Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a comprehensive digital asset law on Aug. 4, creating a regulated route for retail and qualified investors to trade cryptocurrencies through approved intermediaries. Summary Russia will allow tested retail investors to buy liquid cryptocurrencies through regulated intermediaries from September. Nonqualified investors face a 300,000 ruble annual purchase cap through each…
TL;DR: Get the iPhone 17 for free from T-Mobile when you trade in your eligible phone on an Experience More or Experience Beyond plan. Alternatively, the Apple iPhone 17 Pro is free when you switch to T-Mobile and bring your number on an Experience Beyond plan (no trade-in needed). Samsung is still the center of…
Key Takeaways Chinese Academy hit 3.42% EUV efficiency in 2025, narrowing ASML’s chipmaking lead. ASML’s 2019 China ban still limits sub-7nm chips, pushing domestic EUV efforts toward 2028. Alibaba unveiled 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8 as T-Head expands post-CUDA AI tools in 2026. The most valuable bottleneck in advanced chipmaking is the EUV light source, and for years…
OpenAI’s Atlas web browser could have security protections bypassed and be tricked into spamming dozens of WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorized purchases on Amazon, according to new research presented today at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The Atlas findings, from researchers at security firm Zenity, are part of a broad series of…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. For thousands of job seekers lured across borders with promises of tech employment, Southeast Asia’s lucrative crypto scam industry is, in reality, a hostage situation. Criminal syndicates operating inside Myanmar routinely traffic foreign workers, confiscate…
Senator Cynthia Lummis is pressing the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before its August recess as bipartisan negotiations continue over several unresolved provisions. Summary Lummis said lawmakers are negotiating the bill daily as the Senate’s legislative window narrows. Talks remain focused on CFTC authority, ethics rules, illicit finance and stablecoin yield. The legislation…
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after a little more than a year in the role. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to pass the torch and demote myself to my natural state: a poster,” adding that he’ll continue to advise the company….
Key Takeaways Mastercard completed its BVNK deal, valued up to $1.8B. BVNK adds stablecoin rails across Mastercard’s 17B endpoints, pressuring global payment rivals. BVNK clients stay unchanged as Mastercard integrates wallets, cards, and 24/7 settlement. Mastercard to Link Stablecoins to 17B Global Payment Network Mastercard has completed its acquisition of BVNK, turning one of the…
Texas data center developers can still build, but getting power from the state’s main grid just became more complicated. Gov. Greg Abbott ordered regulators to pause approvals for data centers seeking connections to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas grid until proposed projects complete a comprehensive audit. The move comes as requested electricity demand has…
Weekly Crypto Roundup Get the weekly briefing for Philippine crypto insiders, from the country’s longest-standing crypto and blockchain news publication. You’ll soon be able to legally notarize documents in the Philippines without leaving your desk For anyone who has ever needed a legal document notarized in the Philippines, the process could be notoriously inconvenient depending…
