Independent frontier technology news: AI news, crypto news and quantum computing news, explained clearly and fully sourced, with the security angle covered on all three.https://yfarmx.com/en-GBTue, 15 Sep 2026 22:13:04 GMThttps://yfarmx.com/clarity-act-senate-cloture-vote-roll-call/https://yfarmx.com/clarity-act-senate-cloture-vote-roll-call/The Senate rejected cloture on H.R. 3633 by 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. All 49 yeas were Republican, four Republicans voted nay, and Senator Tillis entered a motion to reconsider one minute later. Roll call 234 needed 60 votes and drew 49, every one from the Republican conference. The 18 Democrats who passed the GENIUS Act in June 2025 all voted nay, and a motion to reconsider is now on the table. Cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 was rejected 49 to 50, with one senator not voting All 49 yeas came from the Republican conference; 44 Democrats, two independents and four Republicans voted nayTue, 15 Sep 2026 19:30:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/flex-sentinel-3c-plant-health/https://yfarmx.com/flex-sentinel-3c-plant-health/ESA's FLEX mission will measure the faint fluorescence of vegetation, sharing a planned Vega-C launch with the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite. FLEX is designed to map the faint fluorescence of plants across the globe. It shares a planned Vega-C launch with Sentinel-3C, which will extend Europe's environmental observations. ESA's 14 September update lists a 15 September launch at 01:21 UTC. FLEX targets global vegetation-fluorescence maps at 300-metre resolution.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:46:11 GMTYFarmXspacehttps://yfarmx.com/ses-o3b-mpower-constellation-complete/https://yfarmx.com/ses-o3b-mpower-constellation-complete/SES has launched the final three satellites in its initial O3b mPOWER constellation, with the new capacity expected to enter service by mid-2027. SES has completed the launch of its initial 13-satellite O3b mPOWER constellation. The final three spacecraft are expected to enter service by mid-2027. Falcon 9 carried satellites 11, 12 and 13 from Cape Canaveral on 13 September. Ten O3b mPOWER spacecraft already provide commercial service.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:46:11 GMTYFarmXspacehttps://yfarmx.com/binance-iran-oil-analytics/https://yfarmx.com/binance-iran-oil-analytics/A 14 September DOJ complaint targets $61m in USDT and alleges Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale used Binance accounts to move Iranian oil proceeds. The new civil forfeiture case targets frozen USDT linked to an alleged $1.5bn Iranian oil network. The filing details Tether's seizure role and dollar payments through a US bank. DOJ filed its civil forfeiture complaint on 14 September 2026, seeking about $61m in USDT. Prosecutors allege Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale used Binance accounts to launder Iranian oil proceeds.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:30:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/josh-engels-deepmind-metr-ai-safety/https://yfarmx.com/josh-engels-deepmind-metr-ai-safety/Josh Engels has left DeepMind's AGI safety team for METR, calling for slower development and independent investigation of AI behaviour. Josh Engels is moving from a frontier laboratory to independent safety investigations. His warning focuses on the risks of AI systems helping to build more capable successors. Engels described his departure in a public post on 12 September. METR proposes access to models, incident records and staff for independent investigations.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 23:37:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/amodei-pace-frontier-ai/https://yfarmx.com/amodei-pace-frontier-ai/Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI gains backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk as chip shares fall and the US-China dispute sharpens. Dario Amodei has called for slower advances in frontier AI, drawing support from Sam Altman and Elon Musk. AI-linked shares fell globally as Trump defended America's lead and Chinese state media attacked the proposal. Anthropic commits to embedded third-party evaluators with continuing access. Amodei proposes industry coordination and verifiable international agreements.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/clarity-act-september-final-offer/https://yfarmx.com/clarity-act-september-final-offer/A 635-page CLARITY Act draft adds state enforcement of crypto ethics rules and a stablecoin deposit safeguard before the Senate's 15 September vote. Senate Republicans have released a 635-page CLARITY Act draft with revised ethics and stablecoin provisions. A procedural vote on 15 September needs 60 senators to move the bill towards floor consideration. State attorneys general would gain a route to enforce the crypto ethics restrictions. Covered business interests must be sold or placed in a qualified blind trust.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/microsoft-humanist-ai-code/https://yfarmx.com/microsoft-humanist-ai-code/Microsoft opens a six-week consultation on its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, proposing shutdown controls and safety rules for model development from 2027. Microsoft has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct for a six-week consultation. The proposed rules put human control first and are intended to guide its model development from 2027. The document has 37 numbered pages plus its cover. Authorised people must be able to pause, redirect and shut down models.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/revolut-fraudulent-government-request-customer-data/https://yfarmx.com/revolut-fraudulent-government-request-customer-data/Revolut's customer notice describes a fraudulent request from a mailbox inside a government domain, with identity documents and transaction records potentially disclosed. A request carrying genuine government-domain authentication persuaded Revolut to release customer records. The disclosed categories connect identity documents and contact details with financial activity. The notice lists identity documents, verification selfies and transaction histories among the potentially disclosed data. Revolut says it blocked the mailbox and began notifying regulators after checking with the government agency.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMTYFarmX2026-09-14T21:39:00.000Zcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/blockstream-liquid-ransom-bitcoin-recovery/https://yfarmx.com/blockstream-liquid-ransom-bitcoin-recovery/Blockstream has refused a ransom after 3,400 BTC were returned. The transaction trail links the message wallet to an earlier withdrawal and preserves a smaller tracing lead. Most of the withdrawn bitcoin has been returned, leaving about 598.5 BTC still to be recovered, according to Liquid. Blockstream says it will pursue recovery through investigators and service providers. The exploit created tokens without their required bitcoin backing, according to Liquid. The ransom message demanded a 10% payment from Blockstream's own funds.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:55:00 GMTYFarmXcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/nasdaq-payward-100-million-tokenised-equities/https://yfarmx.com/nasdaq-payward-100-million-tokenised-equities/Nasdaq's agreement to invest in Kraken parent Payward deepens their tokenised-equities partnership, with Nasdaq Equity Tokens targeted for the second quarter of 2027. Nasdaq and Payward are building connections between regulated share markets and blockchain networks. Their expanded relationship also includes market-surveillance technology across Payward's trading venues. Nasdaq Ventures has agreed to invest $100 million in Kraken's parent company. The proposed Nasdaq Equity Tokens launch is targeted for the second quarter of 2027.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:50:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/visa-stablecoin-settlement-20-billion-run-rate/https://yfarmx.com/visa-stablecoin-settlement-20-billion-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. Stablecoin settlement is growing inside Visa's payment infrastructure. Financing the daily gap between settlement and customer repayments is becoming an important part of how new card programmes operate. The figure extends the recent settlement pace across a full year. Visa reports more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programmes in its fiscal second quarter.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:45:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/ionq-superion-256-bitcoin-quantum-estimate/https://yfarmx.com/ionq-superion-256-bitcoin-quantum-estimate/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. IonQ has opened orders for its sixth-generation quantum platform. Its accompanying cryptography research estimates the resources a much larger fault-tolerant machine would need to recover a Bitcoin signing key. Superion 256 prototypes have trapped their first ions; customer deliveries are targeted for 2027. The separate attack estimate uses 19,397 physical qubits and 25.7 days per attempt.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:40:00 GMTYFarmXquantumsecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/quantum-diamond-floquet-helix-september-2026/https://yfarmx.com/quantum-diamond-floquet-helix-september-2026/Fujitsu's diamond-spin prototype, Chalmers' theoretical Floquet method and Quantinuum's Helix experiments address hardware connections, control speed and error correction. Three research announcements tackle different obstacles to useful quantum computers. They span a working diamond-spin prototype, a theoretical control shortcut and error-corrected operations demonstrated on Helios. Fujitsu and its Delft collaborators have built a prototype using tin-vacancy centres in diamond. Chalmers' theoretical method reduces some bosonic operations from thousands of driving cycles to one.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:35:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/llm-random-numbers-seventeen-bias-research/https://yfarmx.com/llm-random-numbers-seventeen-bias-research/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. A tweet about AI always choosing 17 prompted a YFarmX experiment across 12 models. Number preferences changed with the range, 17 led in five languages, and generated coin flips strongly favoured balanced totals and short runs. For 1 to 10, the models chose 7 in 93.3% of answers; for 1 to 100, their leading choice was 47 Seventeen was the most frequent answer in all five languages tested for the 1-to-30 promptWed, 09 Sep 2026 23:40:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/trezor-newsletter-phishing-september-2026/https://yfarmx.com/trezor-newsletter-phishing-september-2026/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. Brevo says an attacker accessed 120 accounts and that access was closed at 09:30 UTC on 10 September. Most showed no suspicious activity. YFarmX’s 14:10 UTC DNS check found the same public DKIM key across six records, separate from whether account access was revoked. Fake "STM32 entropy" alert sent from Trezor's authenticated mail domain with SPF, DKIM and DMARC all passing; the campaign's earlier wave hides an invisible Unicode character in subject lines to slip past spam filters Brevo says 120 accounts were accessed; most showed no suspicious activity, and access was closed at 09:30 UTC on 10 SeptemberWed, 09 Sep 2026 21:35:00 GMTYFarmX2026-09-10T15:04:00.000Zcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/hunter-biden-laptop-base-substack-airdrop/https://yfarmx.com/hunter-biden-laptop-base-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. LAPTOP has opened trading and its claim portal on Base. Eligible Substack readers receive an 8% supply allocation, while a separate 30% pool follows political, cultural and crypto outcomes. The day-one airdrop allocates 8% of supply to eligible Substack readers and 2% through venues serving users with $TRUMP losses. Founders share a 30% allocation with a six-month lock-up, followed by two years of monthly vesting.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:50:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/us-quantum-awards-dwave-rigetti-quantinuum/https://yfarmx.com/us-quantum-awards-dwave-rigetti-quantinuum/D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum have finalised CHIPS awards totalling up to $300 million under a programme requiring minority government equity stakes. Three quantum companies have finalised CHIPS funding agreements totalling up to $300 million. The programme pairs research support with minority government equity stakes, following letters of intent announced in May. D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum announced their final agreements on 8 September. The funding supports superconducting hardware, trapped-ion manufacturing and their supply chains.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:15:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/hermes-agent-omarchy-desktop-integration/https://yfarmx.com/hermes-agent-omarchy-desktop-integration/Omarchy's AI integration connects Hermes Desktop, the terminal command and theme settings around a shared runtime. Omarchy now documents an integrated Hermes desktop and terminal setup. Installing the desktop app brings a shared runtime and a theme that follows the Linux desktop's appearance. Hermes Desktop appears in Omarchy's Install > AI menu. The desktop app's runtime also serves the Hermes terminal command and default-agent integration.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:03:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/xiaomi-mimo-desktop-invite-beta/https://yfarmx.com/xiaomi-mimo-desktop-invite-beta/MiMo Desktop's invite beta brings document creation, live previews and browser control. Xiaomi's access page currently excludes the UK and EU. Xiaomi has opened applications for MiMo Desktop, an agent app built around editable deliverables and live iteration. Availability is regional, with the UK and EU excluded on the current invitation page. MiMo Desktop brings files, task planning and editable outputs into one application. The invitation page describes browser automation and computer control for the global version.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:02:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/chatgpt-images-2-5-editing-sketch/https://yfarmx.com/chatgpt-images-2-5-editing-sketch/Images 2.5 introduces Sketch, image comments and shareable prompts, with Flare and Sunburst bringing two options to the API. OpenAI is rolling out Images 2.5 across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex. The release combines faster generation with tools for directing local edits and sharing a reusable creative brief. OpenAI reports generation latency up to 50% lower than Images 2.0. Sketch, image comments, templates and prompt sharing expand the creation workflow.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:01:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/openai-navier-stokes-proposed-proof/https://yfarmx.com/openai-navier-stokes-proposed-proof/OpenAI has released a forced Navier-Stokes blowup construction and Lean formalisation, alongside a dispute over research priority and private data. OpenAI has published a proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Its release joins a separate advance by Levent Alpöge and Tristan Buckmaster, with research credit and the use of private data under scrutiny. The paper constructs a fluid flow with smooth external forcing whose velocity becomes unbounded in finite time. OpenAI has released a written argument and Lean formalisation covering alternatives C and D of the Clay problem.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/liquid-network-4000-btc-peg-out/https://yfarmx.com/liquid-network-4000-btc-peg-out/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. Most of the withdrawn bitcoin has returned to Liquid's federation address. The actor's roughly 15% share remains an unresolved part of the recovery. A Bitcoin transaction returned exactly 3,400 BTC to the Liquid Federation address on 7 September at 16:09:25 UTC. The same transaction returned 598.49955894 BTC to the actor's address, roughly 15% of the headline withdrawal and about $47m at the 8 September price snapshot.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/deepseek-160000-huawei-ascend-chips-ulanqab/https://yfarmx.com/deepseek-160000-huawei-ascend-chips-ulanqab/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. Bloomberg says DeepSeek wants at least 160,000 of Huawei's newest AI chips for a data centre in Inner Mongolia. It plans to use them to answer users' questions, and to keep buying Nvidia for the harder job of training its models. At least 160,000 Ascend 950DT accelerators, for a site at Ulanqab, around 350km north-west of Beijing. Huawei markets the 950DT for running models and for training them. DeepSeek's plan covers the running.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/ai-funding-hiddenlayer-wonderful-crusoe/https://yfarmx.com/ai-funding-hiddenlayer-wonderful-crusoe/HiddenLayer raised $100m and Wonderful $550m, both announced on 2 September by the companies themselves. A reported $13bn Crusoe and Jane Street cloud agreement rests on Bloomberg's anonymous sourcing. HiddenLayer raised $100m and Wonderful $550m at about $5bn, both announced on 2 September by the companies themselves. The third story of the week, a reported $13bn Crusoe and Jane Street agreement, rests on Bloomberg's anonymous sourcing. HiddenLayer raised a $100m Series B led by Delta-v Capital, announced on its own newsroom. Wonderful raised a $550m Series C at about $5bn, led by Insight Partners with Salesforce joining.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:20:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/quantinuum-aramco-mou-non-binding/https://yfarmx.com/quantinuum-aramco-mou-non-binding/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. Quantinuum signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Aramco in Riyadh on 31 August 2026, committing the two to technical onboarding, knowledge exchange and benchmarking. Aramco has had a 200-qubit Pasqal machine running in Dhahran since November 2025. The document is explicitly non-binding and covers preliminary technical onboarding, knowledge exchange and benchmarking. The release gives the signing city, the date, both signatories and the four commitments, and leaves value, applications, hardware and timing to later talks.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:15:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/hyperscale-data-michigan-mining-off-ai-capacity/https://yfarmx.com/hyperscale-data-michigan-mining-off-ai-capacity/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. Every bitcoin miner at Hyperscale Data's Dowagiac site went off on 1 September, at a campus that carried roughly 28MW of mining when the contract was signed in June. The signed agreement covers 20MW, against a campus target of about 340MW. All bitcoin miners at the Michigan site were turned off effective 1 September 2026, per the company's own release. The master services agreement covers 20MW, worth in excess of $1.2bn if run for its maximum term of up to twenty years.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:10:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/usdt-tron-94bn-ethereum-supply/https://yfarmx.com/usdt-tron-94bn-ethereum-supply/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. USDT on Tron stands at $94.27bn against $88.31bn on Ethereum, both matching a direct read of the token contracts to the dollar. The ranking has changed hands more than once, and an Ethereum transfer costs about three cents at this morning's gas price. USDT on Tron stands at $94,268,664,155 against $88,306,226,684 on Ethereum, a lead of $5.96bn or 6.75%. Both figures were confirmed by calling totalSupply() on the contracts directly, matching Tether's disclosure to the dollar.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:05:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/arc-prize-two-scores-gpt-6-astra/https://yfarmx.com/arc-prize-two-scores-gpt-6-astra/OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September. ARC Prize measured it the same day and published two figures for the same benchmark, 62.7% and 99.9%. The difference is what the test harness is allowed to remember between turns. ARC Prize published two ARC-AGI-3 scores for GPT-6 Astra on 3 September: 62.7% on the harness every model is measured on, and 99.9% on one preserving the provider's own reasoning state. The foundation withheld the AGI label from the result. Astra scored 62.7% for about $26,000 on ARC Prize's Standard harness, and 99.9% for about $19,000 on its Provider Adapter harness. The Standard harness lets a model carry forward notes it chooses to keep. The Provider Adapter harness preserves opaque reasoning state between requests.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:40:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/qc-ware-ionq-p450nor-chemical-accuracy-eight-qubits/https://yfarmx.com/qc-ware-ionq-p450nor-chemical-accuracy-eight-qubits/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. QC Ware and IonQ announced a hybrid quantum-classical calculation of an enzyme active site on 1 September 2026, reporting agreement within 0.5 kcal/mol of classical benchmarks. No paper covers this run, and the classical reference method is not identified. A 115-atom model with over 1,000 orbitals was cut to a 4-orbital active space on 8 of IonQ Forte's 36 qubits. The quantum computer performed one measurement step. Promethium did the preparation and the final energies classically.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:00:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/genai-mil-chatgpt-grok-impact-level-5/https://yfarmx.com/genai-mil-chatgpt-grok-impact-level-5/The Pentagon added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil portal on 31 August 2026, both accredited for controlled unclassified information at Impact Level 5. Neither release names a single person. The Department of War put OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government on its GenAI.mil platform on 31 August 2026. The portal has 1.7 million users out of more than 3 million personnel, and both tools are unclassified only. Two releases, same day, same platform. Both tools are accredited for controlled unclassified information at Impact Level 5. GenAI.mil launched on 9 December 2025 with Google's Gemini for Government and has 1.7 million of the department's 3 million-plus personnel.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/adobe-mcit-humain-saudi-firefly-free-access-4bn/https://yfarmx.com/adobe-mcit-humain-saudi-firefly-free-access-4bn/Adobe said at LEAP 2026 on 31 August that it will give over 27 million Saudi citizens and residents 12 months of free Firefly and Express Premium, and valued the commitment at over $4 billion. The figure is Adobe's own valuation, and it appears in no filing. Adobe expanded its Saudi partnership at LEAP 2026 on 31 August 2026, offering over 27 million citizens and residents a year of free Firefly Standard and Express Premium. Adobe values its commitment at over $4 billion and does not say how. The offer is 12 months of Adobe Firefly Standard plus Adobe Express Premium features, to anyone eligible aged 13 and over, from the end of 2026. The $4bn is Adobe's own valuation of its commitment. No term, no methodology and no cash figure is published by either side.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/eu-designates-chatgpt-vlose-digital-services-act/https://yfarmx.com/eu-designates-chatgpt-vlose-digital-services-act/The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine on 31 August 2026, alongside Reddit and Roblox as platforms. The designation rests on a user number OpenAI reported itself, and the compliance clock runs from notification. The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act on 31 August 2026. It is the only AI chatbot on the list of 28 designated services, and the third search engine on it. The designated entity is OpenAI Ireland Limited and the designated service is ChatGPT, not a separate search feature. The Commission's reasoning: ChatGPT can search the web, so it is a hybrid service that qualifies as an online search engine under the DSA.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/ice-tzero-investment-patent-licence-digital-trading-platform/https://yfarmx.com/ice-tzero-investment-patent-licence-digital-trading-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. tZERO announced on 31 August 2026 that Intercontinental Exchange will invest in its current financing round and take a licence to its 103 blockchain patents. No amount, stake or valuation was disclosed by either company. The licence covers 23 patent families and 103 patents, for use in ICE's NYSE-affiliated Digital Trading Platform. It arrives with a non-binding memorandum of understanding naming tZERO a design partner for digital transfer agent infrastructure.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/sec-transfer-agent-rules-blockchain-master-securityholder-file/https://yfarmx.com/sec-transfer-agent-rules-blockchain-master-securityholder-file/The SEC proposed a rewrite of its transfer agent rules on 1 September 2026. The amended definition of the master securityholder file would permit a blockchain to hold it, on one condition the proposal then asks the public how to enforce. The SEC proposed new transfer agent rules on 1 September 2026. The share register could be kept on a blockchain, so long as the transfer agent keeps exclusive control of it, and the proposal asks the public what to do when nobody controls the chain. Release 34-106246 amends thirteen rules and two forms, rescinds one rule and adds two. The core rules have not been substantively updated since the late 1970s and early 1980s. The master securityholder file could be electronic, split across linked systems, and held on a blockchain, provided the transfer agent keeps exclusive control of it at all times.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/bank-consortium-21-institutions-dollar-stablecoin/https://yfarmx.com/bank-consortium-21-institutions-dollar-stablecoin/Twenty-one financial institutions said on 1 September 2026 that they have committed to establish a company to issue a dollar stablecoin. The release names no company, no chain and no executive, and two of the ten founding banks are missing from it. Twenty-one banks and asset managers committed on 1 September 2026 to form a company that will issue a dollar stablecoin, with the product due in the first half of 2027. Two of the ten founding banks from October 2025 are not on the list. The company does not exist. The release says the 21 have committed to establish one in the second half of 2026, subject to closing conditions. Three of the 21 are not banks: Fidelity Investments and WisdomTree are asset managers, and Sirius International Holding is an Abu Dhabi technology group.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/tornado-cash-nine-methods-mixer-held/https://yfarmx.com/tornado-cash-nine-methods-mixer-held/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. A zero-knowledge mixer cannot be unmixed by looking at the chain, and we did not unmix one. These are the nine methods we ran against a real cash-out, what each one returned, and the one that named the depositor behind it. Eight methods produced timing, tooling and population evidence but never linked a withdrawal to the deposit whose note it spent, which is what the proof system guarantees and what we found. One method crossed from bounding the operator's behaviour to naming the wallet that funded it, validated against a control population and then reproduced on a second wallet eight months later.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:10:00 GMTYFarmXcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/cronos-tectonic-forensic-postmortem/https://yfarmx.com/cronos-tectonic-forensic-postmortem/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. Venus Protocol names the wallet behind its March 2026 attack. Its proceeds went to the wallet that funded the Cronos drain five months later, and this is the whole loop, from one Tornado Cash note onward. Venus Protocol's own post-mortem names 0x1a35bd28 as its primary attacker. That wallet sent 1,743.027 ETH to the Cronos funding wallet nine days after the March attack, a connection we can find no prior published account of. Venus puts the attacker's funding at 7,447 ETH in 77 Tornado Cash transactions. Counting from the other end gives 76 transfers and 7,400.191 ETH, a difference of 0.63 per cent.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/pasqal-nasdaq-listing-redemptions-convertibles/https://yfarmx.com/pasqal-nasdaq-listing-redemptions-convertibles/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. Pasqal completed its de-SPAC on 27 August 2026 and listed as PSQL the next day, closing at $19.11. Almost none of the trust survived: public shareholders redeemed 90.57% of their shares. 26,039,602 of 28,750,000 Class A shares were redeemed, leaving 2,710,398 public shares. The $250m March financing was $312.5m of principal sold at a 20% original issue discount, at 10% cash or 12% payment-in-kind interest.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:45:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/ibm-hrl-acquisition-spin-qubits-not-on-roadmap/https://yfarmx.com/ibm-hrl-acquisition-spin-qubits-not-on-roadmap/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. IBM has completed its acquisition of HRL Laboratories from Boeing and General Motors, adding silicon spin qubits to a company built on superconducting ones. No price was disclosed and no 8-K was filed. IBM bought the whole of HRL, not a carve-out of its quantum programme, and disclosed no price. The roadmap page IBM publishes names Nighthawk, Kookaburra, Starling and Blue Jay, and no spin-qubit milestone at all.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/hermes-agent-real-profile-browsing/https://yfarmx.com/hermes-agent-real-profile-browsing/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. Hermes Agent can now browse with a copy of your Chromium profile: cookies, saved logins and preferences. It is off by default, and the documentation says a page the agent visits runs with your real logins. The feature copies your active profile into a snapshot and re-syncs the auth files every time a fresh session starts. Nous documents it as a consent-gated convenience rather than an isolation boundary, and ships it off by default.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:00:00 GMTYFarmXaisecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/microduck-open-source-software-not-hardware/https://yfarmx.com/microduck-open-source-software-not-hardware/Pollen Robotics launched a $399 reinforcement-learning biped on 27 August. The software is Apache-2.0, the simulation geometry is non-commercial, and the mechanical and electronic design files are withheld. The press kit says so in writing. Microduck is a 25cm biped at $399 that you train yourself with reinforcement learning. Its software is fully open, its design files are not, and Pollen's own press kit asks the press not to describe the hardware as open-source. The press kit heading is Open source = software, and it asks press not to call the robot open-source hardware. The only 3D geometry published is the simulation mesh set, under Creative Commons BY-SA-NC, which is not an open-source licence.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:30:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/cosmos-evm-underflow-six-chains/https://yfarmx.com/cosmos-evm-underflow-six-chains/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. One arithmetic underflow in Cosmos EVM's balance tracking was exploited on six chains between 20 and 25 August 2026. Cosmos Labs says about $5.7m was sold, and TAC has produced no block for more than eight days. The fix went out under the silent patch process because the team could not reproduce the bug on 18-decimal chains and concluded it was harmless there. A Push Chain pull request set out the vulnerability and its exploit path at 07:16 UTC on 20 August. The first attack came 11 hours and 50 minutes later.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/nvidia-hugging-face-nothing-confirmed/https://yfarmx.com/nvidia-hugging-face-nothing-confirmed/The Information reported on 26 August that Nvidia had agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn. Business Insider reported the same night that nothing was signed. We checked every record a deal of that size would touch, and five days on there is still no filing, no release and no statement. Two outlets reported the same night that Nvidia was buying Hugging Face, and they disagreed on whether a deal exists. Five days later neither company has said anything and no filing carries it. Nvidia's 10-Q, accepted by EDGAR at 20:36 UTC on 26 August, contains the phrase Hugging Face zero times. The $12.9bn figure comes from one anonymous source in one paywalled outlet, contradicted the same night by the outlet that broke the story.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:30:00 GMTYFarmX2026-09-04T12:00:00.000Zaihttps://yfarmx.com/term-finance-vault-governance-takeover/https://yfarmx.com/term-finance-vault-governance-takeover/Term Finance's vaults were drained on 23 August after an attacker bought governance votes rather than breaking any code. We read the chain: on seven of the eight vault DAOs the attacker held 100% of the vote, and one of them cost 50 cents. An attacker bought controlling votes in Term Finance's vault DAOs and used them to redirect the assets, taking 2,841.74 WETH and 1,679,639 USDC on 23 August 2026. On five of the eight vaults the winning stake was under five dollars. The ETH Meta Vault stake was 0.5 ether, which carried 90.66% of every vote that existed, because only 0.019% of shares had ever been wrapped for voting. On all seven strategy vaults the attacker held 100% of the vote. The cheapest cost 0.503572 USDC.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMTYFarmXcryptosecurityhttps://yfarmx.com/bank-of-england-innovation-objective-payments/https://yfarmx.com/bank-of-england-innovation-objective-payments/HM Treasury announced a secondary innovation objective for the Bank of England on 27 August. The legal text was tabled the next day, and it amends the Bank of England Act 1998 with one word changed from the objective it is said to copy. HM Treasury announced a secondary payments innovation objective for the Bank of England on 27 August 2026. The amendments arrived the following day, they amend the Bank of England Act 1998, and they ask for functionality where the 2023 model asks for efficiency. There is no new Act. The change rides on report-stage amendments to the Financial Services and Markets Bill, debated in the Lords on 7 and 9 September. The 2023 objective it copies aims at quality, efficiency and economy. The payments version aims at quality, functionality and economy.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:30:00 GMTYFarmXcryptohttps://yfarmx.com/ox-alpha-confirmed-glm-5-3-flash/https://yfarmx.com/ox-alpha-confirmed-glm-5-3-flash/Z.ai confirmed on 26 August that the anonymous OpenRouter model Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash. Our 21 August fingerprint put it on the GLM 5 line and flagged one thing that did not fit. That detail is what the answer turned on. Z.ai confirmed on 26 August that Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash, tested anonymously to gather user feedback. Its lead added three minutes later that the anonymous version was an early one, and OpenRouter has withdrawn the model. Our fingerprint put Ox Alpha on the GLM 5 line at about 95%. The 5% was that it took video and GLM-5.3 did not. The answer is that it was never GLM-5.3: GLM-5.3-Flash is the first natively multimodal model in the series.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/openai-cursor-wind-down-proposed-date/https://yfarmx.com/openai-cursor-wind-down-proposed-date/OpenAI is winding down the contract that supplies its models to Cursor after SpaceX bought it. The date is one OpenAI calls proposed, Cursor may end it sooner, and OpenAI's help page explains at length how developers can keep using GPT-5.6 inside Cursor. OpenAI notified SpaceX on 28 August that it will wind down Cursor's model access. It calls 12 November a proposed date, says Cursor may end access sooner, and then sets out three routes for developers to keep using its models in Cursor. OpenAI's stated ground is not a breach by Cursor. It is that it cannot be confident SpaceX will honour its terms. The change-of-control cancellation right sits in a private custom agreement. The phrase does not appear in OpenAI's published Services Agreement.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:30:00 GMTYFarmXaihttps://yfarmx.com/quantum-safe-bitcoin-spend-201-opcodes/https://yfarmx.com/quantum-safe-bitcoin-spend-201-opcodes/StarkWare spent a 10,000-satoshi output with a hash-based signature on Bitcoin mainnet on 26 August. We disassembled the locking script. It is 9,923 bytes against a 10,000-byte ceiling and exactly 201 opcodes against a limit of 201. A 10,000-satoshi output locked by a hash-based signature was spent on Bitcoin mainnet on 26 August 2026. The script fits Bitcoin's consensus ceilings with 77 bytes and no opcodes to spare, and the coins ended the day in an ordinary quantum-vulnerable address. The locking script is 9,923 bytes against a 10,000-byte consensus limit, and exactly 201 opcodes against a limit of 201. One of the transaction's two inputs was quantum-safe. The other input, and the single output, were ordinary P2WPKH.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:30:00 GMTYFarmXquantumhttps://yfarmx.com/chelsea-front-of-shirt-usdc-circle-fca/https://yfarmx.com/chelsea-front-of-shirt-usdc-circle-fca/The USDC kit debuted at Stamford Bridge on Sunday. Chelsea and Circle published the same announcement copy, but Circle's carries a financial-promotions disclaimer and two caveats that the club's version leaves out. Chelsea and Circle published the same sentence about USDC on 28 August. Circle's carries a disclaimer that it is not an inducement to acquire a cryptoasset; Chelsea's drops it, eleven weeks after the FCA warned clubs about exactly that. Both announcements call USDC "the world's leading regulated stablecoin". Only Circle's adds that USDC "is issued by certain regulated affiliates of Circle". Circle's page says the announcement "does not constitute an invitation or inducement to acquire, hold or trade any cryptoasset". The word cryptoasset does not appear on Chelsea's page at all.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:45:00 GMTYFarmXcrypto