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Lido details NEST automated buyback program as LDO sits near record lows
Lido DAO has released a detailed overview of NEST, the automated program it is building to buy back its own LDO governance token. The program is a direct response to LDO’s token, which has lost more than 95% of its value since 2021. What is Lido’s NEST? The Network Economic Support Tokenomics (NEST) program is...
Fri, Aug 14
Tesla stock jumps as 'flying' car rumor excites markets
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock increased by 3% on Friday morning, a reaction to a report that the auto manufacturer plans to unveil its long-awaited Roadster, with flying capabilities, in August. Tesla shares have been on a downward trend throughout 2026, so this news lands as a welcome development for investors. It’s left to Tesla to...
Fri, Aug 14
Israel's largest bank Bank Leumi partners with Galaxy to offer crypto services
Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, has announced plans to allow its retail customers to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana inside its Leumi Trade app, using Galaxy Digital’s trading and on-chain storage infrastructure. The service is set to launch in early 2027 and still requires the approval of the Bank of Israel. Bank Leumi...
Fri, Aug 14
BSC commits to late August Pasteur hardfork release date
BNB Chain has announced that it will activate its Pasteur hard fork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet at 02:30 UTC on August 25, 2026. It stated that every node operator has to be running client v1.7.7 before that time or risk falling off the network. BNB Chain confirmed the date and client requirement...
Fri, Aug 14
Reddit lands in the S&P 500 still down 42% from its September peak
Reddit joins the S&P 500 on August 18, replacing AvalonBay. Index funds must buy 16.7 million shares, about three days of the stock's normal volume.
Fri, Aug 14
Nvidia's Isaac GR00T lands inside LG's bipedal robot while CLOiD works a real assembly line
LG puts wheeled CLOiD robots on a Tennessee washing machine line by the end of 2026, while its Nvidia-built humanoid stays hidden until Q1 2027.
Fri, Aug 14
Spyware targets in 110 countries now get Apple's warning on the Lock Screen
Apple now puts mercenary spyware warnings on the iPhone Lock Screen and in Settings. Its newest round of threat notifications reached 110 countries.
Fri, Aug 14
SpaceX completes $60 billion acquisition of AI platform Cursor
SpaceX has finally completed its purchase of Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding tool Cursor, on Thursday in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion. Both companies claim no startup has ever been bought for more, with SpaceX continuing its aggressive push into AI software and the industry at large. Cursor becomes a SpaceXAI...
Fri, Aug 14
Apple spent under nine months building the Houston plant that will make the first US Mac mini
Apple opened a 20,000-square-foot training center in its Houston factory, the site that ships AI servers and will build the first US-made Mac mini in 2026.
Fri, Aug 14
Binance to restrict transaction processing with multiple crypto platforms
Binance has announced to all of its users on Friday that it will stop processing transactions with 16 crypto platforms, including major exchange HTX and EXMO, set to be done in a gradual manner till the end of August, and tied to recent sanctions against Russian and Iranian networks. The world’s largest crypto exchange published...
Fri, Aug 14
Chinese robot maker Unitree ready for Shanghai debut after IPO
Unitree, the Chinese maker of humanoid robots, is set to commence trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market next week after raising 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million). The listing could create a functioning market from the hype of China’s robotics boom. Investors wanted massively into the IPO, with retail applications coming in at over 5,000 times the...
Fri, Aug 14
Analysts flag broken compliance controls in Anchorpoint's live HKDAP stablecoin
A review published by security analyst Yajin Zhou says HKDAP runs on an Ethereum contract that is not production-ready, and has Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and revocation controls that do not work as coded. HKDAP is a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin that Standard Chartered-backed Anchorpoint launched on August 12. What’s wrong with HKDAP’s rules? The security analyst...
Fri, Aug 14
Polestar never appealed the US ban that Volvo cleared, a $25 million dealer suit says
Prestige Imports is suing Polestar for at least $25 million, alleging the automaker planned its US exit for two years and used a federal ban as cover.
Fri, Aug 14
France's tax agency cut off the intruder in June and warned taxpayers in August
France's DGFiP confirmed an intruder used a stolen identity to extract taxpayer names, addresses, and tax IDs in late June, disclosed only on August 13.
Fri, Aug 14
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 edged Anthropic's Mythos 5 on a cyber test
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI (HKG: 2513) has gone big-game hunting with the document it released along with the rollout of its latest GLM-5.3 model. The firm, trading internationally as Z.ai, specifically named Anthropic’s Mythos 5 as one of the models that GLM-5.3 outperformed on the CyberGym benchmark, which measures a model’s capability to check...
Fri, Aug 14
Private firms get a federal license to break into foreign scam networks
Trump's August 12 memo clears vetted US firms to hack foreign criminal networks behind crypto scams that cost Americans $20.8 billion in 2025.
Fri, Aug 14
Mythos 5 talked its way out of a fight Opus 4.6 kept losing
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team found that Claude agents on the same task attacked each other using self-replicating malware.
Fri, Aug 14
Attackers rent verified Google ad accounts to hide Hyperliquid clones behind nested iframes
A Hyperliquid user lost about $550,000 in USDC to a fake exchange site served by a paid Google search ad. Google suspended the advertiser account.
Fri, Aug 14
Singapore warns on fake-job crypto scams after $11.8M in losses
Singapore’s police and Cyber Security Agency have issued a joint advisory on cryptocurrency scams disguised as job offers, after victims lost about $11.8 million. Both agencies are urging residents to treat unsolicited work-from-home crypto gigs as a red flag. How Singaporeans are getting tricked by fake job scams The job scams usually start on social...
Fri, Aug 14
Cerebras silicon pushes GPT-5.6 Sol to 750 tokens per second in OpenAI preview
OpenAI opened a limited preview of Ultrafast, a Cerebras-powered API tier running GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, 14x Standard mode.
Fri, Aug 14
