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Capital B aims to add 376 BTC to bitcoin treasury following $8.8 million Adam Back investment
The Euronext Growth Paris-listed firm issued 13,181,030 shares with four warrants each at 58 euro cents per share, according to a filing on Wednesday.
Sality Botnet Dismantled After Eight Years of Stealing Bitcoin and Ethereum
CrowdStrike and the DOJ isolated more than 15,000 infected machines in a malware takedown spanning four countries.
The amazing USB-C gadgets that play old Nintendo cartridges
Last week, I powered on a 26-year-old copy of Pokémon Pinball, one of the best Game Boy games ever made. My save file was no more. The Charmander I’d caught for my daughter, the high scores we’d set together… gone. Before flash memory, Nintendo cartridges used tiny watch batteries to save their games, and those … Read more
A Fed rate increase would be a mistake, some observers say as bitcoin, gold, stocks fall
Your day-ahead look for Sept. 2, 2026
Lawsuit challenges Tether for allegedly freezing $42.4 million USDT before U.S. warrant
The plaintiffs allege that Tether acted in response to an informal U.S. law-enforcement request more than three months before a seizure warrant was issued.
The robot butler dream doesn’t have legs
LG’s CLOiD is a robot housekeeper on wheels, not legs. The company says it’s developing a robot foundation model by training hundreds of CLOiDs in home environments. | Image: LG The idea of humanoid robots running our homes has been the stuff of science fiction for years. But unlike hoverboards and self-tying sneakers, a robot … Read more
Thailand adopts crypto Travel Rule with self-custodial wallet checks
Thailand adopted a crypto Travel Rule requiring digital asset operators to verify control of self-custodial wallets and retain transaction data for five years.
Bitcoin slips below $76,500 as U.S. strikes on Iran send oil above $93
Bitcoin fell 1% since midnight as Brent jumped past $93 and Treasury yields climbed toward 4.8%.
Former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss says bond rout could force emergency spending cuts
The former prime minister said U.K. is among the worst examples of rising debt and warns the situation may have gone too far.
SEC Proposes First Transfer Agent Overhaul in 40 Years, Citing Tokenization
New Form TA-2 questions would make agents report how many share registers they keep on distributed ledgers.
Is this the future of America?
In 2007, the US was on the cusp of an economic recession, and Buddy Rizer was tasked with finding Loudoun County, Virginia, a new way to make money. Rizer’s earlier career as a radio DJ didn’t exactly make him an obvious candidate to find a solution, but he was looking for what he called a … Read more
Crypto industry urges SEC to avoid blanket novel ETF restrictions
Grayscale, a16z, and the CCI asked the SEC to preserve existing classification rules and avoid treating novel exchange-traded products as a single category, while proposing different routes to clearer and faster reviews.
Acer’s new concept hardware is a gaming handheld with a keyboard
Acer has invented… the laptop. For the last few years, PC gamers on the go have had a choice: Buy a gaming laptop, or pick up one of the many Steam Deck-inspired handhelds that are a fraction of the size but a lot less versatile. Acer’s latest concept device, Project DualPlay Mini, is an attempt … Read more
Acer’s new MacBook Air rival is nearly a pound lighter than Apple’s laptop
Acer calls the Swift Blade 14’s colors marshmallow blue and marshamallow white. Now I want sweets. | Image: Acer Acer is announcing a new laptop poised to rival the MacBook Air’s thinness and lightness – and in the process, it cops another laptop’s name. The Acer Swift Blade 14 (not to be confused with the … Read more
Zoomex Deepens TradFi Push With 50+ Stock Perpetuals and Zero-Fee TradFi
VICTORIA/Seychelles/–Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading, today confirmed that its Stock Perpetuals lineup has grown past 50 contracts, marking one of the most significant product expansions in the exchange’s history. The milestone consolidates Zoomex’s position as a platform built for traders who want round-the-clock access to the world’s most closely watched … Read more
MemeBitcoin Raises $8M Strategic Round to Scale Its Public Race Toward Satoshi’s Wallet
September 1, 2026 — MemeBitcoin (MBTC), the Bitcoin-native project that turns the race to reach Satoshi’s wallet into something anyone can join, has raised $8 million in a strategic round backed by Gemhead Capital, Archer Capital, M2M Capital and Mayer Venture. The round will fund the project’s next phase of growth, including a global community … Read more
Kalshi Suspends House Candidate Laurie Buckhout for Betting on Herself
The North Carolina Republican bought less than $1,000 of contracts on her own race and drew a three-year ban.
Microsoft is enabling a Windows 11 security feature that can hurt gaming performance
Microsoft is getting ready to roll out its memory integrity security feature of Windows 11 to more devices next month. The kernel-level protection feature is designed to stop malicious code or drivers running on a Windows 11 machine, but Microsoft previously warned it can also impact PC gaming performance. “Windows quality updates will begin enabling … Read more
Tokens Are New AI Currency. Here’s Everything You Need to Understand Before You Spend Another Dollar
Every AI model runs on tokens. Every API bill is a token bill. Every context window limit is a token limit. Every speed difference between models comes down to how many tokens they process per second. Tokens are the single most important concept in generative AI, and most people using AI daily have only a … Read more
When an AI Cannot Tell a Leak from a Hallucination: A Multi-Model Guardrail Case Study
A firsthand look at what happens when real account memory, simulated tools, security-shaped hallucinations, and unreliable provenance all meet in the same AI application. A shorter, screenshot-free version of this research was previously published by SecurityBrief. This is the longer technical case study: the prompts, the model disagreements, the screenshots, and the parts I still … Read more
Live updates: BlackRock’s IBIT drives $236 million bitcoin ETF outflow
Bitcoin slipped below $77,500 and every major is red on the day. The smaller crypto ETFs kept taking money while the bitcoin funds gave some back.
MCP Explained: Most AI Agent Builders Are Rebuilding What This Protocol Already Solves
You are building an AI agent. You write a custom wrapper for your database. Then a custom connector for your REST API. Then another for kubectl. Then another for your file system. Each one hand-crafted, fragile, and tied to your specific agent. A colleague builds a different agent and starts from scratch on the same … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs notch best month of 2026 as BTC gains 25% in August
US spot Bitcoin ETFs reduced their year-to-date net outflows by 66% as Bitcoin gained about 25% in August, while Ether ETFs turned positive YTD at $732 million and XRP ETFs reached $502 million.
XRP ETFs pull in $170 million over eleven days. Goldman tops institutional holders
Spot XRP funds have logged nine straight sessions of inflows, while Q2 filings show Goldman Sachs, Jane Street and Millennium among their biggest professional holders.
Dell’s newest laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo
That’s a bold color, especially for a Dell. | Image: Dell Dell’s new Dell 14S laptop sounds a lot like a MacBook Neo: it comes in four colors, is aimed at students, and it starts with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Announced at IFA 2026, the 14S is meant to sit below the … Read more
A China indicator that greases risk-taking in stocks and bitcoin is flashing red
China’s “credit impulse” is flashing red for risk assets.So far, bitcoin has mostly shrugged it off.
This new Roomba seals itself to your carpet
The Roomba Max 875 Combo is iRobot’s latest flagship robot vacuum mop. | Image: iRobot iRobot has announced a new flagship robot vacuum, which it will showcase at IFA in Berlin this week, the company’s first big tech trade show in years. The Roomba maker will be exhibiting under its new owner, Picea Robotics, the … Read more