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Bitcoin has kicked off the fourth quarter of 2025 with a strong rally, surging more than 10% over the past week â from around $109,000 on September 27 to over $122,000 today. But Bitcoin could surge to fresh all-time highs if the U.S. government shutdown continues, according to Geoff Kendrick, head of digital assets at Standard Chartered. Kendrick believes that Bitcoinâs historically positive correlation with U.S. Treasury term premiums, suggesting the cryptocurrency may benefit from prolonged fiscal uncertainty. Kendrick noted that during prolonged market stress â conditions that often favor digitally scarce assets â Bitcoin has historically shown remarkable resilience.…
The Go Ethereum team is very proud to finally release Geth 1.5, which can almost be called a complete internal rewrite of the Go Ethereum (go-ethereum) codebase. We’ve packed a huge number of changes into this release, and simply listing them wouldn’t do them justice. Instead, we’ve decided to write them up in a more informal way, explaining not only what’s new, but also why it’s needed, and why it’s awesome! Go Ethereum website The go-ethereum project never really had a website. There was something auto-generated a long time ago by GitHub, but it couldn’t really be called a decent website as it…
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OpenAIâs August launch of its GPT-5 large language model was somewhat of a disaster. There were glitches during the livestream, with the model generating charts with obviously inaccurate numbers. In a Reddit AMA with OpenAI employees, users complained that the new model wasnât friendly, and called for the company to restore the previous version. Most of all, critics griped that GPT-5 fell short of the stratospheric expectations that OpenAI has been juicing for years. Promised as a game changer, GPT-5 might have indeed played the game better. But it was still the same game.Skeptics seized on the moment to proclaim…
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Microsoft released the Microsoft Agent Framework (public preview), an open-source SDK and runtime that unifies core ideas from AutoGen (agent runtime and multi-agent patterns) with Semantic Kernel (enterprise controls, state, plugins) to help teams build, deploy, and observe production-grade AI agents and multi-agent workflows. The framework is available for Python and .NET and integrates directly with Azure AI Foundryâs Agent Service for scaling and operations. What exactly is Microsoft shipping? A consolidated agent runtime and API surface. The Agent Framework carries forward AutoGenâs single- and multi-agent abstractions while adding Semantic Kernelâs enterprise features: thread-based state management, type safety, filters, telemetry,…
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group is aggressively targeting vulnerable Internet Information Server (IIS) web servers for use in search engine optimization (SEO) fraud, as well as for the theft of high-value data, researchers at Cisco Talos have warned. The servers most at risk from attacks right now are in universities, technology companies, and telecom providers in India, Thailand, Vietnam, Canada, and Brazil, the company said. This targeting isnât coincidental; the group, identified as UAT-8099, chooses its victims for their high domain and IP reputation, which makes it less likely SEO fraud activity will be detected or blocked.