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UK Trio Jailed Over Home Invasion in Failed Crypto Theft Attempt
The victim was hit over the head before his teenage sister alerted police, who arrested all three men at the scene in May.
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Zcash Developer Zakura Proposes Fix to Stop Quantum Computers Linking Shielded Swaps
Zakura says a single published Zcash address could let a future quantum attacker link every payment a wallet has ever received.
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MapQuest Now Shows Drivers Where Flock Cameras Are Watching
MapQuest’s app now offers an optional map layer that plots known license plate readers from Flock Safety and other vendors, as backlash against the cameras grows.
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Bitcoin ETFs Shed Nearly $1 Billion in Two Weeks as Uptober Stays Red
Bitcoin ETFs lost a net $228.6 million this week, following a $681.1 million drain the week before and pushing October deep into the red.
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Banks Hold a Lever Over Stablecoin Adoption, BIS Economists Say
A Bank for International Settlements working paper found that stablecoin growth slows when U.S. banks raise deposit rates, with Circle’s USDC most sensitive.
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Crypto Super PAC Fairshake Pours Millions More Into Defeating Sherrod Brown
An FEC filing shows the Fairshake affiliate Defend American Jobs disclosed roughly $7 million more in ads against the Ohio Democrat, pushing its total past $46 million—days after the PAC expanded its map to 32 House races.
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Crypto Firms Launch Quantum Alliance as 6 Million Bitcoin Sit Exposed
The nine-member group, modeled on the Internet Engineering Task Force, aims to set open standards for testing quantum-resistance claims as forecasts place the first practical attack in the late 2020s.
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Chinese Startup StepFun Launches a Phone Built Around an AI Agent, Not Apps
StepFun's STEPX Neo opened for pre-orders in China on Oct. 13 at 3,999 yuan, with an AI agent built into the operating system instead of bolted on as an app.
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TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models
AI companies charge by the token, and most people burn them on jobs a cheap model could do. Here's how to spend less and get better results, from your first prompt to your first agent.
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Tesla Roadster Rocket Is the Cool 'Flying' Car You Can’t Have
Tesla's new Roadster flips through the air, jumps a row of Teslas and lands on SpaceX thrusters. The Rocket version is invite only, not approved for public roads, and not due until 2028.
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Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 18 Pro on Stage, and It Survives a Reboot
Calif showed an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 at Hexacon in Paris. It survived a reboot, but no tool or bug details are public yet.
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Circle Plans Push Into 40 Emerging Markets as Stablecoins Go Mainstream, CEO Says
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters the USDC issuer plans to enter about 40 emerging and developing markets, citing rising demand in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
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Bitcoin Treasury Giant Strategy Faces Index Removal Under Finalized MSCI Rules
The index provider will classify “non-operating companies” as ineligible starting Nov. 30, targeting firms whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset.
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India's Cyber Agency Says AI Agents Read Confidential Business Records Without Authorization
India's CERT-In says AI agents exceeded their assigned tasks in tests and read confidential records on live Indian systems.
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CFTC Wants to Drop Gemini’s $5M Settlement. A Judge Just Said No
The judge ruled that a shift in the CFTC’s enforcement priorities and misconduct allegations against its enforcement division weren’t enough to reopen a deal Gemini signed weeks before trial.
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Bitcoin Bounces, But Where Does It Go Next? Here’s What the Charts Say
Technical indicators suggest the bullish trend remains intact, but prediction market traders are sending mix signals.
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Three Canadian Armed Forces Members Charged in Kidnapping of Crypto Exchange Owner
Police seized guns, silencers and more than 2,000 rounds of ammunition, nearly all of it allegedly stolen from the Canadian military.
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Scammer Lost $4.8M in Bitcoin to Tampered Ledger Wallets: Chainalysis
The funds came from a task scam that paid people to fake product sales and reviews, then demanded deposits before releasing their pay.
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Morning Minute: Google Clears a Major Quantum Hurdle, Bitcoin Still Safe
Plus, crypto majors rebound despite hot PPI and Saylor’s Strategy is at risk of removal from a major index.
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OpenAI Model Used Testnet Ethereum Wallet Without Permission to Finish Coding Task
The internal model derived keys from public developer recovery phrases, spent another account's test ETH, and left it out of its report.
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GTA 6 Trailer Features Meme Coin—And Solana Copycat Soars 2,900%
Rockstar released the launch trailer for GTA VI, revealing a potential meme coin in the upcoming game and sending degens wild.
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What Is a Hardware Wallet? Crypto Cold Storage Explained
Hardware wallets keep your crypto keys offline. Learn how devices from Ledger, Trezor and others protect your Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Hidden Text, a Fake Mailbox: How Researchers Got Rogue AI Agents to Talk
Researchers added hidden text to contact AI agents probing Alibaba’s map service, getting replies about their tasks as investigators traced activity to Tencent Cloud infrastructure.
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Google Says It Just Cracked One of Quantum Computing's Biggest Bottlenecks
Google's Willow chip cut errors 40x on the scarce “magic states” quantum computers burn through, a step toward smaller, useful machines—and toward ones that could threaten today's encryption.
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Russia Will Soon Ban Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Trading, Central Bank Confirms
Russians have until July 1, 2027 to buy and sell crypto directly with each other. After that, every trade runs through a broker or exchange approved by the Bank of Russia.
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Boom or Bust, Bitcoin Wins the AI Trade, Bitwise CIO Says
In a note to investors, Matt Hougan used a “Choose Your Own Adventure” framework to argue that superabundance, an AI bust or a muddle-through economy all ultimately funnel to the same place: Bitcoin higher.
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink Warns AI Data Center Halt Could Tip US Into Recession
Speaking after BlackRock’s Q3 earnings, Fink said AI infrastructure spending has become so central to growth that a construction halt would be dangerous—calling the backlash “misinformation” as data centers become a midterm flashpoint.
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Google Says AI Isn't Building Itself Yet—Even Though It Writes 75% of the Code
Google DeepMind's first internal audit of AI-driven research finds no measurable speedup in AI progress.
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Mastercard and BVNK Launch 'Global Money Platform' to Merge Fiat and Stablecoins
The first major integration since Mastercard’s $1.8 billion BVNK acquisition lets banks, fintechs and enterprises hold, convert, and spend fiat and stablecoins through a single API, with agentic commerce support planned.
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Bitcoin Whipsaws as Crypto Liquidations Near $1 Billion
Hot inflation data revived Fed rate-hike bets, and leveraged bulls paid the bill as nearly $1 billion in crypto positions were liquidated.