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Ledger Finds LTE Implant That Stole Recovery Phrases in Suspected $86M Drain
Ledger said its security research team has found an unauthorized hardware implant that captured recovery phrases inside wallets sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis, in a tweet on Tuesday. The Paris-based hardware wallet manufacturer said it confirmed the implant on Saturday in one affected user's device. All confirmed losses from the incident, which Ledger disclosed on Friday, involve devices sold through CryptoBilis, and the company said it has not verified a drain linked to a device b...
Oct 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
Meta's New Muse Wonder Finally Puts Zuckerberg in the Frontier AI Race
Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on Monday, the first models from its Superintelligence Labs that the company is willing to put head-to-head with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic. “Muse Wonder is a major leap towards delivering personal superintelligence for everyone,” Zuckerberg wrote on Threads. “Congrats to everyone on our team for achieving this milestone. I’m looking forward to seeing how you all use it.” Myriad: Which company will IPO next? Click to make your prediction. Th...
Oct 12, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
From GTA V on iPhone to Free Photoshop: This AI Tool Is Upending Software
Would you like to kill a boss in Skyrim using an AK47 from Counter Strike? Give your NPCs a real genius-level brain that gives you unique answers instead of predefined strings of text? Would you like to run GTA V on your iPhone? What about using paid software for free, and legally? Well, people are doing that and more with AI right now. A free tool that lets AI agents pull apart almost any piece of software has become the hottest project on GitHub, jumping from fewer than 10,000 stars on Octobe...
Oct 12, 2026
Business
Solana Treasury Firm DeFi Development Keeps Buying SOL as CHAD Preferred Stock Hits Record
DeFi Development Corp, the Nasdaq-listed Solana piggy bank, added about 22,070 SOL—worth about $2,373,211—and “SOL equivalents” to its treasury last week, according to a press release published Monday. That brings its stash to roughly 2,586,282 tokens, worth about $287 million with SOL near $111. Weekly buys keep shrinking, from 101,381 SOL in mid-September (around $11.4 million) to 47,706 ($5.8 million), then 26,202 ($3.1 million). Myriad: Where does Solana go next? Click to make your predictio...
Oct 12, 2026
Business
Ripple-Backed Evernorth Hits Nasdaq Holding 473 Million XRP Worth Far Less Than It Paid
Evernorth, the Ripple-backed company built to stockpile XRP, started trading on the Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker XRPN, giving anyone with a regular brokerage account a way to bet on the cryptocurrency without ever opening a crypto wallet. The listing caps a merger with Armada Acquisition Corp. II that closed on Friday. Armada was a SPAC, short for special purpose acquisition company: a listed shell with no business of its own that raises cash, parks it in a trust, and waits to merge with a...
Oct 12, 2026
Markets
Bitcoin Spooked? Crypto Fear and Greed Index Drops to Pre-Rally August Lows
After a red hot summer lifted Bitcoin and the rest of crypto out of a brutal bear market, sentiment has now clearly shifted, bucking typically reliable seasonal trends. Bitcoin is now trading just above $82,000, down close to 5% for the week, and the cryptocurrency market’s Fear and Greed Index fell to 56 on Monday, a “neutral” reading, after reaching “extreme greed” in late August. Myriad: How low will Bitcoin go? Click to make your prediction. The Fear and Greed Index is a 0-to-100 gauge that...