Michael Saylor has stated that he wants individuals and companies to be given five guaranteed rights over digital assets.  Saylor’s argument aims to provide cheaper capital and freer money, which he claims a productive, AI-driven economy will stall without.  What rights does Michael Saylor want over digital assets?  In an essay posted to X on...

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson says AI agents are tools whose developers are liable, and that FTC breach-disclosure powers could reach AI developers.

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has lost a $5.7 billion patent case tied to the vibration hardware used inside millions of iPhones and Apple Watches. A federal jury in San Diego ruled Friday that Apple infringed parts of two patents owned by Taction Technology. The controversy involves tactile technology that generates physical feedback upon touch on the...

Kristin Smith returns as Blockchain Association interim CEO on October 17 and keeps her job as president of the Solana Policy Institute.

Oil took another beating Friday as talks between Iran and the United States returned to the market’s radar. West Texas Intermediate crude sank 2.3% to $92.41 a barrel, pushing its weekly loss to 7.9%. Brent crude also fell 2.1% to $104.32, though the global benchmark finished the full week roughly flat. Iran has put a...

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen has gone public with the exchange’s request for THORChain to halt transactions linked to the exploit that drained about $387.5 million from its wallets.  As Cryptopolitan reported, Circle and Tether already intervened, stopping nearly $318,000 in stablecoin movement related to the hack on Friday, September 25. However, the request to the...

Google's AI agent PageBreak confirmed 500+ XSS bugs in Google web apps but only 2 in apps built on its high-assurance frameworks.

The U.S. economy keeps expanding while borrowing costs are rallying in a way that seems completely out of control. The rates for US Treasuries rose once again on Friday. The 10-year rate hit 5.230% at one point during the day, its highest level since June 2007. The 30-year rate moved above 5.51%, which is a...

The United States and China agreed to cut tariffs on $30 billion worth of each other’s goods after Xi Jinping’s three-day visit to Washington. China’s Foreign Ministry announced the reciprocal deal Saturday. It is one of eight provisions in an accord that was reached between Jinping and President Donald Trump. The other provisions include issues...

Google opened Gemini Omni video generation in Vids to any Google account for free at 1080p, after launching the model as a paid feature in May.

A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Apple to pay $5.7 billion to Taction Technology Inc. after deciding the iPhone maker’s Taptic Engine infringed two of Taction’s haptic patents.  The verdict is the largest yet in U.S. patent history. However, Apple’s history of appealing such verdicts suggests the check may never clear.  Why does...

The decree that Kazakhstan’s President, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, signed in July to allow oil producers to run a direct flared gas to off-grid electricity funnel for the country’s buzzing crypto mining industry has raised a recent existential question about whether the more lucrative opportunity of the AI compute sector could hijack that infrastructure.  The question becomes...

ShinyHunters has restarted a broad attack campaign against Oracle PeopleSoft, getting around defenses that organizations added after earlier breaches this summer. Google’s cybersecurity unit, Mandiant, said Friday that the group is carrying out what it called “mass exploitation” of a PeopleSoft security flaw. The threat intelligence report came days after ShinyHunters said it had stolen...

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The site for owners to recover their NFTs has gone live, according to the whitehat that launched the rescue mission to save at-risk NFTs during the security incident where 2024-era Magic Eden users were exposed due to an exploit of Limit Break’s Payment Processor.  Part of the conditions for owners to reclaim their NFTs, according...

The prosecutors of the government are seeking to confiscate the funds worth $84.2 million that were taken from the accounts of the company that allegedly used the accounts to conduct transactions for Tether. This amount is relatively insignificant compared to the balance sheets of Tether; however, this story reveals a lot about the stablecoin market...

Zano, a privacy-oriented blockchain, revealed on September 25 that a problem with its public Gateway Addresses affected asset issuance and could require the network to roll back a day’s worth of transactions. Unlike the common crypto hacks that involve stolen wallets or compromised keys, this one is related to how assets were created on the...

OpenAI has started warning U.S. government bodies and other organizations after its AI agents reached public information hosted by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Census Bureau. While performing online research, the bots accessed websites such as SEC.gov, Investor.gov, and Census.gov. Bloomberg broke the story of the government’s actions on Friday. OpenAI subsequently...

Germany’s proposed crypto taxation framework has put many local industry stakeholders on edge due to its implications for retail investors. According to Patrick Hansen of Circle, the default 50% tax base introduced by Germany is problematic because it targets those who cannot verify their purchases and will weigh heavily on ordinary investors. “This will hit...

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OpenAI revealed on Friday that its agents had leaked 53 images belonging to ChatGPT users, adding to the growing number of cases demonstrating how rapidly autonomous AI is putting to test the systems intended to regulate it, according to Reuters. For companies that are beginning to use AI agents in their day-to-day operations, the real...

President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s seven-day ceasefire proposal, leaving the Strait of Hormuz closed and nuclear talks stuck. U.S. officials said Trump has also told aides he expects American bombing of Iran to restart after the November midterm elections. Cryptopolitan previously reported that in return for opening the strait and resuming nuclear talks, Tehran...

Kalshi has lost another major court fight over sports prediction markets, with the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Friday that states can apply local gambling laws to sports event contracts. The unanimous three-judge panel said Ohio and Tennessee may regulate Kalshi’s sports markets. It is the industry’s second legal setback as the fight...

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NEAR Protocol’s native token climbed above $5 on Friday, extending a sharp multi-week rally as progress on a proposed Bitwise exchange-traded fund (ETF) coincided with growing activity across the network’s ecosystem.

The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed that the stash they stole from the FBI contains psychiatric and medical evaluation records of bureau personnel. If the claim is confirmed, this will become more than just an employee-data breach, but rather a long-term counterintelligence and identity risk debacle that cannot be remedied with a password reset. Blood tests,...

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has pushed Optimus production up by about 10 times, but the robot’s hands are now one of the biggest things slowing Elon Musk’s production plan. Tesla was making only a few dozen humanoid robots each week during the second quarter. That figure has now moved into the hundreds per week, according to...