UK government reports 240 crypto millionaires in 2025
About 17,600 people in the UK reported a combined $1.9 billion in gains tied to crypto in the 2024 to 2025 tax year, with 240 each declaring more than $1.4 million.
Month: August 2026
Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous and decentralized nature of the vigilante protests is also what makes them difficult to suppress. There isn’t a uniform method of disruption; people have done everything from unplugging, smashing, stealing, and spray-painting the … Read more
AI Finds Critical Flaw in Bitcoin Lightning, Devs Issue Emergency Warning
The Lightning software project said it is preparing fixes after confirming that several AI-generated vulnerability reports were accurate.
240 UK taxpayers made more than $1.3 million each from crypto holdings in fiscal 2025
For the first time, the U.K.’s tax office broke out crypto capital gains figures, showing 17,600 people reported $1.87 billion in profits during the 2024-2025 tax year.
Solana Is Having Its Best Month Since 2024—With a Historic Governance Vote on Deck
Solana is up more than 8% in 24 hours and 44% on the month. Coming changes to the network could add a supply squeeze to the mix.
Google Gemini Knows Me in Russian — But Recommends My Competitors in English
A hands-on experiment in cross-lingual AI Visibility, RAG entity resolution, and why your professional identity may not survive the language barrier. The Setup In early August 2026, I ran an experiment on myself using Google’s Gemini in AI Mode. Over the previous six weeks, I had deliberately built a narrow, high-density digital footprint on a … Read more
This former PG&E engineer is building a ‘Google Maps for the underground’
The startup just raised a $26 million Series A to grow its customer base and help reduce red tape for utility and construction work.
Google launches Pokémon Sleep special-edition Fitbit Air
The latest special-edition of Google’s Fitbit Air is inspired by the Pokémon Sleep game, with a “Sleepy Blue” band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It’s not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a Pokémon card pretty closely. The special-edition is available to preorder now for $129 and starts shipping September … Read more
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box.
In a swipe at Tesla, Waymo says ‘cameras… aren’t enough’
As Tesla gears up for the official launch of its steering wheel and pedal-less Cybercabs, Waymo is issuing a stark warning about Elon Musk’s approach autonomous driving. Srikanth Thirumalai, Waymo’s VP of Onboard Software, doesn’t specifically call out Musk or Tesla in a blog post, published Wednesday, entitled “10 AI Lessons from Driving 200+ Million … Read more
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HTTP 402 Was Almost Useless for Decades. AI Agents May Finally Give It a Job
There is something wonderfully strange about HTTP 402. Most developers have seen it at least once while scrolling through a list of status codes. 200 OK, obviously useful. 404 Not Found, practically a cultural icon. 500 Internal Server Error, the message nobody wants to see on a Friday afternoon. Then there is: 402 Payment Required … Read more
Hold up, there’s a new Twitter in the town
You read that right. There is a new social network called “Twitter.now” on the block, and it’s being operated by a startup called Operation Bluebird, whose founding team includes former Twitter trademark counsel Stephen Coates. As ArsTechnica reported, X sued the company last year and asked a Delaware judge to issue an injunction to stop … Read more
Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other sudden movements made by the autonomous vehicles, according to a TechCrunch review of data submitted to OSHA.
Flock CEO Asks Americans to ‘Compromise’ on Privacy as Camera Backlash Grows
Garrett Langley says 99.9% of police are good actors, days after a report identified at least 69 officials accused of misusing plate readers.
Clearing firm RQD* raises $74 million as Wall Street prepares for tokenized markets
Bain Capital led the investment in the U.S. clearing and custody firm, which plans to expand its digital asset and tokenization infrastructure.
Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others
The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and widely used open source software.
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less memory.
If Meta’s going down, it’s taking TikTok and YouTube with it
Meta might be on the hook for $17.1 billion and a host of app changes under a new kids safety settlement, but it’s already spinning the deal to its advantage. After years of being the national punching bag for social media harms, Meta has reached a settlement with 47 US states and several districts and … Read more
How to Build a Python SDK From Scratch
Every developer uses SDKs: pip install stripe, import stripe, done. But almost nobody knows what happens inside that black box. I built a complete Python SDK for the Stripe API from scratch, authentication, request handling, error management, retries, models, and tests. This article walks through every line. By the end, you will understand SDKs so … Read more
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Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the internet.
The TechBeat: Qwen3.8-27B Cold Fusion Cuts Thinking Tokens Without Sacrificing Performance (8/27/2026)
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. ## Can Machines Learn Taste? By @laumski [ 8 Min read ] Silicon Valley wants to teach AI good taste. But machines … Read more
Crypto traders brace for Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s Jackson Hole speech
One analyst expects Warsh to take a tough line on inflation, but still sees the Fed holding off on rate hikes until at least after the November mid-term elections.
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart changes at OpenAI, and how all of them seem to consolidate power under cofounder Greg Brockman, the company’s president. While Sam Altman is the CEO and still OpenAI’s most public face, Brockman has amassed … Read more
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Ripple Prime expands into US equity derivatives with Delta One business
Institutional clients can access total return swaps across linked to US-listed equities, indexes and digital assets and cross-margin exposures.
Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
Hugging Face’s Pollen Robotics has launched its second cute AI robot, the Microduck, a one-eyed biped standing just under 10 inches tall. It’s available to preorder now for $399 in cream, graphite, lavender, and sky blue, and Pollen Robotics says it plans to start shipping the little robot “before Christmas 2026.” Video demos of the … Read more