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May 19, 2026
Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’: — fortune.com
“We got rid of our HR team.” For most executives, that’s a sentence likely to provoke intense anxiety. But for Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow, it was unavoidable. Speaking at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday, the 31-year-old defended sweeping
Expert says massive AI investment is ‘laying the groundwork’ for America’s future — foxbusiness.com
Massive investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure is helping shape the next phase of the digital economy, according to one investment expert watching Wall Street’s AI race. ProCap Financial Chairman and CEO Anthony Pompliano joined FOX Business’
Crypto Crime Escalates With Kidnappings, Cons and Human Coercion — bloomberg.com
After a year of kidnappings, assaults and armed home invasions targeting cryptocurrency holders, the industry is racing to harden its defenses.
Congress is scrambling to regulate prediction markets — axios.com
Members of Congress are rushing to institute new regulatory guardrails around online prediction markets following a series of alleged insider trading scandals. Why it matters: As with cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, this is proving to be yet
Hyperscale Data Bitcoin Treasury at Approximately 692 Bitcoin – Company Announcement — ft.com
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Americans’ AI hate wave might just be gathering steam: Data centers could hike power costs in some states over 50% by 2030 — fortune.com
For years, the American power grid was a bastion of predictable stability. Throughout the 2010s, U.S. electricity demand remained flat as efficiency gains and declines in energy-intensive sectors such as manufacturing helped obscure the dawning digital
Iran hints it could interfere with submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz — theregister.com
Iran appears to have again threatened to disrupt submarine cables in the Strait of Hormuz. An X account that uses the handle Ibrahim_alFiqar and claims to represent senior Iranian military command last week posted a missive that translates as “We will
Do fear the Reaper - stealer swipes macOS users' passwords, wallets, then backdoors them — theregister.com
A new infostealer variant targets macOS users by spoofing Apple, Microsoft, and Google and then then gets to work searching for victims’ password managers so it can steal all of their credentials and access cryptocurrency wallets such as MetaMask and
Shai-Hulud copycat worm infects yet another npm package — theregister.com
A Shai-Hulud copycat has turned up in yet another npm package just five days after TeamPCP open sourced the worm and announced a supply-chain attack competition on BreachForums. The poisoned package, chalk-tempalte, masquerades as an extension for the
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