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Cold Storage Turned Hot Target: How a Code Flaw Unlocked $130 Million in Bitcoin

A vulnerability in Coldcard's seed-phrase generation let attackers bypass the entire premise of offline security, proving that hardware isolation means nothing when the randomness is broken.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Aug 5, 2026·7 min read
AI

The Hidden Cost of AI Dependence Among Digital Creators

When a science communicator admits his LLM habits have become unhealthy, the admission opens a window onto a pattern spreading quietly acros…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

SpaceX Earnings Reveal the True Cost of Building AI Infrastructure

The company's first public financial report shows a 2,013 percent surge in capital expenditure for its AI division, even as revenue climbs a…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Walmart Closes $1.4 Billion Vibe.co Deal to Strengthen Streaming Ad Play

The retail giant absorbs a self-service TV ad platform into Walmart Connect, betting that commerce data can reshape how small brands reach s…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Policy

Texas Governor Orders Audit Freeze on Data Center Projects as Grid Strain Mounts

A 474-gigawatt interconnection queue - ninety percent of it AI infrastructure - has pushed the state from deregulation darling to policy enf…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
AI

Spotify Taps Merlin Network to Scale Artist-Approved AI Music Remix Tool

The streaming giant's push into fan-generated covers now includes 30,000 independent labels, signaling a bet on monetized co-creation rather…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
Startups

SpaceX Revenue Surges 92% as Cloud Rental Pivot Rescues Struggling AI Division

The rocket company's unexpected shift to renting data center capacity to Anthropic and Google helped mask years of setbacks in its own AI am…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Policy

New Jersey Targets Amazon Over Labor Market Control in Delivery Network

State alleges e-commerce giant operates as monopsonist, suppressing driver wages and blocking unionization across contractor network…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
AI

Tesla's CEO Now Talks AI Half the Time, Cars Less Than a Third

Analysis of seven years of earnings transcripts reveals Elon Musk's attention has shifted dramatically away from automotive manufacturing to…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

X's Ad Revenue Falls to One-Third of Pre-Musk Levels

SpaceX's first public earnings report reveals the social platform generated $367 million in Q2 advertising revenue, down from $1.08 billion …

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Policy

Texas Orders Grid Review as Data Centers Queue 474 Gigawatts of Demand

Governor Abbott's audit directive targets new facilities in a state already hosting 521 data centers, with load requests threatening grid st…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 4m
Policy

OpenAI Settles Visa Hiring Case for $3.2 Million

Justice Department investigation found the AI firm allegedly favored temporary visa holders while making it harder for US citizens to apply …

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

Waymo Eliminates Waitlist for Dallas Robotaxi Operations

The Alphabet subsidiary has now served 150,000 riders during its limited-access phase, though airport service and weather vulnerabilities re…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

Lucid Bets Survival on Cash Discipline and a Robotaxi Moonshot

New CEO Silvio Napoli delays the mid-sized EV, cuts 1,500 jobs, and pivots hard toward autonomous ride-hail as the money-losing carmaker fig…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Apple Pulled Telegram Without Warning Over Planted Material, CEO Claims

Pavel Durov says the Monday removal highlights a systemic vulnerability in platform moderation - and opens the door to manipulation at scale…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Startups

EA Returns to Private Ownership Under $55 Billion Saudi-Led Deal

The gaming giant closes the largest leveraged buyout in history, taking on $20 billion in debt as Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund assum…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Furukawa Electric Doubles Down on Fiber Optics with $635M Expansion

The Japanese manufacturer is betting on data center demand as AI infrastructure accelerates across four continents…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

Apple Throttles Bug Bounty Submissions as AI Tools Flood Security Program

Cupertino imposes submission caps and cooldown periods after automated vulnerability scanning overwhelms human review capacity - a signal th…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

SpaceX's Cloud Business Outpaces Launch Operations in Revenue

The Hawthorne company's compute-as-a-service division tripled to $2.6 billion, fueled by AI training contracts with Anthropic and Google.…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

Default Settings Let Ad Trackers Harvest Location Data From Millions of Android Apps

New research reveals developers unknowingly feed precise user coordinates to data brokers through third-party code that inherits permissions…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
Dev

When Agents Write 99% of the Code: Inside the Token Cost Crisis

Dev teams at Replit, Kilo Code and Symbotic are recalibrating workflows, budgets and expectations as AI agents handle nearly all coding task…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 8m
Policy

Texas Freezes Data Center Grid Access as AI Boom Strains Power Infrastructure

Governor Abbott orders comprehensive audit of pending projects after state's aggressive courting of hyperscale facilities threatens grid sta…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
AI

AMD's AI Infrastructure Bet Pays Off as Console Revenue Contracts

The chipmaker's data center division surged past $6.7 billion in Q2 2026, more than compensating for a sharp decline in gaming hardware sale…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

SoftBank Bets on Retail Data to Power Japan's AI Ambitions

The telecom giant's investment in Seven & i Holdings signals a strategy to aggregate industrial and consumer data for artificial intelligenc…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 5m
Policy

China's GLM-5.2 Closes the Performance Gap but Skips the Safety Guardrails

As open-weight models from Asia reach parity with Western frontier systems in capability, their lack of refusal mechanisms raises new questi…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m