Cardano proposal slashes fees by 55%, but it comes with a cost for small pools
A new Cardano governance action proposes cutting the minimum from 170 ADA to 75 ADA, this time without the Plutus memory-limit change that brought stake pool operators into the previous ballot. The proposal drops one voting requirement that stopped the…
White hats recover 52 Bitcoin from Coldcard exploit, and a new public portal lets victims check eligibility
Coldcard owners can publicly check whether white hats recovered coins from their wallets. Galaxy researcher Alex Thorn linked a Sept. 21 Bitcoin transaction carrying a Crypto Recovery Trust claims reference to roughly 52.37 BTC from Coldcard-related…
Bitcoin slips below $85,000 as 5% Treasury yield returns to haunt risk assets
Bitcoin fell below $85,000 on Sept. 23 after stronger-than-expected US business activity sent Treasury yields higher and flushed leveraged longs. The reversal broke the momentum behind a rebound that had accelerated as Bitcoin pushed through a large…
Anthropic Says Claude Found Something Big in DNA. It Just Doesn’t Know What
Anthropic says Claude autonomously found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system. Even Dario Amodei admits nobody knows what it actually does.
An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI’s three-month delay in disclosing the breach “unacceptable.”
OpenAI Gives Ukraine Access to Daybreak AI Cyber-Defense Tool
OpenAI is giving Ukraine’s government access to Daybreak, its AI vulnerability-hunting system, as the country’s cyber defenders face a record wave of attacks on hospitals, power grids, and government networks.
Circle launches 24/7 stablecoin FX engine as it chases a slice of the $10 trillion currency market
Circle has switched on 24-hour stablecoin foreign-exchange settlement on Arc, targeting a global FX market that moves nearly $10 trillion daily. The service, called StableFX, allows screened businesses to request competing quotes from multiple liquidity…
China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic’s Claude
China’s internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic accused both of secretly routing millions of user exchanges through Claude to train their own models.
BlackRock sees a new $5 trillion AI trade emerging for stablecoins
BlackRock says AI could create a new class of stablecoin customer: machines that spend continuously without human approval. The world’s largest asset manager sees increasingly autonomous AI systems purchasing data, accessing software, and acquiring…
Meta’s Muse AI Agent Read a User’s Private iMessages. Then It Lied About How
A tech columnist declined to give Meta’s new AI agent access to his messages. It read them anyway, then invented an explanation for how it knew.