Author: Vidya Saras

Is Coinbase safe for cryptocurrency trading? If this question often pops up in your mind, you’re in the right place. Coinbase is a globally renowned and the largest crypto exchange based in the US. It serves users in 100+ countries, with annual trading volumes exceeding $1.2 trillion.In this article, we’ll walk you through Coinbase’s security features, regulatory compliance, and associated risks. We’ll also provide a step-by-step guide on securing your Coinbase account, including what to do in the event of a hack.Is Coinbase Safe to Use in 2026?Coinbase is considered safe to use in 2026 due to its regulatory oversight,…

Anthropic cannot manipulate its generative AI model Claude once the US military has it running, an executive wrote in a court filing on Friday. The statement was made in response to accusations from the Trump administration about the company potentially tampering with its AI tools during war.“Anthropic has never had the ability to cause Claude to stop working, alter its functionality, shut off access, or otherwise influence or imperil military operations,” Thiyagu Ramasamy, Anthropic’s head of public sector, wrote. “Anthropic does not have the access required to disable the technology or alter the model’s behavior before or during ongoing operations.”The…

Four years ago in Foreign Affairs, I argued that the demand that corporations adopt voluntary standards for environmental, social, and governance was the wrong way to correct societal ills such as pollution, emissions, and economic inequality.

Who benefits from artificial intelligence? This basic question, which has been especially salient during the AI surge of the last few years, was front and center at a conference at MIT on Wednesday, as speakers and audience members grappled with the many dimensions of AI’s impact.In one of the conferences’s keynote talks, journalist Karen Hao ’15 called for an altered trajectory of AI development, including a move away from the massive scale-up of data use, data centers, and models being used to develop tools under the rubric of “artificial general intelligence.”“This scale is unnecessary,” said Hao, who has become a…

A senior member of the Cyber Monitoring Center (CMC), an organization formed last year to monitor, define and classify cyber events impacting UK organizations, this week questioned whether a £1.5 billion (about $2 billion) government loan guarantee provided to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) should have happened in the first place. Speaking at an event hosted by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) that reviewed the CMC’s activities in its first year of operation, Ciaran Martin, chair of the CMC’s cyber monitoring technical committee, discussed the loan guarantee announced last year following an attack that has been described as one of…

Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images Today is a sad day for fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” as Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander Harris across all seven seasons of the hit TV series, passed away on March 20, 2026. He was only 54 years old. News of his death was first announced by The Hollywood Reporter, which was given a statement from his family. “We are heartbroken to share the passing of our brother and son, Nicholas Brendon,” the statement reports. “He passed in his sleep of natural causes.” The family’s words…

Labour has unveiled plans to allow wind turbines up to 30 metres tall to be installed at schools, hospitals and farms without full planning permission, in a significant shift aimed at accelerating the rollout of small-scale renewable energy across the UK. Under the proposed changes, ministers will extend permitted development rights, currently limited largely to domestic properties, to cover non-domestic sites including public sector buildings and commercial premises. The move is designed to enable organisations to generate their own electricity and reduce exposure to volatile energy costs. At present, homeowners can install small turbines without planning approval, but these are…

XRP’s rebound to $1.50 over the past few days has given bulls something to work with, but one analyst is warning that the market may be celebrating too early.  Recent price data show XRP pushed into the mid-$1.50s and even tagged $1.60 this week before momentum cooled again. However, a crypto analyst who goes by the name Guy on the Earth on the social media platform X pointed out that bullish traders should not get ahead of themselves yet until XRP breaks above one proper price level. The Push To $1.50 Gave Bulls A Case The move that XRP bulls…

The quantum risk to Bitcoin investors is real, but not all wallets are vulnerable, and the people best positioned to address it are working on it, says Galaxy Digital research analyst Will Owens.Owens said in a report on Thursday that, in theory, a quantum computer could derive private keys from public keys, allowing an attacker to impersonate the owner, forge a signature and steal coins. However, he argued that not all wallets are equally vulnerable to this risk.“In fact, most wallets are not vulnerable today. Funds are at risk only when public keys are exposed on-chain,” he said.Owens said that created…

The crypto 2.0 industry has been making strong progress in the past year developing blockchain technology, including the formalization and in some cases realization of proof of stake designs like Slasher and DPOS, various forms of scalable blockchain algorithms, blockchains using “leader-free consensus” mechanisms derived from traditional Byzantine fault tolerance theory, as well as economic ingredients like Schelling consensus schemes and stable currencies. All of these technologies remedy key deficiencies of the blockchain design with respect to centralized servers: scalability knocks down size limits and transaction costs, leader-free consensus reduces many forms of exploitability, stronger PoS consensus algorithms reduce consensus…