, or missed marketing deadlines. When a product launch deadline looms or a seasonal promotion needs urgent assets, waiting for designers to … Read more
How to Rotate Proxies Without Breaking Login Sessions
To rotate proxies without breaking login sessions, keep the same IP address, cookies, browser fingerprint, and user-agent tied together for the duration of a session. Rotate only between sessions, accounts, or workflows. Randomly changing IPs mid-login often triggers security checks, forced logouts, CAPTCHA challenges, or account verification. Login sessions are not just about usernames and … Read more
Crypto’s second U.S. lobbying front — tax policy — sees industry push on mining, staking
The crypto sector’s leading U.S. advocacy groups asked the U.S. House’s tax committee to advance a bill to clarify treatment of assets from mining and staking.
Bitcoin price taps $65.5K as Iran deal sees oil drop toward 16-week low
Bitcoin sought a breakout toward a potential BTC price target near $70,000 as Iran news sent oil toward its lowest levels since early March.
SOC 2 Controls as Code: How to Bake Compliance into Your CI/CD Pipeline
The CI/CD Pipeline Is Your Compliance Engine. Here’s How to Wire It Up. You’re a few weeks into your SOC 2 process. An auditor you’re paying by the hour, is asking you to manually export six months of access logs, screenshot your deployment approvals, and compile a spreadsheet of every employee who touched production. Meanwhile, … Read more
RAG Is Not Personalization
Most AI memory features work by retrieving past interactions and appending them to a prompt, creating the appearance of personalization without changing how the model actually reasons. This article argues that real personalization requires understanding user motivations, context, and intent rather than simply storing behavioral history. The companies that build systems capable of capturing and … Read more
Ethereum Layer-2 Taiko Warns Users to Withdraw Bridge Funds After Security Breach
Researchers estimate more than $1.7 million was stolen after attackers allegedly exploited Taiko’s proof verification process.
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.
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Tom Lee’s BitMine Adds $92 Million in Ethereum, Hits 4.7% of Total Supply
The leading Ethereum treasury firm inched closer to its goal of accumulating 5% of the ETH circulating supply.
Morning Minute: Bitcoin at $65,000 as Iran Deal Wobbles
Macro uncertainty, STRC finding a new low and another $227M in ETF outflows weren’t enough to keep Bitcoin down over the past week.
Apple’s latest AirTags are cheaper than ever for Prime Day
It’s a small but rare discount. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Prime Day has brought a number of Apple deals, but one of the most useful if you’re planning to travel over the July 4th weekend or later this summer is on the new AirTags. The four-pack has dropped to a … Read more
Anchorage aims to bring banks onchain with new tokenized deposit platform
The crypto bank aims to help financial institutions offer round-the-clock payments and settlement without replacing their core systems.
Strategy Pads Cash Reserves to $1.4B After STRC’s Stumble
Michael Saylor’s firm topped up its USD cash reserve to $1.4 billion as it made its smallest Bitcoin buy since selling 32 BTC three weeks ago
Why Google search can be a crypto wallet risk
Think your wallet is safe? A major crypto risk may start with a Google search and one wrong click.
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart is stepping down after seven years
Will Cathcart, who led WhatsApp for the past seven years, is stepping down from his role as Meta appoints a new leader. On Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Facebook that Kunal Shah, the founder of an Indian fintech startup called Cred, is taking over as the head of WhatsApp. Cred is an app … Read more
Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room viewing.
The TechBeat: Meet the Agents That Pay for Their Own Compute: Inside Aeon, MiroShark, and Agentic Commerce (6/22/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## I Built a PC Monitor That Learns Your Hardware By @huckler [ 10 Min read ] Thresholds are dumb by design. … Read more
Meet ThreatAware: HackerNoon Company of the Week
Hey Hackers! Welcome back to another edition of Company of the Week! Every week, we like to share an awesome tech company from our tech company database, making its evergreen mark on the internet. This week, we’re excited to showcase ThreatAware – a company that works hard to ensure businesses and their assets are secure and protected. … Read more
The founder conference built for growth: TechCrunch Founder Summit pass rates increase June 26
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register here.
Enso launches RWA app and trading for over 500 tokenized assets
Enso launched access to over 500 tokenized assets and US stocks, citing a growing demand for US equity exposure among European investors.