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Visa's stablecoin settlement passes a $20 billion annualised run rate
Visa reports a more than fifteenfold annual increase in stablecoin settlement, while daily credit facilities help smaller card programmes finance their payment obligations.
IonQ opens Superion 256 orders and estimates a 26-day quantum attack on Bitcoin signatures
Superion 256 deliveries are targeted for 2027. A separate IonQ study models a secp256k1 attack using 19,397 physical qubits with an estimated 63% success probability per attempt.
Diamond chips, faster control and Helix error correction advance three quantum approaches
Fujitsu's diamond-spin prototype, Chalmers' theoretical Floquet method and Quantinuum's Helix experiments address hardware connections, control speed and error correction.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek): 890 bytes of cache per token
DeepSeek published V4.1-Flash on 10 September 2026 under an MIT licence: a 552B multimodal mixture of experts that activates 8B parameters reading a prompt and 16B writing an answer, holds a million tokens of context, and keeps its global KV cache to 890 bytes per token.
Why AI keeps picking 17: We tested randomness across 12 models
YFarmX tested 12 language models across number ranges, five languages and coin flips. Their answers reveal strong favourites and an unusually tidy idea of randomness.
Trezor phishing alert passed email checks as YFarmX examines the takedown
Brevo confirms access to 120 accounts, closed at 09:30 UTC on 10 September. YFarmX’s later checks found the shared public DKIM key still published.
Hunter Biden launches $LAPTOP on Base with a Substack airdrop
Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token is trading on Base. Its launch combines a Substack airdrop, founder vesting and supply burns tied to real-world events.
U.S. quantum awards pair funding for D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum with equity stakes
D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum have finalised CHIPS awards totalling up to $300 million under a programme requiring minority government equity stakes.
Hermes joins Omarchy's desktop and terminal workflow
Omarchy's AI integration connects Hermes Desktop, the terminal command and theme settings around a shared runtime.
Xiaomi opens MiMo Desktop beta for editable work and computer control
MiMo Desktop's invite beta brings document creation, live previews and browser control. Xiaomi's access page currently excludes the UK and EU.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 adds sketch-led creation and more precise edits
Images 2.5 introduces Sketch, image comments and shareable prompts, with Flare and Sunburst bringing two options to the API.
OpenAI shares a proposed Navier-Stokes proof as researchers debate credit
OpenAI has released a forced Navier-Stokes blowup construction and Lean formalisation, alongside a dispute over research priority and private data.
Liquid gets 3,400 BTC back as the actor retains about $47m
The 3,400 BTC return is confirmed on Bitcoin. About 598.5 BTC remains with the actor, while Liquid's bridge incident is still active.
DeepSeek plans at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips in Inner Mongolia
Bloomberg says DeepSeek wants at least 160,000 of Huawei's Ascend 950DT accelerators for a data centre at Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia. Huawei sells that chip for decode and training. DeepSeek's plan uses it for decode, and keeps Nvidia for the training runs.
Quantinuum signed a non-binding MOU with Aramco, which already runs a rival's quantum computer
Quantinuum announced a memorandum of understanding with Aramco signed in Riyadh on 31 August. Read in full, it commits to technical onboarding, knowledge exchange and benchmarking. Aramco already has a rival's quantum computer installed and running.
Hyperscale Data ended bitcoin mining at its Michigan site for a 20MW AI contract
Hyperscale Data turned off every bitcoin miner at its Michigan data centre on 1 September to make room for an AI customer. The signed contract covers 20MW of a campus the company says will eventually run to about 340MW.
Tron holds $94.27bn of USDT against Ethereum's $88.31bn
USDT on Tron has reached $94.27bn against $88.31bn on Ethereum. We read both figures off the contracts themselves rather than taking Tether's word. The lead has changed hands more than once, and the fee gap normally used to explain it has inverted.
QC Ware and IonQ report chemical accuracy on eight qubits, with no paper and no named benchmark
QC Ware said on 1 September 2026 that a hybrid workflow on IonQ's Forte computer got within 0.5 kcal/mol of classical benchmarks for an enzyme active site. The quantum part was eight qubits, and the benchmark it was measured against is not named.
ICE invests in tZERO and licenses 103 patents, five months after signing Securitize for the same platform
tZERO said on 31 August 2026 that ICE will invest in its current funding round and license its blockchain patents for the NYSE-affiliated Digital Trading Platform. ICE signed a near-identical arrangement with Securitize in March.
We ran nine methods against Tornado Cash. One of them named the wallet funding the cash-out
A methods paper from a live investigation. Nine techniques run against a real Tornado Cash cash-out, what each one returned, and the one that named the wallet feeding the pool while the operator drained it.
YFarmX investigation: Venus attack proceeds flowed into the funding trail behind Tectonic on Cronos
Venus Protocol named its attacker in March. Those proceeds went to the wallet that five months later funded the Cronos drain. Every hop across three chains, graded by evidence.
Pasqal listed with $360m and 90.57% of the SPAC's public shareholders took their money out
Pasqal began trading as PSQL on 28 August and closed its first session at $19.11. Shareholders redeemed 26,039,602 of 28,750,000 SPAC shares, and $250m of the cash at closing came from convertible bonds sold at a 20% discount.
IBM has bought a second qubit technology and its published roadmap still does not mention it
IBM completed its purchase of HRL Laboratories on 26 August. The releases describe a whole second qubit modality. IBM's own quantum roadmap names spin qubits, silicon, HRL and Anderon zero times.
Hermes Agent now browses with a copy of your real logins and cookies
Hermes Agent shipped real-profile browsing on 27 August: the agent gets a copy of your logins and cookies. Every other vendor is arguing about how much isolation to put in. Nous wrote the trade-off into its own manual instead.
A pull request explained the Cosmos EVM bug at 07:16, and the first chain was drained by 19:06
Cosmos Labs patched a balance underflow in public in May, judged it harmless on production chains, and backported it on 19 August. A downstream developer described the exploit path the next morning. Six chains were drained by it, and TAC has not produced a block since.
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