Crypto companies have tightened compliance, but gaps remain: Chainalysis
Around 47% of crypto organizations onboarded in 2026 are operating at alerting standards that would have ranked among the industry’s strictest five years ago.
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How I Aligned Years of Time-Lapse Photos With OpenCV and Neural Matching
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn’t taking the pictures or assembling them, but aligning them. You might have noticed the nearly part about viewpoint in the above paragraph. Indeed, it’s an approximation. I’m … Read more
Vertu wants CEOs to run companies from an AI foldable starting at $6,880
Built on top of the open-source Hermes project, Vertu’s new foldable combines AI-agent workflows, enterprise integrations, and ultra-premium luxury finishes.
The Last Mile Problem in Agentic AI: Why Context Abstraction Is the Next Developer Battleground
There is a distinct lifecycle when developers build with LLMs. Phase one is pure awe: you ask a model to write a Python script or debug an async function, and it spits out working code in seconds. Phase two is ambition: you try to move past simple chat windows and build an autonomous AI agent … Read more
Markets Don’t Move Linearly — They Transition Between Behavioral States
After eight years of trading EUR/USD, I kept running into the same frustration: a strategy that printed money for two years would suddenly stop working — not gradually, but almost overnight. No obvious reason. Same logic, same execution, same pair. It just… stopped. The usual explanation is “the edge decayed” or “the market adapted.” But … Read more
Crypto markets shed $80B after fresh US strikes on Iran
The crypto market capitalization has fallen to its lowest level since mid-April after the US carried out strikes on Iran for the second time in three days amid peace talks.
CFTC seeks to reverse settlement deal with Gemini
The CFTC claimed that its settled complaint filed under the Biden administration relied heavily on a whistleblower’s allegations that Gemini inflated trading activity to distort user demand.
The golden age of handheld gaming is already over
For a few glorious years, a $399 portable gadget could run almost anything you’d want to play. In 2022, the Steam Deck finally made PC gaming portable and affordable. I played through the vast majority of Elden Ring on a Steam Deck, agape that such a rich world could comfortably fit between my two hands. … Read more
BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF sheds $528 million, the second-largest daily outflow on record
IBIT recorded its second-biggest single-day net outflow since launch on Wednesday, missing a January record by less than half a million dollars, as the Iran-driven sell-off pulled institutional money out of bitcoin.
Bitcoin funding spike shows longs defending $70K: Will ETF outflows reverse bulls’ efforts?
Bitcoin dropped closer to a critical support level as spot and long futures traders’ efforts to hold $75,000 failed. Is sub-$70,000 BTC next?
Bitcoin could be heading much lower, fund manager warns as $150 billion Treasury operation nears
Fund manager Michael Kramer says a $150 billion liquidity drain from upcoming U.S. Treasury operations could push bitcoin sharply lower.
XRP drops 4% below $1.30 as heavy selling breaks key support zone
XRP lost another major support level after high-volume selling accelerated late in the session, keeping focus on whether the months-long compression structure is now breaking lower.
Bitcoin drops below $73,000 as US strikes on Iran spark $1 billion liquidations
Crypto majors sold off 3% to 4% and nearly $1 billion in leveraged positions were wiped out after U.S. airstrikes on an Iranian military site near the Strait of Hormuz reignited the conflict markets had started to price out.
US charges Google employee with insider trading bets on Polymarket
The Justice Department and the CFTC allege that Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo profited $1.2 million on Polymarket after accessing non-public information at work.
Kraken rolls out Bitcoin vault product for holders to earn yield
Within the first 10 hours of launch, the Kraken Earn BTC Vault raked in $30 million worth of Bitcoin deposits from 4,000 unique wallets.
Bitcoin falls further as BTC miners pivot to AI, pro-crypto legislation stalls
Bitcoin’s underperformance of stocks deepens as BTC miners pivot to AI and pro-crypto regulation in the United States stalled.
U.S. CFTC files request to erase Gemini settlement that it no longer considers fair
The regulator went back to analyze the 2022 case and decided that it wouldn’t have been pursued under current management and practices.
Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket
According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google’s 2025 Year in Search campaign.
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Why Google’s AI can’t spell Google (or anything else)
Google is embarrassing itself, again.
I analysed 20 years of my chats
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Crypto card monthly transaction volume surges 230% from 2025
Payment volume on crypto-linked credit and debit cards has been steadily increasing since 2024, reaching about $7.8 billion in cumulative transactions this month.
A Google employee allegedly used inside information to win $1.2 million on Polymarket
Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud after he allegedly made $1.2 million on Polymarket bets related to Search-related trends in 2025, as reported earlier by ABC News. In their now-unsealed complaint, prosecutors allege that Michele Spagnuolo “knew the outcome of these wagers before the trading public did because he had accessed Google’s confidential, … Read more
Internet traffic in Iran increasing
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Bitcoin miner inflows to Binance soar as BTC struggles to hold uptrend: Is $70K next?
Weakening spot demand, miner inflows to exchanges and freshly opened shorts put downside pressure on Bitcoin price.
Google engineer insider-traded search results on Polymarket, Feds allege
The charges mark the second major arrest over insider trading on a prediction market.
Why We Stopped Using JSON.parse in React Native
:::tip JSON.parse hit a limit we needed to go past, so we abandoned it and used a simdjson wrapper. ::: This article provides a practical guide to react-native-fast-json, when to use it, how to install it, and patterns that keep memory under control. The problem we hit. Our app needed to read a ~250 MBJSON … Read more
Polymarket weighs KYC requirements amid global crackdown on prediction markets
The predictions market operator reportedly explored mandatory user verification requirements, breaking from its policies of allowing traders to access its services using pseudonyms.