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Zcash Is About to Get 3x Faster With NU7, and ZEC Traders Are Already Buying In
The date for Zcash’s next major network upgrade has been set by its developers. Network Upgrade 7 or NU7 for short will activate at block 3,543,405, which is set to land around November 5. Once it goes live, the upgrade will make payments on the privacy-focused blockchain three times faster by producing a new block...
Thu, Oct 22
IBM beats earnings estimates as its $7.8 billion software empire helps revive growth
IBM exceeded Wall Street’s earnings expectations for the third quarter on Wednesday, October 21, thanks to the company’s $7.8 billion software unit, which saw revenues rise 5 percent to $17.1 billion. Financial analysts had predicted IBM would earn revenues of $16.82 billion and earnings of $2.86 per share. Investors weren’t particularly impressed, though. Shares slipped...
Thu, Oct 22
Railway freezes builds and tells all users to rotate keys after possible breach
Railway paused all deployments after an unauthorized party may have accessed customer environment variables, and told every user to rotate API keys.
Thu, Oct 22
Chinese hackers target hundreds of organizations in AI-powered ConnectWise breach
Microsoft says a group of hackers with ties to China deployed an AI-powered penetration testing tool to breach ConnectWise as part of a global operation targeting hundreds of organizations. ConnectWise’s own CEO, Manny Rivelo, also released a statement saying that all signs point to China-backed hackers for the attack on their Cloud Backup system. After...
Thu, Oct 22
Tesla starts Optimus production as profit falls 43%
Tesla has started the production of its humanoid robot Optimus at its Fremont factory based in California. The announcement on October 21, 2026 stands as a significant point in its aspirations for robotics. However, it was accompanied by a drop in quarterly profit by 43%. Now, Tesla has a tough question to answer. Can it...
Thu, Oct 22
Recursive launches Flint coding model built largely with AI
Recursive launched Flint on October 21, 2026. Much of the research behind this open-weight coding model was conducted with the help of AI. The entire model was created with the assistance of a small team in less than four months. The question is whether this approach creates a chance for small laboratories to compete with...
Thu, Oct 22
Anthropic's Claude Duet agent buys with a virtual card and blocks ID leaks
Anthropic's Claude Duet preview buys through Link and Shop Pay after user approval, while a new classifier blocks card numbers and government IDs.
Thu, Oct 22
BlackRock adds new robotics ETF to its lineup of AI products
BlackRock is adding a robotics fund to its AI investment lineup with the launch of the iShares Future Robotics and Related Technologies Active ETF (RBTX). The new robotics ETF is for investors who want reduced exposure to AI and robotics names as the enthusiasm for bets on AI continues to drop. The fund will trade...
Thu, Oct 22
Meta stock surges after earnings beat with a $64 billion revenue, but operating profits slumped
Meta shares jumped 2.5% in extended trading Wednesday after the Facebook parent beat Wall Street’s third-quarter revenue expectations, bringing in $64.60 billion against forecasts of $63.37 billion. While Meta’s revenues surged by 26%, its operating income was negatively affected, giving investors an ambiguous perspective on the firm’s financial health. Earnings came to $3.83 per share,...
Thu, Oct 22
Starshield disruptions in Ukraine test Europe's bid to rival Starlink
When Starshield connections slowed down this month, Ukrainian commanders said that armed drones fell out of the sky. The failure also revealed a problem for Europe. It wants to lessen its dependence on American satellite services but does not yet have its own systems that would be able to replace them. When the drones fell...
Thu, Oct 22
Tesla beats Wall Street's earnings expectations, but Elon Musk has a $787 million profit problem
Tesla gave Wall Street better earnings than expected on Wednesday, but the numbers came with a pretty big catch: profits are shrinking. Elon Musk’s company made just $787 million for common shareholders in the third quarter, down 29% from $1.11 billion a year earlier. Even with the earnings beat, investors sent the stock down more...
Thu, Oct 22
Cardano Foundation urges EU to fix MiCA, not expand it to DeFi
The Cardano Foundation believes that the European Union (EU) must address the existing challenges related to MiCA before introducing new regulations pertaining to decentralized finance (DeFi) and staking. It made these comments in a statement released on October 21 and insisted that being on a public blockchain does not automatically mean serving as a financial...
Thu, Oct 22
Walmart to let shoppers set spending limits for their AI agents
Walmart will give each AI shopping agent its own profile with spending caps and approvals next month, as Amazon blocks Meta's Muse agent.
Thu, Oct 22
Strive and Strategy shares rally as bitcoin climbs to $84,807
Bitcoin hit $84,807 on Wednesday, its highest since October 7, pushing Strive up more than 13% and Strategy up more than 7%.
Wed, Oct 21
Leak forces PHP to ship fixes for 14-year-old PHP2Shell bug a day early
PHP shipped fixes for two critical PHP2Shell flaws a day early after a leak. The 14-year-old bug lets attackers run code on unpatched servers.
Wed, Oct 21
Trump targets overseas crypto scams as Americans lose billions
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to use a White House cybercrime summit to highlight his administration’s takedowns of scamming crypto investment sites, which are targeting millions of Americans who have suffered record fraud losses in 2022. Who will be in the room and what they will showcase According to a White House official quoted by...
Wed, Oct 21
Blockchain groups press SEC on staking and secondary trading as FCA moves to define DeFi
The SEC has been asked by a total of six blockchain organizations to categorize digital commodities as non-securities. Also, they’ve asked the SEC to make the rules for staking and secondary trading clear. This comes even as the SEC’s comment period ended and two DeFi consultations were opened by the UK’s FCA. Six networks want...
Wed, Oct 21
US stablecoin rule advance as banks and crypto split over OCC's decision
Three American banking advocacy groups criticized the final stablecoin rule that were unveiled by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on October 21, 2026. They raised their concerns about how the use of third-party rewards may lead to people withdrawing money from banks and it will negatively impact lending. Cryto advocates welcomed...
Wed, Oct 21
Polkadot tells Fearless Wallet extension users to move funds after a 20-month key leak
Code in the Fearless Wallet browser extension sent Polkadot users' private keys to an attacker for 20 months. The foundation says move funds to a new key now.
Wed, Oct 21
Meta ordered to pay New Mexico $25 billion after judge trims a $219 billion penalty
A New Mexico judge found Meta owed $219.5 billion over its Cambridge Analytica deception, then cut the penalty to $25 billion.
Wed, Oct 21