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Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10, a 30B-parameter open-weight agentic AI model under Apache 2.0 that fits on a consumer GPU and runs without any cloud dependency or usage re…
Sweden's H100 Group acquired 2,455 BTC from Norwegian firms Moonshot AS and PDI AS on August 10 in an all-share, zero-cash transaction, tripling its treasury to 3,506 BTC and claim…
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a Coinbase advisory council member, published an FT op-ed calling the CLARITY Act a national security imperative. A September 15 Senate cloture…
Amazon's GW Ranch plant in Pecos County, Texas holds a TCEQ air permit authorizing up to 33 million tons of CO₂ annually, roughly twice the output of the most-polluting coal plant…
MARA Holdings pledged 18,750 BTC worth approximately $1.2 billion as collateral for $600 million in new debt from Coinbase Credit and Two Prime Lending, using its Bitcoin treasury…
Nvidia agreed to invest an initial $2 billion for roughly 20% of Lancium, the Blackstone-backed Texas power developer hosting Stargate's first operational site, with another $1B co…
A volunteer Bitcoin security team scanned 390 open-source repositories in 27.5 hours using AI, surfacing 85 critical and 635 high-severity findings across wallets, crypto libraries…
A 45-year-old industrial zoning classification let Amazon plant a 49-megawatt data center in a disadvantaged California community without a single elected vote. Gilroy is now scram…
A critical BTCPay Server vulnerability let unauthenticated attackers steal LND macaroon credentials and drain Lightning channels. Foundation and Citadel21 were hit before the publi…
OFAC sanctioned Dubai-operated Shelbit Exchange, Iran-based Aban Tether, and operator Siavash Kayvanpour on August 7, 2026, for processing funds to Iran's IRGC. The entire case was…
BIP-110 miner support is mathematically unable to hit the 55% activation threshold this difficulty period. Luke Dashjr's threat of a proof-of-work hard fork as a fallback is the re…
Bybit filed a civil lawsuit against the DPRK, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, and the Lazarus Group in U.S. District Court over the February 2025 theft of approximately $1.5 bil…
OpenAI's first consumer device is a $300-$400 screenless smart speaker with always-on camera, microphones, facial recognition, and environmental sensors. It's designed to learn you…
Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan formalized a NATO-style mutual-defense pact in Makkah on August 7, placing Saudi Arabia under Pakistan's nuclear umbrella and building a parallel…
The income needed to buy a typical U.S. home sits at $109,796, just $586 below last year's all-time record. The median household earns $22,197 less than that. Affordability is 'imp…
The UN FAO Food Price Index averaged 131.1 in July 2026, its highest reading since January 2023, as Black Sea shipping disruptions, Hormuz energy spillover, and mounting El Niño ri…
Glassnode data shows 210,000 BTC exited long-term holder wallets over the past week, the largest such outflow since December 2024, attributed to the Coldcard firmware breach. Unlik…
The PUCT approved a 525.5 MW AI campus co-located with a 265.5 MW wind farm in Docket 59220, but the order requires full-campus curtailment within 30 minutes during ERCOT emergenci…
Putin signed Federal Law No. 282-FZ on August 4, creating Russia's first licensed crypto-trading framework. Domestic payments remain banned. A 300,000-ruble annual retail cap and a…
Syria's state oil CEO set a 30-month-to-three-year timeline to revive the Haditha-Baniyas pipeline at up to 2 million bpd. With a signed MoU, U.S. endorsement, and Chevron in the m…
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