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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…
PowerCompute consolidated three debt facilities totaling $18M under a single Bitcoin-backed loan at ~2% APR, pledging 307 BTC as non-recourse collateral. The rate cut saves roughly…
Two sources familiar with internal U.S. military data told Reuters the Army has used virtually all of its ATACMS and PrSM inventories during five months of Operation Epic Fury. Res…
Capital B began trading on Cboe Europe on August 5, 2026, with volume doubling within two hours and immediately surpassing its Euronext Growth Paris home listing. The surge points…
Triggered by the Coldcard RNG exploit, a 16-person volunteer team funded by OpenSats filed 4,962 security findings across 390 Bitcoin open-source repositories in 27.5 hours, includ…
The Trump administration's FCC is drafting a ban on new Chinese optical transceiver imports, per a Reuters exclusive. Western suppliers hold about 12-24 months behind on capacity,…
The US signed a deal with Puntland on August 3 to expand its military base in Bosaso, a Gulf of Aden port city, as simultaneous Hormuz and Red Sea disruptions threaten up to 25% of…
The Ninth Circuit vacated Amazon's preliminary injunction against Perplexity's Comet on August 4, 2026, drawing a durable line between tool-maker and user under the CFAA. The rulin…
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