Hong Kong – Blockchain Deposit Insurance Corporation (BDIC Insurance/BDIC HK LTD), a leading provider of crypto insurance solutions for digital asset custodians, exchanges, and enterprise self-custody wallet platforms, today announced its strategic operational collaboration with Fireblocks, the enterprise platform securing more than $14 trillion in digital asset transactions. The agreement...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Uphold, the modern infrastructure provider for on-chain financial services, announces the introduction of instant cash loans against crypto holdings offered through the Exactly DeFi Protocol. Uphold’s retail customers in the U.S. can now borrow against their cryptocurrency portfolio, without selling any assets, by depositing their Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, or USDC as...
New York, USA — In recent years, LINK FOREX has continued to strengthen its international growth trategy by making steady progress in financial talent development, artificial intelligence integration, regulatory compliance, and the expansion of its presence across Latin America. Through continuous investment in research capabilities, operational excellence, and international collaboration,...
IRVINE, Calif — Founder of Johnson Criminal Law Group recognized for excellence in criminal defense, juvenile dependency, Child Protective Services (CPS) defense, restraining orders, and appellate advocacy throughout California. Orange County criminal defense attorney and CPS attorney Lauren Johnson-Norris has been named to the 2026 Southern California Super Lawyers list, an honor awarded...
An anonymous Slashdot reader writes: Surveillance cameras owned by Flock Safety have been cut down with electric saws in New York State, vandalized with paint in Oakland, California, and rammed with a truck in Idaho. Flock claims its services fight crime, but law enforcement agencies also use their services to track vehicles based on license plate numbers and reconstruct the their movements,...
In a review triggered by OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
A new restriction on foreign-made mobile robots affects robotic vacuums, pool cleaners, and lawn mowers. Here’s what it means for the bots already in your home—and the ones you may never get to buy.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This week, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard for how AI systems interact with external tools and data sources, saw its largest update since its introduction. Most notably, MCP’s protocol core is now stateless, so requests are no longer dependent on a session tied to an individual server instance. This change has the...
joshuark quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning, a top AI conference, this month. The claim has huge implications for the safety of this technology. By taking advantage...
A memo obtained by WIRED, issued by the water utilities information sharing group WaterISAC, links dozens of cyberattacks against Minnesota water utilities to Tehran.
Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add a record $490 billion in market value in a single day. Bloomberg notes that it “would eclipse Nvidia’s $440 billion addition, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day tariff pause last year, as the biggest ever.” From the report: The nearly $500 billion jump...
Amazon joined a procession of tech giants that ramped up their spending on artificial intelligence, as its capital expenditures soared 69 percent. Concerns over the industry’s spending is mounting.
ABC accused FCC Chair Brendan Carr of “attempted censorship,” arguing that an early review of its eight broadcast licenses is politically motivated retaliation over the network’s coverage and could chill the entire media industry. “The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: accommodate the Administration’s view of what news coverage should look like or pay...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Amazon’s Zoox unit has won U.S. approval for limited commercial deployment of its novel steering-wheel-free robotaxis, a first for the autonomous ride industry, the U.S. auto safety agency said on Thursday. Zoox said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s decision gives the company federal approval to begin charging for rides,...
