India warns AI-powered hackers targeting crypto exchanges at ‘machine speed’
India’s cybersecurity agency says a threat actor is escalating an AI-assisted hacking campaign targeting crypto exchanges and other financial firms.
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Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it’s spending on AI for its engineering teams.
After the midterms, a bigger clash over data centers could be coming
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
X says its updated web app is way faster
X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it’s now rolling out the updated app “one country at a time” for signed-in users. “Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection,” principal engineer Yagiz Nizipli said in a blog post about the changes. … Read more
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Mercado Bitcoin says phased reopening to begin Monday, will cover losses
Customers will initially be able to view their holdings, while withdrawals and trading remain suspended pending security checks.
Tokenization and stablecoins may weather Democrats’ sweep as broader crypto rules face uncertainty
Wall Street’s push to bring finance onto blockchain rails may continue under existing laws, though the SEC and CFTC face tougher oversight and questions over how long their rules will last, experts said.
Crypto’s Washington hopes fade, but Grayscale and BlackRock see growth ahead
The asset manager says global demand and institutional adoption will sustain the industry despite a political setback, while BlackRock sees little impact on its crypto business.
Why Bitcoin’s Next Soft Fork Could Feel Like a Practice Run
Matt Corallo explains why patching four legacy bugs is about rebuilding muscle memory, just as much as it’s about Bitcoin maintenance.
AI PACs spent millions trying to shape Congress. Here’s how they fared.
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center business, through partnerships with companies like Amazon and Meta announced earlier … Read more
What Happens When the Model Reads It Wrong: Building LLM Compliance Review That Survives an Audit
AML work teaches you early that the two kinds of compliance mistakes don’t cost the same. A false alert costs an analyst an afternoon, while a missed violation can end up in a regulator’s findings. I learned that while writing regulatory modules for a banking client in 2014, and it was still on my mind … Read more
BitMart founder says security team ‘severely understaffed’ after new hack
The crypto exchange’s founder warned of security staffing shortages amid restructuring as analysts flagged suspicious transfers potentially linked to the Mercado Bitcoin hack.
Giving a macOS App Group Its Own Dock Icon: Design Lessons From Cybokron Dock Groups
A group of applications is easy to describe and surprisingly awkward to represent in a desktop interface. A developer might need an editor, a terminal, and a browser together, yet the Dock presents them as separate applications. Cybokron Dock Groups treats that collection as a named unit: something that can have its own icon, open … Read more
Crypto PACs eye 2028 “new map” as Democrats take Congress
Crypto super PACs spent more than $176 million on the midterms, but the Democratic sweep raises the prospect of tougher industry scrutiny.
ChatGPT Is Getting a GIF Maker Powered by OpenAI’s Unannounced Images 2.6 Model
OpenAI is rolling out animated GIF creation in ChatGPT, with frame-by-frame editing and speed controls.
Nothing CEO says company’s mysterious AI-first device is dropping next month
While it’s not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing’s CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
Stop Trusting Notification URLs
TL;DR: Every bid response a DSP sends carries URLs that anyone who has seen the response can call: impression, click, win, billing. Most DSPs count whatever comes in, which is where discrepancy reports come from. We treated a notification URL like a cheque: valid only if we issued it, for that bid, and it hasn’t … Read more
Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
Snapchat surpasses 30M paid subscribers
The milestone comes a year after Snapchat announced a controversial limit on free storage for its Memories feature and informed users it would start requiring users to pay $1.99 per month for additional storage or subscribe to Snapchat+ to retain their Memories.
17 better ways Elon Musk could have wasted $446 million
Dream bigger, babe. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site formerly known as Twitter, and … Read more
We Stopped Feeding LLMs Raw HTML: Cutting Agent Scraping Costs by 74% Across 10,000 Targets
Every AI agent demo looks the same. You pass a URL to a scraper, hand the returned text to a model, and get clean JSON back. It works beautifully — right up until you point it at the real internet. We were building an autonomous agent to track enterprise GPU availability: H100, H200, and Blackwell … Read more
How I learned to love an obnoxious phone grip
Have a little treat. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Much like a great recipe, it started with a stick of butter. This wasn’t real butter; it was a friend’s new phone grip, complemented by a phone case with bold stripes. Butter is in vogue now, or at least that’s what a 12-year-old told … Read more
How Aussie Bitcoiners can avoid 2027’s shock CGT hike: Part 1
From setting up an SMSF or a company, to just leaving the country entirely, here are some strategies Australian Bitcoiners can employ to deal with 2027’s massive CGT hike.
OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
Google Tells Schools They Can Reject AI—But They’ll Lose Search, Too
Google is giving schools more control over Gemini, but districts that want Search without AI are out of luck, fueling accusations that the company is pressuring educators into adopting AI.
Bose’s QuietComfort Headphones are more than half off
It’s not often that some of the best noise-canceling headphones you can buy are over half off. But right now, the first-gen Bose QuietComfort Headphones are on sale for $169.99 ($190 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Bose, matching its best price to date. The newer, second-generation version that launched in August is also down … Read more