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The ongoing debate over Bitcoin’s proposed quantum defense, BIP-361, reveals a fundamental tension that extends far beyond technical implementation. Charles Hoskinson’s criticism that the proposal is “mislabeled as a soft fork” points to something more significant than semantic …
The UK’s AI Safety Institute recently published findings that reveal a fundamental shift in how cybersecurity actually works. Their evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview — an AI system exceptionally good at finding security vulnerabilities — showed something striking: the more com…
The cryptocurrency industry’s latest political offensive in Ohio offers a window into how modern influence campaigns actually work — and what they cost democracy in the process.
Anthropic’s introduction of Claude Code routines represents a significant shift in how developers think about AI assistance. Rather than treating AI as a conversational tool that responds to immediate queries, routines transform it into infrastructure — automated processes that …
Bitcoin briefly touched $76,000 before retreating to familiar territory around $74,000, but the more significant development isn’t in price movements — it’s in infrastructure. While derivatives markets signal potential bottoming patterns with negative funding rates persisting …
WordPress powers over 40% of all websites, making it one of the largest software ecosystems on earth. The platform’s strength — an open marketplace where anyone can publish plugins — has become a critical vulnerability. Last week’s revelation that attackers bought 30 popular plu…
The cryptocurrency market witnessed something extraordinary this week when RAVE, the native token of RaveDAO, surged over 6,000% to briefly enter the top rankings by market capitalisation. While such explosive moves often trigger immediate speculation about manipulation or coord…
The Hacker News front page tells an interesting story today. Between a developer building a macOS taskbar replacement, someone crafting homemade soft drinks with precise ingredient control, and an essay advocating for “idiomatic design” — there’s a common thread about returning …
Market makers across cryptocurrency exchanges are increasingly moving their operations away from public blockchains, seeking to protect their trading strategies from the complete transparency that makes crypto fundamentally different from traditional finance. This shift reveals …
Anthropic’s Mythos made headlines for autonomously finding decades-old vulnerabilities in FreeBSD and OpenBSD. But researchers at AISLE quickly discovered something revealing: smaller, open-source models could reproduce much of Mythos’s work when pointed at the same code. Eight …
Elon Musk’s SpaceX holds steady with 8,285 bitcoin worth $603 million in custody, even as the company swung from $8 billion profit to nearly $5 billion loss in 2025. This treasury decision offers insight into how major corporations think about digital assets during periods of…
The successful splashdown of Artemis II in the Pacific Ocean at 8:07 PM marks more than just the end of a ten-day lunar flyby mission. The four astronauts’ safe return represents the first human crew to venture beyond low Earth orbit in over five decades, establishing a foundati…
The very public dispute between OKX founder Star Xu and Binance’s CZ isn’t just embarrassing — it reveals how crypto’s leadership culture actively undermines the industry’s credibility. When the founders of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges resort to name-calling, bil…
Microsoft’s PhotoDNA system has quietly become a source of serious concern for Windows 11 users who sign in with Microsoft accounts. The technology, originally designed to detect illegal content by creating digital fingerprints of images, now scans entire computers when users ar…
Bitcoin’s climb above $72,000 this week offers a revealing glimpse into how crypto markets are maturing along two distinct tracks — and why understanding this split matters more than watching price movements alone.
Three new projects reveal how modern development is rediscovering the power of working directly with hardware, and why this matters for every programmer — not just embedded systems engineers.
South Korea’s proposed cryptocurrency legislation represents something more significant than regulatory housekeeping — it’s a test case for how developed economies can integrate digital assets without compromising financial stability. The draft framework treats stablecoins with …
Project Glasswing represents a fascinating inflection point in software security — one where artificial intelligence has become powerful enough to find vulnerabilities that have lurked in critical systems for decades, but also sophisticated enough to require careful stewardship …
Bitcoin’s surge past $69,000 on reports of potential Iran ceasefire talks reveals how deeply cryptocurrency has become integrated into traditional risk assessment frameworks. What once operated as a parallel financial system now moves in lockstep with equity markets, oil prices…
Eric Goldman’s decision to end his 20-year relationship with Google AdSense reflects a broader shift happening across the developer ecosystem. While Goldman cited declining returns and changing business priorities, his move parallels a growing trend toward local processing and r…