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Spanish Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Accused of Running KillSec Ransomware Group
A second suspect faces extradition to Puerto Rico, while Investigators are tracing the proceeds of ransoms the group demanded in crypto.
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Zcash Drops 21% From Recent High—Here’s Why the Rally May Not Be Over
ZEC is 21% off its $1,698 peak after ETF outflows and a suspected North Korean heist routed money through its shielded pool. Is the run over, or will traders buy the dip?
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SEC Proposes Rules to Clear Up How Advisers and Funds Can Hold Crypto
The proposal would let advisers and funds use state trust companies as custodians and permit self-custody under certain conditions, aiming to replace years of ambiguity with a clear compliance path.
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Reddit Is Killing RSS Feeds and Public API Access to Fight AI Scrapers
Reddit RSS dies November 13 and outside apps lose their data pipeline by March 2027. Reddit blames scraping bots, though it licenses its own content to AI companies.
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OpenAI Says People Linked to China's Moonshot Tried to Copy Its AI's Hidden Reasoning
OpenAI says it disrupted a campaign involving 15,000+ users and ties a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot, the startup behind Kimi.
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Meta Pushes Back on Claim That Muse AI Read a User's Messages Without Consent
Communications chief Andy Stone said reading Messages requires two permissions the user controls, disputing a journalist who reported Muse synced his texts despite his settings.
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The 'Largest Pure-Play' XRP Treasury Is About to Go Public
Shareholders approved Evernorth's merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, clearing the way for the Ripple-backed firm to begin trading Oct. 8 with a stash of roughly 473 million XRP.
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OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Alleged Leak to Outside Group
OpenAI says the three broke its rules on handling sensitive information. The exits land after months of rogue-agent incidents, a trail of safety-team departures, and a new lawsuit.
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It's the Start of Uptober. Will Bitcoin Live Up to It?
Bitcoin enters its historically strongest month after a record-pace September, but a Fed hike and 5.3% Treasury yields are testing the bulls.
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Illinois Delays Controversial Crypto Tax Amid Industry Lawsuit
Illinois officials and crypto groups jointly asked a state court to delay the 0.2% Digital Asset Tax from Jan. 1 to July 1, 2027, while a legal challenge continues.
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Near Intents Hacked for $3.8M Days After Denying North Korea-Linked Bitget Hacker
Near Intents froze its cross-chain swaps after a bug let an attacker drain about $3.8 million. The company promised to repay every user.
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Minecraft, Candy Crush Among 11 Games in EU Virtual Currency Crackdown
The guidelines exclude cryptocurrencies, leaving tokens outside a regime written for currencies bought with real money inside games.
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Morning Minute: Crypto Gives Up on Congress and Goes After Senators
Plus, a major MetaMask security event has crypto natives on edge as details trickle out.
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Citi Lifts 12-Month Bitcoin Target to $113K, Ethereum to $3K
The bank has revised its 12-month target for BTC up from $82K, though it remains about 10% below Bitcoin's October 2025 record.
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MetaMask Exits Lido Validators Amid Infrastructure ‘Security Incident’
The wallet says it has found no immediate threat to user wallets, but the ETH it is pulling out of Lido could take 45 days to return.
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EU Presses Binance Over ‘Reverse Solicitation’ Exemption for Users: Report
Regulators are probing how the exchange keeps serving EU customers from Abu Dhabi, months after it lost its MiCA registrations.
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Gemini 4 Is Here, and Google’s Flagship Tops All Other AI Models on Cybersecurity
Gemini 4 Argon tops 12 of 18 benchmarks in Google's own table, writes a million tokens per reply and resists hijacking best. Cyber defenders get it first, with the guardrails off.
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Dogecoin Is Getting Apps as DogeOS Opens Its Public Testnet
The team behind the MyDoge wallet opened a public test of DogeOS, a layer that lets developers build lending platforms and games on top of the meme coin network.
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FBI Tells Its Employees to Assume Hackers Have Their Personal Data
An internal memo warned FBI staff that ShinyHunters, the group claiming it hacked the bureau's jobs site, may hold their private details.
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Coinbase-Backed Crypto Group Reveals Midterm Endorsements After Clarity Act Collapse
The Coinbase-backed group's first Senate endorsements—Republicans Jon Husted and Ashley Hinson and Democrat Chris Pappas—come two weeks after the Clarity Act's collapse, as the industry's fight shifts to the campaign trail.
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Bitget Hacker Turns to Zcash Privacy Pool After Near Rejects $50M in Swaps
The attacker behind the $387.5 million Bitget heist has started hiding about $3.8 million in ZEC inside Zcash's Ironwood pool, after Near Intents turned their swaps away.
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US Government's New AI Chatbot Has a Weird Minecraft Secret
Ask the U.S. government's new AI chatbot about Minecraft and it produces a roughly 1,800-word bureaucratic remix of the game's ending poem. It's an easter egg, not a hallucination.
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CFTC Sends White House New Rules to Cement Its Grip on Prediction Markets
The two proposals would define event contracts as "swaps" while excluding "casino-style gambling products"—a bid to cement the agency's exclusive jurisdiction as states sue prediction-market operators over gambling claims.
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Bitcoin ETFs Extend Win Streak to 9 Days, Matching August Rally
Bitcoin ETFs added $66 million Tuesday, matching August's nine-day run and topping it in dollars. How long will the streak stay alive?
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Introducing The Information Exchange on Solana, Powered by Decrypt and MYR
Decrypt is the destination, Myriad is the infrastructure and MYR is the token for a connected media ecosystem.
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Trump Unveils 'Morally Binding' AI Accord Signed by OpenAI, Google and Nvidia
The one-page pact, which Trump called "morally binding," asks companies to adopt internal controls, independent audits and board oversight—but carries no penalties and drew criticism for its thin detail.
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Bitcoin Jumps on Cool PCE Inflation Data as Bond Yields Hit 20-Year Highs
The Fed's favorite inflation gauge came in cooler than expected, rate-hike odds fell and Bitcoin traders took the hint.
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Ex-NCA Officer Must Repay $2.4M for Bitcoin He Stole When It Was Worth $77K
Paul Chowles took 50 BTC from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017. Prosecutors have now valued the theft at more than 30 times that.
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Morning Minute: Robinhood Adds Perps, Weekend Stocks, and AI Traders
Robinhood is leaning deeper into crypto as they look to unlock their “everything app” vision.
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CFTC Investigating Adam Kinzinger Over Kalshi Bets on His Own Pardon: Report
The former congressman says he made $823 on the trades, had no inside information, and had checked the platform's rules first.