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Securitize Agrees to Buy River One to Add Asset-Backed Lending
The acquisition, its first since going public, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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MARA Sells 13,597 Bitcoin, Repays $750 Million in Debt
The miner announced a new $500 million stock buyback authorization as two planned data center leases face a possible delay into 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anthropic Says Claude Beat Best Listed Solutions on 72 MIPLIB Problems
The company also reported 45 optimality proofs and says it has submitted its solutions to MIPLIB, whose public records have not yet confirmed the tally.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Markey Demands AI-Free Google Search Option for Schools
Google says schools will be able to enable Search and Gemini separately, but AI Overviews remain built into Search.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Sigma Prime Releases High-Priority Lighthouse Security Update
Vulnerability details will follow once operators have had time to upgrade. The release introduces no breaking changes.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Former Ethereum Foundation Employee Sues Over Mandate-Linked Firing
Kayleen Fulton alleges disability discrimination and retaliation. Vitalik Buterin and Bastian Aue are also named as defendants.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Fireworks Says Breach Exposed Billing Data, Datasets and Incomplete Model Weights
The company disabled self-service dataset transfers for batch inference and dataset-based training, while reporting no detected impact to its Inference service or Training SDK.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anthropic to Launch Nasdaq IPO Tuesday, IFR Reports
Public trading would activate Ondo and Dinari tokenization plans, while existing derivatives would not become IPO allocations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Attackers Exploit Alpine SSH Password-Bypass Flaw
GreyNoise reports successful exploitation, while Previdian logged 20 attempts. Alpine operators need to patch and restart SSH, or disable password authentication.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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World Liberty Says WLFI Buybacks Have Begun on Aster
The disclosed wallet deposited 10 million USD1 into Aster, while the company left the buyback budget and purchase schedule discretionary.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Shield AI Says Hivemind Flew Multiple Air Force Drones as a Team
An earlier test let an F-22 pilot direct a single Fury, while the broader CCA program remains in operational experimentation.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Anthropic Launches Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 at Lower Token Prices
The models share an underlying system but use different safeguards, with Mythos access restricted to verified organizations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nvidia Trades 26% Below Record Close Amid Huang Review
Shares had already lost 22% by Friday, while a semiconductor ETF fell 30.5% over the same month-long window.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NHTSA Probes Waymo’s School-Bus Fix After Reports of Continued Violations
The probe covers 2,895 vehicles, and regulators say most incidents identified in an earlier investigation occurred after the November 2025 software update.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Chainalysis Reopens Compliance Tools With Mandatory Credential Resets
Reactor is also back online, while some investigation and account-management services remain unavailable.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Hard Fork vs. Soft Fork: How Blockchain Upgrades Work
Older nodes can accept soft-fork blocks without understanding every new rule. A hard fork requires upgraded software to follow the changed network, but does not automatically create another coin.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Meta Launches Muse Ember With Pricing From $0.10 Per Million Input Tokens
Available through Meta Model API and Muse Code, the lightweight multimodal model handles repeated agent tasks while larger Muse models plan the work.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Claude Code Approval Files Expose 1,379 Secrets on GitHub
Saved command approvals can retain passwords and tokens. Anthropic’s Claude Code team is exploring safeguards, including built-in secret scanning.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Skild AI Open-Sources Steel Physics Solver for Robot Training
The Apache-licensed solver runs inside Newton; Skild reports up to 13 times PhysX’s simulation throughput in mixed-task tests.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Google Adds Confidential and Long-Context Systems to TPU Lineup
TPU 8i Max combines two 8i chips in one package, while Google's product page lists all four eighth-generation systems as 'coming soon.'... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Luke Dashjr Publishes Nine Coldcard RNG Concerns
His thread cites a July code revision; later firmware adds seed-error checks and a startup test for the hardware random-number generator.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Nvidia Board Opens Huang Investigation as CEO Admits Infidelity
Independent directors will oversee the review with outside counsel's help. The board backed Huang and said it had no reason to believe national security or company secrets were compromised.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Dropbox Plans $350 Million Tigris Deal to Expand Into AI Storage
DBX Agent Cloud starts with standalone S3-compatible object storage, with filesystem and content-processing capabilities planned next.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Buterin Urges Store-of-Value Focus for ETH, Not Fee Burns
The Ethereum co-founder backs keeping EIP-1559 but argues that maximizing fees could price out users and undermine decentralization.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Cosmos Contributes IBC to Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
Cosmos Labs holds five places on the initial seven-person technical committee, alongside maintainers from Datachain and OpenZeppelin.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Kinetiq Launches Elysium Mainnet for Hyperliquid
Pump.fun and Fomo say Elysium trading is live, while native HyperCore data reads and fast order submissions await a later upgrade.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Base’s Retired Flashblocks Feeds Accept Connections but Send No Data
Denim replaced block previews with complete blocks every 200 milliseconds, requiring developers to change subscriptions and review pending-state reads.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Durov Says 700,000-Plus Wallets Were Created on Telegram in 48 Hours
The Gram explorer’s creation count includes wallets without onchain transactions, a different measure from active wallets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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NYSE Picks Avalanche for Tokenized Stock Settlement
The planned venue would retain NYSE’s Pillar matching engine while offering instant settlement and stablecoin funding, subject to regulatory approval.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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What ‘Instant Settlement’ Means for Tokenized Stocks
A stock token and its payment can change hands together, but custody arrangements and conversion into bank dollars remain separate parts of the process.... Read the full story at The Defiant