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August 6, 2026
Senate negotiations intensify on recess deal — semafor.com
After Republican senators lunched with Vice President JD Vance, the contours of a deal to finish the Senate’s summer business started becoming clearer. “There’s some movement in the right direction,” Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., told Semafor. Republican
Bitcoin Sleuths Are Going Sleepless After Coldcard Wallet Hack — bloomberg.com
Exploit comes as the digital assets industry struggles.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Quietly Stopped Updating In April. Basically No One Noticed. — techdirt.com
As perhaps a few Elon Musk fans may remember, he got really annoyed at Wikipedia last year and tasked his second-rate LLM, Grok, with recreating it as “Grokipedia.” Grokipedia, launched nearly a year ago, basically starts by forking Wikipedia and then
Hacked Bitcoin Wallet Maker Declines to Estimate Amount Lost — bloomberg.com
The company at the center of a Bitcoin hack declined to speculate on how much cryptocurrency has been lost through a software flaw that was exploited to steal users’ funds, now estimated at around $130 million.
Bitcoin (BTC) Faithful Tested as Hackers Drain Funds Stashed Offline — bloomberg.com
A days-long virtual theft of crypto inside "cold wallets" is further undermining confidence in an industry already facing pressure on multiple fronts.
A Fairy Tale Ending? — commonwealmagazine.org
A Fairy Tale Ending? In Venice Observed, her cultural history of that enchanting city, Mary McCarthy quotes a sixteenth-century German prince’s assessment of the Venetian character. Venetians were “conspiring the ruin of everyone,” the prince complained,
Crypto billionaire Michael Saylor says he made $15 billion last year with ChatGPT—and has one rule: ‘Don’t try to outwork the robots’ — fortune.com
In the age of AI, the key to building wealth isn’t trying to compete with machines—it’s using them to your advantage. That’s at least according to billionaire Michael Saylor, who recently created ChatGPT to help his company make $15 billion last year. “If
Snowflake extortionist admits 165-victim cloud crime spree – and squeezing one target twice — theregister.com
A Canadian who helped orchestrate the sprawling Snowflake-linked data theft campaign has pleaded guilty in the US, admitting that he and his co-conspirators returned to squeeze at least one victim a second time. Connor Riley Moucka, 26, of Kitchener,
Ashkelon couple indicted for allegedly spying for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency — jpost.com
The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office charged Amshukov with contact with a foreign agent and 16 counts of providing information that could benefit the enemy.
Crypto’s top legislative priority slips in Senate — semafor.com
The odds are growing longer that the Senate takes up the cryptocurrency industry’s top legislative priority before lawmakers head home for the summer. The industry needs a vote before November so it can deploy millions in political spending. But leaders
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