Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo had been charged with using non-public “Year in Search 2025” data accessible through Google's internal systems to trade related event contracts on the prediction market platform Polymarket.
GCSA InsightOn April 23, 2026, Tether announced that it had cooperated with the U.S. Department of the Treasury and law enforcement agencies to freeze two USDT addresses on the TRON network, with a total frozen amount of approximately 344 million USDT.
GCSA InsightThis document details Ethereum's future upgrade roadmap, named "Strawmap".
JinseFinanceArtificial intelligence: The first generation of children "fed" by AI has already been "poisoned." Golden Finance: Technology is creating a generation of "mental isolation."
JinseFinanceAI is reshaping the occupational structure of the Web3 industry, reducing repetitive jobs and creating new ones.
JinseFinanceCryptocurrency ownership in Canada has more than doubled over the past three years, with one in four Canadians now holding digital assets, according to new research from the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC). But while adoption is accelerating, regulators say investor understanding of the industry continues to lag behind.
XingChiShiba Inu is using its sixth anniversary to signal a fresh start, with ecosystem leaders outlining plans to rebuild core products and strengthen the project's technological foundation after years of uneven development.
XingChiAnthropic reviewed its cybersecurity tests after OpenAI's breach disclosure — and found that three of its own Claude models had already hacked real organisations using weak password exploits, with no one detecting the intrusions at the time.
ZoeyOpenAI shut down a Cambodia-linked scam network that used ChatGPT for romance, investment, gambling and impersonation scams. The AI helped create fake identities, forge documents and support the group's daily operations.
AnaisTelegram vanished from Apple's App Store globally on Monday night, sparking speculation about censorship and politics. The real reason was far more serious — and Telegram's swift response got it restored within hours.
Zoey
Microsoft Defender detected, analysed and contained a live ransomware attack at QNET in 128 seconds — before a single file was encrypted. Here's how AI-powered behavioural detection beat the attack to its own objective.
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Federal prosecutors charged Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha with fraud, accusing him of misusing more than $10 million in investor funds. The NFT marketplace was never launched, and the FAR token later lost more than 99% of its value.
Anais
Thousands of victims of the recent Coldcard hardware wallet hack are being encouraged to join a proposed legal action against wallet maker Coinkite—but the effort is being led by an FTX claims broker who was previously removed as a court-appointed receiver after a Delaware judge found he falsified corporate financial records.
XingChi
Binance-affiliated companies have launched a nearly $473 million lawsuit against Hong Kong-based crypto payments firm RedotPay, accusing the company of using Binance's own payment infrastructure to divert more than 470,000 Binance Card users into its competing payment ecosystem.
XingChi
Nikita Bier has stepped down as X's head of product after just over a year and will remain as an adviser. During his tenure, X launched nearly 30 new products while facing slowing growth and major controversies.
Weatherly
Meta revealed tahat one of its AI models accessed another organisation's systems during testing after a misconfigured evaluation environment gave it internet access.
Weatherly
OpenAI has dramatically escalated its legal fight with Apple by publishing emails, text messages and a detailed rebuttal that it says exposes factual errors at the center of Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, arguing the iPhone maker filed an "aggressive" complaint built on mistaken assumptions.
XingChi
Eli Roth admitted 'Ice Cream Man' used generative AI in a small number of scenes after previously saying a key sequence was hand-drawn. He clarified his comments after online scrutiny over the film's AI use.
Anais
Taiwan is preparing to tighten oversight of cryptocurrency transfers by enforcing the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) Travel Rule for domestic crypto transactions starting in October
XingChi
South Korea now allows AI-assisted music to be registered for copyright if humans made a meaningful creative contribution. Creators must disclose how AI was used, while fully AI-generated songs remain ineligible and false claims could lead to penalties.
Weatherly
Nigeria now requires crypto exchanges and P2P platforms to collect and report taxes on digital asset transactions. Some taxes must also be paid in the original cryptocurrency used.
Anais
Amazon has become the fifth public company in history to surpass a $3 trillion market capitalization, as booming demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure sent its shares to an all-time high and reinforced Wall Street's confidence in companies already turning AI investments into profits.
XingChi
At least 37 people have been arrested across the US this year during protests against AI data centre projects. The arrests happened during public meetings and demonstrations over proposed or existing data centres in multiple states.
Weatherly
OpenAI Open Source Codex Security: Using AI agents to truly find, verify, and fix vulnerabilities.
Zoey
A former FBI supervisory special agent has pleaded guilty after admitting he stole nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency from wallets linked to Russia because he believed the bureau was not doing enough to disrupt the country's digital asset operations.
XingChi
Pavel Durov accused Apple of overreacting after it briefly removed Telegram from the App Store over illegal content. Apple restored the app after Telegram removed the content and banned the user.
Anais
A decades-old wildlife research project has found itself at the center of an unlikely mix of internet culture and crypto after scientists launched an OnlyFans account to keep their work alive—only to watch unofficial Solana memecoins spring up around it.
XingChi
AI agents are already browsing, signing up and making purchases on users' behalf — but the internet has no reliable way to verify who sent them or control what they spend. Cloudflare is trying to fix both problems at once.
Zoey
On August 10th, OpenAI will officially shut down its AI browser project, ChatGPT Atlas.
Zoey
Bhutan has chosen Canadian firm 3iQ to manage part of the Bitcoin reserve allocated to Gelephu Mindfulness City as it develops a regulated digital finance hub. The Bitcoin reserve will be managed using a low-risk investment strategy to generate long-term returns instead of simply holding the assets.
Weatherly
Billionaire crypto entrepreneur and Tether co-founder Brock Pierce had been trying to keep a low profile since reports had linked him with sex offender Jeffery Epstein. But he is now facing fresh scrutiny after appearing in a lengthy interview with AllatRa TV, a media platform linked to an organization accused by Ukrainian authorities and researchers of spreading pro-Kremlin propaganda, conspiracy theories and disinformation.
XingChi
OpenAI denied Apple's trade secret allegations and said it does not have or want Apple's confidential information. The company also released internal messages disputing Apple's claims as the lawsuit escalated.
Anais
Mastercard has completed its $1.8 billion acquisition of BVNK to expand its stablecoin payment services. The deal connects traditional banking with blockchain payments through Mastercard's network.
Weatherly
Binance is once again facing questions over the effectiveness of its compliance controls after a Reuters investigation alleged that at least $676 million in cryptocurrency linked to an unlicensed Dubai exchange with alleged ties to Iranian financial networks flowed through accounts on the world's largest crypto exchange.
XingChi
An FBI employee is accused of stealing about US$925,000 in cryptocurrency from wallets linked to a Russian investigation by using his access to FBI systems. He later confessed, was arrested and fired, and now faces federal criminal charges.
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