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.
XingChiAmazon 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.
XingChiOpenAI 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.
AnaisCoinkite warned that some Coldcard Mk3 hardware wallets may generate weak Bitcoin seed phrases, putting users' funds at risk. The warning came as hackers drained about 594 BTC worth around $38.3 million from roughly 500 wallets, although no confirmed link has been established.
Weatherly
Fake high-quality downloads of "The Odyssey" are circulating on torrent sites — but they are not movies. They are Lumma Stealer executables that harvest passwords, payment cards, crypto wallets and session tokens in a single click, bypassing MFA in the process.
Zoey
Wintermute has registered a US broker-dealer subsidiary with the SEC and FINRA, allowing it to trade securities, support crypto ETFs and provide liquidity in regulated US markets.
Weatherly
The Ethereum Foundation is hiring an AI security researcher to find and verify vulnerabilities across Ethereum's core protocol before they reach the network. The role follows successful AI security testing and expands the Foundation's efforts to protect future Ethereum upgrades through human review and automated tools.
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
Bitcoin bridge Boltz unintentionally triggered speculation that it had fallen under secret government pressure after missing the renewal deadline for its own warrant canary—the very transparency mechanism designed to reassure users that no secret legal orders had been received.
XingChi
A volunteer Bitcoin security team used AI to review more than 390 open-source projects and found 4,962 potential security issues, including 85 critical vulnerabilities. The team is privately reporting confirmed flaws to developers and plans to release its AI security tools as open-source software.
Anais
Visa has partnered with Zerohash to add stablecoin funding and payout services to Visa Direct for eligible clients. The new feature allows businesses to prefund accounts and send cross-border payouts in stablecoins through Visa Direct.
Weatherly
The TRUMP memecoin is no longer just a political flashpoint—it is becoming one of the biggest obstacles to passing the CLARITY Act, the landmark legislation designed to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for the U.S. crypto industry.
XingChi
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.
Zoey
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
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
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
