US officials work with CrowdStrike to fight malware behind crypto theft
Federal authorities and private-sector partners were part of an operation to disrupt malware that redirected about $150,000 in crypto over the last eight years.
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DOJ says Hamas crypto seizures reached $560,000 as FBI took over fundraising sites
FBI agents took control of domains and servers, specifically Alqassam.ps, to intercept donations and prevent further fundraising for the Al-Qassam Brigades.
Accessing OpenAI models on Amazon Bedrock from Australia with global cross-Region inference
Australian teams working with OpenAI models can now access the latest OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock offers OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna with global cross-Region inference from both Asia Pacific (Sydney) and Asia Pacific (Melbourne) AWS Regions in Australia. Your application calls the Amazon Bedrock Runtime endpoint in Asia Pacific (Sydney) or … Read more
Coinbase launches regulated crypto derivatives in Canada
Coinbase is offering eligible Canadian traders perpetual and dated futures with up to 10x leverage as major US trading platforms expand their crypto presence in Canada.
Top Pentagon AI Official Sold Millions in Perplexity Stock, Disclosures Show
Emil Michael’s latest financial filings show a summer exit from Perplexity, months after a January sale of xAI stock that reportedly netted him up to $24 million.
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.
Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model “works harder” than Gemini 3.7 Flash by performing more reasoning steps on complex tasks and “calling tools iteratively.” It has the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash, $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million … Read more
Kraken parent Payward delays IPO to second quarter of 2027 at earliest
The crypto exchange operator, which confidentially filed for a U.S. listing last November, had already put its IPO plans on hold amid difficult market conditions.
Goldman Sachs, BofA Among 21 Banks Planning Joint Dollar Stablecoin Launch
The bank-led consortium wants a U.S. dollar token live by the first half of 2027, with a euro version queued up next.
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It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service
An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver’s license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.
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Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid
If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.
‘The Right Trade’: Strategy CEO Has No Regrets Selling Bitcoin at $60K Before Buying Back Higher
Phong Le said Strategy’s cost of capital—not Bitcoin’s price—drove its decision to sell nearly 7,000 BTC before resuming purchases above $80,000.
Here are some of REI’s best Labor Day sale deals
The discounted Garmin InReach 3 Mini can help you stay in touch when you’re out in the wilderness. | Image: Garmin Summer is winding down, but REI’s Labor Day sale is here to help save you some bucks on gear that’ll let you get the most out of your upcoming outdoor expeditions. There are many, … Read more
New Jersey officials petition US Supreme Court over prediction markets
New Jersey’s Attorney General and gaming authorities filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court over Kalshi offering sporting event contracts to residents.
1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
David Faugno, CEO at 1Password, at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on November 11th, 2025. | Photo: Zed Jameson / Bloomberg via Getty Image 1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist … Read more
Wyoming adds Chainlink reserve verification to state-issued stable token
Wyoming is using Chainlink to bring near-real-time reserve verification onchain for FRNT as the oracle provider expands its footprint across tokenized financial markets.
Is Bitcoin About to Flash Crash? What a ‘Bart Simpson’ Pattern Would Actually Take
Bitcoin traders are calling August’s spike-and-fade a Bart Simpson hairline. Here’s what separates an actual flash crash from an ordinary correction.
Modernizing and scaling support operations with generative AI on AWS
Scaling support operations requires handling rising ticket volumes, meeting strict Service Level Agreements (SLAs), adapting to evolving compliance requirements, and maintaining documentation that quickly becomes outdated, all without proportional increases in headcount. In many teams, the knowledge required to resolve tickets is fragmented across SOPs, recordings, and tribal expertise, forcing analysts to spend significant time … Read more
How an AWS team detects dashboard content failures at scale using Amazon Bedrock
Picture a scenario familiar to any organization running business intelligence (BI) at scale: A user opens a dashboard minutes before an important meeting and finds a blank chart. Every infrastructure monitor reports healthy. Servers are up, APIs respond, and the data pipeline completed on schedule. Yet the content on screen is broken, and no monitoring … Read more
From code to diagrams: Agentic architecture documentation with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Architecture documentation remains one of the most persistent challenges in software development as code bases evolve rapidly. Development teams often spend hours manually creating architecture diagrams, only to watch them become outdated within weeks of deployment. This documentation gap creates knowledge silos, slows developer onboarding, and complicates compliance audits. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is the platform … Read more
Trinity: Agentic AI-powered transition planning for students with disabilities
This post was co-authored with Marc Steren, Odina Salihbaeva, and Aashrit Surapaneni from University Startups, a partnership between University Startups, g/d/n/a, and AWS. Trinity is a conversational AI solution that helps students with disabilities take ownership of their postsecondary planning. It was developed by University Startups, which was founded in 2020 on a straightforward belief: … Read more
Amazon’s AI assistant can now spot fake emails from the company
Amazon is trying to combat impersonation scams with a new feature that allows you to use its AI assistant to determine whether an email, text message, or phone call actually came from the company. With the update, you can ask Alexa for Shopping about a message you received, and it will use AI to compare … Read more
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Crypto Groups Push SEC for Tailored Rules on Novel ETFs
Groups including The Crypto Council for Innovation, Grayscale, and a16z urged the regulator to preserve existing fund classifications and streamline reviews for new exchange-traded products.