News

Core Scientific-AMD deal could generate $14B over 15 years: Bernstein

Core Scientific, a former Bitcoin mining heavyweight, has signed a 2.5-gigawatt AI hosting mega-deal with AMD. According to a Bernstein note published on July...

Crypto Scams: $80.7B in Estimated Losses Hit Americans in 2025

The Consumer Federation of America published a striking estimate in July 2026: cryptocurrency scams cost American households an estimated $80.7 billion in 2025. That...

Fed holds rates steady as Nasdaq heads for worst July since 2008

For the fifth straight meeting, the Federal Reserve held its target range at 3.50% to 3.75%. The decision was taken against a fragile backdrop:...

Anthropic AI breaks HAWK in 60 hours: Bitcoin quantum plan jolted

Bitcoin's quantum bet is wobbling: Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview AI model broke HAWK, a post-quantum signature scheme audited by human cryptographers for two years,...

Ostium blames off-chain breach for $24M exploit, rules out smart contract flaw

Arbitrum-based perpetual trading platform Ostium released its post-mortem on July 30, 2026: $23.75 million in USDC were drained from its OLP (Ostium Liquidity Pool)...

Russia detains BitRiver founder Igor Runets on $7.9M fraud charges

BitRiver founder Igor Runets, head of Russia's largest Bitcoin mining operator, was placed in pretrial detention on July 22 by a Moscow court. The...

Russia accuses Ukraine of weaponizing Telegram dating bot for terror

Moscow accuses Ukrainian intelligence of exploiting a popular dating bot on Telegram to recruit Russian citizens for sabotage operations. The FSB has opened a...

Claude Mythos Preview Cracked NIST’s HAWK Candidate — the Real Problem Is Verification

On July 28, 2026, Anthropic published a disclosure that should have been a four-alarm emergency for cybersecurity: Claude Mythos Preview had identified a structural...