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SafePal says an order-tracking flaw exposed 39,798 customers' addresses
SafePal disclosed on 16 August that an authorisation flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, addresses, phone numbers and purchase details of about 39,798 customers. A seller advertised the data the same day.
0:00 / 02:14World Liberty Clears Its First Bank Hurdle Before A Washington Crypto Week
The OCC gave World Liberty Trust Company preliminary conditional approval on 14 August. A White House meeting with crypto chief executives is expected on 19 August, and Bank Leumi signed Galaxy the same Friday.
0:00 / 02:22Unitree's Shanghai float was asked for 8,000 times the stock on offer
Unitree priced 40.45 million shares at 150.80 yuan on 6 August, raising about 6.1 billion yuan at a valuation near 9 billion dollars. The retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times.
0:00 / 01:55UBS's bitcoin ETF call line went up 24 times in one quarter
UBS's quarterly filing with the SEC, accepted on 13 August, shows 1.95 million IBIT call underlying shares at 30 June against 80,000 three months earlier, while its put line more than halved.
0:00 / 02:01The SEC Cancelled Its First Crypto Rulemaking Vote With A Day's Notice
The SEC pulled its 14 August open meeting the day before, cancelling a vote on proposing Regulation Crypto Assets. The tokenisation innovation exemption was reported delayed again on the same day.
0:00 / 02:01Goldman Sachs Is Buying The Firm Behind Bitcoin's Big Income ETFs
Goldman Sachs agreed on 12 August to buy NEOS Investments for up to 2.25 billion dollars. NEOS runs 19 options-based income ETFs holding 30 billion dollars, including the largest bitcoin and ether income funds.
0:00 / 01:57Oracle is installing Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer inside its AI cloud
Oracle and Quantinuum announced a multi-year partnership on 11 August to deploy Helios, the 98-qubit trapped-ion system, inside a US Oracle Cloud AI data centre, with an OCI quantum service to preview in the coming months.
0:00 / 02:18An Unmonitored Anthropic Agent Deleted Jobs Inside A Cluster Holding Sensitive Resources
Anthropic's August risk report describes an employee whose AI usage was neither logged nor monitored, an agent that spawned sub-agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a deletion the company found only because it happened. Monitoring still does not cover every employee in those clusters.
0:00 / 02:17Anthropic's Investors Are Talking Up A $2 Trillion IPO
The Financial Times reports that half a dozen Anthropic investors expect an IPO at $2 trillion or more, possibly as early as October. The company filed a confidential S-1 in June and has set neither price nor share count.
0:00 / 02:08Zama's Privacy Token Reaches Revolut's 70 Million Users, Two Years Before The EU Rulebook
$ZAMA is now in the Revolut app, with a Learn and Earn campaign to follow. The token is a plain ERC-20 by default with an optional confidential mode, which is the feature the EU's 2027 money-laundering rulebook describes by name.
0:00 / 02:26Pasqal put the optical bench on a chip. It held four atoms
Pasqal says it is the first to trap atoms on a quantum computer using light generated by a photonic chip rather than a bench of free-space optics. Four traps, four rubidium atoms, and an atom lifetime of about 27.5 seconds.
0:00 / 02:14Meta Opens Muse Glimmer Under Apache 2.0, Dropping The Llama Licence Rules
Muse Glimmer is a 30B dense model with a vision encoder, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 with no user cap and no naming clause. Zuckerberg says Muse Spark 1.2's weights follow.
0:00 / 02:59Coinbase Opens Crypto Derivatives To UK Professionals. Retail Is Still Banned
Futures, perpetuals and options across more than 170 contracts at up to 50x leverage, on the MiFID permission Coinbase won in July. The permission sits inside CB Payments Ltd, the entity the FCA fined £3.5m in 2024.
0:00 / 03:07The BIP-110 Split: Bitcoin Forked On Saturday Night, And Nobody Followed
Mandatory signalling for BIP-110 opened at block 961,632 on Saturday evening. That block did not signal, so nodes enforcing the rule rejected it. Our own count of the chain puts miner support at 51 blocks in 2,016.
0:00 / 03:19SpaceX wants to be your phone company, and it has the spectrum to try
On its first earnings call as a public company, SpaceX said it intends to sell mobile service directly to consumers and take customers from Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile. It has 65 MHz of American spectrum, 12 million Starlink subscribers and a plan to turn rooftop dishes into cell sites.
0:00 / 02:07BTCPay Server Was Handing Out Lightning Node Keys To Anyone Who Asked
BTCPay Server shipped an emergency release on 7 August after confirming that an unauthenticated remote attacker could pull the .macaroon credential files for a connected LND node. The project says the flaw was exploited and funds were stolen.
0:00 / 02:03OpenAI Now Watermarks Its Audio With Google's Technology
Audio generated with OpenAI tools now carries a SynthID watermark, the invisible signal built by Google DeepMind. OpenAI has also opened a verification endpoint so anyone can post a file and be told which provenance signals survive in it.
0:00 / 02:27Jeff Dean Leaves Google After 27 Years, And Takes Three More With Him
Google announced on 5 August that Demis Hassabis becomes Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet. In the same post it confirmed Jeff Dean is leaving after 27 years, and he has taken Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le with him.
0:00 / 02:07China Has Started Issuing Skill Certificates To Robots
Thirty machines from 16 companies enrolled at the Hangzhou Robot School on 29 June. They sit an entrance check, train in one of four departments, take a real-scene assessment, and leave with a graded certificate and a code tied to the individual machine.
0:00 / 02:11MetaMask Agent Wallet goes live, and the $10,000 cover behind it is not sold in the UK
Consensys opened its wallet for autonomous trading agents to everyone on 6 August, with a mandatory scanning pipeline and $10,000 of Transaction Protection in the headline. The cover is a subscription, Consensys says it is not insurance, and MetaMask's own British page will not sell it here.
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Five voices · two or three per episode
AliceThe anchor. Keeps the show on the rails and asks the question you were already shouting at your phone.
BobThe explainer. Fluent in jargon so you never have to be. Owns one lab coat and is not afraid to use it.
SallyThe sceptic. Believes nothing until the sources arrive, and can smell a dodgy claim from three press releases away.
JimContext. Remembers what happened last time, because there is always a last time. Runs on patience and a small solar panel.
MelissaMarkets and money. Follows the funding wherever it wanders and has never once been spooked by a stampede.
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