Bitcoin price coils under $65K as US PMI data brings new ‘stagflation’ warning
Bitcoin price action stayed compressed in an ongoing divergence from stocks and gold while US PMI data sparked fresh talk of “stagflation.”
Month: August 2026
Enforcing data residency with single-Region Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock
A US-headquartered global organization recently came to us with a deceptively simple data-residency request: let their engineers use Claude Code. The requirement: Amazon Bedrock model inference had to be processed in London (the eu-west-2 AWS Region), not merely called from London. Their compliance team had drawn a hard line. Prompts, completions, and intermediate processing were … Read more
DuckDuckGo’s Meta-Trolling ‘Normal F***ing Sunglasses’ Sell Out in Under a Week
The $35 frames have polarized lenses, UV protection and no camera, microphone, battery or electronics of any kind.
Agent Skills for Automated Reasoning policies in Amazon Bedrock
Teams that adopt Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning checks often want to run the policy lifecycle in code. Running it in code keeps the work repeatable, reviewable, and driven by the coding agent they already use. Authoring a good Automated Reasoning policy has a learning curve, and the lifecycle has constraints that can trip you up. … Read more
Building an agentic app deployer with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Lambda
Many enterprises have a long tail of internal tools that never get built. A team needs a shipping-cost calculator, a straightforward intake form, a small dashboard over a spreadsheet, but each one requires a developer, a backlog slot, and a deployment pipeline. The tools are too small to prioritize and too numerous to ignore. PDI … Read more
Tether expands tokenization business into Saudi Arabia, starting with real estate
The stablecoin issuer is extending its tokenization business into Saudi Arabia, starting with institutional real estate assets with plans to expand to other asset classes.
TikTok lays off 250 employees, shutters its Nashville office
The social media giant is shuttering an office that housed some members of TikTok’s content-moderation team.
Google Wallet now lets parents set up secure balances for their kids
The tech giant says the new feature will allow parents to teach their kids healthy financial habits while maintaining oversight over their child’s spending with built-in safeguards.
Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking
This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they’ll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmaker.
Apple increases trade-in offers and adds new Android devices
Apple bumped up its trade-in offers for iPhones, iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and certain Android phones, with some devices now worth over $100 more, 9to5Mac reports. The Mac Studio’s trade-in value increased the most, going up by $260. While some devices’ offers are unchanged, most got an increase of around $5 to $20, with a … Read more
Open-Source Hardware Could Redraw Ethereum Rollup Economics
The seven-day withdrawal window was the price users paid for cheaper L2 execution. Optimistic rollups made Ethereum transactions cheaper by replacing upfront validity proof generation with fraud challenges. Users gained lower fees and accepted delayed exits, weaker finality, and bridge liquidity as normal parts of the L2 experience. ZK rollups offered a cleaner route because … Read more
Building a Reusable AI Skill for STIG-to-Excel Conversion
One saved skill turns a 300-page U.S. government security checklist into a reviewed Excel tracker from a single instruction. This is the complete walkthrough: the code, the real outputs, and the failures along the way. The problem I actually have I have spent my career inside security compliance. I was part of the team that … Read more
Sui Adopts Post-Quantum Signature Schemes In Move Toward Quantum Readiness
Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 6th, 2026/Chainwire/–Sui, where money moves as freely as messages, announced today that it is adopting two post-quantum signature schemes in its move toward quantum readiness. The quantum timeline is different for blockchains, because a public key onchain is different from a public key anywhere else. In most systems, an attacker … Read more
Tesla and SpaceX will invest $16.8B to start building ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas
After months of speculation, the companies formally announced the massive project will happen just north of Houston.
CT3 Introduces Demand-based Availability Management for New Contracts and Prepares for Token Listing
London, UK, August 6th, 2026, Chainwire/–The launch of CT3 Storage Contracts enabled the platform to significantly expand its available capacity and strengthen its data storage infrastructure within a short period of time. These additional resources helped CT3 meet growing demand, which increased substantially following the release of the automatic backup service. Automatic backups have changed … Read more
Crypto for Advisors: Europe’s crypto rules, U.S. Preview
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Inevitable AI Group Raises $6M From Aleph to Launch AI-Native SaaS Companies
Tel Aviv, Israel, August 6th, 2026, TechnologyWire Inevitable AI Group (IAIG), an AI-native venture studio founded by veteran technology entrepreneurs, today announced a $6 million pre-seed funding round led by Aleph. The company is building and launching dozens of AI-native software businesses designed to capitalize on the rapidly changing economics of software development. Founded by … Read more
SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library months before federal data center deal
The Portsmouth, Ohio site where SoftBank will build its data center. | Image: US Department of Energy SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it’s leasing land from the federal government to build a sprawling data center in Ohio. The Japanese company revealed the timing in … Read more
eBay continues to bet on live shopping after record quarter
eBay touted an increase in eBay Live’s gross merchandise volume as it plans to expand it to more international markets in the coming weeks and months.
It’s the last day to get a $350 gift card with your Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 preorder
Samsung’s latest foldable Android phones, the Z Fold 8, Fold 8 Ultra, and Flip 8, release tomorrow, August 7th. Today is the final day when you can place a preorder, and really the only reason we’re suggesting that is because you’ll get some freebies that will go away upon release. We have an entire article … Read more
The left and right agree on one thing: no data centers
Today, I’m talking with Gaby Del Valle, a policy reporter here at The Verge, about the growing backlash against AI data centers. Gaby recently reported a fantastic piece about Hernando County, Florida, where last month the county commission unanimously approved a yearlong moratorium on data center construction. She attended a protest there organized by a … Read more
Step App winds down after four years as FITFI token sinks
Move-to-earn project Step App will wind down services by Aug. 21 after four years, while its FITFI token trades 99.9% below its all-time high.
Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs
Suno’s watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.
10 weirdest things ever tokenized… including farts
Tokenized cows may have gone viral, but they’re just the latest in a long line of strange things to find a home onchain, from farts, to human skin and destroyed artworks
The messy politics behind Google’s big AI shakeup
Google CEO Sundar Pichai at Google I/O. | Photo by Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images In the AI industry, Google prides itself on seeming like the adult in the room: quiet, stable, time-tested. On Wednesday, even as the company announced its largest AI org shakeup yet, Google and its leaders presented a unified front, keeping their messaging … Read more
Ford’s new electric truck, ‘Fathom’, starts at $28,350
Due in “fall 2027,” Ford said Thursday that it won’t reveal what Fathom looks like until early next year.