The Dark Side of AI in Marketing: Power, Persuasion, and Mind Control

The Age of Manipulation Has Arrived For centuries, marketing has been about one thing: controlling attention. The printing press allowed merchants to control through posters. Radio and television hijacked it through sound and spectacle. The internet turned attention into a tradable commodity. But now, AI has changed the battlefield. We’re no longer in the era … Read more

Gluwa Is Building Blockchain Bridges Between the Unbanked and Global Finance

More than one billion people in the world are unbanked or underbanked, thus outside the umbrella of essential financial services. Gluwa, a San Francisco-headquartered fintech company and brainchild of Tae Oh, is tackling the gap directly through the establishment of a borderless financial ecosystem. Its end goal is to “create a blockchain ecosystem that can … Read more

Pepeto vs BlockDAG vs Remittix: Why Analysts Call Pepeto 2025’s Strongest Crypto Presale

While BlockDAG and Remittix chase infrastructure and payments, Pepeto (PEPETO) blends meme culture with real utility. With PepetoSwap’s zero-fee trading, PepetoBridge cross-chain transfers, audits by SolidProof & Coinsult, $6.9M+ raised, and 223% APY staking, analysts call Pepeto the best crypto investment for 2025. Its $0.000000157 entry offers massive upside before listings.

INE Security Releases “Wired Together: The Case For Cross-Training In Net working And Cybersecurity”

Raleigh, United States, October 7th, 2025, CyberNewsWire Report Shows Cross-Training as Strategic Solution to Operational Friction Between Networking and Cybersecurity Teams  INE Security, a leading provider of cybersecurity training and certifications, today announced the results of a global study examining the convergence of networking and cybersecurity disciplines. “Wired Together: The Case for Cross-Training in Networking … Read more

Meanwhile, Bitcoin Life Insurer, Secures $82M to Meet Soaring Demand For Inflation-Proof Savings

Hamilton, Bermuda, October 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Funding round co-led by tier one global investors, Bain Capital Crypto and Haun Ventures with Pantera Capital and additional participation from Apollo, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Stillmark. Funding will accelerate global access to BTC-denominated life insurance, annuities, savings and insurance bonds through institutional partners, protecting policyholders worldwide from inflation and … Read more

Pepeto Presale Exceeds $6.93 Million; Staking And Exchange Demo Released

Dubai, UAE, October 7th, 2025/Chainwire/–Pepeto, an Ethereum-based meme coin project, has raised over $6.93 million during its ongoing presale. The token is currently offered at a fixed presale price of $0.000000157, with a total supply of 420 trillion—mirroring PEPE’s tokenomics. As part of its early-stage development, Pepeto has launched a demo version of its decentralized … Read more

To Become a Type-1 Civilization, We Need a Type-1 Internet, and Spacecoin Might Be the Key

In 1964, Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev suggested a way to measure how advanced a civilization is by looking at its energy use. A Type-1 civilization uses all the energy available on its planet, about 10^16 watts. While Kardashev focused on energy, today we see that controlling information is just as important for progress. As we … Read more

Is Pepeto the Next Shiba Inu or Pepe? Why Analysts Call It 2025’s Best Crypto Investment

After PEPE’s 10,000% rally in 2023, investors want utility—not hype. Enter Pepeto (PEPETO), the Ethereum-based meme coin blending culture with real tools. With PepetoSwap, a cross-chain bridge, 223% APY staking, $6.9M+ raised, and audits from SolidProof & Coinsult, Pepeto is primed to outshine SHIBA INU and PEPE as 2025’s best crypto investment.

How Space-Based Quantum Key Distribution Solves Centralized Security Risks

Owned and controlled by big tech companies, centralized key servers have improved speed, availability, throughput, and latency in secure communications. However, this comes with a high cost for the user. To understand why we need to decentralize key distribution, it’s important to know the problems with centralized systems. Here are some of the main issues: … Read more

We May Need Data Centers in Space to Build Better AI

AI continues to improve as we add data, parameters, and, especially, compute resources. GPT-5 may have felt incremental to users, but its cheaper inference quietly reset the economics of deployment. More capability per dollar at run-time has poured fuel on a data center boom already underway. Leopold Aschenbrenner, who sketched the “compute is the binding … Read more

XDC’s Engagement Hub Could Redefine How Blockchain Communities Scale

The XDC Network’s Engagement Hub tackles one of crypto’s biggest problems: coordination. By turning participation into on-chain, reward-based activity, XDC builds structure where most blockchains have chaos. Beyond community tools, it creates enterprise-grade visibility—turning engagement into infrastructure and giving XDC a real edge in scalability and trust.

Pepeto vs Little Pepe: Analysts Predict Which Meme Coin Will Lead the 2025 Bull Run

Crypto analysts are split between Pepeto and Little Pepe as the 2025 altcoin season heats up. While Little Pepe boasts an EVM Layer 2 design, Pepeto (PEPETO) leads with real products—zero-fee PepetoSwap, cross-chain PepetoBridge, 223% APY staking, and $6.9M+ raised in presale. Backed by SolidProof and Coinsult audits, Pepeto’s Ethereum-based ecosystem could dominate the next … Read more

Velantra Ai Shares What Investors Should Ask Before Choosing an AI Trading Platform

AI trading is transforming investing—but not all platforms are equal. Velantra AI shares key questions investors must ask before choosing one: How diverse are strategies? What risk protections exist? Is performance independently audited? With 8–31 active strategies, 30% drawdown protection, and verified Myfxbook results, Velantra sets a new bar for transparency and safety.

A Breakdown of the Fiscal Impact of Three UBI Scenarios in Brazil

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction UBI schemes analysed and method Fiscal effects Distributional effects 4.1. Poverty and inequality indicators 4.2. Distributional effects in terms of winners and losers Conclusion and References 3. Fiscal effects In this first section of the results some aggregates are computed that could help to determine the financial feasibility … Read more

Why Crunch Lab’s $5M Raise Could Transform How Enterprises Build AI Models

How Crunch Lab Plans to Replace $100M Hiring Budgets with 10,000 Crowdsourced Engineers Can a network of anonymous contributors outperform elite in-house teams at a fraction of the cost? Crunch Lab is betting $5 million that the answer is yes. On October 7, 2025, Crunch Lab announced it secured $5 million in funding co-led by Galaxy Ventures … Read more

Can a Flat Tax and Basic Income Really Work in Brazil? Here’s the Model.

Table of Links Abstract and 1. Introduction UBI schemes analysed and method Fiscal effects Distributional effects 4.1. Poverty and inequality indicators 4.2. Distributional effects in terms of winners and losers Conclusion and References 2. UBI schemes analysed and method As mentioned above, three hypothetical UBI schemes have been simulated. The first scheme considered (Scheme 1) … Read more

Brazil’s Broken Welfare System: Is a Universal Basic Income the Answer?

:::info Authors: (1) Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira, Department of Economics, Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. dos Economistas s/n, Recife-PE, CEP 50740-580 (rozane_siqueira@yahoo.com.br); (2) José Ricardo Bezerra Nogueira, Department of Economics, Centro de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Av. dos Economistas s/n, Recife-PE, CEP 50740-580 (jrbnogueira@yahoo.com.br). ::: Table of … Read more

CBDCs + Open Credit: A Three-Layer Model for Privacy, Inclusion, and Audit

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are going to happen. More than 90% of the world’s central banks are working on them. The question now is how to stop too much surveillance while still providing the financial inclusion they promise. This article goes beyond the debate of “surveillance state” versus “financial innovation” and introduces a three-layer … Read more

Can Decentralized Finance Truly Fix Global Credit Inequality, or Will New Forms of Exclusion Emerge?

In 2022, during Canada’s Freedom Convoy protests, something happened that changed my view on financial freedom. Over 200 bank accounts were frozen without notice, leaving protesters unable to access their money. Imagine waking up to find your debit card doesn’t work, not because you’re out of money, but because a government official didn’t like your … Read more

I Built with AI Coding Agents. The Hype Is Dangerous.

==”Just give it a prompt, and it’s done.”== This is the seductive lie of “Vibe Coding,” the new frontier of software development powered by AI agents like Gemini, Claude, and OpenAI’s models. The pitch is intoxicating: lean back, type a few sentences, watch a fully-formed application materialize from thin air. It’s sold as the great … Read more

Financial Inclusion Is a Myth: How Gluwa Make Nigeria Borderless Finance Reality

Inclusion in finance is often treated as a moral goal, but in practice, it is more of a marketing slogan. Real inclusion means giving the unbanked and underserved tools, systems, and credit pathways, not just handing them a digital wallet. The Myth of Financial Inclusion We often toss around terms like financial inclusion, banking the … Read more

AI in Focus: 3 Polls That Reveal the Future

Welcome to 3 Tech Polls, HackerNoon’s brand-new Weekly Newsletter that curates Results from our Poll of the Week, and 2 related polls around the web. Thank you for having voted in our polls in the past. n n The inaugural topic is….. 🥁🥁🥁 n n Artificial Intelligence, naturally. 🔥 This Week’s Poll Results (HackerNoon) Should companies have … Read more

Blockchain Cities and Liners: Where Did They Go?

Many promises were made. Idealists and degenerates made several attempts to create special corners for like-minded people around the world. But out of dozens of projects, only a few made it to the start of construction. And only one made it to the final implementation. Most did not survive regulatory restrictions, unrealistic expectations, and other … Read more