June 2026 – Page 44 – Kamal Reader

Accelerate campaign workflow with insights from Adobe Marketing Agent for Amazon Quick

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Amazon Quick and Adobe Marketing Agent help marketing teams access campaign insights within governed conversations in seconds. Marketers can ask questions about campaign performance, audiences, journeys, campaign conflicts, and content performance in natural language. Amazon Quick provides the chat experience and action orchestration. Adobe provides marketing-domain analysis to the approved data sources behind those questions. … Read more

Our long national sunscreen nightmare is almost over

June 19, 2026 by kamal

You need a quarter teaspoon for your face alone, a half teaspoon if you include the neck (which you should!) This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. … Read more

Kalshi in early IPO talks with investment banks: report

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The prediction market platform is reportedly exploring a public listing after surpassing $2 billion in annualized revenue as sports contracts face mounting legal scrutiny.

Binance’s MiCA fight raises questions over ECB influence

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Lawyers say MiCA rules do not bar the European Central Bank from communicating with national regulators during the application process, though crypto licensing decisions remain with member states.

Ethereum faces core development funding crisis, former contributor warns

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The warning comes as the Ethereum Foundation reduces spending, adjusts its treasury strategy and undergoes a wave of leadership departures.

The CEO of Allbirds’ new AI biz has a plan, but no employees

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Call it a startup with a sole founder and a very large seed round, but what’s next is less clear.

T1 Phone PR firm is ‘not assisting Trump Mobile any further’

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We don’t have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile’s media relations manager. If you’ve been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you’ll know that Trump Mobile doesn’t exactly keep open lines of … Read more

Leave a Trace

June 19, 2026 by kamal

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GoMining challenges Jack Dorsey’s Square with payments system designed around bitcoin

June 19, 2026 by kamal

GoMining unveiled a software development kit and programmable access for its bitcoin payment protocol GoBTC Pay, allowing merchants to accept BTC for everyday purchases.

Binance can serve Philippine traders under SEC framework, BlockShoals says

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The exchange’s Philippine return relies on an SEC sandbox arrangement that BlockShoals says permits trading access without a local VASP license.

Kaleidescape’s movie player blows streaming, and your wallet, away

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The Strato E player (here with a Mini Terra Prime server on top of it) is smaller than a Blu-ray disc collection, but you can get a lot of 4K discs for $3,000. We’ve lost something in the past 15 years. Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Apple; they’ve all convinced us that streaming is the best way … Read more

In season 2 of Sugar, Colin Farrell’s quirky detective becomes much more human

June 19, 2026 by kamal

When Colin Farrell was doing press for the first season of the detective series Sugar, he had to be very careful with how he spoke. Sugar is a story about a quirky private detective, but it’s also secretly a work of science fiction, something that doesn’t become clear until halfway through the season. “I knew … Read more

Franklin Templeton proposes new ETFs that turn corporate dividends into bitcoin

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Your day-ahead look for June 19, 2026

Texas Brothers Plead Guilty to $8M Armed Crypto Kidnapping

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Isiah and Raymond Garcia held a Minnesota family at gunpoint for eight hours and forced the father to transfer over $8 million in crypto.

My Mathematical Regression

June 19, 2026 by kamal

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Smart-contract and DeFi coins lead losses as bitcoin wilts for 4th straight day

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Concerns about STRC, the dividend-paying preferred stock from Strategy continue to dominate market sentiment.

Bitcoin tipped for Q3 ‘macro bottom’ near $50K as major liquidity grab looms

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Bitcoin market participants may be left in “complete disbelief” as the market reverses from a liquidity grab without another major leg lower, a trader predicted.

The room the economy can’t see

June 19, 2026 by kamal

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Franklin Templeton Files for ETFs That Funnel Stock Dividends Into Bitcoin

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The asset manager’s two proposed “Bitcoin DRIP” funds would hold U.S. stocks and reinvest dividends into Bitcoin, a novel ETF structure.

Digital credit market hit by huge selloff as Strive CEO blames leverage liquidations

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Matt Cole says forced selling from leveraged investors pushed STRC and SATA sharply lower before both rebounded.

Bitcoin activity nears record highs on microtransaction surge

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Near-record OP_RETURN usage is driving a surge in low-value Bitcoin transactions, pushing Bitcoin network activity close to all-time highs despite muted price action.

Plotnine

June 19, 2026 by kamal

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Microsoft found malware that hijacks crypto wallets and spreads through USB sticks

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The software intercepts shortcut files and directs them to install a worm that harvests private keys from the Windows clipboard and inserts its own destination wallet addresses when it detects a transfer.

Goldman Sachs cuts year-end gold target by $500, doubting rate cuts

June 19, 2026 by kamal

Goldman Sachs revised its year-end forecast for gold to $4,900, indicating an increase from current levels, but less than previously expected.

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

June 19, 2026 by kamal

There’s a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.

AllUnity debuts SEKAU, a fully reserved Swedish krona stablecoin

June 19, 2026 by kamal

AllUnity launches Swedish krona-backed stablecoin SEKAU with multi-chain support, expanding its stablecoin portfolio regulated under the EU’s MiCA framework.

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

June 19, 2026 by kamal

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So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI

June 19, 2026 by kamal

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What Healthcare Engineers Know About Building Reliable Systems That Web Engineers Don’t

June 19, 2026 by kamal

This is going to sound combative. It isn’t meant to be. Web engineers, broadly, are excellent at the work they do. The systems they build operate at scales and with feature velocities that healthcare engineers, broadly, don’t approach. The web engineering tradition has produced some of the most impressive software infrastructure in computing history. The … Read more

Agentic AI: The Next Cybersecurity Challenge

June 19, 2026 by kamal

The Big Shift: From Chatbots to “Doers” For the past few years, we have been using Generative AI systems like ChatGPT that are great at talking but mostly wait for us to tell them what to do. Now, we are moving into the era of Agentic AI. Unlike a simple chatbot, an AI Agent is … Read more