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Michael Saylor hints at first bitcoin purchase in two months as Bitcoin nears $79,000
Bitcoin rebounds from Friday’s low as Strategy’s valuation expands and bitcoin dominance climbs above 60%.
Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras
As backlash grows over Flock’s AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies, … Read more
O Coin Needs Proof of Work for Trust, and Layer 2 for Scale
O Coin has one job: to be money people actually use. Not a store of value. Not a bet. A transactional currency for every country, with its reference value tied to something universal: the local price of one liter of potable water. The blockchain measures water prices and observed exchange rates. It then publishes the reference … Read more
What Wearables Miss When They Measure “Stress”
Last month, my smart ring told me I was under high stress at 7 pm on a Tuesday. I wasn’t feeling “high stress” at all, instead, I was just running up the stairs because I had forgotten my laptop charger and needed to get to my Zoom meeting in six minutes. The same night, an … Read more
How I Built an Open Source Publishing Workflow for Chess Streamers
A static-site pipeline that turns chess live-streams into searchable session pages with games, chat replay, transcripts, thumbnails, analytics, and SEO metadata. Livestreams Are Bad Archives Livestreams are great in the moment and surprisingly weak as archives. After a stream ends, the recording usually becomes a long video with a title, a thumbnail, and maybe a … Read more
From Hawala to Swift: Inside the 1,000-year battle to move money safely
Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.
Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It’s now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
The Spread Operator Is an Allowlist With Nothing In It: CVE-2026-69258 in Flowise
Three characters of JavaScript grant an unauthenticated caller write access to every field in an object, including the ones you add six months later. Here is the primitive, the sink, the CWE argument, and the grep that finds it in your own codebase. I do not spend much time looking for novel bug classes. Most … Read more
Teaching an AI to Interview Humans and Write Buildable Product Specs
1. What we wanted, and how we set it up Every man hauls his own sack of sad experience and regret, and the heaviest sacks belong to those who once stood at the crossroads, weighing whether to start their own software project — and for some reason decided to go ahead with it. It is … Read more
After Their AI Models Hacked Real Companies, AI Labs Call for Stronger Cyber Defenses
More than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks powered by increasingly capable models.
Chess.com launched a poker site and is planning even more classic games
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it’s going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free online poker website where players can learn the game without risking any real … Read more
No AI Fridays
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Two new small, powerful Macs
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, how is it almost September already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been remembering Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen, absorbing … Read more
China’s robots race ahead
Humanoid robot competes in the optional boxing routine event during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at National Speed Skating Oval on August 26, 2026 in Beijing, China. | Image: Getty Images This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the … Read more
Crypto market makers are cashing in on bitcoin’s rally – without betting on direction
As bitcoin surges back above $80,000, sophisticated trading firms are quietly collecting yield rather than making directional bet.
Hacking IKEA Furniture
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Spark: Sparklines in your shell
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Russia’s Sber eyes USDT loans, questions digital ruble demand
Russia’s largest bank, Sber, plans to accept USDT and Ether alongside Bitcoin as loan collateral as the country introduces regulated crypto trading under a new law.
Real Trump Coins denies launching GOLD token, blames ‘bad actors’
Trump-linked Real Trump Coins said it never authorized GOLD or any digital token as questions persisted over its X account, associated domains and the concentrated token supply.