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on Jul 11, 2026
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Ledger Donjon researcher Baptiste Boileau disclosed a vulnerability in Tangem hardware wallets. A laser fault injection attack can reset the card’s password and gain control over the assets stored on it. Tangem produces hardware crypto wallets in the form of a plastic NFC card, similar to a bank card. Inside is a secure chip that […]

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on Jul 11, 2026
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The Protocol Security team at the Ethereum Foundation (EF) deployed coordinated AI agents against critical components of the blockchain infrastructure. These agents examined system software, cryptographic code, and smart contracts. The Protocol Security Team has been pointing AI agents at Ethereum’s protocol code. Our core takeaway wasn’t about finding bugs, it was about triage. Here […]

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on Jul 11, 2026
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Bitcoin miner TeraWulf plans to raise approximately $3.5 billion in debt financing for the Justified Data campus in Kentucky, leased by Anthropic, according to Bloomberg. According to the company’s CFO, Patrick Fleury, Morgan Stanley will organize the deal. The financing may include leveraged loans and high-yield bonds. This will be TeraWulf’s first venture into the […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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Researchers at Socket discovered a compromised version of the Injective SDK npm package, version 1.20.21, which intercepted wallet seed phrases and private keys. The incident is linked to the compromise of a developer’s GitHub account. According to Socket, suspicious commits appeared on June 8, 2026. The malicious release altered key derivation functions, stored private keys […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Technion and Intuit described a new class of attacks on agentic AI applications. It leverages language models’ tendency to invent nonexistent identifiers for repositories, skills and other external resources. In a preprint, the authors showed that such errors can be turned into a channel for delivering malicious instructions. In […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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Sales of Bitcoin reserves by Strategy only exert periodic pressure on the market. The real structural threat to Bitcoin is the development of private blockchain infrastructure, according to JPMorgan analysts. This was reported by The Block. The bank described a negative scenario in which tokenization, payments, and settlements continue to migrate to closed networks. If […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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Meta has introduced the multimodal model Muse Spark 1.1, which benchmarks at the level of Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5. Simultaneously, the company launched a public preview of the Meta Model API—the first paid access to its proprietary models for external developers. Agent Capabilities The model is designed for tasks requiring the planning and coordination of […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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The largest U.S. bitcoin miner, MARA Holdings, bought a site in Matagorda County, Texas. The total consideration could reach $600 million if all project milestones are met. MARA has entered into a definitive agreement with HIF to acquire a strategic powered land site in Texas. The site spans more than 1,200 acres with access to […]

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on Jul 10, 2026
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The leading cryptocurrency has been trading below the average market price and the cost basis of short-term holders for five months. According to Glassnode, this is one of the longest periods of “deep undervaluation” in the asset’s history. Source: Glassnode. Long-term investors are actively realizing losses, accounting for 43% of the total realized volume on […]

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on Jul 9, 2026
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A team of physicists from ETH Zurich, led by Yven Chu, introduced a quantum chip where the working memory is based on mechanical resonators instead of electromagnetic elements. Source: ETH Zurich. The system’s architecture resembles a conventional computer, where the processor (CPU) is separate from the random-access memory (RAM). In this case, a superconducting qubit […]