Author: Vidya Saras

We had high hopes for the bitcoin price in 2025. It was supposed to be the crescendo of the four-year cycle, the most bullish setup in recent memory. It was the year after the halving, the ETFs had just been approved, a new president was elected, with the promise of the money printer roaring back to life. Everything looked primed for a Q4 blow-off top, and instead of a new life in Monaco, all you got was this lousy article. What follows is my interpretation of the events of 2025 and my outlook for 2026. I’m not a trader, not…

The opening panel at Sibos 2025 brought forward a clear message: public and permissioned blockchain networks are converging, and this convergence is beginning to shape the future of financial infrastructure. Hosted by Adi Ben Ari of Applied Blockchain, the discussion featured leaders from Citi, the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust, Ubyx Inc., and the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance. The panel examined how institutions are approaching open networks and why adoption is accelerating. Below is a streamlined summary of the core insights. 1. Public Blockchains Are Now Active Markets Tony McLaughlin began by reframing the conversation. Public networks such as Ethereum and Solana…

For years, casino bonuses have followed the same script. Sign up, accept a reward, unlock it through complex conditions, and hope nothing changes before withdrawal. That pattern has shaped how players think about high-stakes casino promotions, often leaving them skeptical and cautious. The approach taken by Spartans.com moves in the opposite direction. Instead of adding more incentives, the platform removed bonuses entirely and replaced them with clarity. That philosophy is now visible in the giveaway centered on the MANSORY Jesko: Spartans Edition, a one-of-one hypercar offered as a finite event. This is not compensation for signing up and is not a…

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If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode.On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the company had rehired Barret Zoph and Luke Metz, cofounders of Mira Murati’s AI startup, Thinking Machines Lab. Zoph and Metz had left OpenAI in late 2024.We reported last night on two narratives forming around what led to the departures, and have since learned new information.A source with direct knowledge says that Thinking Machines leadership believed Zoph engaged in an incident of serious misconduct while at the company last year.…

Treasury Department launches investigation into Minnesota fraud rings allegedly sending taxpayer funds overseas through money laundering schemes.

As context lengths move into tens and hundreds of thousands of tokens, the key value cache in transformer decoders becomes a primary deployment bottleneck. The cache stores keys and values for every layer and head with shape (2, L, H, T, D). For a vanilla transformer such as Llama1-65B, the cache reaches about 335 GB at 128k tokens in bfloat16, which directly limits batch size and increases time to first token. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.07891 Architectural compression leaves the sequence axis untouched Production models already compress the cache along several axes. Grouped Query Attention shares keys and values across multiple queries and yields…

This new vulnerability brings to mind an almost identical Palo Alto Networks DoS issue from late 2024, CVE-2024-3393, that also put affected firewalls into maintenance mode. On that occasion, attackers found out about the issue before patches appeared, making it a zero-day vulnerability.  More recently, in December, threat intelligence company GreyNoise noticed an uptick in automated login attempts targeting both GlobalProtect and Cisco VPNs, while earlier in 2025, PAN-OS was affected by a serious zero day flaw, CVE-2025-0108, that allowed attackers to bypass login authentication. “According to Palo Alto Networks’ security advisories, the company has reported almost 500 vulnerabilities to…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Washington’s long-running effort to bring regulatory clarity to the U.S. crypto market has entered a more uncertain phase. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, known as the CLARITY Act, was expected to move closer to a Senate vote this week. Instead, a sudden withdrawal of support from Coinbase and a last-minute pause by Senate leadership have exposed deep divisions within the industry and among lawmakers. While the White House insists the bill is still on track, the debate over how digital assets should be regulated is becoming…

From countless spy movies and espionage thrillers, we know what a “person of interest” is: someone being monitored under suspicion of criminal activity or possessing sensitive information. But the newest Peacock Original, Ponies, created by Susanna Fogel and David Iserson, tells the story of persons of no interest: and does so remarkably well. Starring Emilia Clarke and Haley Lu Richardson, it’s not only a solid spy series, but also an elaborate story about friendship, sacrifice, loss, and lies. Set in Moscow in the 1970s, the series follows Bea (Clarke) and Twila (Richardson), the titular “ponies,” who work anonymously as secretaries…