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SlowMist flags fake Qwen 3.8 27B GitHub repo hiding StealC info-stealer
An information-stealing virus was uploaded to a GitHub repository disguised as downloadable weights for Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 27B model. SlowMist’s security team reported the incident on August 28, and anyone who runs open-source AI models locally could be at risk of credential theft. There’s a fake Qwen AI model on GitHub On August 28, the...
Fri, Aug 28
First HMRC crypto figures show a young, male minority booking most of the gains
HMRC split cryptoasset gains out for the first time, showing 17,600 filers declared £1.38 billion in 2024-25 and 240 of them took £717 million.
Fri, Aug 28
MANTRA post-mortem pins $3.6M exploit on a cosmos/evm integer bug
MANTRA Chain stopped short of committing to a fund recovery plan in the full incident post-mortem report it published on August 28. Instead, the publication presented a formal recap of the August 20-21 incident where an attacker drained roughly 720.9 million MANTRA, worth about $3.6 million from the project. Today’s disclosure formally assigned a dollar...
Fri, Aug 28
Stripe and Advent drop $53 billion bid for PayPal, shares slide
Stripe and Advent International have walked away from their roughly $53 billion attempt to buy PayPal. Had it gone through, the deal would have been the biggest fintech takeover on record. The announcement sent PayPal’s stock down sharply before Friday’s open. Why didn’t Stripe and Advent acquire PayPal? Stripe, the privately held payments firm, and...
Fri, Aug 28
AI startups top DeFiLlama’s pre-IPO list as private valuations double
DeFiLlama data shows that many pre-IPO tech firms have witnessed their private valuations more than double in the past year, with AI companies now occupying the top two places on DeFiLlama’s board. The ranking sends a strong message to the worldwide AI industry. The largest sources of private capital are gravitating toward frontier model developers...
Fri, Aug 28
UK Green Party leader leads anti-data center push as AI firms lose narrative war
The anti-data center sentiment has a new face in the UK as of Friday, after Green Party leader Zack Polanski pressed the UK government to hit the brakes on letting new data centers go up in England. Polanski called out the “negligible and negligent” attitude of the Labour Party as he argued against putting extra...
Fri, Aug 28
Solana starts phased 90% storage cost cut for token accounts
Solana’s core development team, Anza, announced that the first of a total of five feature gates has gone live. The development will result in a 90% reduction in on-chain storage costs. The changes will be beneficial mainly for stablecoin and payment businesses, which have become one of the network’s fastest-growing use cases. For developers forming...
Fri, Aug 28
Upbit parent Dunamu partners with Visa on stablecoin payments and AI commerce
Upbit’s operator, Dunamu, has entered into a strategic partnership with Visa. The two companies will build stablecoin-based payments, cross-border remittances and AI-driven financial services. What is Dunamu planning with Visa deal? A partnership between Dunamu and Visa was unveiled at Visa’s Global Market Support Center in San Francisco. The plan pairs Dunamu’s digital asset technology,...
Fri, Aug 28
NextDC’s record AI demand meets Australia’s power constraints
On August 27, NextDC, an Australian data center operator, announced it has seen its best contracting performance so far, increasing the amount of contracted capacity by three times to 740.1 MW and posting a profit for the year again as the AI infrastructure boom puts increasing pressure on power and water supplies. According to the...
Fri, Aug 28
Metaplanet invites fresh selling scrutiny after 1,350 BTC move to Coinbase Prime
Metaplanet moved another 1,350 BTC to Coinbase Custody. The company has not announced plans to sell, suggesting another internal transfer.
Fri, Aug 28
UK police claw back £1 million from deceased money laundering suspect
The Avon and Somerset Police in the UK disclosed that it had completed a forfeiture that clawed back more than £1 million in cash, Bitcoin and other digital assets from a dead, convicted money launderer. The single largest crypto seizure on record, per the Financial Investigation Unit in its August 27 statement, lands amid a...
Fri, Aug 28
Sanctions could turn Russia into a market for tainted cryptocurrency
Sanctions may turn Russia into a place for trading dirty cryptocurrency at discounted prices, according to a key participant in its soon-to-be regulated market. The country is poised to legalize coin transactions in September, but the assets circulating there are likely to be too toxic for other counterparties to touch. Russia said to build an...
Fri, Aug 28
Google staff turn to Gemini 3.8 Flash as AI costs mount
Google employees have reportedly begun testing the Gemini 3.8 Flash Preview on its own coding platform, which is further confirmation that the leading AI companies are working on innovative and cost-effective models at a remarkable rate. Speed is important for companies observing the rising cost of AI. According to Gartner, global expenditure on AI platforms...
Fri, Aug 28
Anthropic scores a major legal win as a judge strikes down the Pentagon’s AI blacklist
US District Judge Rita Lin just ruled that the Pentagon illegally penalized Anthropic with its “supply chain risk” designation. Earlier this year, the Pentagon branded the company a national security risk after negotiations broke down. At the time, Anthropic was still insisting on ethical guardrails banning mass surveillance and fully automated warfare. The court has...
Fri, Aug 28
US Spot Solana ETFs Post Best Inflow Day of 2026 With $60.91 Million
Spot Solana ETFs in the US saw its best day of inflows this year on August 27 with $60.91 million flowing into the funds. Even with two more trading days to account for before the monthly close, August is already the best month of the year with inflows surpassing $134 million. Total net assets across...
Fri, Aug 28
Evernorth clears SEC hurdle as XRP-focused Nasdaq listing moves closer
Evernorth Holdings announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made effective its registration statement, bringing the XRP-focused firm one step closer to its Nasdaq listing as crypto assets come under even more scrutiny in the public investment markets. This development opens up another potential regulated option for people wanting to gain access to...
Fri, Aug 28
BitGo buys NYDIG trading unit as institutions consolidate crypto services
On August 27, 2026, BitGo announced that it has acquired NYDIG’s institutional trading unit, which has enabled one of the largest regulated custodians within the crypto sector to gain a pre-existing derivatives and finance operation amid the ongoing trend of banks and funds consolidating their digital asset activities with fewer infrastructure partners. Following this acquisition,...
Fri, Aug 28
Anthropic walked away from a $7 billion MatX deal as it pushes deeper into custom AI chips
Anthropic, as reported by Reuters on Thursday, was in discussions about acquiring MatX, a startup focusing on chip technology, for approximately $7 billion in an effort to strengthen its custom silicon plan and lessen its reliance on Nvidia, but the negotiations have been halted. The abandoned acquisition demonstrates just how obsessed the Claude creator is...
Fri, Aug 28
Alibaba Cloud switches on Brazil with 30MW to 70MW of AI power still unsigned
Alibaba Cloud opened its first Brazil cloud region with two availability zones, but 30MW to 70MW of AI demand is still under negotiation with providers.
Fri, Aug 28
Solana's fee redesign would lift daily SOL burns from 650 to 9,000
SOL held above $109 as validators cast Solana's first binding governance vote, with the fee overhaul that would lift daily burns trailing the two-thirds bar.
Fri, Aug 28
