14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns
Fourteen thousand home routers just became permanent residents in a botnet that security researchers can't kill.
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14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns
Fourteen thousand home routers just became permanent residents in a botnet that security researchers can't kill.
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Anthropic's Claude Just Beat Every Human Security Researcher Without Being Trained To
Anthropic's new Claude model just became the world's best security researcher, and nobody trained it to do that.
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Trump's Crypto Firm Borrows $75M From Its Own Advisor's Platform, Drains Pool Dry
Trump's crypto company just borrowed $75 million using its own token as collateral on a platform run by its own advisor, then drained the lending pool so completely that other depositors can't get their money out.
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Japan Just Reclassified Crypto as Securities and $2 Trillion in Assets May Need New Compliance
Japan just put crypto under the same rules as stocks and bonds, and the permissionless-forever crowd is about to learn what "financial product" really means. Japan is reclassifying cryptocurrencies as financial products, banning insider trading and requiring annual disclosures from issuers
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MarketVector Tests If Bitcoin Really Is Digital Gold With Split Index
The "digital gold" narrative is getting an academic stress test. MarketVector and Coinbase launched an index tracking Bitcoin and tokenized gold, a direct play on the "store of value" debate that's gotten messier as BTC correlates more with tech stocks.
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Hugging Face Just Solved AI's Biggest Interoperability Problem
Hugging Face just made AI coding agents interoperable, and that's bigger than the tooling play it looks like. Hugging Face released Skills, a standardized format for packaging AI/ML tasks that works across OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Google Gemini CLI, and Cursor
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Coinbase Just Made AI Agents Pay Only When They Work
Coinbase just made AI agent compute pay-per-use instead of pay-per-month, and that small shift might be what separates toy agents from billion-dollar businesses. Coinbase's x402 protocol now supports usage-based pricing for AI compute requests, moving away from flat subscription fees
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xAI Sues Colorado Over AI Rules It Claims Violate First Amendment
Elon Musk's xAI just fired the opening shot in what could be the defining legal battle over who gets to set the rules for AI training. xAI is suing Colorado over the state's first-in-the-nation AI anti-discrimination law, claiming it violates free speech protections
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Bitcoin Gets $200 Quantum Shield Without Changing a Single Line of Code
Bitcoin just got a quantum escape hatch that costs $200 per transaction and doesn't require a single line of protocol code to change. A StarkWare researcher published a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction scheme (QSB) that works under existing consensus rules, no soft fork required
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Nunchuk Lets AI Agents Control Your Bitcoin With Spending Limits
AI agents can now handle your Bitcoin wallet, but only if you tell them exactly what they're allowed to spend. Nunchuk released open-source tools that let AI agents interact with Bitcoin wallets under strict policy-based limits
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Musk Sues Colorado to Block AI Hiring Discrimination Rules
Elon Musk's xAI just sued Colorado to stop a law requiring AI systems to have anti-discrimination safeguards in hiring, and the case will define whether states can regulate the agent economy or if Silicon Valley writes its own rules.
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CyberAgent Deploys ChatGPT Enterprise in 90 Days Across 6,000 Employees
A Japanese advertising giant just showed enterprise AI adoption doesn't have to be slow, and the bottleneck was never the technology. CyberAgent deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across advertising, media, and gaming divisions to accelerate decision-making and improve output quality
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OpenAI's $100 Pro Tier Reveals Who's Losing the Agent War
OpenAI just plugged the $180 gap in its pricing ladder, and the move tells you exactly who's winning the coding agent war. OpenAI launched a $100/month ChatGPT Pro tier, sitting between the $20 Plus plan and the $200 Pro tier that already existed.
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Solo Miner Wins $222K Bitcoin Block That Should Have Taken 300 Years
A solo Bitcoin miner just won $222,000 with hardware that should have taken 300 years to find a block. A solo miner discovered block 944,306 using just 70 TH/s of hashpower through CKpool, earning the full 3.128 BTC reward worth roughly $222,000
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Typo Credited Users $40B in Bitcoin They Never Owned
A typo credited users with $40 billion in Bitcoin they didn't own, and now a South Korean exchange is learning the hard truth about digital assets: possession isn't just nine-tenths of the law anymore.
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OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic Are All Slashing Token Limits—Except One
The all-you-can-eat AI buffet is closing, and whoever can keep the plates full longest might own the market. AI companies are switching from generous token allowances to strict rationing as compute costs, chip shortages, and infrastructure bottlenecks bite into margins
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Leveraged Traders Bet $309M That Solana Just Hit Bottom
Solana is down 34% this year, but leveraged traders just placed a $309 million bet that the floor is in. SOL trades at $82.20 after a 3% daily drop, yet Bybit's seven-day liquidation map shows long positions outweigh shorts 2.4 to 1
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AI Couple Called 20,000 Gas Stations in One Weekend to Break Big Oil's Pricing Cartel
A couple just called 20,000 gas stations with an AI agent they built in a weekend, and the real story isn't the gas prices. Matt Cortland and John Fleming built Gas Index using Claude Code, an AI phone agent that called 20,000 US gas stations to collect real-time pricing data
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Kia Brings Humanoid Robots to Georgia Plant as Jobs Vanish
Kia just ordered humanoid robots for its Georgia plant, and nobody's talking about what this really means for the last refuge of middle-class manufacturing jobs. Kia will deploy Atlas humanoid robots in US factories starting 2029, alongside developing its first software-defined vehicle
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