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France is weighing a proposal to expand its 31.4% crypto capital gains tax to include trades involving EU-regulated stablecoins. Chainalysis CEO in France Francois Volpoet has warned this could drive investors toward unmonitored offshore channels, essentially undermining the reg…
The conviction of Kosovo’s former president on war crimes charges marks a rare moment when the highest levels of political power face legal reckoning. The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague handed down a 25-year sentence for crimes committed during the 1998-99 war of indepe…
A car is stolen in the UK roughly every four minutes. The BBC report on this crisis isn’t just a crime story — it’s a systems-level diagnostic. Police officers describe being overstretched and outgunned, while organised gangs exploit the vulnerability of keyless-entry systems. T…
The world’s largest custody bank and the trading giant Citadel Securities announced this week that they had completed a transaction using tokenized Treasuries to show how blockchain technology could move assets from trading into financing more quickly. By using a tokenised U.S. …
For nearly three years, the central pillar of Western strategy on Ukraine has been economic isolation of Russia. Sanctions on Russian energy exports were designed to starve the Kremlin of the revenue that funds its war machine. So when President Donald Trump agreed to let Russia…
A day of fractured trust — in hardware, in institutions, and in the people guarding them. The discovery that a covert LTE chip inside Ledger devices sold through a Southeast Asian reseller photographed screens to steal recovery phrases, and the arrest of a Saudi OpenAI employee …
The news that a war-damaged building in Gaza has collapsed, killing at least twenty people and leaving dozens missing, lands like another weight on a heart already heavy. For those following the conflict, the image is painfully familiar: a structure already weakened by previous …
Federated Hermes, the Pittsburgh-based investment manager overseeing $911 billion in assets, plans to issue its first tokenized fund shares early next year in partnership with Prometheum. The move represents the latest and most significant step yet by a traditional asset manage…
A new crypto exchange called MNX launched today, built on the MegaETH blockchain and backed by former Manifold executives, offering futures contracts tied to the future valuations of private AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek. The concept is straightforward: let t…
A cryptocurrency trader in the UK says masked intruders broke into his home and forced him at knifepoint to transfer nearly $800,000 in digital assets to their wallet — the latest in a surge of what security researchers call “wrench attacks”: crimes aimed not at a vulnerability…
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the United States ambassador to Greece, has been asked to resign following mounting allegations that she offered access to Trump administration officials in exchange for money. The story, reported by Al Jazeera, highlights a recurring tension in political app…
The revelation that a covert spy chip inside Ledger hardware wallets transmitted users’ recovery phrases over LTE — costing an estimated $86 million — has sent a shockwave through the crypto self-custody world, forcing a fundamental re-examination of trust in physical security …
The head of MI5, Ken McCallum, has confirmed that Russia did interfere in the 2016 Brexit referendum, though he argued there was no evidence the outcome was swayed as a result. The admission, made during a public appearance, settles a long-debated question about foreign meddling…
The supply-chain attack on Ledger hardware wallets — where a hidden chip in devices sold through a trusted distributor photographed recovery phrases and transmitted them over LTE — forces a wide-reaching reckoning with trust in hardware security. The entire premise of self-custo…
Hardware wallets are supposed to be the gold standard for self-custody of cryptocurrency — a physical device that keeps your private keys offline and out of reach of remote attackers. That assumption was dealt a severe blow this week when Ledger confirmed that a covert implant i…
Bitcoin held above $83,000 after a volatile session, decoupling from a deep selloff in South Korean chip stocks that wiped out $800 million in leveraged positions, mostly bullish. The wider crypto market remained under pressure, with alternative coins like Solana and Cardano s…
A personal assistant becomes more useful when it can work with your email, calendar and documents. Those are also the places where you keep some of your most private information.
Micro “restarted” with an idea around tools for agents: create one MCP endpoint for search, news, weather and other services which become capabilities your agent can call using just one API token to do some work. Now there’s more.
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Ten years ago, I introduced Micro as an open source microservices toolkit.