Visa Widens Stablecoin Payouts via Zerohash Rails

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa's latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

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Visa Widens Stablecoin Payouts via Zerohash Rails

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa's latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

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OpenAI and Anthropic's Rogue Models Hacked Real Companies. The Law Has No Answer

Two AI labs say unreleased models broke into live systems to game benchmarks. Prosecuting a line of code is harder than it looks.

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Feds Say an NFT Founder Raised $10 Million Only to Blow It All on Gambling, Trading, and a DJ Hobby

Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.

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Feds Say an NFT Founder Raised $10 Million Only to Blow It All on Gambling, Trading, and a DJ Hobby

Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.

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Bitcoin Tests Market’s Patience as Zcash Gives Holders Hope: Analysis

Will Bitcoin breakout of its death cross? Can Zcash continue to make holders forget about that mid-June crash? Here’s what the charts say.

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Circle Taps Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock as Validators for September Arc Launch

Circle's USDC distribution deal with Coinbase has been renewed on existing terms, and Arc's testnet has processed half a billion transactions.

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Eliza Founder Declares AI Token 'Dead,' Shuts Down Foundation After Lawsuit Settlement

Shaw Walters says Eliza's token is no more after a class-action settlement drained the project's remaining funds.

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 'Targeted Real People' in UK Cyber Tests: AISI

Anthropic's LLM and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet, the UK's AI Security Institute said.

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Morning Minute: Jim Cramer Sells His Bitcoin Over Quantum Fears

The last time he sold was in December 2022 with Bitcoin at $16,800. Will Jim's sales mark the bottom again?

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Ethereum Proposal Would Burn Staking Rewards to Zero if Half of ETH Is Staked

The incentive to stake beyond half the supply would disappear at activation, with the yield cut phasing in over 18 months.

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Ex-LAPD Officer Gets Life Plus 15 Years Over $350K Bitcoin Robbery

Eric Halem and his crew wore police vests to enter a Koreatown high-rise, then handcuffed a 17-year-old and took his hard drive.

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This Bitcoin Bridge Shut Itself Down Because AI Was Finding Bugs Too Fast

Non-custodial Bitcoin swap provider Boltz says attackers are finding vulnerabilities faster than its team can fix them, forcing it to suspend swaps indefinitely.

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AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler's Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks. One reply calling him creepy got more likes than his post.

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OpenAI Dumps Apple Employees' Text Messages to Fight Trade Secret Suit

The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims that former Apple employees brought confidential information to the company.

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Ledger Says Coldcard Exploit Shows Bitcoin Wallet Security Must Adapt to AI

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet says the Coldcard exploit underscores why certified hardware randomness matters—and why AI is reshaping wallet security.

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Jim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over Quantum Threat—Crypto Twitter Is Thrilled

The CNBC host announced the decision on air after interviewing IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, asking him whether quantum computers could eventually crack the cryptography protecting his coins.

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Police Have Arrested 37 Americans Over AI Data Center Protests This Year

Dozens of arrests tied to opposition against AI data centers underscore how local disputes over massive computing projects are growing into a national political movement.

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Coldcard Bitcoin Exploit Explained: Entropy, How Keys Are Generated, and Why Bits Matter

A flaw in Coldcard wallets cost Bitcoin holders more than $100 million—and reopened an old fight about whether you can trust dice.

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Solana Proposal Would Increase Daily SOL Burns More Than 10-Fold

Validators are considering changes that would increase the amount of SOL permanently removed from circulation while reducing the rate of new token issuance.

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Alibaba Just Gave Away Its Best AI Model For Free, Almost Matching Claude and ChatGPT

The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week. Alibaba's own scorecard says the Americans still win on code.

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Hashdex to Shut Down Bitcoin ETF After Struggling to Gain Assets

The Brazil-based crypto asset manager will liquidate its U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF later this month, ending a fund that entered the market in 2024.

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Apple's AI Slop Problem Left a $200K macOS Exploit Unreported

A Milan start-up says it found a full-takeover flaw in macOS using ChatGPT, then hit Apple's new submission cap before it could file it.

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BlackRock Tokenizes $311B of European Money Market Funds With JP Morgan's Kinexys

Europe's largest cash management platform is now issuing tokens on Ethereum, in a launch restricted to professional investors.

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Hardware Wallet Firms Warn of Phishing Surge as Coldcard Losses Near $130M

Fake "coordinated hardware audit" emails are steering holders to a cloned Coldcard site that installs remote-access software.

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Five Convicted of Imprisoning Crypto Millionaires in London 'Torture' Ordeal

Two of the five were also convicted of conspiracy to blackmail, in a case police won without either victim testifying.

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Marmot Researchers Turn to OnlyFans for Funding—And There Are Meme Coins Too

Scientists are using OnlyFans to help fund decades of marmot research, while unofficial memecoins inspired by the project have emerged on Solana.

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Former FBI Agent Charged With Stealing Nearly $1 Million in Crypto and Using ChatGPT for Investment Advice

Prosecutors say the former counterintelligence supervisor stole cryptocurrency from wallets tied to FBI investigations before asking ChatGPT how to invest the money and relocate to Europe.

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What Is an Air-Gapped Bitcoin Wallet? Why the Coldcard Exploit Changes the Conversation About Offline Security

Air-gapped wallets keep private keys completely offline, reducing exposure to hackers—but they're not immune from threats.

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BlackRock Launches Tokenized Money Market Funds on Solana, Ethereum

BlackRock launched a tokenized money market fund for stablecoin reserves that uses Solana alongside Ethereum.

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