Japanese man sentenced to 3 years after creating crypto ransomware with AI
In a reported legal first for Japan, the man was sentenced for abusing generative AI to create code for...
OpenAI tool used to create voice bot that can drain crypto wallets
Computer scientists used OpenAI’s GPT-4o model, in tandem with a number of other freely available tools, to carry out...
Astronomers Discover the Existence of a Black Hole Star
When Soundgarden Wrote “Black Hole Sun,” they may have inadvertently been onto something.In a new paper in Nature, scientists...
Solana wallet Phantom down due to ‘major incident’
Phantom, a cryptocurrency wallet popular on Solana, is currently experiencing downtime due to a “major incident” with the backend.
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Israel crypto broker Bits of Gold probes customer data breach
Bits of Gold, Israel’s regulated crypto broker,...
Bitcoin Drops 47% While Strategy’s STRC Gains 9% in a Year
Key TakeawaysSTRC outperformed bitcoin by 56 percentage points over one year.Strategy’s other preferred securities recorded losses of 8% to...
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according to an announcement on the Cursor blog.
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Why didn’t Donald Trump and Joe Rogan mention bitcoin or crypto?
Joe Rogan’s three-hour interview with Donald Trump avoided the topic of crypto, right as his recent crypto project flopped…...
Meta Removes More Than 750,000 Under-16 Facebook, Instagram Accounts in Australia
Meta has blocked more than 750,000 under-16 Facebook and Instagram accounts in Australia as the social media age ban...