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View More News“Once liquidations begin to drive price action, the market can move faster than real demand would justify,” said Shawn Young, chief analyst at MEXC Research, who is watching how bitcoin trades inside the $60,000 to $63,000 band now that the first recovery is in.MSCI’s Asia Pacific equities gauge climbed 1.4% as investors moved back into semiconductor shares on renewed optimism over AI demand, cutting the week’s loss to under 1%. South Korea’s Kospi, a bellwether for AI investment, jumped 4%. SK Hynix was among the winners after pricing $26.5 billion of American depositary shares, one of the largest share sales…
In brief Researchers introduced “Adversarial HalluSquatting,” an attack that exploits AI-generated hallucinations. The technique tricks AI agents into trusting fake repositories or tools that contain malicious instructions. Tests against popular AI coding assistants showed the method could lead to remote code execution in controlled experiments. AI hallucinations may be more than incorrect answers—they could become a way for hackers to compromise computers, according to new research from Tel Aviv University, Technion, and Intuit.In the paper, “Beware of Agentic Botnets: Scalable Untargeted Promptware Attacks via Universal and Transferable Adversarial HalluSquatting,” researchers demonstrated a technique that exploits AI models when they generate…
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A review of Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History of the Manson Murders by Claudia Verhoeven; 384 pages; Verso (May 2026)Although the True Crime genre of publishing and documentary television is replete with accounts of murderous spouses, serial killers, Mafia wars, and financial scams, rarely do the subjects transcend the headline immediacy of police procedurals to deliver the long-term import of critical analysis. The Victorian predator Jack the Ripper and the Depression-era exploits of Bonnie and Clyde are two such exceptions; a third is the countercultural carnage wrought by the Manson family. As such, Claudia Verhoeven’s new book Love and Terror: The Helter-Skelter History…
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Members of the UK’s ruling Labour party are considering a total ban on digital asset donations in response to Nigel Farage’s resignation from Parliament…
In brief Ethereum Foundation researchers are using AI agents to red-team critical network infrastructure. The agents helped uncover a peer-to-peer software vulnerability that was…
from the hypocrisy-as-a-service dept It’s hard to believe that the same people who spent the Biden years screaming that Democrats were “socialists” out to…
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South Korean police have reportedly raided Bithumb as part of an investigation into alleged nepotism involving independent lawmaker Kim Byung-gi.Kim allegedly attempted to influence…
In brief The House Ways and Means committee will review a package of crypto tax proposals at a hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers will revisit…
From Texas Supreme Court Justice Evan Young’s majority opinion Friday in In the Interest of H.S.:Few principles in our history and traditions are as…
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Yuga Labs-affiliated developers rescued 68 non-fungible tokens from Flooring Protocol after an exploit put NFTs from collections including Bored Apes and CryptoPunks at risk.Yuga…
In brief MetaMask has launched Agent Wallet, a self-custodial wallet designed for AI agents that can autonomously execute on-chain transactions. The wallet includes transaction…
from the now-with-extra-boondoggle dept A quick refresher: There was originally $42.5 billion in taxpayer-funded broadband grants headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill…