Author: Vidya Saras

Consumers were warned against websites that sell products at “exorbitant” discounts and promotions, as these may be phishing sites or a form of consumer fraud — the most prevalent cybercrime incident in 2025, according to the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) on Thursday. CICC Acting Executive Director Renato “Aboy” A. Paraiso told BusinessWorld that consumer fraud usually involves website links mimicking official brand pages that offer items at “exorbitant” discounts and promotions. He warned that these websites may be phishing sites or, worse, financial fraud pages that can steal money. “It’s actually illegal. So the number one red flag there is…

Binance said Friday it will convert the stablecoin holdings in its $1 billion Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU) entirely into bitcoin over the next 30 days. The exchange said the transition will be carried out gradually and accompanied by regular audits.  Binance also pledged to replenish the fund if bitcoin price volatility causes its value to fall below $800 million, using treasury reserves to restore it to $1 billion. Binance launched its SAFU back in 2018 to protect users against losses from extreme events such as hacks or major system failures. The fund is financed through a portion of…

Special thanks to Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Wood and Jeffrey Wilcke for countless revisions feedback, picks at their brains, and helping me read their tea leaves. Introduction In the world of cryptography-based computer science, the Ethereum technology vision has captivated the imagination of a large number of software developers and technologists who saw its obvious promise. But those same promises and their business interpretations (and implications) have not widely reached, nor been well understood by non-technical audiences. As Ethereum nears coming out of the “labs” and into the market, it is even more important that its message be widely understood by the…

Silver Price Prediction Table For Years 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, and 2030The following projections are contingent upon Silver maintaining its critical support levels. Moreover, long-term Silver price predictions assume that the dual engines of global industrial scarcity and surging semiconductor demand will remain the primary drivers of value.YearAverage Silver Price Prediction2026Avg ~ $1222027Avg ~ $1452028Avg ~ $1182029Avg ~ $1402030Avg ~ $185History Of SilverSilver’s journey is a 4,000-year evolution. Historically, it was the “People’s Money,” but today it is the “Skeleton of the Digital Age.”The Monetary Era (2500 BCE – 1873 CE): Historically, silver was the primary global currency. From…

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Brian Barrett: And also the kind of thing that people readily click through and don’t realize is happening, right? TikTok also now tracking data. Anything you put into any of its AI tools, if you put in a prompt or any kind of info you give it there, it’s going to track that data, it’s going to use it.Again, all of this is ultimately used to serve you ads, but it is the principle of it, and it is the sort of lack of the opacity of it, the lack of clarity, just sort of, oh, all of a sudden…

Tim Walz this week signalled that he is ready to help ease Minnesota’s conflict with the Trump administration, starting with working with border czar Tom Homan. Speaking to The Bulwark, the Minnesota Governor said: I don’t agree with Tom Homan’s philosophy on things, but I do understand that he is law enforcement and he understands […]Read More…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Scammers used new tools to widen their reach and to seem more real. According to TRM Labs, the use of large language models in scams jumped fivefold in 2025, helping fraudsters write believable messages, run many conversations at once, and trick people in different languages. AI Tools Helping Con Artists Build Trust Reports say AI images, voice cloning, and deepfakes are cutting the cost of making fake people who look and sound legit. These tricks have fed a pattern where criminals first make a target feel safe…

How do you build a single vision language action model that can control many different dual arm robots in the real world? LingBot-VLA is Ant Group Robbyant’s new Vision Language Action foundation model that targets practical robot manipulation in the real world. It is trained on about 20,000 hours of teleoperated bimanual data collected from 9 dual arm robot embodiments and is evaluated on the large scale GM-100 benchmark across 3 platforms. The model is designed for cross morphology generalization, data efficient post training, and high training throughput on commodity GPU clusters. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.18692 Large scale dual arm dataset across 9 robot…

Phishing kits are collections of automated tools, scripts, and website templates that allow cybercriminals to create fake websites and launch credential-stealing attacks. However, when victims use MFA, the success of these tools can be quite low because the attackers can’t guess what type of MFA an account has enabled. Is it a code generated by a mobile app? Is it a code sent via SMS? Is it a push notification sent to their mobile device that they must tap on? Websites can offer multiple MFA options and it’s up to users and companies to configure them. But when combined with…