Month: August 2026
China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US
Researchers linked the latest malicious activity to a Chinese company, after one of the spyware’s operators placed an order with KFC using their real name and office address.
Defense tech Hadrian raises $1.37B at $8B valuation
Hadrian is building automated factories to mass-produce parts for defense vehicles like submarines. It’s backed by a long list of well-known investors.
HOW TO DEVREL: The Most Un-Natural Act
DISCLAIMER: No, I don’t believe I’m the universe’s gift to DevRel. I don’t have all the answers, all the skills, or even all the Pokemon. What I have is my experiences, collected over the 11 years I’ve been doing this work. That – my experiences and observations – are what I’m sharing in this series. Before … Read more
Securing AI agents with temporal policies in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Before AI agents, it was generally sufficient for access controls to treat each action as an independent event. Applications relied on deterministic business logic to enforce whether actions happened in the right order or whether the data was up-to-date. AI agents behave in fundamentally different ways than traditional applications. They decide at runtime which tools … Read more
Putin Signs Russia’s First Crypto Law: Trading Is Legal, Payments Stay Banned
The new law creates a licensed, central bank-supervised market for trading digital assets, yet crypto remains barred from everyday payments.
The Zelda movie’s Ganondorf casting hints at more movies
Deadline reported Thursday that the upcoming The Legend of Zelda movie will feature Australian actor Uli Latukefu as the villain Ganondorf, and the publication notes that “We hear Latukefu inked a multi-picture deal.” Nintendo or Sony haven’t formally confirmed that there’s more than one movie in the works, though it’s been rumored that Nintendo and … Read more
OpenAI Reveals How AI Agents Secretly Coordinated Before Hugging Face Hack
The presentation at the annual Black Hat conference sheds new light on how OpenAI’s models collaborated to launch the Hugging Face breach.
Bitcoin ETF inflows surge after Coldcard hack, but link is unclear: Bloomberg analyst
A week-long streak of inflows into US spot Bitcoin ETFs has coincided with the Coldcard wallet exploit, fueling debate over whether some investors are shifting away from self-custody.
XRP, Bitcoin Whales Are Accumulating—Is the Bear Market Nearly Over?
On-chain data shows big holders quietly buying XRP near $1, yet the daily chart is still trapped below a death cross.
Configure rate limits for AI traffic on AgentCore gateway
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore gateway is a fully managed, serverless AI gateway that provides a single, secure entry point for AI traffic. AgentCore gateway routes traffic to tools such as managed web search, managed knowledge bases, MCP servers, inference models (LLMs), agents (A2A, agents as tools, etc.), or HTTP endpoint. Today, we are announcing support for … Read more
Ford needs another Taurus, and the $30K Fathom EV pickup isn’t it
Ford’s CEO has described the new Ford Fathom as a “Model T moment” for the company. But the EV pickup is unlikely to live up to lofty expectations, and maybe it doesn’t have to.
Bumble teases a swipe-free future as it doubles down on IRL meetups
Bumble says it’s moving beyond swiping and deeper into real-world social experiences as it courts Gen Z users.
Suno shares plans to combat spammy AI music
Suno’s AI vocalists could learn a thing or two from this glitchy image. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Suno announced plans to implement a new watermarking technology and download policy to limit the spread of spammy AI tracks and increase transparency. In a lengthy blog post, CEO and co-founder Mikey Shulman … Read more
Brendan Carr officially unleashes broadcast consolidation
The era of set broadcast ownership limits is officially over, after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted Thursday to end the national ownership cap rule. The agency’s two Republicans, Chair Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty, voted to end the ownership cap, which restricts broadcast owners from holding stations that reach a combined more than … Read more
ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users
OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest Makes SpaceX, Circle Top Holdings After Latest Buying Spree
SpaceX and Circle rank among the 10 largest positions in Ark’s flagship innovation fund after the firm continued buying both companies following their second-quarter earnings.
US appellate court mandate affirms Sam Bankman-Fried conviction
Three circuit judges disputed the former FTX CEO’s claims that the defunct crypto exchange’s investors could have been made whole and wouldn’t have experienced any losses.
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Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company
Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business.
OpenAI is giving ChatGPT free users unlimited text chats
OpenAI is making a big change for ChatGPT users on its free and Go tiers: Starting next week, users on those tiers will be able to have unlimited text chats with the chatbot, according to OpenAI. Right now, you may run into rate limits if you do too many text chats on those tiers, but … Read more
US Senate will vote on CLARITY crypto bill ‘without any question’ this week: Tim Scott
The South Carolina lawmaker who heads the Senate Banking Committee said that the majority leader still had time to put the crypto bill on the agenda despite the narrow voting window.
Control agent behaviors and cost beyond a single action: new capabilities in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Agents are becoming more autonomous and teams are running more of them, but trust and security have not kept pace. According to McKinsey, roughly 80% of organizations have already encountered risky behavior from AI agents. As a result, security and risk concerns are the leading barrier to scaling agentic AI (McKinsey’s State of AI Trust … Read more
Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers
Connor Moucka pled guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, which net him and his accomplices more than $2.5 million in ransom payments.
Bitcoin miners’ AI pivot loses Wall Street’s wow factor
New analysis finds AI infrastructure contracts are becoming larger and more profitable, but investors now demand stronger execution before rewarding bitcoin mining stocks.
TikTok blames ‘moderator error’ on slow response to Perez Hilton livestream
TikTok says a “moderator error” delayed the removal of a livestream that appeared to show blogger Perez Hilton harming himself, as reported earlier by Wired. Jamie Favazza, a spokesperson for TikTok US, tells The Verge that the platform notified law enforcement about the situation and banned Hilton’s account for violating its community guidelines. Hilton, or … Read more
Build visibility for Codex on Amazon Bedrock with OpenTelemetry and Amazon CloudWatch
As organizations move from experimenting with coding agents to adopting them across engineering teams, the leadership question changes. It is no longer only, “Can this tool help a developer?” It becomes, “How do we understand adoption, manage consumption, maintain reliability, and scale access responsibly?”. Codex can emit OpenTelemetry (OTel) metrics about its activity. When local … Read more
MetaMask Launches Self-Custodial AI Wallet for Autonomous Crypto Trading
The new Agent Wallet lets AI agents execute on-chain trades within user-defined limits as MetaMask expands its push into AI-powered crypto trading.