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July 16, 2026

Crypto.com clinches $400M investment from Citadel Securities, valuing exchange at $20B — nypost.com

It valued the cryptocurrency exchange at $20 billion, nearly half of industry leader Coinbase’s $42 market cap.

C'mon, just copy this text string and paste it into your macOS Terminal – it'll fix your computer, honest — theregister.com

Threat intel outfit Group-IB has detailed a previously undocumented macOS information stealer that doesn't bother hunting for software bugs. Instead, it persuades users to pwn themselves by pasting a command into Terminal, after which it helps itself to

‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust — theverge.com

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and secure productivity software. You probably know it best for Proton Mail, which

Exclusive: Visa launches new platform to provide stablecoin services to more than 200 million merchants — fortune.com

Stablecoins have changed how people think about moving money, and their exponential rise over the past year has pushed mainstream payment networks to figure out how to adapt. Visa, one of the world’s largest payment processors, appears to be well on its

Brit Scattered Spider duo handed tickets to prison over Transport for London attack — theregister.com

The two British Scattered Spider members collared for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) will each spend five and a half years in prison after being sentenced on Thursday. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were sentenced

Luxury life of gang who pretended to be police to steal £4m of crypto — independent.co.uk

The gang’s spending included a car worth almost £60,000 bought using cryptocurrency