US seeks forfeiture of $25M in crypto tied to romance, investment scams
US prosecutors are seeking more than $25 million in cryptocurrency allegedly connected to international fraud and laundering networks.
Month: July 2026
Here’s why bitcoin bulls should take a closer look at interest rates
Your day-ahead look for July 22, 2026
SecondFi to shut down after $2.4 million ADA wallet theft
The breach stemmed from a vulnerability in transaction signing software that enabled the derivation of private keys from blockchain transaction data.
Jack Dorsey’s Block Launches Buzz, a Nostr-Based Slack and GitHub Rival for AI Agents
The free, open source workspace runs on Nostr, gives AI agents their own cryptographic identities, and challenges Slack and GitHub.
Talos brings institutional trading tools to Kalshi prediction markets
The integration provides institutional clients with access to Kalshi’s event contracts and crypto perpetuals via Talos’ existing trading infrastructure.
The 2026 Honda Prelude is a marvel of hybrid technology
When it comes to enthusiast-geared Honda hardware, the Civic Si, Civic Type R, and Acura NSX often come to mind first for their revvy VTEC (Honda’s form of variable valve timing) engines and playful chassis dynamics. The Prelude, on the other hand, less so. Instead, the Prelude is a technological study – still aimed at … Read more
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
Content Seal sounds a lot like a less accessible and reliable version of SynthID. | Image: Meta / The Verge IIn March, Meta’s Oversight Board called on the company to “meet its public commitments and employ its own tools” to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July … Read more
South Korea crypto volumes shrink as retail investors shift to stocks
Trading activity on South Korea’s five major crypto exchanges fell sharply as the KOSPI surged, signaling a shift in retail investors toward equities.
Bitcoin retreats from one-month high as oil tops $85, inflation concerns resurface
BTC retreated from a one-month high as WTI crude topped $85 for the first time since June, reigniting inflation concerns and pushing investors toward gold, silver and the safety of bitcoin over altcoins.
Kraken parent expands tokenized stocks to Hong Kong, UK and South Korea equities
Payward’s xStocks pushes beyond U.S. equities as competition to bring global stock markets onchain accelerates.
Foundry asks Bitcoin miners to vote on BIP-110 support
Foundry USA asked its mining customers to signal their support for BIP-110, an actively debated proposal seeking to shrink the amount of data that can be stored in a Bitcoin transaction.
Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill
The pledge was introduced in March, and has done little to quell concerns so far. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do … Read more
Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era
Glow is targeting a new class of endpoint risks created by the rapid adoption of AI agents and developer tools inside enterprises.
SecondFi to wind down after $2.6M ADA theft linked to wallet flaw
SecondFi will wind down after a $2.6 million ADA theft, while users still await recovery tools that were initially expected within weeks of the exploit.
Galaxy pledges $5M for developers quantum-proofing Bitcoin
Galaxy pledged up to $5 million in grants for developers working on Bitcoin’s quantum security and elected a council of quantum-advisory experts to research quantum-resistant migration solutions.
One Developer, 100 Apps, and a Plan to Save Humanity from Unnecessary Software Subscription Fees
FEATURE · THE OWNERSHIP ISSUE Benjamin Boyce is rebuilding the internet’s most popular subscription tools as one-time purchases — and giving the base code away. With an AI copilot and a 100-day clock, he’s betting that “you’ll own nothing” was never inevitable. Somewhere in Vietnam, a single developer is trying to do to the subscription … Read more
Balance stablecoin collapses 99% after $1 million exploit drains its bitcoin vaults
An attacker fed the lending system a fake, abnormally low bitcoin price, liquidated vaults that should have been safe, and pocketed the difference in a single transaction.
GigaChat the AI assistant detects emotions and finds content in long audio files
The updated GigaChat Audio model is available through the GigaChat AI assistant and as free open-source code for software developers across the globe Users of the GigaChat AI assistant can enjoy the updated GigaChat Audio AI, a large language model capable of processing audio files and voice messages without converting speech to text first. The … Read more
What’s New in Tiger Cloud: Bigger Performance Gains, Wider Platform Reach, Better Visibility
This year, we’ve focused on improving three areas that define the Tiger Cloud experience: Scale without splitting your architecture: Compression becomes a performance advantage. UPDATE and DELETE on compressed data run up to 160x faster, summary queries up to 70x faster. Storage scales to 80,000 IOPS and 64 TB on demand. Spend less time configuring, more time shipping: Tiger Console auto-tunes … Read more
Hidden Infrastructure Exposed: ANY.RUN Reveals Hijacked Gov Websites Delivering Malware
An original threat intelligence investigation uncovering how trusted government infrastructure became an attack channel, placing banking organizations and public-sector systems at risk while revealing previously undocumented infrastructure relationships and actionable mitigation guidance for security leaders. ANY.RUN analysts have uncovered an active PhantomEnigma campaign abusing compromised government infrastructure and fake police-themed documents to target banking and public-sector organizations in Brazil. Trusted emails and legitimate .gov.br … Read more
Fig Grows Its Platform to Cover Every Stage of SecOps Engineering, Making Resilience the Default
Fig Grows Its Platform to Cover Every Stage of SecOps Engineering, Making Resilience the Default State Security operations teams are under constant pressure to keep pace with an environment that changes every day. New data sources, cloud services, detections, and automations are continually introduced, while upstream systems evolve without warning. Even seemingly minor updates can … Read more
Live updates: Bitcoin under $66,000 as traders await Alphabet earnings to gauge AI trade
A two-day chip rebound stalled ahead of Alphabet’s earnings in a sign of whether the hundreds of billions going into AI is paying off. Bitcoin has tracked that trade all month.
Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching
Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measure training effectiveness.
Bitcoin ETFs extend inflow streak to 6 days with $203M added
US spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to six sessions, bringing in about $930 million while remaining down $4.84 billion on a net basis year to date.
AI models escaped OpenAI’s sandbox and hit Hugging Face. Crypto is where that gets dangerous
OpenAI said the systems had their cyber guardrails lowered for an internal benchmark, but the incident shows how autonomous exploit chains could pose a deeper threat to smart contracts.
Bitcoin holds near $66,300 as chips extend their rally and the yen hits a 40-year low
Semiconductor stocks led a second day of gains on AI optimism, while the yen slid past 163 per dollar for the first time since 1986.
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Anthropic and OpenAI’s aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.