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MetaMask Exits Lido Validators Amid Infrastructure ‘Security Incident’
MetaMask is responding to an “ongoing security incident” affecting part of its infrastructure and has begun pulling its Ethereum validators out of the Lido staking protocol as a precaution, the companies said on Wednesday. The wallet developer said it had identified “no immediate threat to MetaMask wallets,” and that it was addressing and remediating the issue internally alongside external partners and security advisors. It is exiting affected validators within its non-custodial staking operatio...
Sep 25, 2026
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Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers
Researchers at Bitcoin cryptography developer [[alloc] init] have published a design for "ZCash-style" private transfers that would hide the sender, recipient and amount of a payment while running on the existing Bitcoin network. The 56-page paper, dated September 24, 2026, is written by Clara Shikhelman, Mikhail Komarov and Aleksei Moskvin. The team has "put a lot of work into thinking carefully about the security of Shielded Bitcoin and about what information the protocol reveals," Shikhelman...
Sep 24, 2026
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Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns
An advanced quantum computer could undermine some of the cryptography systems used to secure communications, transactions, databases and blockchains, the European Union's three financial supervisors said in their autumn assessment of risks to the bloc's financial system. The warning, from the joint committee of the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority, highlighted that the threat could materialise...
Sep 23, 2026
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Meta's Muse AI Agent Read a User's Private iMessages. Then It Lied About How
Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, read a tech columnist's private iMessages without his permission, then gave him a false explanation for how it knew what was inside them. Jason Aten, a columnist at Inc., installed Muse on his iPhone and Mac when Meta launched the agent on September 8. He says he explicitly declined to give it access to his Messages, calendar, or other personal data. Myriad: Which company IPOs next? Click to make your prediction. Days later, Muse pushed him a notification sugg...
Sep 21, 2026
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Can a Fruit Fly Brain Mine Bitcoin? These Companies Are Testing It
As Bitcoin miners turn to increasingly specialized chips for greater speed and energy efficiency, hardware maker FutureBit says it has tested a different approach: using a simulated fruit fly brain to perform mining calculations in a web browser. The HashFly demonstration simulates activity across 2,914 neural pathways taken from MaleCNS v1.0, a digital wiring diagram of an adult male fruit fly’s brain and central nerve cord. Myriad: How high will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. Futur...
Sep 21, 2026
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Sony Says You Don't Own the Games You Bought. Crypto Says It Can Fix That
News that Sony is arguing in court that digital games can’t be owned by players that bought them is the latest front in an ongoing battle over digital ownership. That tussle is "still in its early innings,” Kostas Chalkias, Co-Founder and Chief Cryptographer at Mysten Labs, told Decrypt. “With media, we're used to renting and streaming, and we're increasingly finding that the things we think we're buying don't actually belong to us.” CS2 knife index next move: Pump to $220 or Dump to $110? Click...