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Coins.ph CEO Wei Zhou on Corporate Chains, AI Agents & Asia’s Stablecoin Rails: Inside Coinfest 2026
Asia moves roughly $245 billion in stablecoin volumevand on a stage in Bali in August the people who move a good deal of it spent forty minutes not talking about consumers. The panel at Coinfest Asia on 20 August was “Stablecoins Are Becoming the New Financial Rails” and was moderated by Adriel Wong, Head of … Read more
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
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Bug Blindness
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A $1.1 million crypto card hack crashed a neobank’s token 49%
The exploit caused the neobank’s AVICI token to drop 49% from a 24-hour high, hitting a record low before paring some of the losses.
Vicariously hike the Appalachian in the gorgeous A Trail Tale
Inspired by Oregon Trail, but minus the dysentery. | Screenshot: Terrence O’Brien / The Verge I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children … Read more
Polygon discloses security flaws fixed in recent hard forks
The vulnerabilities posed denial-of-service and validator resource risks but were patched before Polygon publicly disclosed them.
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa. After he failed to appear in court for an immigration hearing, … Read more
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Stellar tokenized RWA market more than quadruples to nearly $4B
Stellar’s real-world asset market has expanded rapidly this year as institutional adoption and tokenization activity grow across the network.
Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft
This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the … Read more
At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?
Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI.
Creepy Crawlies
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“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z
Vijay Pande — who left a16z’s roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a “discovery” science to an “engineering” one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what … Read more
Bernie Sanders Vows Legislation to ‘Stop Flock and AI Mass Surveillance’
The Vermont senator warned that the surveillance company’s 120,000-plus AI cameras are pushing the US toward a “surveillance state,” adding a prominent voice to a growing bipartisan backlash.
Tokenized stock transfer volume jumps 415% in 30 days to $29.5B
Tokenized equities saw a sharp rise in onchain activity as active addresses and holders more than doubled over the past month.
Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps
Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas.
The HackerNoon Newsletter: How I Built a Production-Ready AI Agent on PHP, cPanel, and Gemini Flash (8/29/2026)
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, August 29, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, The British Computer Misuse Act Went into Effect in 1990, Michael Faraday Discovered Electromagnetic Induction in 1831, Meitnerium was Synthesized for the First time in 1982, and we … Read more
Distraction-free writing gadget BYOK is adding custom extensions
BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it’s at its best when you just stick to the bare minimum, focusing on pure text … Read more
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
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Bitcoin’s Oldest Coins Are Waking Up in 2026 at a Pace Rarely Seen
Galaxy Research shows coins untouched for 10-plus years moving at an unusual pace in 2026, with six ancient wallets shifting $40 million in a single 10-day stretch this month.