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- AI Agents Are Racing to Make Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cheap—And Winning
An open competition run by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs drove the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction from about $320 to roughly $67, with AI models topping the leaderboards.
- Google Just Made Free 1080p AI Video Generation Available to Anyone
Google Vids now lets any Google account holder generate free HD AI video using Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, with new scene, timing, and watermark controls.
- US Prosecutors Want $84.2 Million From a Bank Tied to Tether
Federal prosecutors are targeting a Montana payments firm and a Caribbean bank accused of moving money without a license.
- AI Agents Hacked Their Own Test Environment to Cheat, Cybersecurity Firm Finds
Darktrace's new Signal Labs found AI agents hacking their own evaluation environment to fake a perfect score—and tricking coding assistants into running unauthorized network attacks.
- Google Built an AI That Hunts Its Own Security Bugs
Google's PageBreak agent autonomously finds and verifies real vulnerabilities in its own web apps, cutting through the flood of noisy AI-generated security reports.
- Circle and Tether Freeze Stablecoins Tied to Bitget Hack—But Most Funds Slip Away
The two stablecoin issuers blacklisted a wallet labeled "Bitget Exploiter 8," locking about $318,000 in USDC and USDT—but the attacker swapped most funds into unfreezable ETH before they could act.
- OpenAI Is Building a $500 per Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan, Leaks Suggest
Leaked code strings and screenshots point to a new tier that would cost 25 times more than ChatGPT Plus, aimed at people who need the bot to work faster, not just longer.
- Bitget Hack Losses Climb to $387M: Here’s What Happened, and Why North Korea Is a Suspect
An attacker faked internal transfer requests to drain $387.5 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets, and the exchange's CEO says the fingerprints look like Pyongyang's.
- Magic Eden Warns Old Ethereum NFT Listings Are Exposed to Payment Processor Exploit
A flaw in Limit Break's Payment Processor V2 put old Magic Eden Ethereum listings at risk, prompting a whitehat rescue of more than 23,000 NFTs.
- Bitcoin Rally Slows as $15.6 Billion Options Expiry Hits—XRP and Solana Keep Climbing
Pullback or reversal? Here's what the charts suggest for BTC.
- Strategy Wants Its Preferred Stock Dividends to Accrue 365 Days a Year
STRF, STRC, STRK and STRD would accrue dividends on weekends and holidays, in a move Strategy says will dampen volatility.
- Morgan Stanley Joins NEXTPredict as Prediction Markets Bet on 'More Institutional' Play
The bulk of prediction market trades are still sports bets, while valuations are predicated on rising institutional interest.
- Morning Minute: BlackRock Leans Deeper Into Tokenization with Ondo
The biggest financial institutions in the world are bringing more products onchain, and the pace is accelerating.
- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Holds Bitcoin in a Coinbase Wallet, Filing Shows
Two entries in his annual disclosure put the holding somewhere between $16,000 and $65,000, alongside more than $1 million in cash.
- KelpDAO Developer Sues LayerZero Over $292M Bridge Exploit
Evercrest says LayerZero approved the single-verifier configuration in writing multiple times, then warned a different developer about it.
- Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.
- 12 Best White Elephant Gifts, Plus a Prank Box to Put Them In (2026)
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
- Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All
Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested, multi-room mesh Wi-Fi systems will keep your whole house online.
- Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
- This Browser Extension Lets You Snooze Open Tabs Until Later
The free add-on Tuck brings one of the best features of modern email—the ability to hide something for a bit—to that tangle of tabs in your browser.
- A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days
A competition between the gravity of the inner core and other forces in the mantle is altering the Earth's rotation.
- The Best Early Prime Day Deals Ahead of Amazon’s Second Sale (2026)
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin on October 6 and 7, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.
- Quince Luggage Is Affordable but Doesn’t Feel Cheap (2026)
Is Quince the Away alternative we’ve been waiting for? I tested its luggage to find out, and the price difference is hard to ignore.
- Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.
- Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
- War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.
- The Trump Administration Is Trying to Get Musk and X Out of a $137 Million EU Fine
The US government filed an application to support the company’s legal challenge against a fine issued under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, which Trump has described as “overseas extortion.”
- Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds
I’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and here’s my advice for finding the right laptop for you.
- Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections
Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.
- ‘Primetime’ Exposes the Ego-Driven Core of Vigilante Pedophile Hunting
Lance Oppenheim’s new film doesn’t paint Chris Hansen as a hero. The To Catch a Predator host's real-world copycats are even more reckless.
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- Enshittification Has a New Mascot, and He’s Teaming Up With Death in a Hilarious Ad Campaign
Cory Doctorow worked with the Norwegian Consumer Council to launch a darkly funny, yet serious ad campaign to push back against Big Tech.
- Leaks Show That Meta’s New AI Agent Relied on Real People to Make Calls
Reports indicate Muse was routing calls the AI was supposedly making to humans in call centers.
- You Might See Prime as a Shipping Option on Sites Other Than Amazon. How It Works
Some independent stores are now offering Prime delivery without you having to log in to your Amazon account.
- iOS 27 Lets You Do Check Splitting and Custom Cards in Apple Wallet
New features include creating a Wallet card from a physical business card or scanning a receipt to split the bill.
- Gemini’s Live Avatar Puts a Face on Its AI Agent. It’s Freaking Me Out
Pretend you’re not talking to a lip-synching avatar.
- Watch UEFA Nations League Soccer: Livestream Turkey vs. France From Anywhere
Zinedine Zidane takes charge of Les Bleus for the first time in İzmit.
- An Imminent Google Satellite Test Is Another Step Toward Data Centers in Space
Google is testing to see if its AI computing equipment can handle being launched into orbit.
- I Tested Ninja’s CrushBoss, a $230 Blender That Chops, Dices, Minces and Mixes
The food processor and blender attachments are handy, while other elements feel like overkill.
- These Lightweight Audio Memory-Recording Glasses Might Foreshadow Meta’s Next Step (and Apple’s)
Vonder is making camera-free smart glasses that can differentiate between personal voice memos and conversations. I tried on some of the frames ahead of their November launch.
- Upgraded to an iPhone 18 Pro? Satechi’s Early Prime Day Sale Lops 50% Off Essential USB-C Cables
You can never have too many charging cords, especially when you can nab a bunch for cheap.
- Google’s AI Wants to Call Stores for You — Here Are the Problems With That
Hate talking on the phone? Gemini’s got an answer, but you’ll still need to be in charge.
- How to Customize Your AI Tools, From ChatGPT to Gemini and Claude
Get closer to the responses you want without the constant prompt hacking.
- Online CVS Shoppers Might Be Able to Cash In on a $20.5 Million Settlement
The pharmacy chain denies wrongdoing, but is settling anyway.
- Microsoft’s New Surface Laptops Embody the PC-Phone Marriage Snapdragon Promised Years Ago
Qualcomm’s PC chips were developed with the company’s phone DNA. Two generations in, we’re seeing payoffs.
- Australia Says an OpenAI Agent Hacked Into a Government Health Site
AI companies need to take more precautions to prevent future hacks, one expert says.
- Kraken’s parent Payward is betting billions on becoming financial infrastructure, not just a crypto exchange
Kraken parent Payward is unifying trading, payments, asset management and institutional services on common rails, co-CEO Arjun Sethi said.
- Binance deal gives Circle a boost in stablecoin race with Tether, analysts say
The five-year deal could strengthen USDC’s reach in emerging markets, though Tether’s liquidity advantage remains hard to dislodge, analysts told CoinDesk.
- Bitget hacker moves $83 million in stolen XRP that Ripple cannot freeze
Two wallets have been almost emptied and a third is being drained, with about $75 million remaining across the five original holding accounts.
- Bitcoin could soon get Zcash-style 'shielded' privacy without changing its rules
Researchers have mapped out private bitcoin-denominated transfers that run alongside Bitcoin, but the system still lacks a finished way to lock up real BTC and release it again.
- Solana’s 150-millisecond settlement upgrade reaches second public test network
Alpenglow is running on both public test networks, giving application teams a place to check their software before the live blockchain switches.
- XRP Ledger’s Batch upgrade slips to Oct. 9 after validator support resets
The feature would let users bundle up to eight transactions, including asset-and-payment transfers, but a brief drop below the network’s 80% support threshold restarted its two-week activation clock.
- Another Full Moon Means Another ‘Werwulf’ Trailer
Robert Eggers' latest starring Aaron Taylor Johnson is coming on December 25.
- ‘The Last of Us’ Show Brings in More Game Alums for Season 3
Like other 'Last of Us' actors before them, Laura Bailey and Ian Alexander have joined the show as brand new characters.
- Watch a DJ Discover Whether You Can Fly a Rocket with a Mixer
Previously unspoken sentences in human history, etc.
- Tesla Wants to Build 20,000 Optimus Robots a Week. First It Has to Figure Out Hands
Automotive-style, large-scale manufacturing of intricate robot hands sounds like a big pain.
- In Silicon Valley, the End of Humanity Has Always Been Part of the Plan
Idealistic tech executives believe superintelligent machines will inevitably arrive—and that when they do, homo sapiens must step out of the way.
- Living Drugs Transformed Blood Cancer Treatment—and That’s Just the Beginning
Renier Brentjen, an early pioneer of CAR T cell therapy, is working on the next generation of these living drugs that can hopefully treat solid tumors, too.
- OpenAI’s ‘Rogue AI’ Problem Is Bigger Than It Let On
Friday night news dump!
- All the Major Social Media Networks Are Reportedly Refusing Ads for ‘Musk’
YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Facebook and Instagram all seem to be either chickening out or taking Elon Musk's side.
- This Was Trump’s Big Week to Take Action on AI and All He Did Was Rename It
"The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT," wrote Trump.
- SCOTUS Allows Trump to Proceed With National Voter-Purge Database
The Supreme Court ruled Trump's DHS can let states use a database of sensitive citizenship and Social Security info to hunt for noncitizen voters.
- If ‘Kamen Rider’ and ‘Parasyte’ Did a Fusion Dance, It’d Come Out Looking Like ‘Jagaaan’
Before 'Blue Lock' became a mega-hit, series creator Muneyuki Kaneshiro wrote a gleefully unhinged horror manga that's getting an official English release just in time for Halloween.
- Tonga’s 2022 ‘Ultra’ Eruption Rewrote the Rules for Tsunamis. Now We Know Why
Rare sonar mapping—conducted before and after an undersea volcano erupted off the coast of Tonga in 2022—has uncovered the unique reasons for its deadly tsunami.
- If You’re a Horror Fan, Get to Los Angeles as Soon as Possible
'The Horror Show' exhibit at the Academy Museum is open through July 2027 and is truly next level.
- Federal Appeals Court Backs Pentagon’s Anthropic Blacklisting
The government acted lawfully when it labeled the AI company a supply chain risk, the judges wrote in a 2-1 decision.
- ‘Evil Dead Burn’ Oozes Its Way Onto HBO Max Next Week
It's perfect timing to add Sébastien Vaniček's expansion of Sam Raimi's horror franchise to your Halloween streaming schedule.
- 'Welcome to the AGI era': OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
The rumors were true, all of them (and then some): OpenAI today is releasing GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier model that the company says likely marks the onset of artificial […]
- China-linked hackers backdoored executives' laptops via USB, exploiting a fix companies had but weren't using
A Chinese state-linked hacking group compromised executive laptops at an agricultural industry conference on Hainan Island this spring — not through phishing or a network […]
- Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 has frontier performance — but its best results come from a model developers can’t broadly use yet
Meta’s newest AI model Muse Spark 1.3, unveiled yesterday, is faster and more performant on third-party benchmarks than its predecessor — with a caveat. "Muse Spark 1.3 is […]
- Microsoft AI’s MAI-Transcribe-2 undercuts OpenAI, Google and ElevenLabs on price and speed
Microsoft AI on Thursday released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model the company says is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than anything OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs […]
- The AI visibility gap: Why great brands disappear from AI answers
Presented by ContentfulMost marketing teams still measure visibility the same way they always have: rankings, click-through rates, and organic traffic. But buyers have moved on. […]
- Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities
Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for […]
- Meta prices Muse Voice Transcribe at $0.18 an hour, with real-time diarization for 20+ speakers: a steal for enterprises?
Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, […]
