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Researchers forge 1024-bit RSA signature without extracting private key
A team of researchers from UC San Diego showed that a 1024-bit RSA signature can be forged by sending multiple queries to a hardware security module (HSM). In this case, the private key was never extracted from the device. This result implies yet another form of risk for crypto custodians: keeping the key inside tamper-proof...
Tue, Sep 29
Nvidia’s CEO draws Pope Leo’s criticism as AI safety concerns surge 50%
Pope Leo XIV has condemned US President Donald Trump and Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, for downplaying the threat posed by AI technology. The Pope said that ignoring the threats posed by technology endangers our common future, and that the world should take human safety more seriously. Earlier this month, Huang rejected the idea of new...
Tue, Sep 29
US senator urges Treasury and DOJ to investigate Tether over Iran-linked USDT
US authorities are expanding the investigation of the crypto system that Iran is reportedly using to transfer money, now putting Tether at the center of the issue. On September 28, Senator Richard Blumenthal of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) called on the Treasury and Justice Department to look further into Tether. The company...
Tue, Sep 29
Bitquery links 56 Robinhood Chain memecoin launches to $15.5M rug-pull operation
A blockchain investigation has extended the suspected rug-pull operations on Robinhood Chain to 56 memecoin launches. It also puts the group’s estimated take at a lower $15.5 million. Bitquery published its results on September 28. The report examines the period of the activity until September 23, which is two days after the date used for...
Tue, Sep 29
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 as AI shifts to cost per task
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, the second in the Claude 5.5 series, as the company prepares for an IPO. This marks an important shift in the criteria used to evaluate AI technologies: while raw benchmark performance remains a key consideration, companies now also care about how costly it can be to deliver...
Mon, Sep 28
SpaceX Starship reaches orbit, deploys 26 Starlinks in shortened Flight 14
SpaceX launched Starship into orbit for the very first time on 28 September 2026, releasing 26 operational Starlink V3 satellites. However, due to engine failure, SpaceX had to cut the mission short. This flight demonstrated that the Starship can lift up SpaceX’s biggest satellite, but it didn’t prove that the company can maintain a sufficient...
Mon, Sep 28
Zuckerberg unveils Meta's enterprise push riding on Muse hype
Meta (NASDAQ: META) has launched a new business called the Meta Enterprise Platform. The platform is built around the recently launched Muse AI agent. Former MongoDB chief Chirantan “CJ” Desai will run the platform as its Chief Enterprise Platform Officer, and the launch is Meta’s entrance into corporate AI sales at a moment Muse is...
Mon, Sep 28
Strategy reaches new BTC reserve record with almost $300M splurge on BTC, STRC
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) has recovered all of the Bitcoin it sold and pushed its reserves to new record levels after paying $142.7 million for 1,665 BTC over the last week. The firm’s SEC filing also confirmed that it spent another $151.7 million repurchasing its own STRC preferred stock. The purchase disclosed in the 8-K filed...
Mon, Sep 28
Apollo warns of 'agentic bank runs' as AI labs admit they can't stop agents from acting in unison
Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok has warned about a threat to the banking system that he refers to as an “agentic bank run.” The concern is that if millions of people permit AI agents to move their savings to chase better interest rates, nothing stops all those agents from acting in the same...
Mon, Sep 28
Compound Foundation faces Aave-style DAO drama after misappropriation accusation
The Compound Foundation is facing a misappropriation accusation from a delegate who went public with the claim that the Foundation made a move to seize control of the $52 million spending program and treasury by quietly converting 8.42 million DAI from reserves into COMP tokens. The red flags in the post were the secrecy around...
Mon, Sep 28
A halt is not a freeze: THORChain defends neutrality in Bitget hack
THORChain has come out to defend itself with a clarification that the emergency halt it initiated after its May 2026 $10.6 million exploit is not the same thing as the Bitget intervention request to prevent attackers from moving part of the $387.5 million stolen from the exchange through its platform. The response is the latest...
Mon, Sep 28
Aave adds Coinbase tokenized stocks as loan collateral
Aave launched a dedicated V4 vault on Base chain, offering loans based on collaterals in the form of tokenized Magnificent 7 equities.
Mon, Sep 28
Quant Wins US and UK Bank Deals as QNT Rallies 300% in One Week
Quant (QNT) has been the best performing crypto asset among the top 100 by market cap over the past week. Quant is a London-based company that builds Overledger, software that lets banks and enterprises connect their existing systems across multiple blockchains. QNT is its token which is used to pay for access to that network....
Mon, Sep 28
Senate inquiry chair asks OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei to front Canberra hearing
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young asked Sam Altman and Dario Amodei to appear at an October 1 Canberra hearing after an OpenAI agent breached Medicare.
Sun, Sep 27
Beijing signals approval for Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500, a chip expected to dodge US curbs
Some executives expect Nvidia's RTX Pro 5500 to avoid US export curbs, and China's industry ministry signals it will approve ByteDance and Alibaba buys.
Sun, Sep 27
Cheaper AI models gain ground as corporate America cuts costs
US enterprises are selecting the least expensive AI solution that can perform the job efficiently, rather than automatically opting for the most advanced AI solution available. This trend has created certain pressure on high prices because the new AI models are eliminating the gap in capabilities while the costs for the tokens are consistently decreasing,...
Sun, Sep 27
Bill Gates backs legal AI safeguards as global investment tops $1 trillion
Bill Gates warned that AI businesses shouldn’t be allowed to self-regulate and is urging Washington to set safety regulations. The Microsoft co-founder made his arguments during an NBC News interview released on September 25, two days prior to the airing of the complete interview on “Meet the Press.” He has given this warning at the...
Sun, Sep 27
Google's Gemini test lets Indian shoppers buy from Flipkart but not Amazon
Google is testing a Buy button for Flipkart inside Gemini and AI Mode in India, while Amazon listings shown alongside offer no way to buy.
Sun, Sep 27
Peter Brandt's $8,600 Ether chart hinges on a first break above $5,000
Peter Brandt's long-term Ether chart points to $8,600, but only once ETH clears $5,000, about 86% above its current price. He says it is not a trade.
Sun, Sep 27
OpenAI and Anthropic discover AI safety incidents on a scale far beyond what they’ve disclosed
OpenAI and Anthropic are investigating tens of thousands of cases where frontier AI systems acted in ways outside reviewers could consider unsafe or unauthorized. All of these cases happened during recent internal tests and field use, Axios reports, and many of them are still being investigated and are not yet out in the open. Behavior...
Sun, Sep 27
