University researchers in China have found a way to alter the behavior of AI voice models by embedding hidden commands inside audio clips that are inaudible to humans. The attack has an up to 96% succ

The United Kingdom announced a package of sanctions Tuesday against entities accused of aiding Russia—including HTX, the massive crypto exchange founded by Justin Sun. The U.K. government sanctioned

Publicly traded Ethereum treasury firm BitMine Immersion Technologies added 111,942 ETH, or more than $237 million worth, to its balance sheet last week, marking the firm’s largest buy yet this year a

Indonesia\\\'s Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs blocked access to Polymarket on Friday, with officials stating that platforms allowing users to wager money on uncertain outcomes remain gambl

Shanghai-based AI lab StepFun released StepAudio 2.5 Realtime this week. It\\\'s an end-to-end real-time voice model—audio goes in, audio comes out, no text conversion in the middle. It supports Chinese

China is reportedly requiring some senior AI workers at private firms including Alibaba and DeepSeek to obtain approval before traveling abroad, tightening state control over a key part of the country

Strategy burned through most of its cash reserves while extinguishing debt last week, leaving the Bitcoin-buying firm with fewer funds on hand to pay preferred stockholders. The Tysons Corner, Virgin

Days after a Sen. Elizabeth Warren said the Treasury Department’s recent spate of bank charter approvals for crypto firms may be illegal, industry leaders are forcefully pushing back on the characteri

A lucky trader bought $341 of a World Cup-themed Solana meme coin in mid-May, when it had a market capitalization of less than $40,000. Since then, the token has soared more than 30,000%, with the tra

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Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds posted $112 million in combined outflows on Monday, while two Hyperliquid ETFs extended their winning streak to eight consecutive days of net buying. The di

BitMine Immersion Technologies is expected to enter the Russell 1000 Index, joining the index that tracks the largest public companies in the U.S. and serves as an industry-standard benchmark for equi

George Hotz—the hacker who first cracked the iPhone at age 17 and reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3 before Sony sued him for it—published a blog post Sunday arguing that mass adoption of AI coding

Imagine you suspect someone poisoned a bottle of water in your house. To check, you drink from every bottle. That\\\'s roughly how most security scanners work. Perplexity just open-sourced a tool called

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin signaled on Sunday that the Ethereum Foundation is transitioning into a leaner, hyper-focused entity—dramatically narrowing its operational scope amid a period of i