WAIC in Shanghai: China shows off an AI stack built without US chips
A record WAIC in Shanghai: 1,100+ exhibitors, 300 world debuts and Huawei’s Atlas 950 SuperPoD with 8,192 Ascend chips — China’s AI stack increasingly skips US parts.
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Digital won goes live: Bank of Korea starts real transactions with nine banks in September
Phase two of Korea’s CBDC pilot goes live in September: customers of nine banks will move tokenized won across institutions, around the clock.
Read more →Bitcoin's BIP-110 fight heads for its August showdown
Signaling for the BIP-110 anti-spam soft fork opens around August 7. Miner support sits at 0.86 percent — and Saylor and Back are firmly opposed.
Read more →SharePoint under attack: critical flaw exploited days after Patch Tuesday
A critical deserialization bug in on-prem SharePoint (CVSS 9.8) came under attack right after Microsoft’s record Patch Tuesday. Stolen machine keys keep intruders in even after patching.
Read more →7-Zip flaw lets booby-trapped XZ archives run code — update to 26.02
A heap overflow in the XZ decoder (CVE-2026-14266) affects 7-Zip 21.07 through 26.01. Version 26.02 fixes it — but only if you install it yourself.
Read more →Allbridge paused after $1.65 million flash-loan attack
An attacker used a $1.12M flash loan to drain about $1.65M from Allbridge’s Solana pools. The bridge is paused and liquidity providers are told to withdraw.
Read more →Strategy sits out another week of bitcoin buying as cash pile hits $3.2 billion
No bitcoin buys for a second straight week: Strategy sold $263.5M in stock and lifted its cash reserve to $3.225B while holdings sit at 843,775 BTC.
Read more →Wallet maker Exodus cuts a quarter of its workforce
Exodus is cutting 25% of its staff and pivoting to stablecoin payments after buying Monavate and Baanx. The stock is down 85% year-over-year.
Read more →Chrome emergency update: flaw already exploited in the wild
Google has shipped an out-of-band security update for Chrome. At least one of the patched flaws is already being used in attacks — don’t put this one off.
Read more →NIS2 and KRITIS: who actually falls under the new EU security rules
The EU’s cybersecurity rules cover far more organisations than many expect — from hospitals to emergency services. A look at who is affected by NIS2 and KRITIS.
Read more →SoftMaker Office 2026: public beta of the German MS Office alternative
SoftMaker is letting users test-drive the next version of its office suite. Interesting for anyone who wants MS Office compatibility without a forced cloud.
Read more →ZachXBT slams hardware wallets — how much of it is fair?
The well-known onchain investigator calls hardware wallets unreliable and suggests a stripped-down iPhone used only for signing. A look at his arguments.
Read more →Bitcoin holds near $65,000 as South Korea hikes rates for the first time in years
The Bank of Korea raises its key rate by 25 basis points to 2.75 percent — the first hike in over three years. Bitcoin barely reacts.
Read more →Dormant since 2017: Bitcoin wallet suddenly moves $383 million
A wallet untouched since the 2017 bull market has woken up and moved $383 million worth of bitcoin. Moves like this always fuel speculation.
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