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Ledger Extends Regional Retail Freeze Across SEA and Hong Kong as Teardowns Find Spy Implants Beyond CryptoBilis

Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. Hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has formally requested all authorized resellers and distributors across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong to pull all Ledger products off store shelves and suspend sales immediately while an investigation into physical…

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South Korea Blocks 27 Crypto Exchange Websites, Including KuCoin and MEXC

KuCoin, MEXC, and 25 other overseas crypto platforms face website restrictions in South Korea for operating without required local registration. South Korea is expanding its crackdown on unregistered exchanges. Financial authorities have ordered blocks on 27 overseas cryptocurrency exchange websites operating without registration in the country. The list includes major platforms such as KuCoin,…

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An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office

An engineer at OpenAI allegedly concealed an audio recording device in a piece of toilet paper and attached it behind a monitor inside an executive conference room at one of the company’s San Francisco offices, according to a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday. Abdulrahman Alfozan, who federal prosecutors describe as a 35-year-old Saudi Arabian national…

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Industrial Next wants factory robots to switch tasks in minutes, not weeks

In most factories, automation is fixed: robots and machines are programmed for one specific task and product. Changing a line means reprogramming and physical retooling, or swapping out equipment, which can take weeks or months. San Francisco-based Industrial Next says it’s changing that. The startup, which presented today on the Startup Battlefield stage at TechCrunch…

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Patented Equilibrium Architecture Takes the Stage at Korea Blockchain Week as Whisper Unveils Veria, Targeting Q1 2027 Mainnet Launch

Paulus J. Lee, Founder & Chairman of Whisper and Veria and co-inventor of the patented Equilibrium blockchain architecture (US Patent No. 12,586,064 B2, held under his legal name, Jung Geun Lee), presented “Satoshi’s Dream? Mission Possible” at Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) on September 30, 2026, unveiling Veria – a new public blockchain ecosystem the team…

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