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Polish cybercrime unit arrests four in FBI-backed SIM swap and crypto theft raid
Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) has detained four people in a joint operation with FBI and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. Poland’s authorities have charged the four detained individuals with running SIM swap attacks in order to steal from cryptocurrency exchange accounts. They have also been charged with laundering the proceeds through a...
Thu, Jun 25
Polymarket users lose nearly $3 million in suspected phishing attack
Popular on-chain analyst Specter just reported a major Polymarket breach today that stole up to $2.94 million from about 11 accounts combined. According to Specter, the stolen funds were originally held as PUSD (Polymarket’s USD-pegged collateral token), swapped into ETH and sent to a final address. While 11 victims have been identified so far, the...
Thu, Jun 25
Iran wants ships to pay for services when crossing the Strait of Hormuz
Iran is trying to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a paid transit system after the ceasefire tied to Trump reopened the waterway. Tehran wants ships to pay for security, safety, and environmental services while crossing the oil route, with officials putting the possible yearly income at about $40 billion for the countries involved, according...
Thu, Jun 25
Tesla plans to hire 1,000 workers at Berlin factory as European demand rebounds
Tesla plans to increase weekly output at its Gigafactory Berlin by 20% to 7,500 vehicles starting in October.
Thu, Jun 25
Apple raised prices on iPads, Macs, HomePod, and Apple TV
Apple has shot up the prices of its devices, iPads and Macbooks, on Thursday. Chief Executive Tim Cook had already warned that the higher prices are inevitable. The reason is the heavy memory chip demand, a victim of the AI boom and massive data centers. iPhone had been lucky in this price surge as it...
Thu, Jun 25
Hang Ten Systems raises $32 million to build AI-powered enterprise software
Hang Ten Systems, a Palo Alto startup founded by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, closed a $32 million seed round on Tuesday.
Thu, Jun 25
Washington tightens EV market access as geopolitical tensions fuel global demand
Swedish electric car maker Polestar (PSNY) says it will stop selling cars in the United States after the Commerce Department blocked its sales in the country. The company, which is owned by Chinese carmaker Geely, said US officials chose not to “grant Polestar authorization under the current US Connected Vehicle Rule.” That decision means Polestar...
Thu, Jun 25
Bitcoin bears target a $52,000 price level as traders position for a 2026 decline
Bitcoin crashed to $58,700 on Thursday and now options traders are convinced it will crash as far as $52,000 before the year is over, which would be its lowest level since August 2024. That decline saw Bitcoin fall by almost 52% from its all-time high and left the OG crypto below the $60,000 level, which...
Thu, Jun 25
SBI Holdings agrees $289M deal to take over Japan's Bitbank exchange
SBI Holdings has agreed to acquire all shares of cryptocurrency exchange Bitbank in a ¥46.7 billion ($289 million) transaction. This deal would make the combined group Japan’s largest crypto exchange operator by assets under custody. The acquisition runs through SBICAH, a wholly owned SBI subsidiary. How does the deal work? Starting around August, SBICAH will...
Thu, Jun 25
Amazon to invest additional $13 billion in India for its AI and cloud infrastructure
Tech giant Amazon has announced an influx of an additional $13 billion into India by year 2030, which aims to improve AI and cloud infrastructure in the Mumbai and Hyderabad regions. This fresh commitment will raise the company’s total planned investment in the country to $48 billion over the next half a decade. Amazon’s new...
Thu, Jun 25
Kraken expands OTC lending via Maple's onchain credit infrastructure
The Kraken crypto exchange and Maple Finance have launched an onchain warehouse lending facility that channels USDC liquidity from Maple’s collection of lenders to Kraken’s over-the-counter borrowers, applying the structural framework behind traditional asset-backed securities to crypto lending for the first time. Lending facility details Maple will provide the senior financing through a special purpose...
Thu, Jun 25
IBM stock jumps ~6% after company unveils sub-1 nanometer chip technology
Markets have not opened yet, but investors are already lining up to take the action on IBM’s stock (NYSE: IBM) as the tech giant revealed what it calls the first chip technology to go under the 1-nanometer technological barrier. The news has sent IBM shares up nearly 4% in pre-market trading, a necessary shot in...
Thu, Jun 25
Big Tech competitors object to EU exemption of Google Cloud from DMA crackdown
The European Union is stepping up its regulation of big tech, this time turning its attention to artificial intelligence and cloud computing. On Thursday, the European Commission announced plans to designate Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services as gatekeepers under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The two companies are the world’s largest cloud service...
Thu, Jun 25
Canopy Network launches fresh bid to lead AI-native blockchain development race with $8.5M raise and strategic acquisition
Canopy, an AI-native blockchain development framework, today announced an $8.5M seed round. The funding will support Canopy’s mainnet launch, expand the engineering team, and continue developing its AI-native tooling and developer experience. Additionally, the company welcomed Arrington Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Borderless Capital, and SNZ Capital as key stakeholders through the recent acquisition, bringing in additional...
Thu, Jun 25
Fed rate cut headaches lead macroeconomic risks from the US-Iran deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the country’s pressure campaign pushed Iran into talks, claiming the government in Tehran was forced to negotiate after its finances collapsed. “We have laid Iran’s economy to waste, that’s what brought them to the table,” Bessent said while talking about where the American economy goes after the war with...
Thu, Jun 25
Cordyceps flaws let anyone with a free GitHub account hijack CI/CD pipelines at Microsoft, Google, and Apache
Security firm Novee has revealed Cordyceps as a class of exploitable CI/CD vulnerabilities across open-source repositories that allowed attackers to steal credentials, push malicious code, and compromise operations at some of the world’s largest software organizations. These vulnerabilities have been found across repositories belonging to Microsoft, Google, Apache, Cloudflare, and the Python Software Foundation, which...
Thu, Jun 25
AAA and Integra Ledger launch Legal Context Protocol to govern AI agent transactions
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) and blockchain documentation firm Integra Ledger on Wednesday, June 24, released the Legal Context Protocol (LCP), an open standard designed to attach verifiable legal terms to transactions conducted by autonomous AI agents. Google, IBM, Circle, Wayfair, and more than a dozen blockchain and infrastructure companies signed on as founding contributors....
Thu, Jun 25
Russia's government prepares to ban crypto ads as part of new rules
Russian authorities are delaying the introduction of a new law regulating cryptocurrency transactions in the country, according to the finance ministry. The legislation was supposed to enter into force no later than the first day of next month. While legalizing crypto investment, it will ban advertising. Russia to miss July 1 deadline for crypto regulation...
Thu, Jun 25
Ripple Clears Japan and Europe in One Week as RLUSD Goes Global
Europe and Japan have notoriously got the nametag for being some of the strictest regulatory blocs in crypto. Ripple has managed to clear them in a single week. RLUSD went live in Japan on June 24 after the country’s Financial Services Agency signed off, days after Ripple secured preliminary clearance under Europe’s MiCA framework. The...
Thu, Jun 25
Ouinex eyes TradFi trading expansion with zero commission fee system
Ouinex, the user-driven multi-asset exchange, is permanently eliminating commissions on all its traditional finance (TradFi) derivatives products. Unlike platforms that layer fees on top of inflated spreads, Ouinex’s revenue comes entirely from a portion of the spread itself, meaning the platform only benefits when traders receive tight, competitive pricing. This initiative challenges the prevailing “retail...
Thu, Jun 25
