· · CoinDesk
How a bug in Coldcard’s code went unnoticed for years, leading to $100 million in hacked funds
Crypto’s favorite maxim, “don’t trust, verify” wasn’t followed in the case of Coldcard’s code.
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· · CoinDesk
Tom Lee's Bitmine now owns 4.8% of Ethereum supply after latest ETH purchase
The crypto treasury company bought another 9,926 ETH last week, extending a buying streak that began in June 2025.
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· · CoinDesk
The Coldcard hack proves reputation is not a security model
A community built on verification spent five years outsourcing its judgment to one man, writes Foundation CEO Zach Herbert.
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· · CoinDesk
U.S. Treasury Department proposes GENIUS Act stablecoin rule
The Treasury proposal would establish some of the core definitions and jurisdictions in the law Congress completed last year.
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· · CoinDesk
Compound bets $52 million, new leadership team in switch to institutional focus
The protocol pioneered decentralized finance lending, but assets locked have tumbled from a peak five years ago. Now it's looking to attract institutions after retail traders lost interest.
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· · Dark Reading
Linux Botnet Evooo1Bot Expands Mirai Capabilities Well Beyond DDoS
The botnet adds exploitation modules, credential theft, and reverse SOCKS relays to turn compromised devices into persistent attacker infrastructure.
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· · CoinDesk
BitMart founder dismisses calls for audit as users report blocked funds, unpaid employees
Sheldon Lee said a Chinese-language X account making the claims was hacked. Users want wallets, assets and liabilities disclosed.
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· · ET Tech
Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree to list in Shanghai on August 19
Unitree's humanoid robots have drawn global attention for their running, dancing and performing of martial arts and the IPO was more than 8,000 times oversubscribed by retail investors, a record for Shanghai's STAR Market for tech startups.
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· · ET Tech
Unveiling the high-powered ETSA 2026 jury; Zepto's profitability push
The Economic Times Startup Awards (ETSA) is back for a 12th edition. Today, we announce the high-powered jury and nominations for two categories, Bootstrap Champ and Top Innovator.
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· · Livemint Technology
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
USA-TRUMP-WORLDCLAW:Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companies
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· · ET Tech
GitHub down: Users report issues with website, app and login
Microsoft-owned GitHub faced a significant outage on Monday evening. Users reported widespread issues with its website and application services. The outage comes just a few months after GitHub confirmed a cyberattack involving unauthorised access to some of its internal repositories, following claim
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· · Livemint Technology
GitHub outage: Web, API traffic hit by high error rates; downloads see 50% failures
GitHub reported an approximately 20% error rate across web experiences and API traffic. The company said archive downloads and raw repository content downloads were experiencing about a 50% error rate.
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· · The Guardian Technology
Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse?
Anthropic says it will change way chatbot makes small, random choices, to comply with EU regulation The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X but Y”. But is
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· · MIT Technology Review
The Download: dead robot friends and the “censorship-industrial complex”
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. What happens when a kid’s robot best friend dies? When Xander first met Moxie, she taught him how to calm down when he was anxious or mad. Six years later, she…
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· · The Guardian Technology
Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation
Supermarket chain says ‘human error’, not its Facewatch technology, to blame for ejecting a customer Sainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. “I was embarrassed, mortified even, and felt
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· · InfoQ
Presentation: From Thousands to One: Building LLM-Powered Selection Systems
Jendrik Jördening shares practical engineering strategies for integrating LLMs into production pipelines. He discusses overcoming non-determinism, restricting schemas, separating semantic text extraction from deterministic code, and validating choices using discriminator models. Learn how to structu
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· · InfoQ
Grafana's gcx and MCP Server Reach GA for Telemetry-Driven Agent Development
Grafana Labs has announced general availability for two tools that let AI coding agents query live observability data during development: the gcx CLI and the Grafana MCP server. Both allow agents to pull metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, and Synthetic Monitoring results from Grafana Cloud or a self-hoste
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· · InfoQ
Podcast: Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia’s Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life?: A Conversation with Tracy Bannon
In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Tracy Bannon about the role of artificial intelligence in software and the attendant risks in the areas of security, software development, and society at large. While it might be reasonable to assume a certain amount of trust within a software ecosystem, the
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· · InfoQ
Article: Agentic Fitness Functions: Extending Evolutionary Architecture Beyond Deterministic Rules
Deterministic rules safeguard hard metrics, but what about architectural intent? Discover how agentic fitness functions combine AI agents and versioned rubrics to evaluate complex, judgment-heavy concerns—such as boundary fidelity, semantic contract drift, and stale ADR assumptions. Elevate evolutio
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· · InfoQ
shadcn Brings Conversational Primitives to shadcn/ui with New Chat Components
Shadcn, a design engineer at Vercel, has introduced new components for chat interfaces within the shadcn/ui project. This release includes components like MessageScroller and Message, focusing on conversation functionality. The approach emphasizes modular design, allowing developers to adapt element
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