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Core Lightning maintainers confirmed multiple critical vulnerabilities on August 26 and are urging all CLN node operators to take nodes offline immediately. A signed emergency patc…
Blockstream Research published a full evaluation of lattice-based post-quantum signatures for Bitcoin, rating Falcon, Dilithium, and Hawk against on-chain cost, implementation comp…
The US Treasury launched a Quantum-Readiness Task Force on August 24, 2026, under Executive Order 14412, with three workstreams including one explicitly scoped to digital assets an…
Taiwan's Keelung prosecutors indicted nine people on August 24, including employees at Nvidia's Taiwan office and Supermicro's Taiwan branch, for smuggling 74 Nvidia B300 AI server…
PJM filed with FERC on July 31 to make new AI data centers the first in line for power cuts during shortages. The grid math: 70 GW of projected new demand, 15 GW of retired generat…
Coldcard's firmware is source-available, not open source. The Commons Clause restricts commercial use, and the economic incentives that come with it. A five-year entropy flaw that…
OpenLedger co-founder Ram Kumar argues AI agents are the first class of economic actors that literally cannot use legacy banking rails, making permissionless settlement infrastruct…
Wood Mackenzie projects US grid operators will honor roughly 28% of 1,066 gigawatts in data center power requests, leaving ~768 GW of hyped AI energy demand that will never touch t…
Researchers at the ELLIS Institute and Max Planck Institute decoded 315,320 hidden reasoning blocks from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google APIs using a single global encryption key fla…
Nvidia announced MOUs with six major financial institutions to mobilize over $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing, using compute hardware as loan collateral. Larry Fink comp…
Bitcoin's BIP editors removed Luke Dashjr on Aug. 10, 2026, just 26 hours after a removal motion landed on the dev mailing list. The fork he championed got 2.6% miner support, stal…
OpenAI is hiring a dedicated power-trading lead for its Stargate data center portfolio, per Bloomberg, signaling that energy cost is now a first-order P&L variable for AI infrastru…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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