Bitcoin teases ‘seller exhaustion’ as BTC price downside reaches $60.3K
Bitcoin sellers were losing steam, market analysis said as ongoing BTC price downside brought the market closer to $60,000.
Month: June 2026
Font Converters Earns a 49.57 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Lossless, Privacy-First Font Pipeline
Font Converters is a free, privacy-first web tool that turns one font into all the formats you actually need, converting losslessly between the 8 major font formats and generating the matching @font-face CSS. It also re-sets whole documents (PDF, DOCX, and more) in any font, including OpenDyslexic for accessibility, and bundles utilities like a font … Read more
New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers
The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it’s meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. … Read more
A Practical Security Architecture for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
A safe RAG architecture keeps untrusted content out of the prompt where it can do damage, enforces who can read what at the retriever, and limits what the model can do after retrieval. Most RAG systems I have seen in real projects do the first half and skip the rest. They retrieve, they answer, they … Read more
Fraud Detection Isn’t a Machine Learning Problem
Subtitle: A fraud model is only useful if it improves the way a risk team acts on real transactions. Fraud detection is often described as a machine learning problem. In practice, it is a decision systems problem. That difference matters. You can build a model with a strong offline score and still end up with … Read more
Alsobrooks says Clarity Act needs ethics deal before Senate vote
The Maryland Democrat says bipartisan crypto legislation is close, but ethics and illicit finance concerns remain unresolved.
A Framework-Agnostic Approach to SSR for Microfrontends
On one of our projects, we were building microfrontends, and at some point we wanted to add SSR. The reasons were the usual ones: better first paint, fewer layout shifts, real content for crawlers, less JS to load before something appears on screen. Setting it up turned out to be harder than I expected. There … Read more
Bitcoin loses $60,000, falls to weakest price since October 2024
Several headwinds converged over bitcoin recently as its largest buyer turned seller, ETF investors headed for the exits, and rate-hike fears rose.
XRP falls toward $1.10 as liquidation-driven selloff pushes token to multi-month lows
XRP lost another 5% after a high-volume breakdown overwhelmed support near $1.20, leaving traders focused on whether the latest washout marks capitulation or the start of a deeper slide.
The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs
“The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and ‘go fast’ to ‘we need guardrails, how do we control this?’”
Visa tests private stablecoin settlement with Brale, Canton
Visa is testing private stablecoin settlement on Canton with Brale, exploring whether institutions can use blockchain without exposing sensitive transaction data.
NASA tells astronauts to shelter in SpaceX Dragon due to new ISS leaks
The space agency says Roscosmos has discovered new leaks in the Russian service module that it is trying to repair.
NSA said to be readying Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations
The U.S. eavesdropping agency is reportedly preparing Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyberattacks, despite a federal ban on using the AI model maker.
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MAHA wants to make cotton the new beef tallow
In between beef tallow fries, raw milk, and vaccine denialism, Make America Healthy Again figureheads have set their sights on another slice of life: our clothing. “The MAHA movement doesn’t stop with what we EAT – It’s also about what we WEAR,” Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a post on X in late … Read more
What do you mean my new smart scale is ‘built for GLP-1 users’?
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. A few days ago, I walked into the basement of a midtown gym. Smoothies and healthy snacks were passed out. … Read more
This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film
When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film’s success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to experiment with Quilty’s product, though, they were left skeptical. Even with all the available data in the world, it predicted the … Read more
Why isn’t the Trump phone made in the USA?
Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. This week, I’m investigating where it might have been built – and why it definitely wasn’t the US. Almost a year after its announcement, the Trump phone has “launched.” A … Read more
Zcash weighs new shielded pool after counterfeiting flaw
Zcash developers are weighing a new shielded pool and turnstile accounting after the Orchard bug raised supply verification questions.
CoinDesk 20 performance update: Bitcoin (BTC) price drops 2.8% as index declines
All twenty constituents in the CoinDesk 20 index were trading lower since yesterday.
Hyperliquid Hit by UK FCA Warning as Crypto Perps Face Scrutiny
The warning from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority adds pressure to a perps market already under increasing scrutiny from regulators.
AirTrunk commits $30B to build 5GW of AI data centers in India
The Australian data center operator plans to set up 5GW of capacity in India.
Bitcoin needs one more thing to happen to spark BTC price ‘rally:’ Analysis
Bitcoin whales flipped to support a BTC price rebound, but analysis warned that the Coinbase and Kimchi Premium still needed to return.
This chunky little tablet got my kid to clean up his toys
Just a cute little guy. Never underestimate the power that a cheap tablet holds over a kid under six. The Skylight Buddy is a device with one job: to be a cute little guy that helps your kid track routines and chores. It’s $139.99, plus an optional subscription. And to my surprise, even though it … Read more
U.S. job growth blows past forecasts, setting stage for Fed rate hikes
Bitcoin is now facing another headwind — the prospect of higher interest rates.
Bearish zcash bets hit record high as privacy token’s price crashes
Liquidations were small relative to the size of the decline, pointing to spot selling rather than a leverage cascade, while open interest in ZEC futures climbed to a record high in token terms as traders crowded into the slide from the short side.