Crypto Hacks Surge to Record High in H1 2026, Causing $1 Billion in Losses
Ethereum and Solana projects lost the most during the first half of 2026, at $332 million and $326 million, respectively.
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Ethereum and Solana projects lost the most during the first half of 2026, at $332 million and $326 million, respectively.
Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, clocks out when his shift ends. He used to work longer hours, going the extra mile to excel at his projects. But lately, he’s been coming straight home to work on his job application for the chipmaker’s South Korean rival SK Hynix, sharing tips w
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how
The new network powers Ondo's recently-launched perpetual futures platform and will eventually support trading across onchain financial assets.
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Musk said Grok 4.6 will arrive around August 7 as a 1.5-trillion-parameter model with substantially upgraded supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. This will be followed just weeks later by Grok 4.7, a larger 2.1-trillion-parameter model.
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Total value locked in Ethereum Layer 2s has slid back to roughly $5 billion, a level last seen in 2023.
Advances in AI and a global buildout of data centres have led chipmakers to expand capacity rapidly. ASML supplies tools to TSMC, which makes chips for Nvidia, as well as to memory chip makers like SK Hynix, Samsung and Micron.
Shares of the company, which went public through direct listing, opened at $50 apiece, down nearly 5.7% from a reference price of $53 set by the Nasdaq on Monday.
Generative AI can make cloud costs difficult to predict. A single five-word prompt can run complex operations and generate significant costs. Traditional metrics like requests per second no longer help you estimate your bill, increasing the risk of unexpected cost spikes. While Google Cloud offers b
As Best Buy expanded its use of Google Cloud for advanced analytics and AI, its technology teams faced two significant scaling challenges: Mitigating risk and managing administrative friction when syncing thousands of backend users from Microsoft Entra ID. The retailer solved both problems and paved
With cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQC) on the horizon, transitioning to quantum-safe digital signatures is critical to safeguarding long-term data integrity and authenticity. Organizations are steadily recognizing this urgency. For example, the U.S. government announced an update t
Increasing the adoption of generative AI across the enterprise requires you to do more than deploy a generic chatbot with a custom wrapper. Interacting with business-critical databases demands absolute trust, strict governance, and deep grounding in enterprise semantics. Over the last year, Conversa
EthSystems, which spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is focused on building privacy infrastructure for banks and other financial institutions.
BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs and SoFi have publicly endorsed the crypto market structure bill as the Senate's timeline tightens.
Microsoft patched a high-severity vulnerability earlier this month that allows a threat actor to escalate privileges and compromise an AD environment.
The number of active accounts on Roinbhood Chain averaged around 275,000 per day, down by 7% week-over-week.
DRW CEO Don Wilson says perpetual futures aren't inherently risky crypto gambling tools, and it’s time traditional markets and regulators start embracing them.
Ironwood represents something of a unified effort across Zcash’s developer ecosystem after Shielded Labs found a bug in Orchard.