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Russia indicts Telegram founder Pavel Durov for aiding terrorism

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has indicted Pavel Durov, founder and owner of Telegram, for facilitating terrorist activities and issued an international arrest warrant...

44 US attorneys general sue CFTC over sports prediction markets

Forty-four US state attorneys general are demanding the CFTC withdraw its proposed rule on sports event contracts traded on prediction markets. Beyond the political...

Claude Mythos Preview Found Real Cryptographic Attacks — And the Verification Problem Is Already Here

In 2026, an artificial intelligence model discovered in a few hours of cryptographic work what human experts had failed to find in two years...

Copyright law quietly rewards AI firms for shredding books

To legally train artificial intelligence systems, technology companies are buying millions of physical books—just to slice off their bindings, scan the pages, and shred...

Maine enacts virtual currency unclaimed property law in 2025

Maine's Public Law 2025 Chapter 675 creates the state's first dedicated framework for unclaimed virtual currency. The law sets reporting, native delivery and liquidation...

Australia AML/CTF 2024: Five Virtual Asset Services Now Regulated

AUSTRALIA GAZETTED THE ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-TERRORISM FINANCING AMENDMENT ACT 2024 ON DECEMBER 10, 2024, WITH SCHEDULE 6 ENTERING INTO FORCE ON MARCH 31,...

Semiconductor sell-off deepens: Nvidia, SK Hynix, Micron plunge up to 14%

The semiconductor sector is facing a coordinated wave of selling in late July 2026, fueled by a Chinese breakthrough in DUV lithography (Deep Ultraviolet,...

Circle grabs ~1,000 blockchain patents from IBM, tops US ranking

Circle has pulled off one of the largest blockchain patent transfers on record. By scooping up IBM's portfolio — more than 680 patent families...